Effective date: 8 April 2026
What are cookies?
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, what types of cookies we use, i.e. the information we collect through cookies and how that information is used, and how to manage your cookie settings.
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when a web page loads in your browser. These cookies help us to ensure the website works properly, improve its security, provide a better user experience and understand how the website works, and analyse what works and where improvements are needed.
How do we use cookies?
Like most online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. First party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function properly and do not collect any of your personal information.
Third party cookies used on our website are mainly used to understand how the website works, how you interact with it, to maintain the security of our services, to serve ads that are relevant to you, and overall to provide a better and improved user experience and to 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| elementor | never | The website's WordPress theme uses this cookie. It allows the website owner to implement or change the website's content in real-time. |
| rc::a | never | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| rc::c | session | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| OptanonConsent | 1 year | OneTrust sets this cookie to store details about the site's cookie category and check whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent from the use of each category. |
| _cfuvid | session | Cloudflare sets this cookie to track users across sessions to optimize user experience by maintaining session consistency and providing personalized services |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | 6 months | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| wp-wpml_current_language | session | WordPress multilingual plugin sets this cookie to store the current language/language settings. |
| 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. |
| _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. |
| _hjTLDTest | session | To determine the most generic cookie path that has to be used instead of the page hostname, Hotjar sets the _hjTLDTest cookie to store different URL substring alternatives until it fails. |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| _fbp | 3 months | Facebook sets this cookie to store and track interactions. |
| _gcl_au | 3 months | Google Tag Manager sets this cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. |
| test_cookie | 15 minutes | doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. |
| __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 |
|---|---|---|
| AWSALBTGCORS | 7 days | No description available. |
| AWSALBTG | 7 days | No description available. |
| __Secure-BUCKET | 6 months | Description is currently not available. |
Managing cookie preferences
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking Consent Preferences. This will allow you to view the cookie consent banner again and change your preferences or withdraw your consent immediately. In addition, different browsers provide different methods for blocking and removing cookies used by websites. You can change your browser settings to block/remove cookies. Below are links to support documents on how to manage and remove cookies from major web browsers.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox?redirectslug=delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored&redirectlocale=en-US
Microsoft Edge: Delete cookies in Microsoft Edge – Microsoft Support
If you are using a different web browser, check your browser’s official support documents.