Cookies Policy

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of data that websites store on your device to remember information about you and improve your browsing experience.

Why Do We Use Cookies?

We use cookies for various purposes, including:

• To save your preferences and settings
• To track your activity on our website (more details below)
• To optimize the performance and security of our platform

Types of Cookies: Essential

Essential cookies are necessary to ensure you can navigate our website safely. These include:

• Session ID: a unique identifier for each visit, used to keep your session active
• Security Token: used to verify that data sent between devices is secure

These cookies cannot be disabled without affecting the usability of our site.

Types of Cookies: Session

Session cookies are temporary and deleted when you close your browser. We use these to:

• Remember your language settings for each visit
• Recognize new visits from logged-in users, so we can show them relevant content
• Improve performance by reducing repeated requests

These cookies do not store any personal data.

Types of Cookies: Persistent

Persistent cookies remain on your device even after you close your browser. We use these to:

• Save your preferences for things like layout and font size
• Enable features that require cookies, such as live updates or recommendations
• Enhance the security of our platform by storing anti-fraud tokens

You can control these cookies using your browser settings.

Types of Cookies: Functional

Functional cookies help us deliver content and services tailored to you. We use these to:

• Show relevant ads based on your interests
• Create targeted offers and recommendations
• Enable personalized email notifications

These cookies may be shared with third-party providers, which will also set their own cookies (more details below).

Types of Cookies: Analytics

We use analytics tools like Google Analytics or similar technologies from other providers to:

• Track website traffic, visitor engagement, and click-through rates
• Analyze behavior patterns for optimization

These tools may send data about your browsing activities to our servers. You can opt out using browser controls.

Preference and Language Settings

Cookies help us remember language settings, font sizes, or color schemes you've chosen on our site. These are stored locally in the browser's storage area (more details below).

Login/Session Continuity

When you log in to your account, we set cookies that recognize you across different sessions. This is necessary for smooth navigation and ensuring continuity.

Device Recognition

Cookies help us recognize devices to personalize content or recommendations based on their behavior patterns.

Security-Related Cookies

We may use security-related cookies to verify anti-fraud tokens or track suspicious activity on our site.

Browser Storage Technologies

Some browsers offer storage technologies like local storage, session storage, and IndexedDB. We might store cookies in these areas when available. However, the type of data stored will depend on your settings and permissions given by you (more details below).

Third-Party Integrations

We integrate our site with various third-party providers for content delivery, social media sharing, or advertising networks like Google AdSense, which may set their own cookies.

Marketing/Communication Preferences

Cookies remember marketing communication preferences you've indicated on our website. We respect these and do not contact you based on these settings.

Cookie Consent Management

On certain browsers or third-party libraries, users can manually manage cookie consent using browser controls or opt-out from tracking data.

Browser Cookie Controls

You can disable cookies through your web browser's built-in options:

• Chrome
  • Go to: chrome://settings/content/cookies
  • Follow the steps outlined by Google
• Mozilla Firefox:
  • Navigate to about:preferences#privacy
  • Adjust cookie permissions as needed

Alternatively, use other browsers' settings for managing cookies.

Clearing or Disabling Cookies

To remove persistent cookies set on our site:

1. Clear your browser cache and storage (cookie data)
2. Disable all types of tracking using the preferred third-party opt-out methods above
3. Use an ad-blocking extension in combination with blocking scripts from specific domains

Keep in mind that removing necessary cookie settings may cause functionalities to be affected.

Site Functionality Impact When Cookies Are Disabled

Disabling cookies will remove session data and persistently stored information, affecting some features such as:

• Personalized recommendations
• Login persistence (remembering logged-in state)
• Targeted ads or communications

Our platform might behave differently without the cookie-enabled browsing experience.

However, we make sure that non-essential cookies are disabled by default.

Technical Diagnostics and Performance Optimisation

Analyzing technical diagnostic logs helps us optimize our system to ensure best performance while safeguarding security.

This doesn't affect how you interact with the site or access resources provided through it; more about the underlying systems processing information on your behalf.

We do aggregate these anonymous analytics for internal use.