Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy


Last Updated: 12-May-2025

 

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.

 

Types of Cookies we use

  • Essential Cookies: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Services and to enable you to use some of the features.  For example, they allow you to log in to secure areas of our Services and help the content you request to load quickly.  Without these cookies, the functionality that you requested cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with this functionality.
  • Analytics and Performance Cookies:  These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our Services and how users use our Services.  The information gathered includes the number of visitors to our Services, the websites that referred them to our services, the pages that they visited on our Services, the time of day they visited our Services, whether they have visited our Services before, and other similar information.  This information is aggregated, and does not identify individual users.  We use this information to help us improve how our services work and to gather demographic information.  We use Google Analytics for this purpose.  Google Analytics uses its own cookies.  You can find out more about Google Analytics cookies here.  You can find out more about how Google protects your data here. You can prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to our Services by downloading and installing the browser plugin available through this link.
  • Functionality Cookies:  These cookies allow our Services to remember the choices you make when using our Services, such as remembering your login details.  These cookies are used to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences upon each visit to our Services.
  • Advertising and Targeting Cookies:  These cookies are used to deliver relevant ads, track email marketing or ad campaign performance and efficiency.  For example, we and our ad partners may rely on information gleaned through these cookies to serve you ads that may be interesting to you on other websites or to otherwise assist with our marketing or behavioral advertising efforts.  Our ad partners may also place cookies or other tracking technologies on your electronic device to collect information about you.  We may also allow other third parties such as ad networks and ad servers to serve tailored ads to you on our services.  We sometimes provide our user information, such as email addresses to service providers who may “match” this information in de-identified form to cookies (or mobile ad identifiers) in order to provide you with more relevant ads when you visit other websites and mobile applications.

 

Cookies We Use

Cookie Name

Purpose

Type

Expiration

PHPSESSID

Maintains user session variables

Essential

Session

_ga

Google Analytics tracking

Analytics

2 years

_gat

Throttle request rate to Google Analytics

Analytics

1 minute

_gid

Distinguish users for Google Analytics

Analytics

24 hours

cookie_consent

Stores user's consent to use of cookies

Functionality

1 year

fr

Facebook advertising and analytics

Advertising

3 months

 

Managing and Disabling Cookies

You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. Below are links to instructions for popular browsers:

How to opt out of interest-based advertising

Google Analytics Opt-Out: You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Notwithstanding the above, Users may follow the instructions provided by the Network Advertising Initiative (US) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (US), or other similar services. Such initiatives allow Users to select their tracking preferences for most of the advertising tools.

The Digital Advertising Alliance offers an application called AppChoices that helps Users to control interest-based advertising on mobile apps.

Please note that disabling cookies may limit your ability to access certain features of our Site.