Cookie policy
Quadrature Climate Foundation (“we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies to understand and enhance your online experience with us and to keep our site reliable and secure.
This policy explains why and how we use cookies and how you can manage your cookie preferences. This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Notice, which explains how we use personal data. If you have any questions or concerns about the way we use cookies or personal data, please contact privacy@qc.foundation.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which a website may place on your computer or device when you visit a site. The cookie will help the website, or another website, to recognise your device the next time you visit. It is sent to your browser and stored on your device. Web beacons, pixels or other similar files can also serve this purpose. We use the term “cookies” in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way. When you visit our website, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies.
Why we use cookies, and how
Cookies can serve different purposes. We use cookies to:
- help recognise your browser or device;
- develop, maintain, personalise, protect, and improve our sites, products or services and to operate our business;
- maintain user preferences and collect information about users’ online communications and interactions with us;
- protect against, detect, and prevent fraud and other unlawful activity; and
- create aggregate data about groups or categories of our users.
What type of cookies do we use?
This website uses the following types of cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies: They are essential in order to enable you to move around our site and use its features. Without them, services like enabling appropriate content based on your type of device cannot be provided.
Optional cookies: These cookies help us enhance your experience on our website by remembering your preferences and providing personalised content. They also enable us to analyse website traffic to improve site performance and optimise your interactions with our features.
| Name | Category | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cookieSelection | Necessary | Comprend Waas | Used to store the accepted selection of cookies. | 3 months |
| cookieAgreee | Necessary | Comprend Waas | Used to store if cookies has been accepted. | 3 months |
| _ga | Optional | www.qc.foundation | Google Analytics, store and count pageviews. | 13 months |
| _ga_EEE767ZB4C | Optional | www.qc.foundation | Google Analytics, store and count pageviews. | 13 months |
| _gat_Client | Optional | www.qc.foundation | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | 1 minute |
| _gid | Optional | www.qc.foundation | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. | 24 hours |
Managing cookies
We need your consent to use cookies, unless such cookies are strictly necessary. On your first visit to this website, you will be asked whether you accept cookies and you may choose from different cookie settings. We will continue to apply the settings unless and until you change them.
You can refuse or accept all or some cookies from our site at any time by activating the setting in your browser. Information about the procedure to follow in order to enable or disable cookies can be found on your browser provider’s website via your help screen. You may wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html for information on commonly used browsers.
We do not currently take actions to respond to Do Not Track signals (DNT signals) because a uniform technological standard has not yet been developed. We continue to review new technologies and may adopt a standard once one is created.
Changes to this policy
This cookie policy will be updated from time to time. We will update the date at the bottom of this cookie policy accordingly and encourage you to check for changes to this cookie policy. Any changes we may make to this cookie policy will be posted on this page. If changes are significant, we may choose to notify you by email or to clearly indicate on our home page that the policy has been updated.
Effective from: 13 November 2024.