Cookie Policy

Effective Date: September 17, 2026

Last Updated: September 17, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Wil the Photographer, LLC (“Wil the Photographer,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit wilthephotographer.com or use services available through our website.

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and any other privacy notices presented when you use a particular feature of our website.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites place on your computer, phone, tablet, or other device. Cookies allow websites to recognize a browser or device and can help websites remember preferences, keep users signed in, maintain shopping carts, process transactions, improve security, and understand how website features are being used.

We may also use technologies that perform similar functions, such as local storage, session storage, pixels, tags, scripts, and device identifiers. References to “cookies” in this policy generally include these similar technologies where applicable.

2. Why We Use Cookies

We may use cookies and similar technologies for purposes including:

• Operating and securing our website;
• Keeping users signed into their accounts;
• Remembering website and account preferences;
• Maintaining items placed in a shopping cart;
• Processing ticket, transportation, merchandise, and photography purchases;
• Preventing fraud, abuse, spam, and unauthorized access;
• Supporting checkout and payment processing;
• Remembering cookie and privacy preferences;
• Measuring website performance and diagnosing technical problems;
• Understanding how visitors interact with website pages and features;
• Supporting referral links, promotional codes, and referral-credit features;
• Providing event, photo-store, account, and customer-service functionality; and
• Improving the reliability and performance of our website.

3. Types of Cookies We May Use

A. Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to operate properly. They may support functions such as account login, security, shopping carts, checkout, payment processing, fraud prevention, load balancing, and remembering your privacy choices.

Because these cookies are required to provide services requested by the user or to protect the website, they generally cannot be disabled through our cookie preference controls.

Examples may include cookies used by:

• WordPress;
• WooCommerce;
• Our customer account system;
• Our shopping cart and checkout system;
• Cloudflare and other website security or content-delivery services;
• Payment processors; and
• Our cookie-consent system.

B. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies help provide additional website features and remember choices you make. Depending on the services you use, these cookies may remember preferences, interface settings, account selections, or other website options.

C. Analytics and Performance Cookies

We may use analytics or performance technologies to understand how visitors use our website, identify errors, evaluate page performance, measure traffic, and improve website functionality.

Information collected through these technologies may include pages visited, approximate visit times, device or browser information, referring pages, interactions with website features, and technical performance information.

Where required, non-essential analytics cookies will only be activated after you provide the appropriate consent.

D. Advertising and Marketing Cookies

If we use advertising, social-media, or marketing technologies, those technologies may use cookies or similar identifiers to measure campaigns, understand referrals, or determine whether visitors interact with advertisements or promotional content.

The specific marketing technologies used on our website may change over time. Where legally required, marketing or advertising cookies will not be activated until you provide consent.

E. Referral and Promotional Cookies

Our website may use cookies or similar technology to recognize referral links, promotional campaigns, affiliate referrals, coupon activity, or Referral Credits Wallet activity.

For example, when a visitor follows a referral link, a cookie may temporarily store information identifying the referring account so that an eligible purchase can be associated with the correct referral.

4. Shopping Cart and WooCommerce Cookies

Our website uses WordPress and WooCommerce to provide online purchasing and account functionality.

WooCommerce may use cookies to perform essential functions such as:

• Remembering items placed in your cart;
• Determining whether your cart contains products;
• Maintaining a shopping session;
• Supporting checkout;
• Remembering certain customer information where permitted; and
• Managing account sessions.

These cookies are generally necessary to provide shopping and checkout services requested by the user.

5. Payment Processing

When you make a purchase through our website, payment processing may be provided by third-party payment providers such as Stripe, PayPal, Square, or other payment services that we make available.

These providers may place or access cookies and similar technologies for purposes such as:

• Processing payments;
• Authenticating transactions;
• Preventing fraudulent transactions;
• Supporting digital wallets;
• Providing security features; and
• Complying with legal and regulatory requirements.

Cookies and information used directly by a payment provider may be governed by that provider’s own privacy and cookie policies.

6. Website Security and Cloudflare

We may use Cloudflare and other security, hosting, content delivery, or infrastructure providers to help protect and operate our website.

