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Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
Effective Date: 30-Mar-2023
Last Updated: 13-Nov-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.
Types of Cookies we use
Necessary
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
| _GRECAPTCHA | 179 days | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
| cookieyes-consent | 1 year | Cookie consent |
| NID | 183 Days | Cookie set by Google to provide ad delivery or retargeting, store user preferences. |
| 1P_JAR | 1 Month | Cookie provided by Google to provide ad delivery or retargeting. |
| OTZ | 1 Month | Cookie used by Google Analytics that provides an aggregate analysis of Website visitors. |
| SOCS | 395 Days | Cookie used by Google to store a user’s state regarding their cookies choices. |
| CONSENT | 400 Days | Cookie used by Google to record cookie consent status. |
| AEC | 180 Days | Cookie used by Google to ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. |
| __Secure-ENID | 396 Days | This cookie is used by Google to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language, how many results you prefer to display on a search results page and whether you want Google’s SafeSearch filter to be activated. |
| __cf_bm | Session | Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on end-user devices that access customer sites protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. |
| cf_clearance | 1 year | Set by Cloudflare to verify that a user has successfully passed a security challenge and can access a website. |
| i18next | Session | The i18next cookie is a cookie that stores the value of the last resolved locale in a browser. |
| icimsCookiesEnabledCheck | Session | The iCIMS website uses a session cookie to test if cookies are enabled in a user’s browser. |
| JSESSIONID | Session | A JSESSIONID cookie is a session cookie that tracks a user’s progress through a website. |
| lang | Session | A type of cookie that stores a user’s preferred language on a website. |
| PHPSESSID | Session | Used to establish a user session on a website. It is also known as a JSESSIONID cookie |
| 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. |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Session | A temporary cookie that checks if a browser supports cookies. |
Functional
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
| YSC | Session | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 179 days | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. |
| li_gc | 179 days | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. Used by LinkedIn. |
| lidc | 1 day | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
Analytics
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
| _ga | 399 days | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. |
| _gid | 1 day | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | 1 day | This cookie is used to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors – this is done by assigning the visitor an ID, so the visitor does not get registered twice. |
| _hjFirstSeen | 1 day | This cookie is used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it is a new visitor on the website. |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | 1 day | Determines if the user’s navigation should be registered in a certain statistical place holder. |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample_361660 | 1 day | Collects statistics on the visitor’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. |
| _hjSession_361660 | 1 day | Collects statistics on the visitor’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. |
| _hjSessionUser_361660 | 1 year | Collects statistics on the visitor’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. |
| _hjDonePolls | 1 year | Hotjar cookie that prevents the same survey from reappearing to a user who has already completed it: |
| _hjMinimizedPolls | 1 year | Hotjar cookie that ensures a Feedback Poll widget remains minimized when a visitor navigates through a website. |
| _gat_UA-5065254-1 | Session | To enable website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance using Google Analytics. |
| _vis_opt_exp_23_combi | 3 Months | Used by Visual Website Optimizer (VWO) to ensure that users see the same variation of a test page when they revisit it |
| _vis_opt_exp_23_goal_1 | 3 Months | This cookie is created when a Visual Website Optimizer (VWO) campaign goal is triggered. |
| _vis_opt_s | 3 Months | Used to identify if a user has seen a test earlier created by Visual Website Optimizer (VWO). |
| _vis_opt_test_cookie | Session | Cookie is used by Visual Website Optimizer (VWO). The functionality is to read if cookies can be placed. |
| _vwo_ds | 1 Month | A Visual Website Optimizer (VWO) cookie that stores visitor-level data for VWO Insights. |
| _vwo_sn | 1 Month | This cookie stores persistent visitor-level data for Visual Website Optimizer (VWO) Insights. |
| _vwo_uuid | 1 Month | It generates a unique id for every visitor and is used for the report segmentation feature in Visual Website Optimizer (VWO). |
| _vwo_uuid_v2 | 1 Month | It generates a unique id for every visitor and is used for the report segmentation feature in Visual Website Optimizer (VWO). |
Advertisement
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
| ln_or | 1 day | Registers statistical data on users’ behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. Used by LinkedIn. |
| bcookie | 1 year | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
| UserMatchHistory | 29 days | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences. |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | 29 days | Used in connection with data-synchronization with third-party analysis service. Used by LinkedIn. |
| _fbp | 3 Months | Used by Meta Pixel to automatically save a unique identifier for the website. |
| _gcl_au | 3 Months | Set by Google Ads to track user interactions with ads and conversions. |
| ar_debug | Session | Used by Google Ad Services to debug ads and generate transitional debugging reports. |
| sb | 1 Year 1 Month | A Facebook cookie that is used for security and browser detection. |
| sp | 1 Year | The cookie “sp_*” is used by Facebook to deliver advertising products |
| IDE | 1 Year 1 Month | Used by Google DoubleClick to personalise ads and retarget users across the web. |
| datr | 1 Year 1 Month | Unique identifier used by Facebook to identify the web browser used to connect to the site. |
| wd | Session | This cookie stores the browser window dimensions and is used by Facebook to optimise the rendering of the page. |
| DV | Session | Created by Google Ads Optimization that tracks and collects data to help deliver and retarget ads to users. |
| test_cookie | Session | A cookie set by doubleclick.net to determine if a user’s browser supports cookies. |
Manage cookie preferences
Cookie Settings
You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the above 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
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc
If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.
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