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Introduction
S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR) is committed to protecting the privacy of everyone who visits www.spjimr.org (the ‘website’). This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how SPJIMR uses them, the categories of cookies deployed on the website, and how visitors can manage their cookie preferences.
This policy should be read together with SPJIMR’s Privacy Policy, which explains how SPJIMR collects, uses and protects personal data more broadly. Where there is a conflict between the two, the Privacy Policy governs the treatment of personal data, and this Cookie Policy governs the specific use of cookies and similar tracking technologies.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on a visitor’s device (computer, tablet or mobile) when the website loads in a browser. Cookies help a website function properly, remain secure, remember visitor preferences, and understand how visitors use the site so that SPJIMR can improve it.
Cookies may be ‘session’ cookies, which are deleted once the browser is closed, or ‘persistent’ cookies, which remain on the device for a set period or until manually deleted. Cookies may also be ‘first-party’ (set by spjimr.org directly) or ‘third-party’ (set by another domain whose content or service is embedded on the website, such as YouTube or Google).
How SPJIMR uses cookies
Like most institutional websites, spjimr.org uses a mix of first-party and third-party cookies for the following purposes:
- Necessary functionality: Enabling core features such as secure browsing, page navigation, and remembering cookie consent choices.
- Functional performance: Enabling features such as social media sharing, embedded videos, and third-party widgets.
- Analytics: Understanding how visitors use the website, including pages visited, time spent, and navigation patterns, so that SPJIMR can improve site content and design.
- Advertising and outreach: Measuring and, where applicable, personalising promotional content related to SPJIMR’s programmes.
SPJIMR does not use cookies to collect sensitive personal data, and first-party cookies used for core functionality do not collect personally identifiable information.
Legal basis for use of cookies
SPJIMR’s use of cookies is governed by the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act), and, to the extent applicable, the Information Technology Act, 2000, read with the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011.
Cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to function are deployed without requiring separate consent, as they are essential to providing the service the visitor has requested. All other categories of cookies (functional, analytics, and advertising) are deployed only after the visitor provides explicit, informed consent via the cookie consent banner on the first visit.
Visitors may withdraw consent at any time, with the same ease with which it was given, through the ‘Consent Preferences’ option described in Section 7 below. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of cookie use prior to withdrawal.
Categories of cookies used on this website
The tables below list the cookies currently deployed on spjimr.org, grouped by category. This list reflects the most recent cookie scan of the website and is reviewed periodically; it may not capture cookies added by third-party embeds between scans.
Necessary
Necessary cookies enable core features of the website, such as security, network management, and remembering consent preferences. These cookies do not store personally identifiable data and cannot be switched off through the consent tool.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| renderCtx | session | This cookie is used for tracking community context state. |
| _cfuvid | session | Cloudflare sets this cookie to track users across sessions to optimize user experience by maintaining session consistency and providing personalized services |
| AWSALBCORS | 7 days | Amazon Web Services set this cookie for load balancing. |
| __cf_bm | 1 hour | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| zfccn | session | Zoho sets this cookie for website security when a request is sent to campaigns. |
| _GRECAPTCHA | 6 months | Google Recaptcha service sets this cookie to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| rc::a | Never Expires | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| rc::f | Never Expires | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| rc::b | session | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| rc::c | session | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| CAKEPHP | 10 hours | This cookie is used as a cookie controller used for managing other cookies. |
| zalb_* | session | Zoho sets this cookie for load balancing and session stickiness. It ensures that user requests are consistently directed to the same server during a session, helping maintain session integrity and improving website performance. |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY _METADATA |
6 months | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| PHPSESSID | session | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie stores and identifies a user’s unique session ID to manage user sessions on the website. The cookie is a session cookie and will be deleted when all the browser windows are closed. |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | session | Issued by Microsoft’s ASP.NET Application, this cookie stores session data during a user’s website visit. |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | session | This cookie is set by Windows Azure cloud, and is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. |