These services may use cookies or similar technologies to distinguish legitimate visitors from automated traffic, mitigate security threats, prevent abuse, manage network traffic, and improve website reliability.

7. Account and Login Cookies

If you create or sign into an account on our website, cookies may be used to authenticate your session and keep you signed in while navigating the website.

Deleting these cookies or blocking them through your browser may cause you to be signed out or may prevent certain account features from working properly.

8. Photo Store and Event Services

Cookies or similar browser-storage technologies may be used in connection with our event ticketing, transportation, photo store, photo-selection, download, checkout, and customer-account systems.

These technologies may be necessary to remember selections, maintain a session, associate purchases with an account, prevent duplicate actions, or provide features requested by the user.

9. Face Search, Identity Verification, and Camera Features

Certain portions of our website may provide camera-based features, photo matching, face search, identity verification, liveness verification, or related security functionality.

Cookies or temporary browser-storage technologies may be used to maintain the session, protect the verification process, prevent repeated or fraudulent requests, or remember the status of a verification attempt.

The use of facial images, face-related information, biometric information, or identity-verification information is addressed separately in our applicable Privacy Policy, biometric/privacy notice, consent notice, or other disclosure presented before the relevant feature is used.

10. Session Cookies and Persistent Cookies

Cookies may be either:

• Session cookies, which generally expire when you close your browser; or
• Persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a specified period or until they are deleted.

The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on the purpose of the cookie and the service that created it.

11. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are generally placed by wilthephotographer.com.

Third-party cookies may be placed or accessed by companies providing services to us, such as payment processors, analytics providers, security providers, embedded-content providers, or other technology providers.

Third parties control their own cookies and may process information according to their own privacy policies.

12. Cookie Consent and Your Choices

Where our website provides a cookie banner or cookie preference center, you may be able to accept, reject, or customize certain categories of non-essential cookies.

Strictly necessary cookies may continue to operate even if you reject optional cookies because those technologies are needed for website security, checkout, account functionality, or other services you request.

You may be able to change your cookie preferences later through the cookie settings or privacy controls made available on our website.

13. Browser Controls

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through browser settings. Depending on your browser, you may be able to:

• View stored cookies;
• Delete cookies;
• Block cookies from specific websites;
• Block third-party cookies;
• Block all cookies; or
• Receive a notification when a website attempts to store a cookie.

Blocking all cookies may cause portions of our website to stop functioning properly. For example, you may be unable to remain signed in, add tickets or photos to your cart, complete checkout, or use certain account features.

14. Global Privacy Control and Browser Privacy Signals

Some browsers and extensions transmit privacy preference signals such as Global Privacy Control (“GPC”).

We evaluate legally recognized browser-based privacy signals in accordance with applicable law and the technical capabilities of our website and service providers.

15. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) setting. Because there is not a single universally adopted technical standard governing how websites must respond to DNT signals, websites and third-party services may respond to these signals differently.

Where applicable law requires recognition of a particular privacy preference signal, we will handle that signal as required by applicable law.

16. Information Collected Through Cookies

Depending on the cookie or technology involved, information collected may include:

• IP address;
• Browser type;
• Device type;
• Operating system;
• Session identifiers;
• Account or login status;
• Shopping-cart activity;
• Pages visited;
• Referral source;
• Approximate date and time of access;
• Website interactions;
• Cookie-consent preferences;
• Transaction-related identifiers; and
• Security and fraud-prevention information.

17. Children

Our use of cookies is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children in violation of applicable law.

If we become aware that information has been collected in a manner that requires parental authorization or deletion under applicable law, we will take appropriate steps to address it.

18. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, technology providers, business practices, or legal requirements.

When we update this policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date shown at the top of the page. Material changes may also be communicated through the website or another appropriate method.

19. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, our privacy practices, or cookies used on our website, you may contact:

Wil the Photographer, LLC
Website: wilthephotographer.com
Florida, United States

You may also contact us using the contact information or contact form provided on our website.

20. Additional Privacy Information

For additional information about how we collect, use, retain, disclose, and protect personal information, please review our Privacy Policy and any additional privacy or biometric-information notices that apply to specific website features.