Thespian Arts Academy Cookie Policy

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser and will be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the website. Session cookies are temporary cookies that expire when you close your browser.

At Thespian Arts Academy, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a clear understanding of how we use cookies. This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, and what choices you have regarding cookies.

How Thespian Arts Academy Uses Cookies

We use cookies for various purposes, including:

• Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable 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. We use Google Analytics for this purpose.
• Functionality Cookies: These cookies 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.

Specifically, we use the following types of cookies:

Cookies Used on Thespian Arts Academy Website

Cookie Name	Purpose	Type	Duration
_ga	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	Performance	2 years
_gid	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	Performance	24 hours
PHPSESSID	Preserves user session state across page requests.	Essential	Session
cookieconsent_status	Remembers the user's cookie consent status for the current domain.	Functionality	1 year
marketing_cookies	Used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.	Targeting	1 year

Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the service, deliver advertisements on and through the service, and so on. Examples of third-party cookies we use include:

• Google Analytics: A web analytics service provided by Google that tracks and reports website traffic.
• Facebook Pixel: A tracking technology that allows us to measure, optimize, and build audiences for advertising campaigns.
• YouTube: Used to track the viewing of embedded videos on our site.

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by:

• Browser Settings: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you refuse cookies, you may still use our website, though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. The procedure for modifying your browser settings varies from browser to browser. Please refer to your browser's help menu for instructions.
• Cookie Consent Tool: We provide a cookie consent tool on our website that allows you to manage your cookie preferences. You can access this tool at any time to review and update your settings.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org .

Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please review this policy periodically for any changes. The date of the latest revision will be indicated at the top of this policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our Cookie Policy, please contact us at:

Thespian Arts Academy
123 Acting Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (323) 555-ACT1 (2281)

This Cookie Policy was last updated on October 26, 2025 by Eleanor Vance, Head of Data Protection at Thespian Arts Academy.