What Are Cookies?
As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your user experience. This page describes what kind of information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.
How We Use Cookies
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 this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
Google Analytics
This site can use Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use this website and how we can improve your user experience. These cookies may track things such as how much time you spend on the website and the pages that you visit, so we can keep producing engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies
Google Maps
Google Maps uses cookies for remembering your user preferences and to control the functioning of interactive maps. QuantaBrain does not set and cannot access the information in Google Maps cookies.
For more information on how Google and Google Maps uses cookies, see: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
This site also presents buttons linked to the following social networks:
The Facebook Like Button used on our website is hosted by Facebook and your browser. These data are used by Facebook in order to associate the Facebook Like Button with your Facebook account. This information is not accessible to us, and is not sent to us by Facebook. For further information and Facebook’s Privacy Policy, see: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other#socialplugin
X
The X Share Button used on our website is hosted by X and your browser, therefore it sends these cookie data to X when creating the button inside your browser. This data is used by X in order to associate the X Button with your X account. This data is not accessible to us, and is not sent to us by X. For further information and Twitter’s Privacy Policy, see: https://twitter.com/privacy
The Linkedin Button used in our website is hosted by LinkedIn and your browser. These data are used by Linkedin in order to associate our website with your Linkedin account. This information is not accessible to us, and is not sent to us by Linkedin. For further information, Linkedin’s Privacy Policy, see: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and, as was previously mentioned, if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not, it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However, if you want further information about what are cookies and how they work, you can find them ate the following link: http://www.aboutcookies.org