Cookie Policy

 1. Cookies on our Website

Cookies are small text files that are stored in your computer’s memory and hard drive when you visit certain web pages. They are used to enable websites to function or to provide information to the owners of a website. Web beacons (also called “pixel tags”) are electronic images placed on a website that typically help us access certain cookies on the website, enable us to count visitors on our websites and improve our services. Web beacons also collect information about visits from your IP-address.

This Cookie policy informs you how Qt Group Oyj (“Qt”) uses cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies (jointly referred to as “cookies”) in its websites and how you can manage and control the use of cookies on your computer or device.

Cookies that are used on our Websites help Qt to provide customized services and information. Qt uses cookies on all our Websites to gather information how and when pages in our Websites are visited, what our users’ technology preferences are and whether our Websites are functioning properly.

On our password-protected sites, the website may use cookies or other technology to help us authenticate you, store and recognize your configuration and user attributes, facilitate your navigation of the website and customize its content.

 In general terms, we use cookies on our Websites for the following purposes:

Analytical purposes: Analytical cookies allow us to recognize, measure and track visitors to our Websites. This helps us to develop the way our Websites function, by determining whether site visitors can find information easily, or by identifying the aspects of websites that are of the most interest to them, for example.

Usage preferences: Some cookies on our Websites are activated when visitors to our sites make a choice about their usage of the Website. Our Websites then use the settings preferences of the user in relation to future visits. This allows us to tailor the experience on our Websites to the individual user.

Policy Administration:  We use cookies to record when a site visitor has seen a policy, such as this one, or provided consent, such as consent to the terms and conditions on our Websites. This avoids repeated questions to a user regarding the same terms.

Session management: The software that runs our websites uses cookies for technical purposes needed by the internal workings of our servers. For instance, we use cookies to distribute requests among multiple servers, authenticate users and determine what features of the site they can access, verify the origin of requests, keep track of information about a user’ s session and determine which options or pages to display in order for the site to function.

Functional purposes: Functional purpose cookies store information that is needed by our applications to process and operate. For example, where transactions or requests within an application involve multiple workflow stages, cookies are used to store the information from each stage temporarily, in order to facilitate completion of the overall transaction or request.

 To make full use of our Websites, your device will need to accept cookies. Our Websites will not function properly without them. In addition, cookies are required in order to provide you with personalized features on our Websites.

On certain of our Websites, we include content designed for display using Adobe Flash Player, such as animations, videos and tools. Local flash storage (often referred to as “Flash cookies”) can be used to help improve your experience as a user. Flash storage is retained on your device in much the same way as standard cookies, but is managed directly by your Flash software.

If you wish to disable or delete information stored locally in Flash, please see the documentation for your Flash software, located at www.adobe.com. Please note that, if you disable Flash cookies, some site functionality may not work.

2. Third party cookies

When you visit our Websites, you may receive cookies that are set by third parties. These may include cookies set by Google. These cookies are used for the purposes described in the “Cookies on our Website?”  section of this policy. We do not control the setting of these third-party cookies, so we recommend you to check the third-party websites for more information about their use of cookies and how to manage them.

3. Amending cookie preferences

You may delete cookies from your computer at any time. The instructions for removing cookies from your computer or mobile device depend on the operating system and web browser you use. Please note, however, that withdrawing your agreement to the use of cookies on our Websites will mean that certain functionalities are not usable or are more difficult to use.

The site www.allaboutcookies.org includes instructions for managing cookies on many commonly used browses, or you may consult the vendor documentation for your specific software.

Further information about cookies

If you would like to find out more about cookies in general and how to manage them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.