Q Cookie Policy

This is the Cookie Policy for Q, accessible from https://q.agency/

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What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files which are downloaded to your computer, tablet or mobile phone when you visit a website or application. Cookies are a very useful and common method used by almost every website you visit because they help to make your online experience easy, simple and generally better. Cookies are used to identify a browser on an individual machine. We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to a site. It is recommended that you leave all cookies on if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are used to provide a service that you use. For security reasons, we use your cookies for a month, and after a month we will ask you for permission to use them again.



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Types of cookies

Necessary cookies

Name: cookieyes-consent


Service: Q (q.agency). Purpose: CookieYes sets this cookie to remember users’ consent preferences so that their preferences are respected on subsequent visits to this site. It does not collect or store any personal information about the site visitors. Cookie type and duration: Necessary, First-Party, 1 year.


Name: _lfa


Service: Q (q.agency). Purpose: This cookie is set by the provider Leadfeeder to identify the IP address of devices visiting the website, in order to retarget multiple users routing from the same IP address. Cookie type and duration: Necessary, First-Party, 1 year.


Name: __cfruid


Service: Cloudfare. Purpose: This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. Cookie type and duration: Performance, Third-Party, session.


Name: cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary


Service: Q (q.agency). Purpose: Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie records the user consent for the cookies in the “Necessary” category. Cookie type and duration: Necessary, First-Party, 1 year.


Name: cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance


Service: Q (q.agency). Purpose: The GDPR Cookie Consent plugin sets the cookie to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Performance”. Cookie type and duration: Necessary, First-Party, 1 year.


Name: cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics


Service: Q (q.agency). Purpose: Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie records the user consent for the cookies in the “Analytics” category. Cookie type and duration: Necessary, First-Party, 1 year.


Name: cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement


Service: Q (q.agency). Purpose: Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie records the user consent for the cookies in the “Advertisement” category. Cookie type and duration: Necessary, First-Party, 1 year.


Name: cookielawinfo-checkbox-others


Service: Q (q.agency). Purpose: Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie stores user consent for cookies in the category “Others”. Cookie type and duration: Necessary, First-Party, 1 year.


Name: __cf_bm


Service: Cloudflare. Purpose: This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. Cookie type and duration: Necessary, Third-Party, 1 hour.


Name:_cfuvid


Service: .hsforms.com. Purpose: This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider because of their rate limiting policies. Cookie type and duration: Necessary, Third-Party, session.


Name: __cf_bm


Service: .hubspot.com. Purpose: This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. Cookie type and duration: Necessary, Third-Party, 1 hour


Name: rc::a


Service: Google reCAPTCHA. Purpose: This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. Cookie type and duration: Necessary, Third-Party, never.


Name: rc::c


Service: Google reCAPTCHA. Purpose: This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. Cookie type and duration: Necessary, Third-Party, session.


Name: wpEmojiSettingsSupports


Service: Q Agency. Purpose: WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user’s browser can display emojis properly. Cookie type and duration: Necessary, session.


Name:  cf_clearance


Service: Cloudfare. Purpose:Clearance Cookie stores the proof of challenge passed. It is used to no longer issue a challenge if present. It is required to reach an origin server. Cookie type and duration: Necessary, Third-Party, 1 year.


Functional cookies

Name: li_gc


Service: .linkedin.com. Purpose: Linkedin set this cookie for storing visitor’s consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes. Cookie type and duration: Functional, Third-Party, 6 months.


Name: lidc


Service: .linkedin.com. Purpose: LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. Cookie type and duration: Functional, Third-Party, 1 day.


Name: yt-remote-device-id


Service: YouTube. Purpose: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. Cookie type and duration: Functional, Third-Party, never.


Name: ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY


Service: YouTube. Purpose: The cookie ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user. This information is used to improve the user experience by providing more relevant search results in the future. Cookie type and duration: Functional, Third-Party, never.


Name: yt-player-headers-readable


Service: YouTube. Purpose: The yt-player-headers-readable cookie is used by YouTube to store user preferences related to video playback and interface, enhancing the user’s viewing experience. Cookie type and duration: Functional, Third-Party, never.


