Cookie Policy
Effective date: 07-Feb-2024
Last updated: 07-Feb-2024
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 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 loads in your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide a better user experience, and understand how the website performs and analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies?
Like most online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for various purposes. First-party cookies are mainly necessary for the website to function correctly, 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 overall providing you with a better and improved user experience and helping to speed up your future interactions with our website.
Types of Cookies We Use
Necessary
Necessary cookies are crucial for the basic functions of the website and the website will not work as intended without them. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | session | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie stores and identifies a user's unique session ID to manage user sessions on the website. The cookie is a session cookie and will be deleted when all browser windows are closed. |
| __cf_bm | 1 hour | Cloudflare sets the cookie to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
Analytics
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
| _gid | 1 day | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| _fbp | 3 months | Facebook sets this cookie to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting the website. |
Performance
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website, which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _gat | 1 minute | Google Universal Analytics sets this cookie to restrain request rate and thus limit data collection on high-traffic sites. |
Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to deliver visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages they visited previously and analyze the effectiveness of the advertising campaign.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| test_cookie | 15 minutes | doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. |
| fr | 3 months | Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites with Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. |
Manage cookie preferences
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the button above. 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. 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
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.
