Cookies Policy

Paint Studio - Understanding Our Cookie Usage

What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit our paint studio website. They help us provide you with a better browsing experience by remembering your preferences, analyzing website traffic, and personalizing content related to our painting services and art tutorials.

Our paint studio uses cookies to enhance your experience while exploring our art classes, viewing painting galleries, and accessing educational resources about various painting techniques and color theory.

Types of Cookies We Use

How We Use Cookies

Our paint studio utilizes cookies for several important purposes:

  • Website Functionality: Ensuring smooth navigation through our course catalog, painting galleries, and tutorial sections
  • User Experience: Remembering your preferred painting styles, favorite artists, and previously viewed tutorials
  • Analytics: Understanding which painting techniques generate the most interest and optimizing our content accordingly
  • Security: Protecting your account information and preventing unauthorized access to premium painting resources
  • Personalization: Customizing content recommendations based on your artistic skill level and interests
  • Session Management: Maintaining your login status while browsing different sections of our art education platform

Third-Party Cookies

Our website may contain third-party cookies from trusted partners who help us improve our services:

Analytics Providers

We use analytics services to understand how visitors interact with our painting tutorials, which art techniques are most popular, and how we can improve our educational content. These cookies help us analyze user behavior patterns and optimize our website performance.

Social Media Integration

Social media cookies enable you to share your favorite painting tutorials, artwork, and course experiences on various social platforms. They also allow social media features to function properly within our website.

Advertising Partners

We work with advertising partners to promote our painting workshops and art courses. These cookies help deliver relevant advertisements about our services and measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

Cookie Consent and GDPR Compliance

In accordance with GDPR requirements and Consent Mode v2 implementation, we obtain your explicit consent before placing non-essential cookies on your device. Our consent management system allows you to make informed choices about cookie usage while ensuring compliance with European data protection regulations.

We implement Google's Consent Mode v2 to respect your privacy choices while still providing valuable insights about our painting courses and website performance. This ensures that data collection aligns with your consent preferences.

GDPR Rights and Data Protection

Under GDPR, you have the right to access, rectify, or delete personal data collected through cookies. You can also object to processing, request data portability, and withdraw consent at any time. Our cookie practices are designed to respect your privacy rights while providing an optimal learning experience for our painting courses.

We implement privacy-by-design principles and ensure that cookie data is processed lawfully, transparently, and for specified purposes related to our art education services.

Cookie Retention and Storage

Different types of cookies have varying retention periods:

  • Session Cookies: Automatically deleted when you close your browser
  • Persistent Cookies: Remain on your device for a specified period or until manually deleted
  • Analytics Cookies: Typically retained for 24 months to provide meaningful insights
  • Preference Cookies: Stored for up to 12 months to remember your settings

We regularly review and minimize cookie retention periods to ensure we only store data for as long as necessary to fulfill the specified purposes.

Policy Updates: This cookies policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We encourage you to review this policy regularly to stay informed about how we use cookies to enhance your paint studio experience.