What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of information websites store on your computer. Cookies only contain bits of text, not anything else. The text can be a user ID, session ID, or any other text. For example, web pages can be configurable – a web page could have a Hide link that hides a certain element on the page. The page can save this setting on your computer with a cookie. When you load the page in the future, the page can examine the cookie and automatically hide the element.

Cookies are very common – you probably have hundreds or even thousands stored in your browser right now.

 How Cookies Work?

Your web browser stores and manages cookies. You can find a list of websites storing cookies and view the cookies themselves – although it’s usually not interesting to look at the content of the cookies – in your browser’s settings. If you use multiple web browsers on your computer, each browser has its own set of cookies.

 Different types of cookies

1. Essential Cookies: These cookies are needed for essential functions such as logging in, storing user session details. These can’t be switched off.

2. Functional Cookies: There are certain features on our site that are not strictly essential to its running.

3. Analytical Cookies: These cookies help us optimise our website based on data

4. Advertising Cookies: As the name suggests, these cookies will be used for advertisement purposes.

What are the cookies that Abyasa use?

So that you can make full use of the personalised features on our website, your computer, mobile phone or other device (all referred to here as device) will need to accept cookies.

We use the below Essential and Functional Cookies:

1. ProWebAdminCookie: To recognise if an admin user has logged in to this website and it holds the session id of the logged user.

2. ProWebUserCookie: To recognise if non-admin user has logged in to this website and it holds the session id of the logged user.

3. PROWEBFORMAUTH: To recognise if the user has been authorised to access the site.

4. cb-enabled: To recognise if a user has agreed to store the above two cookies.

5. __RequestVerificationToken: To help prevent CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) attacks, this website uses anti-forgery tokens, also called request verification tokens. The client requests an HTML page that contains a form. The server includes two tokens in the response. One token is sent as a cookie. The other is placed in a hidden form field. If this is turned off, you may not be able to submit any record in this site.