Cookie Policy
Last updated: 2026-09-18
papershot (Wellbayt LLC-FZ, United Arab Emirates) uses a small number of cookies and similar storage on https://papershot.qbyte.tech. None of them are for cross-context behavioural advertising. You can change your choices at any time from the Cookie choices link in the site footer.
What Is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that a website places on your device when you visit. Similar technologies include browser localStorage and sessionStorage. This policy uses "cookies" to cover all of them.
Your Choices
On your first visit we show a cookie banner with these categories:
- Strictly necessary: always on. Needed for the administrator sign-in, for security, and to remember your cookie choices. You cannot turn these off.
- Analytics: off by default. First-party only. Helps us see which pages get used and where the site breaks.
- Marketing: off by default. The banner offers this switch, but today it sets nothing: we run no campaign measurement on the site, and the server ignores that choice.
Your choices are stored on your device under the key papershot.consents. If you are signed in, we also record them on your account so they follow you. You can update them at any time via the Cookie choices link in the footer.
Strictly Necessary
| Storage | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Administrator session cookie | Keeps an administrator signed in to the admin area. Set only when an administrator signs in. | 8 hours |
| Sign-in CSRF cookie | Prevents cross-site request forgery during administrator sign-in. | Session |
Consent record (papershot.consents) | Remembers the cookie choices you made. | Until you clear site data |
Analytics (Only With Consent)
Set only if you accept analytics. First-party only: we load no third-party analytics script on the website, and nothing is stored for this purpose until you accept.
| Storage | Provider | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| First-party analytics (no third-party script) | papershot (first-party) | Only while your analytics consent is on |
Local Storage
We use localStorage to remember your theme (light, dark or system) under the key papershot.theme, and to keep your cookie choices under the key papershot.consents. Neither key is used for tracking.
Mobile Apps
The papershot apps for iOS and Android do not use cookies. They do use Firebase Analytics (Google Analytics 4) for product analytics under a pseudonymous id, on by default; turn it off in Settings under Help improve papershot. The apps also keep some data only on your device: your Studio drafts, which Guest Lens prompts you have ticked off, and the signed install identifier that keeps a guest's shots together. The Privacy Policy describes all of this in full.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
We respect the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal: a GPC signal from your browser is treated as a request to opt out of any analytics and marketing categories that are not already disabled. Many browsers' legacy "Do Not Track" signal does not have an agreed standard meaning, so we do not act on it as a separate signal.
Changing Your Choices
Use the Cookie choices link in the site footer or your browser settings. Clearing site data resets your choices and signs out any administrator session.
Contact
Questions about this policy? papershot@wellbayt.com.