Last Updated: January 19, 2026
Introduction
This Cookie Policy describes how QSmartphone uses cookies and similar tracking technologies. When you access QSmartphone’s website, mobile applications, content, advertising services, or related technologies (“Services”), or when you visit any website, application, or service powered by our Services, data may be collected using cookies and comparable technologies. QSmartphone is dedicated to safeguarding the personal data collected during your use of our Services.
This Cookie Policy offers users comprehensive information on:
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- Understanding cookies and similar technologies
- Categorizing different cookie types
- Purposes for which cookies are deployed
- QSmartphone’s specific cookie usage practices
- Methods for managing or declining cookies
- Contact details and additional information resources
What Are Cookies and Similar Technologies?
A cookie is a small text file, typically containing a unique identifier, transmitted to your computer, smartphone, or tablet (collectively referred to as “device” in this policy) by a website’s server, enabling the website to retain certain details about your browsing patterns. Cookies gather data concerning your interaction with our Services, device specifications including IP address and browser type, approximate geographic location, and if applicable, the referring URL if you arrived via a third-party link. For registered users or subscribers, cookies may additionally store your name and email address, which could be shared with data processors for user authentication purposes.
Comparable technologies called “local storage” may also be implemented across our Services as cookie alternatives. This mechanism functions similarly to cookies, performing parallel tasks such as caching information to enhance our Services, facilitating user registration, monitoring activities to enable targeted advertising according to this policy, and quantifying advertisement impressions. Throughout this policy, references to “cookies” encompass both cookies and functionally similar technologies.
Cookies maintain records of your online preferences, helping us customize our Services to align with your interests. Cookie-generated information assists us in evaluating how you utilize our Services and delivering an enhanced user experience.
Beyond cookies, our Services may incorporate web beacons, transparent GIFs, page tags, and tracking pixels. These represent technologies deployed by third-party websites or advertising servers to assess your website usage and enhance your overall experience with our Services.
What Are the Different Types of Cookies?
Session cookies remain stored exclusively during your active website session and are automatically removed from your device upon browser closure.
Persistent cookies continue residing on your device for a predetermined duration following browser closure, utilized when we (or third parties) require user identification across subsequent browsing sessions.
First-party cookies originate from and are established by the website you’re currently visiting.
Third-party cookies represent cookies employed within our services but configured by external organizations. These encompass cookies from external analytics platforms helping us comprehend site usage patterns, or advertiser cookies enabling campaign effectiveness tracking. Third-party cookies may also originate from social media platforms, allowing content sharing with your networks, potentially influencing content and advertisements displayed on other websites you subsequently visit.
What Are Cookies Used For?
QSmartphone, in collaboration with our trusted partners, deploys cookies combined with other retained information for multiple purposes, including:
Essential or ‘Strictly Necessary’ Cookies
These cookies constitute fundamental requirements for our Services to function correctly. Without these, specific website components would become inoperable. These cookies don’t monitor your internet navigation beyond our site, don’t preserve preferences past your current session, and don’t accumulate information suitable for marketing applications. Typically, these represent session cookies expiring upon browser closure.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies enhance our Services’ operation by remembering your site preferences and delivering improved, personalized features. Information gathered by these cookies undergoes anonymization, preventing personal identification. Functional cookies don’t track broader internet usage or collect data for advertising sales, though they support advertisement display functionality. Configuration may occur through us or third-party service providers integrated into our pages.
Performance Analytics and Measurement Cookies
Performance analytics cookies monitor our Services’ effectiveness, measuring metrics like page view counts and unique visitor numbers. Third parties may design and operate web analytics services. Cookie-provided information enables us to analyze user behavior patterns, applying insights to enhance user experience or identify website areas requiring maintenance. This information remains anonymous (incapable of individual identification and excluding personal details like names and email addresses), utilized exclusively for statistical analysis.
Targeting or ‘Behavioral Advertising’ Cookies
These cookies, potentially placed by us or trusted third-party service providers, document your website visits and leverage this information to deliver content or advertising matched to your interests. This practice, commonly termed online behavioral advertising (OBA), functions by clustering shared interests derived from web browsing patterns. Your browsing history enables inferences about demographic characteristics (age, gender, etc.), information potentially utilized to enhance advertising relevance. Without these cookies, encountered content and advertisements may prove less relevant to your specific interests. For additional OBA information, including opt-out procedures, consult “How Can Users Manage or Opt Out of Cookies?”
Social Media Cookies
These cookies originate from various social media services integrated into our site, activated when you share our content with your networks or interact with our content through social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. These cookies can track your browser across multiple sites, constructing interest profiles that may influence content and messaging on other websites you visit.
