Cookie Policy

Last updated: April 2, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Aperture Manila uses cookies on our website. We use cookies to improve your browsing experience, understand how you interact with our content, and optimize our services for photographers and creative professionals.

What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit our website. They help us remember your preferences, track your browsing patterns, and deliver personalized content. We use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a specified period. These technologies enable us to provide a seamless experience as you explore our photography portfolio galleries, view high-resolution images, and navigate through our project collections.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, though you can typically modify your browser settings to decline them. However, disabling cookies may affect certain features of our website, including the ability to view full-bleed gallery layouts and access optimized image displays on retina devices.

Types of Cookies We Use

We utilize several categories of cookies to enhance your experience:

• Essential Cookies: Required for core website functionality, such as navigating between gallery sections and accessing category filters for travel, food, portrait, and event photography collections.
• Performance Cookies: Collect information about how you interact with our galleries, including which projects you view and how long you spend examining beach landscape and urban Manila photography.
• Preference Cookies: Remember your settings and choices, such as preferred image resolution for retina displays and previously viewed lightbox overlays with project descriptions.
• Analytical Cookies: Help us understand user behavior and website performance, enabling us to optimize image delivery and loading times for high-resolution content.

How We Use Cookies

Our cookies serve multiple purposes to enhance your visit. We track user behavior to understand which photography categories resonate most with visitors, allowing us to improve our portfolio layout and edge-to-edge image grid designs. Performance data helps us optimize the delivery of high-resolution images while maintaining fast load times on all devices, from mobile phones to desktop displays.

We analyze how users interact with our lightbox overlays and project description panels to refine the user experience. This includes monitoring smooth transitions and ensuring that category filters work efficiently across different device sizes. Additionally, we use cookies to personalize content recommendations, showing relevant projects based on your previous browsing history within our travel, food, portrait, and event photography collections.

Managing Your Cookies

You have complete control over your cookie preferences. Most modern browsers allow you to manage cookies through their settings menu, where you can choose to accept all cookies, reject them, or be prompted each time a website attempts to set one. You can also clear cookies from your device at any time, though this may reset your preferences on our site.

For more detailed instructions on managing cookies in your specific browser, we recommend consulting your browser’s help documentation. If you have questions about how we use cookies or wish to understand more about our data practices, please refer to our Privacy Policy. We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology and legal requirements, so we encourage you to review this page periodically for the latest information.