Information about our use of cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard disk of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
Necessary Cookies
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| rc::a | Never expires | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks |
| wpEmojiSettingsSupports | session | WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user's browser can display emojis properly. |
| rc:c | session | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| cookieyes-consent | 1 year | CookieYes sets this cookie to remember users' consent preferences so that their preferences are respected on subsequent visits to this site. It does not collect or store any personal information about the site visitors. |
Functional Cookies
These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Analytics
They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Our use of Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how you use our website. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements, for example displaying links to the most frequently accessed content on our homepage. Google Analytics stores information about the pages you visit on websites, how long you spend on each of our webpages, how you got to the site, and what you click on while you’re visiting the site. We do not collect or store your personal information (for example your name or address) so our collected cookie information can’t be used to identify who you are.
Google Analytics sets the following cookies:
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views |
| _ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. |
You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies.
Other cookies
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Changing your cookie preferences
You can change your cookie preferences any time by revisiting the cookie consent banner and change your preferences/withdraw your consent. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
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
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc
Please visit your browser’s official support documents if you are using any other web browser.