Cookies are small files that websites store on your device (computer, phone or tablet) when you visit them. They hold various pieces of information, such as your settings, your preferences or your browsing history. Cookies are used for several purposes, among them:
Storing preferences and settings: A website can remember your settings, such as the language, the theme (dark or light mode) and other preferences, to make your next visit easier.
Improving the user experience: Cookies can record how you behave on a site (which pages you visit and which links you click), which allows the site to optimise its services.
Traffic measurement and analysis: A website can use cookies to track how often and in what way you visit it. This information can be used to improve the content and the performance of the site.
Advertising and marketing: Cookies can follow your behaviour on the internet and show you personalised advertising based on your interests and activity. These are known as third-party cookies and may be set by sites other than the one you are currently visiting.
Signing in and keeping you signed in: If you sign in to a site, cookies are often used to keep the session, so that you do not have to enter your credentials again and again.
Types of cookies
Strictly necessary cookies: These are needed for the basic operation of the site, such as navigation or access to secured areas. On this website the only one is the stored record of your cookie consent.
Functional cookies: They let a website keep your choices (such as language or region) and adapt your experience accordingly.
Performance cookies (analytics and statistics): These collect information about how a user interacts with the site, for example which pages are visited most or whether errors occur. On this website we use Google Analytics, which loads only after you give consent.
Targeting or advertising cookies: These are used to display advertising that is relevant, based on your previous activity on the web.
Marketing cookies (Leady): On this website we use the Leady service, which recognises from the IP address the company a visitor comes from and records which pages they viewed. It helps us identify companies interested in the QI information system. Leady loads only after you give consent.
Third-party domains
Once you give consent by clicking "Allow all cookies", scripts are loaded from Google domains (googletagmanager.com, google-analytics.com) and from the Leady service (ct.leady.com). When they load, these domains may record the visitor's IP address and the request made to their service. If you refuse cookies, these scripts are not loaded.
You can change your consent at any time by clicking the "Cookies" button in the bottom right corner of the page.