Cookies & Tracking Policy

This Cookies & Tracking Policy explains how the Abhyaas Loyalty Club platform ("we", "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to provide, protect, and improve our services.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a website. They help the site remember your actions and preferences over time and enable features such as authentication, session continuity, analytics, and personalization.

2. How We Use Cookies

• Essential cookies: Required for core functionality such as logging in, maintaining sessions (NextAuth), protecting routes, and enabling secure navigation.
• Preferences cookies: Remember choices like selected categories, filters, and UI preferences to offer a smoother experience.
• Analytics cookies: Help us understand usage (e.g., page visits, feature adoption) so we can improve performance and content. Where used, these are aggregated and do not identify you directly.
• Functional cookies: Support features like media uploads, notifications, and previews.

3. Third-Party Services

• Authentication: NextAuth and related identity providers may set cookies to manage login state and secure sessions.
• Storage & Media: We proxy uploads to trusted providers (via Edmark to Linode Object Storage). These services may use tokens/headers; they typically do not set browser cookies during your upload flow.
• Messaging/Integrations: Links or embeds for WhatsApp/Gupshup or video platforms may rely on their own cookies or local storage when you interact with them. Refer to their policies for details.
• Analytics: If analytics is enabled, the provider may set cookies to measure usage and improve the service.

4. Your Choices

• Most browsers let you manage cookies (block, delete, or limit). Blocking essential cookies may prevent you from signing in or using key features.
• You can usually find controls under your browser’s privacy/security settings. Instructions vary by browser and device.
• Where applicable, site-level banners or settings allow opting out of non-essential cookies.

5. Data Protection

We aim to store only what’s necessary to operate the platform. Authentication/session cookies are configured with appropriate flags where possible (e.g., HttpOnly, Secure, SameSite) and are subject to our broader privacy and security practices.

6. Updates

We may update this policy to reflect changes to the platform or regulatory requirements. Please revisit this page periodically for the latest version.

7. Contact

If you have questions about cookies or your privacy on the platform, contact:

• Email: support@abhyaas.in
• Subject: Cookies – Loyalty Club