What are cookies ?
How do we use cookies ?
As most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The 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 websites are used 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.
What types of cookies do we use ?
Cookie | Description |
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Necessary | |
PHPSESSID | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. |
__cfduid | The cookie is set by CloudFare. The cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. |
__stripe_mid | This cookie is set by Stripe payment gateway. This cookie is used to enable payment on the website without storing any patment information on a server. |
__stripe_sid | This cookie is set by Stripe payment gateway. This cookie is used to enable payment on the website without storing any patment information on a server. |
viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Non Necessary". |
Non Necessary | |
test_cookie | |
Analytics | |
APID | This cookie is used to store information of how a user behaves on multiple websites. This information is them used to customize the relevant ads to be displayed to the users. |
uvc | The cookie is set by addthis.com to determine the usage of Addthis.com service. |
_gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. |
_ga | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
Performance | |
_gat | This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites. |
Functional | |
lang | This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website. |
PugT | This cookie is set by pubmatic.com. The purpose of the cookie is to check when the cookies were last updated on the browser in order to limit the number of calls to the server-side cookie store. |
audit | This cookie is set by Rubicon Project and is used for recording cookie consent data. |
na_id | This cookie is set by Addthis.com to enable sharing of links on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter |
vc | This cookie is set by addthis.com on sites that allow sharing on social media. |
__atuvc | This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. |
__atuvs | This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. |
ouid | The cookie is set by Addthis which enables the content of the website to be shared across different networking and social sharing websites. |
Advertisement | |
tuuid | This cookie is set by .bidswitch.net. The cookies stores a unique ID for the purpose of the determining what adverts the users have seen if you have visited any of the advertisers website. The information is used for determining when and how often users will see a certain banner. |
tuuid_lu | This cookie is set by .bidswitch.net. The cookies stores a unique ID for the purpose of the determining what adverts the users have seen if you have visited any of the advertisers website. The information is used for determining when and how often users will see a certain banner. |
_fbp | This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisement when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website. |
fr | The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisments to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. |
IDE | Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. |
__adroll | This cookie is set by AdRoll Group, to identify the device when the users move between different Digital Properties, for the purpose of serving targeted advertisements. |
pxrc | The purpose of the cookie is to identify a visitor to serve relevant advertisement. |
did | The purpose of the cookie is to identify a visitor to serve relevant advertisement. |
didts | The purpose of the cookie is to identify a visitor to serve relevant advertisement. |
nnls | The purpose of the cookie is to identify a visitor to serve relevant advertisement. |
_kuid_ | The cookie is set by Krux Digital under the domain krxd.net. The cookie stores a unique ID to identify a returning user for the purpose of targeted advertising. |
rlas3 | The cookie is set by rlcdn.com. The cookie is used to serve relevant ads to the visitor as well as limit the time the visitor sees an and also measure the effectiveness of the campaign. |
loc | This cookie is set by Addthis. This is a geolocation cookie to understand where the users sharing the information are located. |
__adroll_fpc | This cookie is set by AdRoll Group, to identify the device when the users move between different Digital Properties, for the purpose of serving targeted advertisements. |
PUBMDCID | This cookie is set by pubmatic.com. The cookie stores an ID that is used to display ads on the users' browser. |
CMID | The cookie is set by CasaleMedia. The cookie is used to collect information about the usage behavior for targeted advertising. |
CMPS | This cookie is set by Casalemedia and is used for targeted advertisement purposes. |
khaos | This cookie is set by rubiconproject.com. The cookie is used to store user data in an anonymous form such as the IP address, geographical location, websites visited, and the ads clicked. The purpose of the cookie is to tailor the ads displayed to the users based on the users movement on other site in the same ad network. |
CMPRO | This cookie is set by Casalemedia and is used for targeted advertisement purposes. |
CMST | The cookie is set by CasaleMedia. The cookie is used to collect information about the usage behavior for targeted advertising. |
CMRUM3 | This cookie is set by Casalemedia and is used for targeted advertisement purposes. |
IDSYNC | This cookie is used for advertising purposes. |
uid | This cookie is used to measure the number and behavior of the visitors to the website anonymously. The data includes the number of visits, average duration of the visit on the website, pages visited, etc. for the purpose of better understanding user preferences for targeted advertisments. |
di2 | This cookie is set by addthis.com on sites that allows sharing on social media. The cookie is used to track user behavior anonymously to generate usage trends to improve relevance to their services and advertising. |
Other | |
c | This cookie is set by the Rubicon Project. The exact purpose of the cookie is not known. |
i | The purpose of the cookie is not known yet. |
__adroll_shared | |
m | |
__ar_v4 | |
KRTBCOOKIE_10 | |
cookieJartestCookie | |
tluid | |
obuid | |
adrl | |
APIDTS | |
a3 | |
B | |
bt2 | |
um | Set by addthis.com.(Purpose not known) |
How can I control the cookie preferences ?
You can manage your cookies preferences by clicking on the “Settings” button and enabling or disabling the cookie categories on the popup according to your preferences.
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Privacy & Cookie Policy” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
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.
To find out more out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.