1. What this site sets
| Cookie | Purpose | Lifetime | Category |
|---|
laravel-session |
Identifies your browsing session so the contact form works and a submitted form is not replayed. |
2 hours of inactivity |
Strictly necessary |
XSRF-TOKEN |
Protects forms against cross-site request forgery. |
Same as the session |
Strictly necessary |
qq_consent |
Records that you have been shown the cookie notice, so it is not displayed again on every page. It holds the version of the notice and nothing else — the literal value is v3.ack — with no identifier of any kind. |
180 days |
Strictly necessary |
qq_theme |
Holds your colour palette: the one you were given on arrival, or the one you chose with the theme switch. It contains the name of a palette and nothing else, and cannot be switched off — without it the site would hand you a different palette on every page. |
365 days |
Functional, set at your request |
_ga |
Tells one browser from another, so a returning visit is not counted twice. Set by Google Analytics 4 on every visit. |
2 years |
Analytics |
_ga_WEFJJKE8F5 |
Holds the session state Google Analytics needs to group page views into one visit. Set by Google Analytics 4 on every visit. |
2 years |
Analytics |
All six are set on every visit. The first four are first-party in every sense: written by this domain, containing no identifier that means anything anywhere else, never shared. The two Google Analytics cookies are also written by this domain, but the measurements they enable are sent to Google Ireland Limited, which processes them on our behalf. That is the only data that leaves qquantum.ai.
2. What this site does not do
- No advertising or retargeting pixels. Google's advertising signals are switched off in the tag, and advertising storage is denied for the life of every page, so Google Analytics here is measurement only and sets no advertising cookie.
- No session recording and no heat maps.
- No profile of you as an individual, and no attempt to recognise you across other websites.
- No social-media embeds or share buttons that phone home.
- No third-party fonts or content delivery networks. Fonts, stylesheets and our own scripts are served from this domain.
- No fingerprinting.
- Nothing sold, and nothing shared for anyone else's purposes.
Web-server access logs are kept for security and capacity purposes, as described in the privacy policy. They are not cookies and are not used to build profiles.
3. Why there is a notice rather than a choice
Under the ePrivacy rules as applied in Spain (Ley 34/2002, article 22.2) and the guidance of the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, consent is not required for cookies that are strictly necessary to provide a service you have requested, or that store a preference you have explicitly set. The session, CSRF and notice cookies fall into the first group; the palette cookie falls into the second.
Google Analytics falls into neither, and we have chosen to run it on every visit rather than ask first. We would rather say so here than show you a button that pretends otherwise. The panel you see on your first visit is a disclosure, not a consent request: it lists what is stored, and dismissing it changes nothing except whether it appears again.
That means the site itself gives you no way to switch analytics off. The two ways to refuse it are your browser and Google's own opt-out — both in section 4 — and neither of them affects anything else on the site.
If what this site stores ever changes, the notice version is raised and the panel is shown again to everyone, including people who dismissed the last one.
4. Controlling cookies
Two things will stop the analytics cookies, and both work from your side rather than ours:
- Block cookies for this domain, or block
googletagmanager.com, in your browser settings or with any content blocker. Most browsers also offer this per-site from the padlock in the address bar.
- Install Google's own Analytics opt-out browser add-on, which stops the tag reporting from any site you visit.
Cookie notice in the footer of every page reopens the list of what is stored, at any time.
You can also delete or block cookies in your browser settings. Blocking the session cookie will stop the forms from submitting; blocking the theme cookie means the site returns to its default palette on your next visit. Nothing else is affected.
Write to [email protected].