| visid_incap_* | 1 year | Incapsula sets this cookie to provide cloud-based website security services. |
| incap_ses_* | session | This is an Incapsula DDoS Protection and Web Application Firewall cookie that is used to relate HTTP requests to a certain session. |
| ARRAffinity | session | ARRAffinity cookie is set by Azure app service, and allows the service to choose the right instance established by a user to deliver subsequent requests made by that user. |
Functional
Functional cookies enable features such as social sharing, feedback collection, and other embedded third-party tools.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| elfsight_viewed_recently | Less than a minute | Description is currently not available. |
| npf_r | session | Description is currently not available. |
| npf_l | session | Description is currently not available. |
| npf_u | session | Description is currently not available. |
| npf_fx | session | Description is currently not available. |
| fxc_376 | session | Description is currently not available. |
| fxc_242 | session | Description is currently not available. |
| fxc_361 | session | Description is currently not available. |
| fxc_undefined | session | Description is currently not available. |
| fxc_5753 | session | Description is currently not available. |
| fxc_5372 | session | Description is currently not available. |
| csrfToken | session | Description is currently not available. |
| fxc_5179 | session | Description is currently not available. |
| fxc_358 | session | Description is currently not available. |
| fxc_248 | session | Description is currently not available. |
| fxc_308 | session | Description is currently not available. |
| tabname | past | Description is currently not available. |
| li_gc | 6 months | LinkedIn set this cookie for storing visitor’s consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes. |
| lidc | 1 day | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. |
| _cs_c | 1 year 1 month | The cookie is used by Content Square to save the user consent to be tracked. |
| npfwg | session | Description is currently not available. |
| _cs_root-domain | session | Description is currently not available. |
| _cs_same_site | session | Description is currently not available. |
| _octo | 1 year | No description available. |
| logged_in | 1 year | No description available. |
| PreferredCountry | 6 months 15 hours | No description available. |
| mba#lang | session | No description available. |
| shell#lang | session | Description is currently not available. |
| dd_testcookie | session | Description is currently not available. |
| browser_tags | 3 months | Description is currently not available. |
| __sharethis_cookie_test__ | session | ShareThis sets this cookie to track which pages are being shared and by whom. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 6 months | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT _ENTRY_KEY |
Never Expires | The cookie ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user. This information is used to improve the user experience by providing more relevant search results in the future. |
| pvc_visits[0] | 1 day | Posts View Counter set this cookie to ensure accurate view counts on each page. |
Analytics
Analytical cookies help SPJIMR understand how visitors interact with the website, including visitor counts, bounce rate, and traffic sources.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| zabUserId | 1 year | Zoho PageSense sets this cookie to store a unique ID for every user who visits that website. |
| zsc* | 1 hour | Zoho sets this cookie to uniquely identify the current session. This enables comprehensive tracking of user interactions for detailed analytics and website performance optimization. |
| zft-sdc | 9 hours 26 minutes | Zoho PageSense sets this cookie to determine whether a request is the first interaction with the server. It also identifies the entrance page and stores source information, aiding in session calculation and visitor tracking for analytics purposes. |
| zps-tgr-dts | 1 year | Zoho PageSense sets this cookie to store session-level metadata related to its triggers. It helps track and manage user interactions during a session, supporting website analytics and optimization. |
| zabHMBucket | 1 year | Zoho PageSense sets this cookie to identify the exact heatmap experiment to be tracked on the web page. |
| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. |
| _ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. |
| _gid | 1 day | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| _gat_UA-* | 1 minute | Google Analytics sets this cookie for user behaviour tracking. |
| _cs_id | 1 year 1 month | This cookie is used to store the ContentSquare’s user identifier ID. This is a persistent cookie and expires after 13 months. |
| _cs_s | 1 hour | This cookie is used to store the number of page’s viewed by a visitor within the session for ContentSquare’s solution. |
| nQ_userVisitId | 1 hour | No description available. |
| zpssr* | session | Zoho PageSense sets this cookie to identify the top-level domain during a session, ensuring accurate tracking and analysis of user interactions across different domains. |
| nQ_cookieId | 1 year | Albacross sets this cookie to help identify companies for better lead generation and more effective ad targeting. |
| _gat_gtag_UA_* | 1 minute | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store a unique user ID. |
| YSC | session | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
| mp_*_mixpanel | 1 year | Mixpanel sets this cookie to determine how users use the website so that a good user experience can be provided. |
| _gh_sess | session | GitHub sets this cookie for temporary application and framework state between pages like what step the user is on in a multiple step form. |
| SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL _COOKIE |
past | Sitecore sets this cookie to track the number of visits a visitor makes to the website. |
| utm_source | session | This cookie is used to record from where the visitor came to the website orginally. This information is used by the website operator to know the efficiency of their marketing. |
Performance
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AWSALB | 7 days | AWSALB is an application load balancer cookie set by Amazon Web Services to map the session to the target. |
| _uetsid | 1 day | Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. |
| _uetvid | 1 year 24 days | Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. |
Advertisement
Advertisement cookies help measure the effectiveness of outreach related to SPJIMR’s programmes and, where enabled, personalise promotional content shown to visitors on third-party platforms.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | 3 months | Google Tag Manager sets this cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. |
| bcookie | 1 year | LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser IDs. |
| _rdt_uuid | 3 months | Reddit sets this cookie to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads. |
| test_cookie | 16 minutes | doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. |
| IDE | 1 year 24 days 1 minute | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads according to the user profile. |
| _fbp | 3 months | Facebook sets this cookie to store and track interactions. |
| gl_webengage | 4 months | Description is currently not available. |
| gl_last_touch | session | Description is currently not available. |
| gl_first_touch | session | Description is currently not available. |
| _gl_w3_session | 4 months | No description available. |
| user_country_zone | session | Description is currently not available. |
| _gl_user_id | session | Description is currently not available. |
| __Secure-YNID | 6 months | YouTube cookie used to protect user security and prevent fraud, especially during the login process. |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | 6 months | YouTube sets this cookie to manage feature rollout and experimentation. It helps Google control which new features or interface changes are shown to users as part of testing and staged rollouts, ensuring consistent experience for a given user during an experiment. |
| __Secure-YEC | past | Description is currently not available. |
| personalization_id | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Twitter sets this cookie to integrate and share features for social media and also store information about how the user uses the website, for tracking and targeting. |
| muc_ads | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Twitter sets this cookie to collect user behaviour and interaction data to optimize the website. |
| NID | 6 months | Google sets the cookie for advertising purposes; to limit the number of times the user sees an ad, to unwanted mute ads, and to measure the effectiveness of ads. |
| MUID | 1 year 24 days | Bing sets this cookie to recognise unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations. |
| _fbc | 3 months | Facebook sets this cookie to store last visit. |
Third-party cookies and data sharing
Certain cookies on spjimr.org are set by third-party services embedded on the website, including Google (reCAPTCHA, YouTube), Cloudflare, Elfsight, and CookieYes. These third parties may process data collected through their cookies in accordance with their own privacy policies, which SPJIMR encourages visitors to review.
SPJIMR does not sell personal data collected through cookies to any third party. SPJIMR shares information with third-party service providers only to the extent necessary for them to perform the services for which they are engaged, such as website security, content delivery, and consent management.
Managing your cookie preferences
Visitors can update or withdraw their cookie consent at any time by selecting ‘Consent Preferences’ on the website, which reopens the cookie consent banner and allows preferences to be changed for each cookie category.
Visitors can also manage or delete cookies directly through their browser settings. Disabling or deleting cookies may affect the functionality of some parts of the website. Guidance for common browsers is available at the links below:
Visitors using a different browser should refer to that browser’s official support documentation.
Children’s data
SPJIMR’s website is not directed at children, and SPJIMR does not knowingly collect personal data from minors through cookies without verifiable parental or guardian consent, where such consent is required by applicable law. A parent or guardian who believes their child has provided personal data through the website should contact SPJIMR using the details in Section 10.
Changes to this policy
SPJIMR may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies used on the website, technology, or applicable law. Material changes will be reflected in the ‘Last updated’ date at the top of this page, and, where required by law, visitors will be asked to reconfirm their consent.
Contact us
For any questions about this Cookie Policy, or to exercise rights available under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, visitors may contact SPJIMR at:
S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Bhavan’s Campus, Munshi Nagar, Andheri West, Mumbai – 400 058 Email: info@spjimr.org
This policy reflects the cookies identified in SPJIMR’s most recent website cookie scan, restructured to align with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) and the DPDP Rules, 2025, Notified.