What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored by the browser (for example, Internet Explorer or Safari) on your computer or mobile phone. They allow websites to store things like user preferences. You can think of cookies as providing a ‘memory’ for the website, so that it can recognise you when you come back and respond appropriately.
How do Oberoi Consulting’s websites use cookies?
A visit to a page on the Oberoi Consulting’s website may generate the following types of cookie:
Anonymous analytics cookies
Geotargetting cookies
Registration cookies
Third party cookies
Anonymous analytics cookies:
Every time someone visits our website, software provided by Google Analytics generates an “anonymous analytics cookie”.
These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before.
Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies and, if you don’t, we generate new ones.
This allows us to track how many individual users we have, and how often they visit the site.
Unless you are signed in to the Oberoi Consulting website, we cannot use these cookies to identify individuals. We use them to gather statistics, for example, the number of visits to a page. If you are logged in, we will also know the details you gave to us for this, such as your username and email address.
Geotargetting cookies
These cookies are generated by Google Analytics which tries to work out what country you are in from the information supplied by your browser when you click on a web page. This cookie is completely anonymous, and we only use for analytics.
Registration cookies
When you register with an Oberoi Consulting website, we generate cookies that let us know whether you are signed in or not.
Our servers use these cookies to work out which account you are signed in with, and if you are allowed access to a particular service. It also allows us to associate any comments you post with your username.
Third party cookies
On some pages of our website, other organisations may also set their own anonymous cookies. They do this to track the success of their application, or to customise the application for you. Because of how cookies work, our website cannot access these cookies, nor can the other organisation access the data in cookies we use on our website.
For example, when you share an article using a social-media sharing button (for example, Facebook) on our websites, the social network that has created the button will record that you have done this.
How do I turn cookies off?
It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website. However, we cannot tell if you are signed in without using cookies, so you would not be able to post comments.
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, or you can use the Help option in your browser for more details.
Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-10
Cookie settings in Firefox
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Cookies
Cookie settings in Chrome
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&ref_topic=14666
Cookie settings in Safari web
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?locale=en_US
Cookie settings in iOS.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677
Useful links
If you would like to find out more about cookies and their use on the Internet, you may find the following links useful:
Microsoft Cookies guide
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/260971/description-of-cookies
All About Cookies
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
For further legal information about privacy issues, you may find these links useful:
Data Protection Act 1998
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/ukpga_19980029_en_1
The Information Commissioner’s Office