Cookie Policy
What this page covers
This page explains what cookies and similar technologies CRYPTO QUILL uses, why, and how you can control them. It works alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers everything else we do with data. We have tried to be specific rather than hiding behind the phrase “and similar technologies”, although that phrase does appear, because local storage and pixels genuinely exist and behave like cookies for every purpose that matters here.
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file a website stores in your browser so that something can be remembered between page loads: that you dismissed a banner, that you are the same visitor as five minutes ago, that an ad has already been shown to you twice. First-party cookies are set by us; third-party cookies are set by other companies whose code runs on our pages, mostly advertising and analytics providers. Cookies cannot run programs, install anything, or read your wallet. They are memory, not malware, but memory has privacy consequences, which is why this page and the consent banner exist.
The categories we use
Strictly necessary
Cookies the site cannot function without: security tokens, load balancing, and the cookie that records your consent choices themselves, which is the small paradox at the heart of every consent system. These do not require consent and cannot be switched off from our banner, though your browser can always delete them.
Preferences
Cookies that remember choices you have made, such as a dismissed notice or a display setting. Losing these does not break the site; it just makes it forgetful.
Analytics
Cookies that help us count readers and understand which coverage matters. We use this data in aggregate: which articles were read, how readers arrived, how long pages took to load. We do not use analytics to build individual reading profiles.
Advertising
Cookies set by the ad networks that fund the site. They are used to serve ads, cap how often you see the same one, measure whether campaigns worked, and, where you have consented, personalise what is shown. Affiliate networks may also set a cookie when you click an affiliate link so the referral can be attributed. Advertising cookies are the most privacy-relevant category we use, which is why they are the category most firmly behind the consent banner in regions that require one.
Third parties
Third-party providers of analytics, advertising, and embedded content (social media posts, videos, and market data widgets embedded in articles) may set their own cookies under their own policies. We choose providers with care, but we do not control their cookies, and an embedded tweet is functionally a visit to the platform that hosts it. Our Privacy Policy says more about embeds.
Your choices
- The consent banner. Where the law requires consent, the banner you saw on first visit lets you accept or decline non-essential categories, and you can change your mind later; the banner or a settings link remains reachable from the site.
- Browser settings. Every major browser lets you view, block, and delete cookies, block third-party cookies wholesale, and clear everything on exit. Blocking all cookies may break site features, but the articles will still load, which is the part we care most about.
- Platform opt-outs. Major advertising ecosystems offer their own opt-out tools for personalised advertising, and industry opt-out pages let you set preferences across many networks at once.
- Global Privacy Control. Where applicable law recognises browser-level opt-out signals, we honour them.
One honest note: opting out of advertising cookies does not mean fewer ads. It means less relevant ads. The journalism still has to be paid for either way.
Retention
Session cookies disappear when you close the browser. Persistent cookies carry an expiry set by whoever created them, from hours to months. Your consent choice is itself stored so we do not ask you on every visit, and it is re-requested periodically or when our cookie use changes materially.
Changes and contact
If we add a category of cookie or a significant new provider, this page will be updated and, where required, consent will be asked again. Questions about cookies go to support@cryptoquill.com with “Privacy” in the subject line.
