What are cookies?

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

How long a cookie is stored on your device will depend primarily on whether it is a session cookie or a persistent cookie. Session cookies allow you to navigate through our website, remembering any information you enter and tracking your movements for that browsing session. These are temporary as session cookies are deleted automatically when your web browser is closed. Persistent cookies store information about your settings and preferences to enable more convenient access when you revisit our website in future. These cookies expire after a set duration. Further details on the lifespan of persistent cookies are provided in the tables below.

How do we use cookies?

As with most of the online services, our website uses first-party cookies and third-party cookies for several purposes. The 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 websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, and providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

What types of cookies do we use?

Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information.

Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit etc. This data helps us understand and analyse how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.

Functional: These cookies help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing contents on the website on social media platforms.

Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.

How can I control the cookie preferences?

Those cookies which are essential for our website to operate and without which our website would not function properly cannot be deactivated. The use of such cookies is justified because they are strictly necessary to provide you with the services you request.

All other cookies which simply enhance performance but are not specifically necessary are optional and require your consent to allow them to be used on our website. Therefore, we hope that the information in this Cookies Policy enables you to make an informed decision as to the use of cookies on our website. If you do disable all optional cookies, this may have adverse effects on your browsing session.

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. To learn more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org and www.allaboutcookies.org.