Cookies

Cookie Policy

Effective Date: 13-Nov-2023
Last Updated: 13-Nov-2023

 

What are cookies?

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to manage the cookie settings.

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

 

How do we use cookies?

As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

 

Types of Cookies we use
  • Some of our websites are behind CloudFlare’s web firewall service. CloudFlare sets a single cookie (__cfduid) in your browser so that it can track your movements and behaviour in order to mitigate against potentially damaging activity as is commonly perpetrated by some nefarious characters. CloudFlare’s full cookie policy can be accessed here: https://www.cloudflare.com/cookie-policy/ (however please note that, where used, we ONLY utilise their __cfduid cookie on our websites.)
  • Some of our websites display adverts provided by Google – in order to display relevant ads, Google uses a number of cookies to discern your behaviour and hence try to work out what you might be interested in seeing.
  • On some of our websites, third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visit(s) to our website(s) and/or other websites.
    • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit(s) to our site(s) and/or other sites on the Internet.
    • You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can opt out of third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)
  • On some of our websites we use Google’s “Custom Search Engine” (CSE) to allow you to search the content of the website. When using this feature, Google may set a number of cookies on behalf of our website and themselves in order to improve your experience. For full details of Google CSE click here.
  • On some of our websites we use third-party app “Google Maps” to display location map information. Unless you opt-out (see below), Google will set cookies when you view such information.
  • On some of our websites we use third-party monitoring system Google Analytics to monitor user traffic as they navigate around. Google makes this data available to us in an aggregate way and not in any way that we could personally identify any particular user or user action.

 

Manage cookie preferences

You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the above button. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.

Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050

Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox?redirectslug=delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored&redirectlocale=en-US

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc

If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.

 

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