1. Your choice
QR Cigars separates technologies needed to deliver a requested feature from optional browser analytics. Essential technologies remain active. Optional browser analytics, Vercel Web Analytics, and PostHog load only after you select Allow analytics.
Choose Essential only to reject optional analytics. You can change the choice at any time through Cookie settings in the footer. The preference itself must be stored so the site can remember it. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing already completed lawfully.
3. Local and session storage
- qrc_device: a random browser identifier stored until browser data is cleared. It is created when a person rates a cigar for duplicate-vote prevention and may also support public-page analytics only after analytics permission.
- qrc_vote_* and qrc_vote_ts_*: remember a recent rating and enforce the 12-hour repeat-vote window. They may remain in storage until cleared, but the application treats the vote restriction as expired after 12 hours.
- qrc_comment_* and qrc_contact_*: remember that the visitor completed or dismissed a comment or contact prompt so the same prompt is not repeatedly shown. They remain until browser data is cleared.
- qrc_qnr_*: remember this device's answers and reveal state for a community questionnaire. They may remain in storage until cleared, but the application treats a record older than 12 hours as expired and starts a fresh round.
- qrc_palate_*: remember, per brand, the palate answers this device already gave so later questionnaires only ask what is not yet known. They may remain until browser data is cleared, but the application ignores answers older than 90 days.
- qrc_deal_*: remembers that this browser signed up for a brand offer or giveaway so the prompt is not repeated. It remains until browser data is cleared.
- qrc_source_qr_*: session storage connecting a public-page action or contact request to the QR that opened the page. It is removed after successful use or when the browser session ends.
- ph_*: PostHog analytics and session-replay state, including a random identifier, kept in cookies and local storage for up to one year. Created only after Allow analytics and removed when browser data is cleared.
4. Analytics
When analytics is allowed, QR Cigars records public-page views and contact-link interactions with a random identifier and coarse device, referral, and location information. Vercel Web Analytics also records aggregated traffic without third-party cookies. PostHog, hosted in the European Union, measures how the site and dashboard are used and can replay page sessions with inputs and page text masked; its traffic is served through the qrcigars.com domain. Neither is loaded until permission is granted on QR Cigars.
A scan of a printed QR is recorded server-side as a core feature even when optional browser analytics is rejected. The application stores a one-way visitor hash plus coarse request information, not the raw IP address, in the product-analytics tables. Infrastructure providers necessarily process network requests under their own security and retention practices.
5. Browser and device controls
You can delete or block cookies and site storage through browser settings. Blocking essential technologies can prevent sign-in, age confirmation, billing, rating controls, or saved preferences from working. Settings are usually specific to each browser and device.
QR Cigars does not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. If a browser sends a legally recognized opt-out signal such as Global Privacy Control, our no-sale and no-sharing practice already applies.
6. Changes and contact
We will update this Notice when technologies, providers, or durations materially change. Questions can be sent to hello@qrcigars.com.