Cookie Policy

What Cookies Are

Cookies are small pieces of data that a website can ask a browser to store on a device. Websites use cookies for purposes such as maintaining essential functionality, remembering choices and understanding how pages are used.

BrightVenue.com may also use browser storage technologies that perform similar functions, including localStorage. Unlike some cookies, localStorage data is generally stored within the browser until it is removed, replaced or cleared.

In this policy, references to “cookies” may include similar browser technologies where the context makes that appropriate.

Essential Cookies

Essential technologies support functions that are necessary for BrightVenue.com to operate as intended. These functions include remembering whether the age-verification step has been completed and storing the choices made in the cookie preference panel.

Essential storage may also support security, accessibility, navigation or technical operation. Because these technologies are required for core website functions, they cannot always be disabled through the BrightVenue preference panel.

You can still remove browser storage through your browser settings, but doing so may cause age verification or cookie preferences to be requested again.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics technologies may be used to understand how visitors use BrightVenue.com, including which pages are visited, how users move between sections and whether technical or usability issues occur.

Analytics information can help assess website performance and improve navigation, content and accessibility. Where consent is required for optional analytics, the relevant technologies should remain inactive until that consent has been recorded.

Choosing “Essential Only” in the cookie panel keeps the optional analytics category disabled.

Preference Cookies

Preference technologies can remember optional choices that make the website more convenient across visits. Examples can include interface preferences or other non-essential settings selected by a user.

These technologies are distinct from essential storage because the website can still provide its core functions without them. If preference storage is disabled, some choices may need to be made again on a later visit.

You can enable or disable the preference category through the cookie settings available on this website.

Marketing Cookies

Marketing technologies may be used for optional campaign measurement, audience understanding or relevant communications where this is permitted and an appropriate consent choice has been made.

BrightVenue's cookie controls keep the marketing category separate from essential website functions. Declining marketing technologies should not prevent access to the main informational content of the website.

Where a third party provides a marketing technology, that provider may also apply its own privacy information and retention rules.

localStorage

BrightVenue.com uses localStorage to remember important browser-level choices. The key brightVenueAgeVerified records whether the adult age confirmation has been completed, while brightVenueCookiePreferences records the cookie preference selection.

These values help avoid showing the same controls on every page load. They remain on the device until the browser clears them, the user removes site data or BrightVenue replaces the stored value.

localStorage is tied to the browser and device where the choice was made. A preference selected on one browser may not automatically apply on another device or browser.

Cookie Duration

The length of time a cookie or browser-storage item remains available depends on its purpose and technical configuration. Some data is limited to a browsing session, while other information remains until a defined expiry date or until it is manually cleared.

The BrightVenue age-verification and cookie preference records may remain in localStorage until removed or replaced. External services may apply their own retention periods to technologies they operate.

Retention periods can change when website functionality or third-party services are updated.

Third-Party Technologies

BrightVenue.com uses external resources for parts of the website experience, including mapping, fonts, icons and related web functionality. When a browser requests an external resource, the provider may receive technical connection information such as an IP address, browser details or request data.

Third-party services are governed by their own privacy and cookie practices. BrightVenue does not control every aspect of how independently operated services process technical data.

If an optional third-party technology requires consent, BrightVenue aims to respect the category choice recorded in the cookie preference panel.

Browser Settings

Most modern browsers allow users to inspect, remove or block cookies and other site data. The location of these controls varies between browsers and devices.

Blocking or deleting essential storage may affect website functionality. For example, BrightVenue.com may no longer remember that the age confirmation has been completed or that cookie preferences have already been selected.

Browser-level privacy controls operate separately from the BrightVenue cookie preference panel and may override or restrict some website functions.

Changing Consent

You can reopen the BrightVenue cookie preference panel at any time by selecting “Manage Cookie Preferences” on this page. You can then choose between available optional categories and save a new selection.

A new saved preference replaces the previous brightVenueCookiePreferences record in localStorage. Changing a preference affects future use of optional technologies from that point onward.

You can also clear BrightVenue site data through your browser. If you do so, the website may ask you to make your choices again on your next visit.

Updates to This Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated when BrightVenue changes website functionality, introduces or removes browser technologies, or updates the way preferences are managed.

The current version will be published on this page. We encourage users to review it periodically if they want to understand how browser storage is being used.

Contact

Questions about cookies or browser-storage preferences can be sent to [email protected].

For broader information about the handling of personal information, please also review the Privacy Policy.