Cookie Policy

1. What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store. It is sent back to the site on later requests so the site can recognise your browser, remember a choice or keep a session secure. Cookies can be first-party (set by us) or third-party (set by a service we load), and can last only for a browsing session or for a fixed period.

We also use similar technologies: local storage, which keeps a small value in your browser with no expiry date, and scripts that run on the page without storing anything. Where that matters, this policy says so explicitly.

2. What this site uses today

We do not use cookies for advertising, retargeting, cross-site tracking, social media pixels, session recording or A/B testing. We do not allow third parties to build advertising profiles from your visit to this site.

3. The categories we use

• Strictly necessary — required for the site to load safely and to keep your cookie choice. These cannot be switched off through our banner, because the site cannot work without them. They do not identify you for marketing.
• Analytics — help us understand, in aggregate, which pages are useful. Loaded only if you accept. Refusing them does not restrict any part of the site.
• Marketing — not used on this site.

4. Cookie list

4.1 Strictly necessary

4.2 Analytics — set only after you consent

Our Google Tag Manager container does not itself set cookies; it only loads the analytics tag once a choice has been made. We do not load Google Ads, Floodlight, DoubleClick or any advertising tag, so advertising cookies such as _gcl_au are never set on this site.

5. Local storage and similar technologies

• Your cookie choice may be stored in your browser’s local storage rather than in a cookie. It stays on your device, is not transmitted with every request, and you can clear it through your browser settings at any time.
• Form abuse protection. Our contact form uses a hidden field that people never see and rate limiting applied per network address on our server. Nothing is stored in your browser for this, no challenge token is issued, and no third-party bot-detection service receives data about your visit.
• No fingerprinting. We do not use device fingerprinting, canvas fingerprinting, tracking pixels, web beacons or session-replay tools on this site.

6. Analytics in detail

When analytics is enabled, it is configured as follows:

• Consent Mode v2 with analytics storage, advertising storage, ad user data and ad personalisation all set to denied by default. Nothing non-essential is stored until you actively accept.
• Tags blocked until consent. Our tag setup uses a self-hosted initialisation file, and custom-script tags are blocked. No analytics request leaves your browser before your choice.
• IP anonymisation enabled where the provider supports it, and advertising data-sharing features turned off.
• Retention of analytics data set to 14 months, after which it is deleted automatically.
• No cross-site advertising signals, no user-ID collection and no audience lists built from this site.

If you decline analytics, we rely only on the request logs our hosting provider keeps for security and reliability. Those logs are used to protect and operate the site, not to build a visitor profile.

7. Third-party providers

These providers may set or read cookies as described above. Each has its own privacy and cookie notices:

• Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager — analytics, only after consent. Google cookie notice
• Microsoft Azure Static Web Apps — website hosting. Anonymous visitors receive no hosting cookies; security and diagnostic logs are kept server-side.

We do not control cookies set by sites we link to. If you follow an external link, that site’s own policy applies.

8. Changing or withdrawing your choice

You have three ways to control cookies:

• Our banner. A banner appears on your first visit. The “Cookie settings” control in the footer opens a preference centre that lists every cookie we use and lets you switch analytics on or off on its own, alongside “Save settings”, “Accept all” and “Decline all”. Your current choice is shown there, and withdrawing analytics stops it immediately and clears the analytics cookies we set.
• Your browser. Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies, and to clear local storage. Useful guides: Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge.
• Google Analytics opt-out. Install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on to prevent Google Analytics from using your data on any site.

Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of the site from working, including the contact form’s bot check. Blocking analytics has no effect on what you can access.

9. Your rights

Cookies can contain personal data such as a random identifier and your IP address, so the rights in our Privacy Policy apply: access, correction, erasure, withdrawal of consent, nomination and grievance redressal under the DPDP Act 2023, plus the equivalent rights under the GDPR where it applies. Withdrawing cookie consent is not a data-rights request, but you can make both through the same contact.

10. Changes to this policy

We review this page whenever we add or remove a tool, and at least annually. The version and date at the top always show the current version. When a change introduces a new non-essential cookie, we ask for your consent again before setting it; we do not treat an earlier acceptance as permission for a new purpose.

11. Contact

Questions about cookies or this policy:

If you are not satisfied with our response, you may escalate to the Data Protection Board of India under the DPDP Act, or to your local supervisory authority where the GDPR applies.