Effective Date: 15-May-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 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.
Necessary
Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | 1 hour | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| _cfuvid | session | Cloudflare sets this cookie to track users across sessions to optimize user experience by maintaining session consistency and providing personalized services |
| wt_consent | 1 year | The WebToffee GDPR Cookie Consent plugin sets this cookie to store the user’s consent preferences, allowing the website to recognise those choices on future visits. The cookie does not collect or store any personal or identifiable information about the visitor. |
| cookietest | session | The cookietest cookie is typically used to determine whether the user's browser accepts cookies, essential for website functionality and user experience. |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | 6 months | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| m | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Stripe sets this cookie for fraud prevention purposes. It identifies the device used to access the website, allowing the website to be formatted accordingly. |
Functional
Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 6 months | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | never | The cookie ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user. This information is used to improve the user experience by providing more relevant search results in the future. |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| _hjSessionUser_* | 1 year | Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site. |
| _hjSession_* | 1 hour | Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site. |
| __hstc | 6 months | Hubspot set this main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). |
| hubspotutk | 6 months | HubSpot sets this cookie to keep track of the visitors to the website. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. |
| __hssrc | session | HubSpot cookie sets this cookie to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. If this cookie does not exist when HubSpot manages cookies, it is considered a new session. |
| __hssc | 1 hour | HubSpot sets this cookie to keep track of sessions. This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, viewCount (which increments with each pageview in a session), and session start timestamp. |
| _ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. |
| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. |
| YSC | session | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| No cookies to display. |
Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | 3 months | Google Tag Manager sets this cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. |
| __Secure-YNID | 6 months | YouTube cookie used to protect user security and prevent fraud, especially during the login process. |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | 6 months | YouTube sets this cookie to manage feature rollout and experimentation. It helps Google control which new features or interface changes are shown to users as part of testing and staged rollouts, ensuring consistent experience for a given user during an experiment. |
| __Secure-YEC | past | Description is currently not available. |
Others
Other cookies are those that are being identified and have not been classified into any category as yet.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| flagsmithUniqueID | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Description is currently not available. |
| __Secure-BUCKET | 6 months | Description is currently not available. |
| customUrls | session | Description is currently not available. |
Manage cookie preferences
You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the Consent Preferences 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
Microsoft Edge: Delete cookies in Microsoft Edge – Microsoft Support
If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.