Cookie Policy

Purpose and use of cookies

Our website sets cookies and similar tools solely in order to enable or enhance your experience on the website. This policy explains how we use our cookies.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by the browser on your mobile device or computer when you first visit a site. These cookies help the website to identify your device the next time you visit.

How do we use Cookies?

The cookies serve many functions. For instance, they help us to recall your preferences while you visit our site. The cookies also enable us to develop our website to reflect the interests of our users by, among other things, analysing who has seen which pages, how frequently particular pages are visited and determining the most popular areas of our website. However, please note that most of these cookies will not collect information that identifies you, and instead will collect more general information like a general location of the user.

What types of cookies do we use?

In general, we use the following cookies

1. Strictly necessary cookies

Some cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.

We use these Strictly Necessary cookies to -
  • Remember information you have entered on order forms when you navigate to different pages in a single web browser session.
  • Make sure you connect to the right service on our website when we make any changes to the way the website works.
These strictly necessary cookies will NOT be used to -
  • Gather information that could be used to advertise products or services to you.
  • Remember your preferences or username beyond your current visit.

You can find more information about the strictly necessary cookies we use in the table provided at the end of this document.

2. Analytical/Performance Cookies

Among other things, we utilise cookies to count the number of visitors and to analyse how our visitors use our website and also to monitor the performance of our website. This helps us to provide a high-quality experience and to improve the way our website works. For example, it ensure that users can easily find what they are looking for.

We use analytical/performance cookies to-
  • Provide statistics on how our website is used.
  • Help us improve the website by measuring any errors that occur.
  • Test different designs of our website.
These analytical/performance necessary cookies will NOT be used to –
  • Gather information that could be used to advertise products or services to you on other websites.
  • Remember your preferences or username beyond your current visit.

You can read more information about the analytical/performance cookies we use in the table provided at the end of this document.

Does anyone else use the cookies on this website?

We use or allow third parties to serve cookies that fall into the two categories above. For example, like many companies, we use Google Analytics to help us monitor our website traffic. We may also use third party cookies to help us with market research, improving site functionality and monitoring compliance with our terms and conditions and copyright policy.

What do you do if you do not want cookies to be set on your computer?

You can easily disable our cookies or block some or all cookies, or even delete cookies which have already been set by altering your browser privacy settings. However, please keep in mind that if you do choose to disable the cookies, you may find that certain sections of our website do not work properly.

List of cookies we collect

The table below lists the cookies we collect and also their purpose and the duration for which they store the information. Please note that the list is not exhaustive and many third-party tools and services use additional cookies as well.

Cookie Purpose Duration
XSRF-TOKEN XSRF-TOKEN: CSRF protection to prevent cross-site forgery 1 Year
lakshmisri_session The default Laravel cookie uniquely identifies each user session. It allows users to log in and it expires at the end of your session. 2 Year
_ga This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics for visitor identification. The main purpose of this cookie is: Performance 2 Years
_gat This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics for throttling request rates. The main purpose of this cookie is: Performance 10 minutes
_gid This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics for user journeys. The main purpose of this cookie is: Performance 24 hours

Changes to our cookies policy

We aim to meet high standards and our policies and procedures are, therefore, constantly under review. From time to time we may change how we use and place cookies. Accordingly, we recommend that you check this page periodically in order to review our current policies and practices.