Legal
Cookies and browser storage
Last updated 9 October 2026. Beaquaro Studio and Beaquaro Business.
This page is short on purpose. Beaquaro Studio and Beaquaro Business use a few cookies and some browser storage. Almost all of it is essential: it keeps you signed in, remembers your language and theme, and keeps bots out, and it cannot be switched off, because sign-in would not work without it. What you can say no to is anonymous visit counting on our public pages, and ads from partners such as Google.
What we store
| Name | Type | What it does | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Host-bq_session | Cookie (set by us, HttpOnly) | Keeps you signed in on this device. Page scripts cannot read it. Essential. | Up to 30 days, or until you sign out |
| bq_in | Cookie (set by us) | A plain flag that says you are signed in, so pages can show the right screen. Holds no secret. Essential. | Up to 30 days, or until you sign out |
| bq_sso | Cookie (set by us, HttpOnly) | Signs you in once for Studio, Business and Agency. Shared across beaquaro.com sites. Essential. | Up to 30 days, or until you sign out |
| oauth_state | Cookie (set by us) | Protects “Continue with Google” sign-in from forgery. Essential. | 10 minutes |
| bq_lang | Cookie (set by us) | Remembers the language you chose. Essential to show the site in it. | 1 year |
| bq_consent | Cookie (set by us) | Remembers the choice you made in the cookie banner. | 6 months |
| bq-ad-hidden-until, bq-ad-last | Browser storage | Remember that you hid a sponsor card, and when one was last shown, so you see at most one every couple of minutes. | Until you clear it |
| Google ad cookies | Cookies set by Google (only if ads are switched on) | Only if you accepted, and only outside the UK, EU and Switzerland. They come from Google, under Google’s policy, and let it show and measure an ad in the card shown while a file uploads or a post goes out. | Set by Google |
| bq_ref | Cookie (set by us) | Only if you accepted cookies and arrived from someone’s referral link: remembers who sent you, so that you get 20% off your first 3 months of Creator and they are credited if you sign up. | 30 days |
| Cloudflare bot check | Cloudflare (on sign-in and sign-up) | Checks that you are a person and not a bot. It may use its own short-lived storage. Essential for security. | Set by Cloudflare |
| beaquaro-theme | Browser storage | Remembers light, dark or system theme. | Until you clear it |
| bq_theme | Cookie | Remembers light, dark or system theme across Studio, Business and Agency, so they always look the same. | 1 year |
| bq-onboarding-hidden, beaquaro-network-setup-skipped | Browser storage | Remember that you hid a checklist or skipped a setup step. | Until you clear it |
| bq-reload, bq-inapp-dismissed, bq-inapp-auto | Session storage | Stop a page reloading in a loop after an update, and remember you dismissed the “open in your browser” bar. | Until you close the tab |
What we do not use
No advertising cookies, no tracking pixels, no third-party analytics, and no cross-site tracking. If you accept, we count visits and clicks on our public pages ourselves, with no cookies and no visitor ID. If you decline, or have not chosen, we do not count you at all. We also ignore “Do Not Track” and Global Privacy Control signals.
Other sites
When you connect Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Bluesky or sign in with Google, you are on that company’s own page, which uses its own cookies under its own policy.
Your control
You can change your choice here at any time, and you can clear cookies and site data in your browser: you will be signed out and we will forget your theme and language. If we ever add anything else optional, we will ask first, and this page will change before it does.
See also the privacy policy. Questions: privacy@beaquaro.com.