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Cookie Policy — SoftwareTestPilot

Last updated: June 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how SoftwareTestPilot ("we", "us", "our") uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on softwaretestpilot.com. Read it alongside our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

1. What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help sites work efficiently, remember your preferences, measure audience, and deliver relevant advertising. We also use related technologies — local storage, session storage, and pixels — which we refer to collectively as "cookies" in this policy.

Cookies set by softwaretestpilot.com are first-party cookies. Cookies set by other domains (for example Google Analytics or Google AdSense) are third-party cookies.

2. How We Use Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies

Required to provide the service: authentication tokens (so you stay signed in), CSRF protection, security flags, and load-balancing identifiers. You cannot disable these in our consent banner — without them sign-in, posting in QA Network, saving your resume, and form submissions would not work.

Analytics cookies

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which pages, tools, and articles are useful, where visitors come from, and which devices they use. These cookies are pseudonymous and aggregated; IP addresses are anonymised before processing.

Preference cookies

Remember choices you make — dark/light mode, dismissed banners, last-used job filters, preferred location on Jobs Radar, and interview-question progress. The site still works without them, just less smoothly.

Advertising / AdSense cookies

When advertising is active we use Google AdSense to serve ads. AdSense uses cookies to cap how often you see a given ad, measure ad performance, and — with your consent — personalise the ads shown to you based on your prior visits to this and other sites.

3. Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising Cookies

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on softwaretestpilot.com. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet. Specifically:

  • Google uses the DoubleClick DART cookie and similar identifiers to personalise ads.
  • Third-party vendors and ad networks participating in AdSense may also place and read cookies on your browser, or use web beacons to collect information, as a result of ad serving on softwaretestpilot.com.
  • You can review Google's policies on how Google uses cookies in advertising.

Other third parties that may set cookies on softwaretestpilot.com include Supabase (authentication and session), Razorpay (payments for digital products), Cloudflare (edge security), and embedded media (YouTube, X, LinkedIn) when you interact with an embed.

4. How to Control Cookies

You can manage or delete cookies directly in your browser. Most browsers also let you block third-party cookies by default. Blocking all cookies will degrade the service — for example, you will be signed out repeatedly.

You can also revisit our cookie consent banner at any time by clearing site data for softwaretestpilot.com in your browser settings.

5. Google Ads Settings — Opt Out

To opt out of personalised advertising from Google across all sites that use Google ad services, visit Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of third-party vendor use of cookies for personalised advertising at:

6. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the technologies we use, or for operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page shows when it was last revised. Material changes will be announced on the service or by email.

7. Contact Us

Questions about cookies or this policy? Email privacy@softwaretestpilot.com or visit our Contact page. For broader privacy questions — including your rights under GDPR, UK GDPR, and CCPA — see our Privacy Policy.