Cookies Policy
This Cookies Policy explains how Location Masters, Inc. ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website, LocationMastersInc.com ("Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. Cookies do many different jobs, such as letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited our Website before or whether you are a new visitor.
Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our online properties. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.
Specifically, we use cookies:
- To personalize your experience: Cookies help us remember your preferences and tailor the website to your interests.
- To analyze website traffic: We use cookies to understand how visitors use our website, which helps us improve its performance and content.
- To provide relevant advertising: Cookies allow us to show you ads that are relevant to your interests.
- To remember your settings: To maintain your login state and preferences for language, location, etc.
- For security purposes: To detect fraud and protect our website and users.
Types of Cookies We Use
Here’s a breakdown of the different types of cookies you might encounter on our website:
Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They include cookies that allow you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart, or make use of e-billing services.
Performance Cookies
These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality Cookies
These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting Cookies
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Detailed Cookie Table
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Provider | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to distinguish users | Google Analytics | 2 years | Performance |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users | Google Analytics | 24 hours | Performance |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate | Google Analytics | 1 minute | Performance |
| PHPSESSID | Maintains user session | Location Masters, Inc. | Session | Essential |
| cookieconsent_status | Remembers user's cookie consent preference | Location Masters, Inc. | 1 year | Functionality |
| ad_user_data | Provides user information for targeted advertising | Advertising Network | 90 days | Targeting |
How to Control Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links provided in this cookie policy. You can also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may worsen your overall user experience, since it will no longer be personalized to you. It may also stop you from saving customized settings like login information.
Here are links to instructions on how to control cookies in popular browsers:
Advertising Cookies
We and our third-party partners may use cookies to deliver advertising that is more relevant to you and your interests. These cookies can remember that your device has visited a website or service, and may also be able to track your browsing activity across other sites or services. This information may be shared with organizations such as advertisers and advertising networks to deliver the advertising, and to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.
Changes to This Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookies Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this Cookies Policy indicates when it was last updated.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookies Policy, please contact us at:
Location Masters, Inc.
555 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Email: privacy@locationmastersinc.com
Phone: (323) 555-3456
Our Data Protection Officer is David Lee, who can be reached at the email address provided above.