Cookies
Every cookie this site sets and everything it keeps in your browser, in three groups: what the site needs to work, analytics, and advertising. Only the first is used without asking you. Nothing is loaded from another site unless you allow analytics, which also loads Google Analytics.
Necessary
Always on. Each one exists for something you asked for -- signing in, sending a form, the realm and game you picked, your cookie answer -- and the site does not work without them, so they are disclosed here rather than asked about.
| Name | Kind | What it does | How long | Needs your consent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
pq_session |
Cookie | Keeps you signed in. Without it there is no way to be signed in at all. | 720 hours at most, less if you are idle | No – strictly necessary |
pq_oauth |
Cookie | Carries one Battle.net sign-in from your click to your return: random values that prove the answer belongs to the sign-in this browser started. Only ever sent to the sign-in address itself. | 10 minutes at most; deleted when you come back | No – strictly necessary |
pq_csrf |
Cookie | Stops another site from submitting this site's forms as you. | The browser session | No – strictly necessary |
pq_realm |
Cookie | Remembers the realm you picked in the top navigation, if you are not signed in. Only set when you choose one. | 1 year | No – strictly necessary |
pq_game |
Cookie | Remembers the game you picked in the header (Classic Era, TBC Anniversary or WoW Forever), so the site opens in that game the next time you come. Only set when you choose one, and deleted when you choose MoP Classic again. | 1 year | No – strictly necessary |
pq_consent |
Cookie | Remembers your answer in the cookie banner -- whether analytics and advertising are allowed -- and the date, so you are not asked on every page. | 6 months; then you are asked again | No – strictly necessary |
pq.feedback.closed |
Local storage | Remembers that you closed the “Is the site useful to you?” box, so it does not come back. Kept in your browser and never sent to this site. | 30 days | No – strictly necessary |
htmx-history-cache |
Local storage | When a list or a filter changes the page in place (the quest list, best in slot, a profession), copies of the last few pages are kept so the Back button can show them again. Kept in your browser and never sent to this site. | Until it is replaced by newer pages (at most ten are kept) | No – strictly necessary |
Analytics
Only after you allow analytics. This site's own analytics, on this server, and Google Analytics, run by Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). Without a yes nothing in this group runs: no cookie, no script, no request to Google, and no page is counted.
| Name | Kind | What it does | How long | Needs your consent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
pq_aid |
Cookie | A random analytics id, so visits from the same browser can be told apart from new ones. Only sent to this site's analytics address (/a/), never readable by a script. | 13 months at most | Yes |
pq_as |
Cookie | Groups the pages of one visit. Only sent to this site's analytics address (/a/). | 30 minutes after the last page | Yes |
_ga |
Cookie | Google Analytics: a random id, so Google can tell a returning browser from a new one. Set by Google's script on this site only after you allow analytics, and deleted when you withdraw. | 13 months at most | Yes |
_ga_LNYZQSYQ0V |
Cookie | Google Analytics: keeps the state of your visit for this site's Google Analytics property. Same conditions as _ga. | 13 months at most | Yes |
Advertising
Only after you allow advertising, and never while your browser sends Global Privacy Control. Nothing is set in this category at present; if advertising is added, every cookie and the company behind it is listed here before it runs.
Nothing is set in this group at present.
No analytics without a yes
Until you allow analytics, and after you withdraw it, no analytics runs at all: no cookie, no script, no request to an analytics company, and the pages you open are not counted, not even as a number. With a yes, each page you open is also added to that page’s count for the day. The privacy statement lists it with everything else the site keeps.
Google Analytics is run for this site by Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). Its cookies are set on this site only and last no longer than the site’s own analytics id (the table above), instead of Google’s default two years, and withdrawing analytics deletes them. Google may transfer what it collects to the United States under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework.
Your choice
The first time you visit, a banner asks whether the site may use analytics and advertising cookies. Rejecting is one click, like accepting, and nothing is switched on before you answer. The answer is kept for six months and then you are asked again. You can change it, or withdraw it, at any time from Cookie settings at the foot of every page; withdrawing analytics also deletes what your browser had sent. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, advertising stays off whatever is ticked.
If you are signed in when you answer, the answer is also recorded in your consent history on Your data, with the version of the privacy statement it was given against.
Who is responsible
PandaQuest is the software. The controller – the person or company answerable for the data on this particular hub – is whoever runs it, and these details come from their configuration rather than from the code.
Negin Applications (business ID 2991363-9)
ba@zroot.it
Hetzner Finland Oy
Version 18 of this text. When it changes, the
version changes with it, and consent given to the old wording stays recorded against the old
version: Your data shows which version each of your answers was
given against. The cookie banner asks again after six months, or sooner if its questions change.