COOKIE POLICY FOR AQUILON TECH
Last updated: 3 November 2026
This policy explains how Aquilon Tech Limited ("we", "us", "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on www.aquilontech.com, what each one does, and how you can control them. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers how we handle personal data more generally.
1. WHAT COOKIES ARE
Cookies are small text files a website stores on your device. Websites can also keep information in your browser's local storage and session storage, which work in a similar way. In this policy, "cookies" covers all three.
First-party cookies are set by us, on our own domain. Third-party cookies are set by another company whose service runs on our pages.
2. YOUR CHOICES
When you first visit, a banner asks whether we may use optional cookies. Nothing optional loads until you choose: Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity and Vercel's analytics are not even downloaded unless you accept them. "Reject all" is as easy as "Accept all", and "Manage choices" lets you decide category by category.
We keep your choice for 12 months, then ask again. We also ask again if we add a new kind of optional cookie. You can change your mind at any time from "Cookie settings" at the foot of every page, or here:
If you withdraw consent, we delete the analytics cookies set on our domain and reload the page without them.
Analytics runs only with your consent. Essential cookies are used because the site needs them to work (legitimate interests).
3. STRICTLY NECESSARY
These make the site work or remember something you asked it to. They are always on, and none of them is used for tracking or shared with anyone.
| Name | Type | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
aq_consent | Local storage | Remembers your cookie choice so we don't ask on every page. | 12 months |
aq_chat_v2 | Local storage | Keeps your conversation with our website assistant while you move between pages. | 6 hours |
aq_chat_reopenaq_teaser_seen | Session storage | Reopens the chat after it opens a page for you, and stops the chat prompt reappearing. | Until you close the tab |
aq-checklist:<post> | Local storage | Remembers the boxes you tick on a blog checklist. | Until you clear them |
aq-apply:<role> | Local storage | Saves a draft of a job application so a refresh doesn't lose it. Deleted when you submit. | Until you submit or clear it |
aq_assess | Cookie | Keeps a candidate signed in to a timed hiring assessment. Only set if you take one. | 6 hours |
aq_admin | Cookie | Keeps our staff signed in to the admin area. Never set for visitors. | 12 hours |
4. ANALYTICS (ONLY WITH YOUR CONSENT)
These help us understand how people use the site: which pages are read, how visitors find us, how quickly pages load, and which of our campaigns work. None of them loads unless you accept analytics.
We use Google Analytics 4, provided by Google. The data is sent to Google; see Google's explanation of how it uses information from sites that use its services.
We also use Vercel Web Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights, provided by Vercel Inc., which hosts this site. They count page views and measure how quickly pages load. They set no cookies and store nothing on your device: visits are counted with an identifier derived from the request that is discarded after 24 hours and cannot recognise you across days or other websites.
We also use Microsoft Clarity, provided by Microsoft, to see how visitors use our pages: where people click, how far they scroll and where they get stuck, shown as heatmaps and as replays of individual visits. Everything you type into a form, and the text on the page, is hidden from the replay before it leaves your browser. We tell Clarity not to use the data for advertising. See Microsoft's privacy statement.
| Name | Type | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Cookie (Google Analytics) | Tells one visitor apart from another using a random ID. | 2 years |
_ga_9WHSW3JVML | Cookie (Google Analytics) | Keeps track of your current visit. | 2 years |
_clck | Cookie (Microsoft Clarity) | Tells one visitor apart from another using a random ID, and keeps Clarity's settings. | 1 year |
_clsk | Cookie (Microsoft Clarity) | Joins the pages of one visit into a single replay. | 1 day |
CLID | Cookie (Microsoft Clarity, third party on clarity.ms) | Recognises a browser Clarity has seen before. | 1 year |
aq_utm | Local storage | Remembers which campaign link brought you here (the utm_ tags in the address, and the click code Google adds when you click one of our ads), so an enquiry you send a page or two later is credited to that campaign. | 30 days |
aq_heard | Local storage | Remembers your answer to "How did you hear about us?" on one of our forms, so a call you book afterwards is credited the same way. | Until you withdraw consent or clear it |
If you reject analytics, the campaign details above are still attached to a form you send during the same visit, but nothing is stored on your device.
5. ADVERTISING
We do not currently use advertising cookies. If we start measuring our LinkedIn adverts with LinkedIn's Insight Tag, the banner will ask you about it separately, it will not load without your agreement, and this policy will list its cookies before it goes live.
6. CONTENT FROM OTHER COMPANIES
Some pages show content served by another company. When it loads, that company may set or read its own cookies under its own policy. We don't control those cookies and can't read them.
Google Maps: the maps on our Contact and Birmingham pages are a link to Google Maps; nothing loads on our site. The map picture is an image we host ourselves, made from OpenStreetMap data.
Google Calendar, when you open our booking calendar, either on Google's site or inside our website assistant.
Spline, which serves the interactive 3D scenes on some pages. See Spline's privacy policy.
Links to our LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube pages are plain links: nothing from those sites loads until you click through.
7. BROWSER CONTROLS
You can also block or delete cookies in your browser. If you block strictly necessary ones, parts of the site (such as the chat) may not work. Each browser explains how:
Google also offers a browser add-on that opts you out of Google Analytics on every website.
8. DO NOT TRACK
There is no agreed standard for "Do Not Track" signals, so we don't act on them. We ask you directly through the banner instead.
9. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We update this policy whenever the cookies we use change. The date at the top shows when it last changed. If we add a new kind of optional cookie, the banner will ask you again.
10. CONTACT US
If you have a question about how we use cookies, email hello@aquilontech.com or write to Aquilon Tech Limited, 10 Brindley Place, Birmingham B1 2JB.