Name: yt-remote-connected-devices


Service: YouTube. Purpose: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. Cookie type and duration: Functional, Third-Party, never.


Name: yt-remote-session-app


Service: YouTube. Purpose: The yt-remote-session-app cookie is used by YouTube to store user preferences and information about the interface of the embedded YouTube video player. Cookie type and duration: Functional, Third-Party, session.


Name: yt-remote-cast-installed


Service: YouTube. Purpose: The yt-remote-cast-installed cookie is used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. Cookie type and duration: Functional, Third-Party, session.


Name: yt-remote-session-name


Service: YouTube. Purpose: The yt-remote-session-name cookie is used by YouTube to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. Cookie type and duration: Functional, Third-Party, session.


Name: yt-remote-fast-check-period


Service: YouTube. Purpose: The yt-remote-fast-check-period cookie is used by YouTube to store the user’s video player preferences for embedded YouTube videos. Cookie type and duration: Functional, Third-Party, session.


Name: cp_session


Service: Codepen. Purpose: Codepen sets this cookie for Help systems found in the website. Cookie type and duration: Functional, Third-Party, 3 months.


Analytical cookies

Name: _gcl_au


Service: Google Tag Manager. Purpose: Google Tag Manager sets the cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services.. Cookie type and duration: Analytics, Third-Party, 3 months.


Name: _ga


Service: Google Analytics. Purpose: Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. Cookie type and duration: Analytics, First-Party, 1 year 1 month 4 days.


Name: _gid


Service: Google Analytics. Purpose: Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. Cookie type and duration: Analytics, First-Party, 1 day.


Name: _gat_UA-*


Service: Google Analytics. Purpose: Google Analytics sets this cookie for user behavior tracking. Cookie type and duration: Analytics, First-Party, 1 minute.


Name: _ga_*


Service: Google Analytics. Purpose: Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. Cookie type and duration: Analytics, First-Party, 1 year 1 month 4 days.


Name: _hjSessionUser_*


Service: Hotjar. Purpose: Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site. Cookie type and duration: Analytics, Third-Party, 1 year.


Name: _hjSession_*


Service: Hotjar. Purpose: Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site. Cookie type and duration: Analytics, First-Party, 1 hour.


Name: CLID


Service: www.clarity.ms. Purpose: Microsoft Clarity set this cookie to store information about how visitors interact with the website. The cookie helps to provide an analysis report. The data collection includes the number of visitors, where they visit the website, and the pages visited. Cookie type and duration: Analytics, Third-Party, 1 year.


Name: _clck


Service: Microsoft Clarity. Purpose: Microsoft Clarity sets this cookie to retain the browser’s Clarity User ID and settings exclusive to that website. This guarantees that actions taken during subsequent visitsto the same website will be linked to the same user ID. Cookie type and duration: Analytics, Third-Party, 1 year.


Name: __hstc


Service: HubSpot. Purpose: Hubspot set this main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). Cookie type and duration: Analytics, Third-Party, 6 months.


Name: hubspotutk


Service: HubSpot. Purpose: HubSpot sets this cookie to keep track of the visitors to the website. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current visitor. Cookie type and duration: Analytics, Third-Party, 6 months.


Name: SM


Service: .c.clarity.ms. Purpose: Microsoft Clarity cookie set this cookie for synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains. Cookie type and duration: Analytics, Third-Party, session.


Name: MR


Service: .c.bing.com. Purpose: This cookie, set by Bing, is used to collect user information for analytics purposes. Cookie type and duration: Analytics, Third-Party, 7 days.


Name: _clsk


Service: Microsoft Clarity. Purpose: Microsoft Clarity sets this cookie to store and consolidate a user’s pageviews into a single session recording. Cookie type and duration: Analytics, Third-Party, 1 day.


Name: _lfa_test_cookie_stored


Service: Leadfeeder.  Purpose: A cookie that is only temporarily used to check if the browser supports cookies or not. Cookie type and duration: Analytics, Third-Party, less than a minute.


Performance cookies

Name: __hssrc


Service: HubSpot. Purpose: This cookie is set by Hubspot whenever it changes the session cookie. The __hssrc cookie set to 1 indicates that the user has restarted the browser, and if the cookie does not exist, it is assumed to be a new session. Cookie type and duration: Performance, Third-Party, session.