How Does QSmartphone Use Cookies?
QSmartphone, alongside our trusted partners, utilizes cookies in conjunction with other maintained information for various purposes, including:
Essential and Functional Cookies
We deploy these cookies to activate specific online capabilities, including:
- Accessing stored information to deliver personalized content and experiences, or remembering your last visited page within our Services
- Recognizing returning, registered, and subscriber users, enabling them to access customized site versions
- Removing requirements for returning users to repeatedly input login credentials
- Enabling comment functionality on our smartphone reviews and articles
- Operating shopping cart systems across select services
- Preserving your settings and verifying your identity during logged-in sessions
- Supporting security protocols and assisting in identifying potentially fraudulent or harmful activities
For objections to essential and functional cookie usage, refer to “How Can Users Manage or Opt Out of Cookies?”
Performance Analytics and Measurement Cookies
We employ these cookies to assess user behavior, consequently improving our Services. Through analytics services delivered by third-party providers, we can examine and quantify page viewership, session duration, and link engagement patterns. This information may inform more relevant content delivery. Collected data typically undergoes aggregation, generating trends and usage patterns supporting business analysis, site enhancement, performance evaluation, and informing our advertising and marketing approaches. Our cookies, or derivative analytics, may be shared with business collaborators. We similarly receive visitor information from affiliated websites and partner organizations.
For objections to performance analytics and measurement cookie usage, consult “How Can Users Manage or Opt Out of Cookies?”
Targeting or ‘Behavioral Advertising’ Cookies
We utilize these cookies to:
- Deliver personalized content and marketing communications aligned with your interests based on visit information
- Administer online advertising and revenue-sharing agreements. Our authorized advertising partners employ cookies alongside web beacons to serve advertisements and enable relationship management with these advertisers through metrics like unique user views of specific advertisements or advertisement link clicks
- Oversee e-commerce activities through affiliate links and associated revenue-sharing arrangements
- Assess overall user behavior across our sites and external sites, building profiles based on browsing patterns enabling us and third parties to target more interest-relevant advertisements. For instance, if a user reviews a specific smartphone model, cookies collect this information, potentially triggering targeted advertisements for that smartphone. Furthermore, if users visit third-party sites within identical advertising networks, those third parties may similarly target relevant advertisements
- Generate profiles available for purchase by trusted third parties, enabling superior advertising targeting with more relevant content
- Present relevant advertisements on external websites based on your web search activities
- Monitor user counts viewing specific advertisements or visiting particular website pages, analyze advertising effectiveness, and provide auditing, research, and reporting services for advertisers
Trusted partners supporting our targeting and behavioral advertising initiatives include third-party advertisement servers, advertising agencies, technology suppliers, sponsored content providers, research organizations, and companies helping us deliver more effective advertising and personalized experiences. As your browser, application, or device communicates with third-party servers, these organizations can collect information including IP addresses, page header details, and browser or device specifications, identical to direct webpage requests or application usage.
We cannot control or access cookies placed by third-party advertisers and sponsors.
For detailed information regarding third parties supporting our behavioral and targeting advertising, contact us directly.
For objections to behavioral advertising and targeting cookie usage, see “How Can Users Manage or Opt Out of Cookies?”
Social Media Cookies
Cookies activate when you share information via social media sharing buttons on our sites. Social networks record these actions and may utilize visit information for advertisement targeting. We additionally promote our products and services through social media using cookies for this purpose. For example, we implement pixels on our sites enabling social platforms to place cookies in web browsers. When site visitors using these social platforms return to them, the platforms can identify them as part of our visitor group and may display our marketing messages.
Third-party cookie types and information usage methodologies are governed by those companies’ privacy policies. For objections to social media cookie usage, consult “How Can Users Manage or Opt Out of Cookies?”
Other Third-Party Cookies
On certain pages, you may notice cookies unrelated to QSmartphone. When viewing pages containing embedded third-party content, such as video players or interactive elements, those providers may set their own cookies on your device. QSmartphone doesn’t control these third-party cookies and cannot access them due to cookie operational mechanics, as only the originating party can access them. Consult third-party websites for additional cookie information.
Some services utilize media players to deliver video content and interactive experiences to users. These platforms employ proprietary cookies, unmanageable through browser settings but used for similar purposes including preference storage or user tracking. These specialized cookies function differently from standard browser cookies; rather than individual cookies for specific tasks, websites are limited to storing all data within a single cookie. You can control data storage amounts in that cookie but cannot specify what information types are permitted. You can manage which sites can store information in these specialized cookies through the respective platform’s settings panel.
