Cookies and similar technology

We would like to inform you how our company use cookies and similar technologies on this website.

As you have decided to continue the use of this website, you are allowing us to place cookies and other technologies on the device you are using, which includes mobiles. This is based on your agreement with out cookie consent manager. As a result, the following information will be collected once you open this website: unique device identifier, mobile device IP address, information about device’s operating system, mobile carrier and your location information (to the extent permissible under applicable law)

Text files which contains minor amounts of data are termed as cookies. These files are downloaded to the computer or mobile device when the website is opened, which will allow the site to recognize your device.Cookies in general improves the user experience. Some of the advantages includes efficient navigation between the webpages, remembering user preferences. Also they make sure that user is seeing the advertisement which are based on their interests.Primarily we use the information collected from cookies for identifying user interests and will try serve contents base on that. We also use it for some other purposes which are mentioned below (all of them are legally permissible)

Some Cookies don’t collect information from visitors

  • Performance cookies (see below)
  • Targeting cookies (see below) in case you are not registered user

We can associate cookie data (which includes information from advertisement in third party websites) with an identifiable individual in remaining instances.

For Example:

  • Consider that you received a targeted email which contains web beacons, cookies and we will be getting the status of that email like whether its opened, read or deleted the message.
  • Once you click on a link in a marketing email from our company, by logging a cookie we understand what pages you view and what content are downloaded. This doesn’t depend whether you are a registered user or not.
  • Combination and Analysis of personal data- As mentioned above, we use the combination of publicly available data and from the interactions with you via email, website (this includes information that received when social media is used as an option for signing in). The effective combination is done for the improvement of the user experience.
Cookies from third party companies

We use some third-party cookies for getting web analytics and intelligence for our company. These third-party companies may use programmatic way to collect information regarding the user interactions.

Non-cookie tracking

Web beacons or other technologies are also being used for the similar kind of purposes. The same technologies are also being used in our newsletter, affiliated websites, to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on Web beacons do not place information on your device,

What if I don’t want cookies?

By accessing our website, you have agreed that we can place cookies on the device as mentioned below. Cookies that are already existing can be removed through browser settings. Further cookies can also be blocked by adjusting the same. Our websites do not recognise “do not track” initiative currently. You should know that removing, and blocking will affect the user experience.

What types of cookies are there

Our site uses cookies that have been categorized based on categories found in ICC UK cookie guide which was issued in 2012. List of cookies have been mentioned below. Temporary cookies which are removed once you close the browser window and persistent cookies remain in the device for a long time Our company uses both session and persistent cookies.

Category Examples

Strictly Necessary cookies –

These essential cookies enable you to move around the website and use its features. These cookies are necessary for using secured areas of the website

We categorize the following as Strictly Necessary cookies:

  • Registered Visitor cookie – This is used to recognize a registered user. This is done by giving a unique identifier to each registered user.

Performance cookies –

these are the cookies which collect information regarding the user visit and use. Visitor data is not collected by these cookies

We categorize the following as Performance cookies:

  • Registered Visitor cookie – This is used to Referrer URL (internal page) – Here the URL of the previously visited webpage are saved. This help us to identify how visitors navigate through our website
  • Referrer URL (external page, including if you click on links on Our company social media pages) – Used to store the URL which refers a visitor to our site so we may understand which URLs are referring visitors to our site.
  • URL history –Pages visited by user are saved here.
  • Unregistered Visitor cookie – A unique identifier given to each visitor to allow analysis on how unregistered visitors use our site.
  • Session Management cookies – The actions of users can be followed by using this cookie. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window, visits our sites and finishes when they leave our sites and close their browser window. Our Session Management cookies are created temporarily. Once you close your browser, our Session Management cookies are deleted.

Functionality cookies –

Choices you made in website are collected by these cookies and will provide a personal feature in the website based on this. These cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. They don’t gather any information about you that could be used for advertising or remembering where you’ve been on the Internet outside our site.

We categorize the following as Functionality cookies:

  • Registered Visitor cookie – A unique identifier is given to each registered user of our site, which will be used for serving contents based on the user profile. Also used for analysis and marketing purposes.

Targeting cookies –

Targeting cookies tries to Deliver relevant and accurate advertisement Try to avoid showing same advertisement multiple times Campaign effectiveness can be measured using these cookies User behaviour for a particular advertisement is captured through this cookie

We don’t use third party advertising within our website; hence no targeting cookies are user for advertising, but we gather analytics and intelligence using them

The following are categorized as Targeting Cookies:

  • Collection of analytics and intelligence cookies Third Party cookies. The Targeting cookies may also be used on third party websites and third parties may use them on our websites as follows:
  • Social media sites – Social media sites may log information about you. Which may include activities such as when you click an "Add This" or "Like" button for a social media site while on our site. We do not control such sites or their activities. You may be able to find information about social media sites on the sites themselves. It is better to read the terms of use and privacy policy of such sites before using them.
  • Our company advertisements other company sites – Cookies may be placed on other company sites so that when you click on an Our company advertisement located on these sites, our company is provided with this information to enable us to measure the effectiveness of our advertising.