Cookie Policy for coloring.photos

Last Updated: June 05, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how coloring.photos (“we,” “us,” and “our”) uses cookies and similar web tracking technologies when you visit our website at https://coloring.photos.

Our core mission is to provide clean, high-resolution, frustration-free printable coloring pages and craft templates entirely for free to parents, educators, and homeschooling families. To maintain this free public catalog without forcing users to sign up for paid subscriptions, we partner with third-party digital networks to serve contextual advertisements. This document explains what these cookies do and how you can manage your family’s digital privacy settings.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are tiny data files placed on your computer or mobile device when you browse a website. They are widely used by website owners to make layouts load faster, remember user preferences, track functional features (like image downloads), and provide analytical reporting.

First-Party Cookies: These are set directly by coloring.photos and are usually required for technical functionality.
Third-Party Cookies: These are set by partner platforms other than us. They enable third-party features such as analytical tracking, interactive content counters, and relevant digital advertisements.

How We Use Cookies

We categorize the cookies running on our catalog into three distinct groups: Technical Functionality, Website Optimization, and Contextual Advertising.

1. Essential & Functional Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with basic platform services. Without them, our WooCommerce catalog layout and print-dispatch scripts will not load correctly.

Cookie Name	Purpose / Function	Provider	Duration
`woocommerce_items_in_cart`	Tracks background cache assets to ensure our print queue handles files smoothly. Contains no personal data.	coloring.photos	Session
`wp_woocommerce_session_`	Connects your unique anonymous session to our server database so your print requests pull instantly.	coloring.photos	2 days
`AWSALB` / `AWSALBCORS`	Allocates web server traffic using load balancers to ensure the website loads lightning-fast during high-traffic school hours.	Amazon Web Services	7 days

2. Performance & Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us collect aggregated anonymous data to understand how visitors interact with our coloring collections, showing us which characters are trending so we can create better art assets.

Cookie Name	Purpose / Function	Provider	Duration
`_ga` / `_ga_#` / `_gpi`	Distinguishes unique user patterns via a randomly generated number to calculate total unique page visits and download events.	Google Analytics	13 months
`#collect`	Sends anonymous user device settings and session triggers to help us track site errors and browser compatibility bugs.	Google Analytics	Session
`mc` / `d`	Records anonymous, unidentifiable browser interactions to generate aggregated performance traffic metrics.	Quantcast	13 months

3. Contextual Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to your interests, prevent the exact same ad from continuously reappearing on your screen, and measure ad visibility performance.

Cookie Name	Purpose / Function	Provider	Duration
`__gads`	Used by our ad server engine to manage ad impressions and limit how many times you see a specific banner ad.	Google Ad Manager	13 months
`IDE` / `DSID`	Registers anonymous user interactions with digital ads to prevent showing duplicate items on subsequent page clicks.	Google DoubleClick	10 days to 2 years
`activeview`	Measures viewable display impressions by recording the duration an ad stays visible on a user’s screen layout.	Google	Session
`tuuid` / `tuuid_lu` / `c`	Manages server synchronization and anonymous user data handshakes across integrated contextual ad networks.	Bidswitch / Platform161	Up to 2 years
`TDID` / `TDCPM`	Tracks anonymous, randomized browser session metrics to ensure proper delivery of ad inventory units.	The Trade Desk	1 year

How You Can Control Your Family’s Cookie Options

You have the complete right to decide whether to accept or reject third-party tracking cookies.

Using Our On-Site Consent Manager

When you first arrived on our site, you were presented with a Cookie Consent Banner. You can modify these selections at any time by clicking the “Cookie Preferences” tab located in our footer layout. Please note that essential operational cookies cannot be disabled, as the site cannot physically deliver printable media without them.

Adjusting Browser Controls

You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies systematically. Because these settings vary between software frameworks, check your specific browser’s official support panel:

Universal Advertising Opt-Out Networks

Most major ad network companies offer centralized portals to opt-out of behavioral targeting tracking. To manage these preferences universally for your household devices, visit:

Updates to This Policy

We may periodically update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in the digital tracking scripts we deploy, or for ongoing legal, technical, and regulatory compliance reasons. We encourage you to revisit this page regularly to stay informed about our commitment to digital safety.

Contacting Our Team

If you have any direct questions about our data choices, cookie definitions, or online safety measures, please reach out to us via email at: info@coloring.photos