TCS iON uses cookies (small text files placed on
your device) and
similar technologies to give you a better user experience and to help collect
data. The text in
a cookie often consists of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely
identifies your
computer, but it can contain other information as well.
What is a cookie:
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited
by a user – asks
your browser to store on your device to remember information about you, such
as your
language preference or login information.
Our use of cookies and similar technologies:
TCS iON uses cookies and similar technologies for several purposes, which may
include:
- Storing your
Preferences and Settings: Settings that enable our
website to operate
correctly or that maintain your preferences over time may be stored
on your
device.
- Sign-in and
Authentication: When you sign into our website using your
credentials, we
store a unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an
encrypted cookie on your
device. This cookie allows you to move from page to page within the
site without
having to sign in again on each page. You can also save your sign-in
information, so
you do not have to sign in each time you return to the site.
- Security:
We use cookies to detect fraud and abuse of our websites and
services.
- Social Media:
Some of our websites include social media cookies, including
those that
enable users who are logged in to the social media service to share
content via that
service.
- Analytics:
To provide our website efficiently, we use cookies and other
identifiers to
gather usage and performance data. For example, we use cookies to
count the number
of unique visitors to a web page or service and to develop other
statistics about
the operations of our website. This includes cookies from TCS iON
and from
third-party analytics providers.
- Performance:
TCS iON uses cookies for load balancing to ensure that
websites remain up and
running.
In addition to the cookies TCS iON sets when you visit our websites, third
parties may also
set cookies when you visit TCS iON sites. In some cases, that is because we
have hired the
third party to provide services on our behalf, such as site analytics. We
use cookies from
Google Analytics for website analytics and metrics, Google reCAPTCHA to
prevent abuse of the
website and enhance its security(read Google’s privacy policy), Akamai (read
Akamai's
privacy policy) for website security, if you want to know more about these
services use
cookies and personal data, please refer to the privacy notices directly on
each third
party's website.
How to Control Cookies Manually:
You can set your browser:
To allow all
cookies
To allow only
'trusted' sites to
send them
To accept only
those cookies
from websites you are currently using
We recommend not to block all cookies because tcsion.com website uses them to
work properly.
Please read below points to find out how to manage cookies in the major
browsers.
Google Chrome
Click on the “Menu” tab in the upper-right corner and then click on
“Settings”
To block cookies:
Settings > Click on “Privacy and Security” > Under
Privacy and
Security, Click on “Cookies and other site data” > To block
cookies, choose the
correct option from “General settings”
To check cookies:
Settings > Click on “Privacy and Security” > Under
Privacy and
Security, Click on “Cookies and other site data” > See all
cookies and site
data > Click on the website and check the cookies used in that
particular site
Mozilla Firefox
Click on the Menu tab in the upper-right corner > Click on
Options > In the left side navigation, Click on Privacy and
Security > Click on “Manage Data” > Select the
site which you want
to remove and then click on remove selected button
Internet Explorer
Open Internet Explorer > Click on Tools menu in the upper-right
corner > Click on Internet Options > This will
open a window with
many tab > Click on Privacy tabUnder Settings, move the slider
to the top to
block all cookies or to the bottom to allow all cookies > Then
click Apply
Open Internet Explorer > Click on Tools menu in the upper-right
corner > Click on Internet Options > This will
open a window with
many tab > Click on > Privacy
tab > Click on Sites
button > Enter site name and then click Allow or Block
button > If
user clicks block button, that website is not allowed to use cookies in
IE > Click Apply
Safari
Open Safari > Click on Preferences from Safari
menu > Go to Privacy
tab > Click on “Remove all Website data” to remove all the
stored
data > Click Remove now button from the
pop-up > Click on Details
button under “Remove all Website data” > Select the sites you
want to remove
the data > Click Remove > Click Done
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's
website.
TCS iON cookie list:
Some of the cookies we commonly use are listed below. This list is not
exhaustive, but it is
intended to illustrate the main reasons we typically set cookies. The
cookies set by us are
called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are
cookies from a
domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our
advertising and
marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking
technologies for the
following purposes:
| Cookie Name |
Description |
Cookie Category |
Cookie Type |
Expiry |
| Cookie Name_ga |
Description Used for Visiter
identification and
tracking |
Cookie Category Analytical Cookies |
ExpiryFirst Party |
Expiry2
Years |
| Cookie Name_gid |
Description Responsible for tracking user
behaviour
|
Cookie Category Analytical Cookies |
ExpiryThird Party |
Expiry2
Years |
| Cookie Name_gat |
Description Throttling request sent from
browser to google
server to
increase network efficiency |
Cookie Category Analytical Cookies |
ExpiryFirst Party |
Expiry2
Years |
| Cookie NameVISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
Description A cookie that YouTube sets
that measures your
bandwidth to determine whether you get the new player
interface or the
old. |
Cookie Category Marketing & Advertising
Cookies |
ExpiryThird Party |
Expiry2
Years |
| Cookie NameGPS |
Description Registers a unique ID on
mobile devices to
enable tracking based on geographical GPS location
|
Cookie Category Marketing & Advertising
Cookies |
ExpiryFirst Party |
Expiry2
Years |
| Cookie NameIDE |
Description Used by Google DoubleClick to
register and
report the website users actions after viewing or clicking
one of the
advertisers ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy
of an ad and to
present targeted ads to the user |
Cookie Category Marketing & Advertising
Cookies |
ExpiryThird Party |
Expiry2
Years |