We also incorporate web beacons in our emails to monitor marketing campaign effectiveness. This means email opens from us may reveal which website pages you subsequently visited. Our web beacons don’t store additional device information but, by communicating with our cookies on your device, can confirm email opens and verify clicks on links or advertisements within emails. They enable us to determine whether users not opening our emails wish to continue receiving them and inform our advertisers aggregately about user clicks on their email advertisements. We may additionally use this information for purposes including determining which emails generate greater user interest and customizing email campaigns.
For objections to web beacon usage, refer to “How Can Users Manage or Opt Out of Cookies?”
For comprehensive third-party cookie information on our sites, contact us directly.
How Can Users Manage or Opt Out of Cookies?
Some individuals find website information storage on their devices somewhat intrusive, particularly when third parties store and utilize this information. For example, you may object to receiving advertisements targeted to your interests based on browsing history. If you prefer opting out of cookies, you can control them by following the procedures below. However, recognize that you may forfeit certain website features by doing so.
Cookies, including previously set ones, can be deleted from your hard drive. You can also modify browser preferences/settings to control cookies. Some internet browsers feature a ‘Do Not Track’ or ‘DNT’ setting, known as Global Privacy Control; this transmits signals to websites requesting that your browsing not be tracked. You can enable Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) in your browser. To learn more about GPC, visit http://globalprivacycontrol.org.
The following links may prove helpful:
- Cookie settings in Firefox
- Cookie settings in Safari – desktop and mobile devices
- Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
- Cookie settings in Chrome
- Cookie settings in Opera
In certain cases, you can accept cookies from the primary site while blocking third-party ones. Alternatively, you can block cookies from specific advertisers or delete all cookies. Deleting or blocking cookies may diminish website functionality. To learn more about rejecting cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ or access your browser’s help menu. If you experience difficulties after deleting cookies, contact your browser provider.
Opting Out of Performance Analytics Cookies
If you wish to opt out of analytics cookies, utilize the opt-out mechanisms provided by specific analytics providers. Contact us for detailed information about analytics providers used on our site and their respective opt-out procedures.
Opting Out of Behavioral Advertising and Targeting Cookies
If you wish to opt out of third-party cookies generated by advertisers or targeted advertising service providers, you can do so by visiting the relevant third party’s website. Contact us for specific details.
You can find additional information about opting out of behavioral advertising and targeting cookies by visiting:
UK/EEA
If you reside in the UK or European Union and would like more information about advertiser usage of these cookie types or to opt out, please visit www.youronlinechoices.eu, http://www.aboutads.info, and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1#!/
United States
If you reside in the United States and want additional information or to opt out of interest-based advertising, visit the NAI’s consumer opt-out page or the AboutAds.info website for desktop devices, and the NAI’s Mobile Choices page or the AppChoices website for mobile devices.
If you reside in California, Virginia, Connecticut, or Colorado, you can opt out of the “sale or sharing” of your personal information through cookie usage on our site by selecting the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link located in each page’s footer.
Canada
The Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada’s (DAAC) AdChoices initiative enables you to opt out of having your information used for interest-based advertising. For additional information about this program, visit https://youradchoices.ca/
DAAC provides a tool generating a list of third-party advertising companies participating in DAAC’s Self-Regulatory Program for Online Interest-Based Advertising currently collecting data from your browser for targeted advertising purposes. You can use this tool to opt out of interest-based advertising. The DAAC tool for opting out of interest-based advertising can be found at: https://youradchoices.ca/choices
Please note that opting out through these channels doesn’t eliminate advertisements entirely. You will continue receiving other advertisement types from these companies and advertisements from non-participating companies. Websites you visit may still collect information about you for other purposes.
Note: These represent third-party sites and QSmartphone assumes no responsibility for instructions contained within them.
Web Beacons
You can typically render web beacons and other tracking technologies ineffective by disabling cookies in your browser. Browser add-ons and extensions are also available that specifically block web beacons. If you object to web beacons in emails, we recommend following the above instructions for deleting existing cookies and disabling future cookies. We will still know how many emails are opened and will automatically receive your IP address, a unique device identifier, or other access device identifier; but we will not identify you as an individual.
Contact Information and Where to Find More Information
For additional information regarding the cookies we use and their purposes, please contact QSmartphone’s Data Protection Team.
By email: privacy@qsmartphone.com
For more information about cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
General information on data protection can be found at:
- Federal Trade Commission: https://www.ftc.gov/
- International Association of Privacy Professionals: https://iapp.org/