What are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Why We Use Cookies

We use cookies for several reasons, including:

• Essential Cookies: These are necessary for the Website to function properly. They enable you to move around the site and use its features.
• Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use the Website, helping us to improve and optimize the site.
• Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the Website to remember choices you make (such as your username or language preference) and provide enhanced, more personalized features.
• Targeting Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They also help limit the number of times you see an ad and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

Types of Cookies We Use

1. Essential Cookies

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

• Purpose: Essential cookies are crucial for the basic functions of our Website. They ensure that our site operates efficiently and securely. Without these cookies, the services you request, such as accessing secure areas or making use of e-billing, cannot be provided.
• Examples: Session cookies that keep you logged in as you navigate from page to page, security cookies that help identify and prevent potential security risks.

2. Performance and Analytics Cookies

• Purpose: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Website, such as which pages are visited most often, and if visitors get error messages from web pages. They allow us to improve the Website's performance by understanding how users interact with it. The data collected is aggregated and anonymous, meaning it doesn't identify you personally.
• Examples: Google Analytics cookies that track the number of visitors and analyze behavior on the Website to help improve our service.

3. Functionality Cookies

• Purpose: Functionality cookies enable the Website to remember choices you make, such as your username, language, or region, and provide enhanced, more personalized features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you’ve made to text size, fonts, and other customizable parts of the Website.
• Examples: Cookies that remember your language preference or your login details for future visits, so you don’t have to re-enter them each time.

4. Targeting and Advertising Cookies

• Purpose: These cookies are used to deliver content that is more relevant to you and your interests. They remember that you’ve visited the Website and track your browsing habits. This information is shared with third parties, such as advertisers, to display more personalized ads. They also help to measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.
• Examples: Cookies used by social media platforms like Facebook to track user activity on the Website, cookies used by advertising networks to deliver targeted ads based on your browsing behavior.

5. Social Media Cookies

• Purpose: Social media cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our Website or engage with our content on or through a social media site like Facebook or Twitter. The social media site will record that you have done this.
• Examples: Facebook’s cookies that allow you to log in using your Facebook account and share content from our Website.

6. Third-Party Cookies

• Purpose: In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Website, deliver advertisements, and so on. Third-party cookies are placed by other companies, like analytics services or advertising partners, to collect data for their own purposes.
• Examples: DoubleClick cookies used by Google to provide ads tailored to your interests, cookies from affiliate networks that track your behavior on partner sites.

7. How Long Are Cookies Stored?

• Session Cookies: These cookies are temporary and are deleted from your device once you close your browser. They are used to remember you during your browsing session.
• Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them. They remember your preferences or actions across different sites.

Managing Cookies

You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies, delete existing ones, or alert you when new ones are being set. However, disabling cookies may affect the functionality of our Website, and you may not be able to access certain parts of it.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.