Cookie Policy
- Effective date: November 24, 2025
- Last updated: November 24, 2025
What are cookies?
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, 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 your cookie settings.
Cookies are small text files used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when a website loads in your browser. These cookies help ensure that the website functions properly, enhance security, provide a better user experience, and analyse performance to identify what works and where improvements are needed.
How do we use cookies?
Like most online services, our website uses both first-party and third-party cookies for various purposes. First-party cookies are primarily necessary for the website to function properly and do not collect any personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website primarily help us understand how the website performs, track how you interact with it, keep our services secure, deliver relevant advertisements, and enhance your overall user experience while improving the speed of your future interactions with our website.
Types of cookies we use
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. |
| AWSALBCORS | 7 days | Amazon Web Services set this cookie for load balancing. |
| 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. |
| _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. |
| rc::a | Never Expires | 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. |
| Queue-it-* | 3 minutes | Queue-it sets this cookie to manage a queue of users when there is a high demand on the service. |
| csrftoken | 1 year 1 month 4 days | This cookie is associated with Django web development platform for python. Used to help protect the website against Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| userSession | 1 day | This cookie is set by the Apester. This cookie is used for displaying questionnaires on the website. |
| 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 Expires | 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. |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | Never Expires | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. |
| yt-remote-device-id | Never Expires | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. |
| yt-remote-session-name | session | The yt-remote-session-name cookie is used by YouTube to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | session | The yt-remote-fast-check-period cookie is used by YouTube to store the user's video player preferences for embedded YouTube videos. |
| yt-remote-session-app | session | The yt-remote-session-app cookie is used by YouTube to store user preferences and information about the interface of the embedded YouTube video player. |
| yt-remote-cast-available | session | The yt-remote-cast-available cookie is used to store the user's preferences regarding whether casting is available on their YouTube video player. |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | session | The yt-remote-cast-installed cookie is used to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| sp_t | 1 year | The sp_t cookie is set by Spotify to implement audio content from Spotify on the website and also registers information on user interaction related to the audio content. |
| sp_landing | 1 day | The sp_landing is set by Spotify to implement audio content from Spotify on the website and also registers information on user interaction related to the audio content. |
| mid | 1 year 1 month 4 days | The mid cookie is set by Instagram to personalise user experience by remembering user preferences and settings. |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| _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 site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. |
| com.silverpop.iMA.session | 20 minutes | The cookie is set by the Silverpop Engage. The cookie act as a page view session cookie which logs a "Page View" event in the system. It helps in associating a series of individual events into a single browsing session. |
| com.silverpop.iMA.page_visit | 20 minutes | The cookie is set by the Silverpop Engage. The cookie act as a site visit session which logs a "Site Visit" event in system. It helps in distinguishing the first visit from subsequent visits made by the visitor on the webpage. |
| triptease-user-id | 1 year | Triptease sets this cookie to store the visitor ID. This is used to identify the visitor upon re-entry to the website. |
| triptease-session-id | 8 hours | Triptease sets this cookie to store the visitor ID. This is used to identify the visitor upon re-entry to the website. |
| 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 analyse the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| com.silverpop.iMAWebCookie | 1 year 1 month 4 days | The cookie is set by the Silverpop Engage. This cookie act as the visitor key assigned by the system. The cookie is used for assigning a unique identifier for the visitor for sharing the specific content based on visitors interest, thus improving the efficiency of the Silverpop client. |
| AWSALB | 7 days | AWSALB is an application load balancer cookie set by Amazon Web Services to map the session to the target. |
| loglevel | Never Expires | Squarespace sets this cookie to maintain settings and outputs when using the Developer Tools Console on the current session. |
Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customised advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyse 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. |
| iutk | 6 months | Issuu sets this cookie to recognise the user's device and what Issuu documents have been read. |
| _fbp | 3 months | Facebook sets this cookie to store and track interactions. |
| yt.innertube::nextId | Never Expires | YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| yt.innertube::requests | Never Expires | YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
Uncategorised
Other uncategorised cookies are those that are being analysed and have not been classified into a category as yet.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| lumberjack_session | 2 hours | No description available. |
| _sda:sundance:T3:user | 1 year | Description is currently not available. |
| _sda:sundance:T3:session | session | Description is currently not available. |
| sda3pc | 1 year | Description is currently not available. |
| sdts | 1 year | Description is currently not available. |
| tt-domain-user-id | Never Expires | No description available. |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | 6 months | Description is currently not available. |
| __Secure-YEC | past | Description is currently not available. |
| __Secure-YNID | 6 months | Description is currently not available. |
Manage cookie preferences
You can modify your cookie settings anytime by clicking the Cookie Management icon in the bottom left of your screen. This will allow you to revisit the cookie consent banner and update your preferences or withdraw your consent immediately.
Additionally, different browsers offer various methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Below are links to support documents on how to manage and delete cookies in 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 a different web browser, please refer to its official support documentation.
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