Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Vortex Quantitative ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit our website at vortexquant.com (the "Website"). This policy provides you with clear and comprehensive information about the cookies we use, their purpose, and your choices regarding cookies.

When you first visit our Website, a consent dialog asks you to accept or decline optional cookies before any are set. Analytics cookies are the only optional category we use. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time using the "Cookie Settings" link in the footer of the Website.

This policy also covers other technologies that store information on your device, such as local storage, because the same rules apply to them as to cookies.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work more efficiently, to provide reporting information, and to improve user experience.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Vortex Quantitative) are called "first-party cookies." Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website.

3.1 Essential Storage

These are necessary for the Website to work and are not optional. We use them to remember your cookie choice so that we do not ask again on every page and so that a refusal continues to be respected, and to protect our forms from automated abuse. We set no essential cookies; the only item in this category is stored using your browser's local storage instead.

3.2 Analytics Cookies

These help us understand how visitors use the Website so that we can improve it. They are optional, they are set only if you accept them, and they are the only cookies we set.

Where website activity can be connected to a business contact — because you completed one of our forms while analytics cookies were active — we may use the pages you viewed to understand what you were interested in and to make our reply to you more relevant. We do not use it to advertise to you, and we set no advertising cookies.

We also count visits using a method that stores nothing on your device at all, described in the Third-Party Cookies section.

The table below lists everything we store on your device and why. The first entry is essential and is always present; the remainder are set only if you accept analytics cookies.

We set no cookies of our own. Every cookie described in this policy is set by a third party, and only after you accept optional cookies. We also use two services that set no cookies at all. We do not serve advertisements and we do not use advertising cookies.

• HubSpot — website analytics and customer relationship management. Loaded only if you accept analytics cookies, and the source of the four cookies listed in the previous section.
• Cloudflare Turnstile — spam and abuse protection on our forms. Turnstile sets no cookies and does not track visitors across sites.
• Cloudflare Web Analytics — aggregate visitor counts. It sets no cookies, stores nothing on your device, and does not identify individual visitors or follow them across sites.

These third parties have their own privacy policies addressing how they use such information.

The lifespan of a cookie depends on its type:

• Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you close your browser. They are deleted automatically when you end your browsing session.
• Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on your device for a set period specified in the cookie or until you manually delete them. They activate each time you visit the website that created that particular cookie.

You have several options for managing cookies:

7.1 Consent Dialog

The dialog that appears on your first visit is the easiest way to manage cookies on our Website. Analytics is the only optional purpose, so it offers exactly two choices: accept optional cookies, or decline them. Both are a single click and neither is emphasised over the other.

There are no further categories to configure, which is why there is no separate preferences panel — it would contain a single control duplicating those two buttons. You can reopen the dialog at any time using the "Cookie Settings" link in the footer to review your choice, change it, or withdraw consent you gave earlier. Withdrawing is exactly as easy as giving it.

7.2 Browser Settings

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. You can set your browser to:

• Notify you when you receive a cookie
• Decline cookies automatically
• Delete previously stored cookies

Because we set no essential cookies, blocking or deleting cookies in your browser will not stop this Website from working. It may mean we ask for your cookie choice again, because the record of your previous choice is itself stored on your device.

Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" (DNT) feature. DNT was never finalised as a standard and our Website does not respond to it.

We do respond to Global Privacy Control (GPC). If your browser or an extension sends a GPC signal, we treat it as a refusal of analytics cookies, we do not show you the consent dialog, and no analytics cookies are set. You can still change this at any time using the "Cookie Settings" link in the footer.

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.

We encourage you to periodically review this Cookie Policy to stay informed about how we use cookies.

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:

Vortex Quantitative Software Inc.

Email: privacy@vortexquant.com

Phone: +1 212 521 4046

Address: 1325 Avenue of the Americas, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10019

For more information about how we handle your personal data, please refer to our Privacy Policy.