Cookie Policy | 100 THOUSAND SOLAR LANTERNS PROJECT

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer, if you agree. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website, they help us to provide you with the best possible experience when you browse our website and also allow us to make improvements. Cookies improve your browsing experience by:

・Remembering settings, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you visit a new page.
・Remembering information you’ve given (e.g. your postcode) so you don’t need to keep entering it.
・Analysing how you use the website to improve the way it works for you, to make sure that you find what you’re looking for easily, and to ensure it meets your needs.
・Monitoring the efficiency of our advertising.

1. What cookies we use and how we use them

1.1 Measuring website usage

Third party cookies

The following cookies are set by WordPress:

Source	Cookie Name	Purpose	1st or 3rd party	Duration
WordPress	wordpress_ 81162f50085a5fa5ed 7d14618e60d5d5	On login, WordPress uses the wordpress_[hash] cookie to store your authentication details. Its use is limited to the admin console area, /wp-admin/	3rd Party	14 days
WordPress	wordpress_ logged_in_ 81162f50085a5fa5ed7 d14618e60d5d5	After login, WordPress sets the wordpress_logged_in_[hash]cookie, which indicates when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use.	3rd Party	14 days
WordPress	wp-settings-1	WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.	3rd Party	14 days
WordPress	wp-settings-time-1	WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.	3rd Party	14 days

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it is meeting its users’ needs and to understand how we could do things better.

Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not collect or store your name or address so this information cannot be used to identify who you are. We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.

The following cookies are set by Google Analytics:

Source	Cookie Name	Purpose	1st or 3rd party	Duration
Google Analytics	__utma	This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like Days and Visits to purchase.	3rd Party	2 years
Google Analytics	__utmb	This cookie　used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists.	3rd Party	30 minutes
Google Analytics	__utmc	This cookie takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site.	3rd Party	Upon closing the browser
Google Analytics	__utmz	This cookie keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine you used, what link you clicked on, what keyword you used, and where they were in the world when you accessed a website.	3rd Party	2 years

On our pages we integrate plugins of the social network Facebook (Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA).

You recognise the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like-Button” (“Like it”) on out pages. When visiting our pages, the plugin will create a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Facebook will receive information that you visited our pages with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “Like-Button” while you are logged into your Facebook account, you are able to link the content of our pages with your Facebook profile. Facebook will be able to assign the visit on our pages to your user account. We want to point out, that we, as provider of this webpage, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or about the usage of such data by Facebook. You can find further Information about this in the privacy policy of Facebook. If you don’t want Facebook to assign your visit on our web pages to your Facebook user account, please log off from your Facebook user account.

The following cookies are set by Facebook:

Source	Cookie Name	Purpose	1st or 3rd party	Duration
Facebook	datr	When a web browser accesses facebook.com (except social plugin iframes), the cookie helps Facebook identify suspicious login activity and keeps users safe.	3rd Party	2 years
Facebook	lu	This cookie helps protects people using public computers.	3rd Party	2 years
Facebook	p	When a web browser accesses facebook.com (except social plugin iframes), the cookie helps Facebook identify suspicious login activity and keeps users safe.	3rd Party	Upon closing the browser
Facebook	c_user	This stores a Facebook user ID.	3rd Party	1 month
Facebook	xs	This is a Facebook authentication cookie.	3rd Party	1 month
Facebook	act	This cookie helps Facebook monitor site performance.	3rd Party	Upon closing the browser

AddThis

We use a cookie associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count.

Source	Cookie Name	Purpose	1st or 3rd party	Duration
AddThis	__atuvc	This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count.	3rd Party	2 years

The following cookies are set by LUMIX G Experience:

Source	Cookie Name	Purpose	1st or 3rd party	Duration
LUMIX G Experience	lge_cookie_accepted	Flag to say if the user has allowed us to set cookies.	1st Party	31 days
LUMIX G Experience	SSO_Key	Login is completed via Single Sign On, facilitating the ability to log into multiple Panasonic sites without requiring further authentication. This cookie is the local version of the globally set SSO cookie and will facilitate local website authentication on your behalf.	1st Party	24 hours
LUMIX G Experience	Lge_ratings	Tracks a users ratings for individual LUMIX Academy tutorial posts	1st Party	1 month

2. Improving our email marketing

We use cookies to track, measure and improve our email marketing to customers. If you have opted in to receive emails from us, our cookies will:

・Help identify you the next time you visit our site so that, for example, you wont have to re-fill in forms with your details
・Help identify you if you respond to an email from us
・Understand your interest in our website so we can provide you tailored content via email

Source	Cookie Name	Purpose	1st or 3rd party	Duration
Eloqua	ELOQUA Cookie	Track, measure and improve our email marketing to customers.	3rd Party	Cookie doesn’t expire

3. How to manage cookies

If you continue with your visit to this site, you consent to the use of our cookies. Alternatively, you have options to manage the cookies that you want to accept from this site which we have detailed below.

Browser settings:

Most browsers can be altered to prevent your computer from accepting cookies, although this may mean that some of the features of this site (and other sites) will not work properly and may restrict your user experience.

These settings will typically be found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.

・Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
・Cookie settings in Firefox
・Cookie settings in Chrome

Turn off anonymous Google Analytics cookies:

You can install a Google Analytics browser “plug in” to prevent the website sending information about your visit to Google Analytics. More information about this can be found below.

・Google Analytics & Privacy