Cookie Policy
Effective Date: 15-Jun-2023
Last Updated: 03-Feb-2025
What are cookies?
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies, and how that information is used. It also contains a guide on how to manage the cookie settings.
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us to make the website function properly – they can also make it more secure, provide a better user experience, and it helps us to analyse what works and where needs improvement.
How do we use cookies?
As with most online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. 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 website are 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.
Types of cookies we use
Necessary Cookies – A necessary cookie is a type of cookie that is used by the website to function properly, without which the site would not work. This type of cookie does not collect any personally identifiable information about you and does not track your browsing habits.
Functional Cookies – Are used to enhance the performance of websites as without them certain functions of the website may not be available. However, they are not vital for a website to run, but they allow to remember important information and user’s preferences. Information can include login data, region, language, and enhanced content.
Analytics or Performance cookies- Monitor website performance and collect anonymous data on how visitors use a website. Some examples of performance cookies are cookies that count page visits, idle time by a user on a page, bounce rates, and load speeds.
Session Cookies – Session cookies are cookies that last for a session. A session starts when you launch a website or web app and ends when you leave the website or close your browser window. Session cookies contain information that is stored in a temporary memory location which is deleted after the session ends. Unlike other cookies, session cookies are never stored on your device. Therefore, they are also known as transient cookies, non-persistent cookies, or temporary cookies.
Third Party Cookies – A third-party cookie is a cookie that’s placed on a user’s device — computer, mobile phone or tablet — by a website from a domain other than the one the user is visiting. Third-party cookies are most frequently used for online advertising but not always. The VCS Alliance currently Third Party cookies mainly to support Youtube video embedded in the site.
You can see a list of all the cookies we use in the cookies appendix of our Privacy Policy.
Manage cookie preferences
You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the blue cookies button on the bottom left-side of your screen. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.
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. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the 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 any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.
