This Cookie Policy supplements our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions and explains how Gavel Glory Ventures LLP (“Gavel Glory”, “we”, “us”, “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on the Gavel Glory Platform in connection with our services, including conferences, seminars, webinars, awards, expeditions and other professional development offerings. It also explains how you can manage your cookie preferences, consistent with our obligations as a Data Fiduciary under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (“DPDP Act”).
1. Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (such as a computer, smartphone or tablet) when you visit a website. Cookies may be “session” cookies (which expire when you close your browser) or “persistent” cookies (which remain for a defined period or until deleted).
When you access or use the Gavel Glory Platform, we may place cookies and similar technologies on your device, subject to your consent where required under the DPDP Act. These technologies help us to:
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remember your preferences (for example, language, login status, and programme interests) to streamline your interactions with the platform
understand how users navigate and use the platform, including pages visited, session duration and interaction patterns, to improve the design and performance of our professional development services; and
provide a more relevant and consistent user experience in relation to our events, awards, expeditions and related communications.
To the extent that cookies or similar technologies involve the processing of digital personal data (for example, identifiers that can be linked to you), such processing is carried out in accordance with the DPDP Act and our Privacy Policy, on the basis of your consent or as part of certain legitimate uses permitted by law.
2. Types of Cookies We May Use
We may use the following categories of cookies on the Gavel Glory Platform in connection with our services:
a) Strictly Necessary Cookies
creating or accessing an account to register for a conference, seminar, webinar, award or expedition;
submitting nomination or application forms for awards or programmes;
maintaining a secure session while you are logged in; and
managing your basic privacy or cookie settings.
b) Performance Cookies
Performance cookies collect information about how visitors use the Gavel Glory Platform, such as which pages are visited most often, how users move between pages, and whether they encounter error messages. We use this information in aggregated form to:
analyse engagement with our programme pages (conferences, seminars, webinars, awards, expeditions);
understand user journeys (for example, from event discovery to registration); and
diagnose technical issues and improve overall site performance.
These cookies do not directly identify you but may use identifiers or IP addresses which can constitute digital personal data and will then be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy and the DPDP Act.
c) Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies allow the Gavel Glory Platform to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personalised features relevant to our professional development services. For example, they may:
remember your login details between sessions (where you choose a “remember me” option);
retain your preferences for communication formats (such as email updates regarding upcoming conferences, awards or expeditions);
store form progress or selections (for example, partially completed award nominations or registration forms); and
remember your language or region preferences where applicable.
If you disable these cookies, certain personalised features or saved preferences on the platform may not function as intended.
d) Advertisement / Targeting Cookies
We do not use cookies to display third-party advertisements unrelated to our services. However, we may use limited targeting cookies (set by us or authorised service providers) to:
inform you about upcoming Gavel Glory events, awards, webinars, expeditions or related initiatives that may be of interest based on your prior interactions with the platform; and
measure the effectiveness of our own outreach campaigns (for example, how many users who viewed a notice about a particular conference proceeded to register).
Where such cookies involve the processing of your personal data for targeted communications, we will obtain your consent to such processing and provide you with a clear opportunity to withdraw that consent, in line with the DPDP Act’s requirements on consent, notice and the right to withdraw.
e) Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies (which may be set by us or by third-party analytics providers acting on our behalf) collect information about how visitors interact with the Gavel Glory Platform, such as:
pages viewed (for example, specific conference or award pages);
time spent on different sections of the platform; and
navigation paths and interaction with forms and content.
We use this information in aggregate and/or pseudonymous form to understand usage patterns and to improve the usability and effectiveness of our professional development services. To the extent such cookies collect personal data (for example, online identifiers), processing is carried out in line with our Privacy Policy and the DPDP Act.
These cookies may include session identifiers, security and authentication tokens and load-balancing cookies. Without them, parts of the platform (including registration, account access and secure programme pages) may not function properly.
3. How to Manage Cookies
You can manage certain categories of cookies (other than strictly necessary cookies) through cookie controls that may be made available on the Gavel Glory Platform. Where such a tool is provided, it will allow you to accept or reject non-essential cookies such as analytics or targeting cookies, consistent with the DPDP Act’s emphasis on specific and informed consent.
In addition, most web browsers allow you to:
view the cookies stored on your device;
delete cookies; and
block some or all cookies in the future by adjusting browser privacy and security settings. Please note that:
if you block strictly necessary or authentication-related cookies, you may not be able to log in, register for events, submit award nominations, or access certain secure areas or features of the Gavel Glory Platform; and
if you delete cookies, any preferences or settings (including saved form progress or cookie choices) that depend on those cookies will be lost.
To exercise broader rights in relation to your personal data (such as access, correction, erasure, withdrawal of consent and grievance redressal), please refer to our Privacy Policy, which sets out the mechanisms available to Data Principals under the DPDP Act.
4. Use of Web Beacons and Similar Technologies
In addition to cookies, some parts of the Gavel Glory Platform, our electronic communications and programme-related materials (for example, emails about conferences, webinars, awards or expeditions) may contain:
web beacons, pixel tags, clear gifs or similar small electronic files;
unique identifiers and other tracking technologies. These technologies help us to:
measure the effectiveness of our communications (for example, whether an email about a particular conference or award has been opened or links have been clicked);
deliver or support cookies;
understand high-level engagement with our professional development offerings; and
monitor the performance of specific campaign or programme pages.
Where these technologies are used in a manner that involves the processing of digital personal data, such processing will be subject to the same protections and rights described in our Privacy Policy and under the DPDP Act, including obligations relating to notice, consent and data minimisation.
5. Sharing of Cookie-Related Information
We may engage third-party service providers to assist us with analytics, performance monitoring, security, and, where applicable, outreach regarding our own conferences, seminars, webinars, awards and expeditions. These third parties may place or access cookies and similar technologies on your device on our behalf and may receive cookie-derived information (such as pseudonymous identifiers, device information and usage statistics) for the purposes of:
analysing use of the Gavel Glory Platform and measuring engagement with particular programme pages;
supporting the delivery of our own informational or promotional communications about Gavel Glory services; and
improving the reliability, security and performance of the platform.
These third-party service providers act as Data Processors in relation to such information and are contractually required to process data only on our documented instructions and to implement appropriate security measures.
We do not permit third parties to use cookie-derived information obtained vide the Gavel Glory Platform for their own independent advertising or profiling unrelated to Gavel Glory’s services, except where you have given separate consent directly to such third party and are dealing with them under their own terms and privacy policy.
6. Updates to this Cookie Policy
We may update or modify this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example to reflect changes in technology, the cookies we use, our professional development offerings, or applicable legal requirements.
Any changes will be posted on this page and obtain consent where required by law. Your continued use of the Gavel Glory Platform after such changes become effective will signify your acceptance of the updated Cookie Policy.