Name: __hssc


Service: HubSpot. Purpose: HubSpot sets this cookie to keep track of sessions and to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. Cookie type and duration: Performance, Third-Party, 1 hour.


Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE


Service: YouTube. Purpose: YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface. Cookie type and duration: Performance, Third-Party, 6 months.


Name: _uetsid


Service: Bing Ads. Purpose: Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. Cookie type and duration: Performance, Third-Party, 1 day.


Name: _uetvid


Service: Bing Ads. Purpose: Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. Cookie type and duration: Performance, Third-Party, 1 year 24 days.


Name: SRM_B


Service: Microsoft Advertising. Purpose: Used by Microsoft Advertising as a unique ID for visitors. Cookie type and duration: Performance, Third-Party, 1 year 24 days.


Name: AnalyticsSyncHistory


Service: .linkedin.com. Purpose: Linkedin set this cookie to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie. Cookie type and duration: Performance, Third-Party, 1 month.


Marketing cookies

Name: bcookie


Service: .linkedin.com. Purpose: LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser IDs. Cookie type and duration: Marketing, Third-Party, 1 year.


Name: UserMatchHistory


Service: Linkedin. Purpose: LinkedIn sets this cookie for LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. Cookie type and duration: Marketing, Third-Party, 1 month.


Name: MUID


Service: Bing Ads. Purpose: Bing sets this cookie to recognise unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations. Cookie type and duration: Marketing, Third-Party, 1 year 24 days.


Name: ANONCHK


Service: .c.clarity.ms. Purpose: The ANONCHK cookie, set by Bing, is used to store a user’s session ID and verify ads’ clicks on the Bing search engine. The cookie helps in reporting and personalization as well. Cookie type and duration: Marketing, Third-Party, 10 minutes.


Name: test_cookie


Service: doubleclick.net. Purpose: doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. Cookie type and duration: Marketing, Third-Party, 15 minutes.


Name: YSC


Service: YouTube. Purpose: Youtube sets this cookie to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. Cookie type and duration: Marketing, Third-Party, session.


Name: VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA


Service: YouTube. Purpose: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. Cookie type and duration: Marketing, Third-Party, 6 months.


Name: IDE


Service: Google. Purpose: Google DoubleClick IDE cookies store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads according to the user profile. Cookie type and duration: Marketing, Third-Party, 1 year 24 days.


Name: yt.innertube::requests


Service: YouTube. Purpose: YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Cookie type and duration: Marketing, Third-Party, never.


Name: yt.innertube::nextId


Service: YouTube. Purpose: YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Cookie type and duration: Marketing, Third-Party, never.


Name: li_sugr


Service: .linkedin.com. Purpose: LinkedIn sets this cookie to collect user behaviour data to optimise the website and make advertisements on the website more relevant. Cookie type and duration: Marketing, Third-Party, 3 months.


Name: bscookie


Service: .linkedin.com Purpose: LinkedIn sets this cookie to store performed actions on the website. Cookie type and duration: Marketing, Third-Party, 1 year.



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Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. Third party analytics are used to track and measure the usage of this site so we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track certain information, for example, how much time you spend on the site or the pages that you visit, which helps us understand how we can improve this site for you. To collect this information we use different services (Google Analytics, LinkedIn & HotJar) who help us showing you relevant products and services based on what you appear to be interested in.


We also use Google’s reCAPTCHA product in order to help protect our website from spam and abuse. It may analyze traffic and may install cookies on your device. reCAPTCHA is used to check whether the data entered on our website (through our “Contact Us” form) has been entered by a human or by an automated program. To this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics (e.g. IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website etc.).



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Social media

All personal data gathered via Q’s social media is processed in accordance with the GDPR. Specifically, Q can be found on the following social media whose privacy policy is linked below: Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter



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Disabling Cookies

You can disable cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in disabling certain functionality and features of the site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.



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More information about cookies

If you are still looking for more information on how we use cookies then you can contact us via email: gdpr@q-web-staging.q.agency.


For more information about cookies and their impact on you and your browsing visit www.aboutcookies.org.



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