Cookie policy
Cookie Policy
Effective Date: 7 September 2026
Last Updated: 9 October 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how ShikheeCares (“Website”, “Site”, “we”, “us”, “our” or “ShikheeCares”) uses cookies when you visit or interact with shikheecares.com.
ShikheeCares is a personal website and digital journal featuring content relating to motherhood, family, beauty and skincare, travel, professional life, personal experiences and other aspects of Shikhee's life and interests.
We believe in keeping the use of cookies transparent and proportionate to the Website's purpose.
This Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website may place on your computer, mobile phone, tablet or other device when you visit the website.
Cookies allow a website to recognise a device, remember certain information and perform particular functions.
Cookies may be:
Session cookies, which are generally deleted when you close your browser; or
Persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.
Cookies may also be:
First-party cookies, placed by ShikheeCares or its website technology; or
Third-party cookies, placed by external services used on or through the Website.
2. Why We Use Cookies
The Website uses cookies only to:
Make the Website function properly, including its enquiry form and event sign-up;
Maintain Website security, including protecting its forms against misuse; and
Let the people who manage the Website sign in to its administration area.
We do not use cookies to collect personal information about visitors, to follow you from page to page or across other websites, to measure traffic, or for advertising.
3. Categories of Cookies
The cookies used on ShikheeCares fall into one category only: strictly necessary cookies.
3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the Website to operate properly. When the Website builds a page for you, it sets two cookies:
shikheecares-session: keeps your visit working, for example a form you are filling in. It can be read only by the Website, is sent only over a secure connection, and expires two hours after the last page you open.
XSRF-TOKEN: a security token that protects the Website's forms against misuse. It is sent only over a secure connection and expires two hours after the last page you open.
Some pages are delivered from a saved copy and set no cookie at all.
The session cookie is linked to a short record on the Website's server holding your IP address, the description your browser gives of itself, and what is needed to keep a form working. That record expires with the cookie, two hours after the last page you open, and is then deleted automatically.
If you are one of the people who manage the Website and you tick “Remember me” when signing in to its administration area, a further cookie keeps you signed in on that device for up to 400 days, or until you sign out.
Because these cookies are strictly necessary, the Website does not ask for consent before using them. Disabling them in your browser may stop the Website's forms from working.
3.2 Preference or Functional Cookies
The Website does not use preference or functional cookies.
3.3 Analytics and Performance Cookies
The Website does not use analytics or performance cookies, and no analytics company is used. The Website's own visit statistics, described in section 3.1 of the Privacy Policy, use no cookies.
4. Third-Party Cookies
The Website does not use third-party cookies. Its pages load nothing from other companies' websites: no analytics, advertising, video, social-media widgets, fonts or scripts. So no other company can place cookies through the Website.
If you follow a link from the Website to another website, that website's own policies apply, and ShikheeCares does not control the cookies it places.
5. Social Media and Embedded Content
Every page links to Shikhee's profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube, and each story ends with buttons to share it on WhatsApp, Facebook, X and LinkedIn (and, on some devices, your device's own Share option).
These are ordinary links. Nothing is loaded from those platforms, and they cannot place cookies through the Website, unless you choose to follow one. Once you do, that platform may collect information about your device or interaction and may place its own cookies.
The Website does not embed posts, videos, players or other content from other platforms.
We recommend reviewing the privacy and cookie policies of the relevant third-party platform if you wish to understand how it handles such information.
6. Cookies and Personal Information
A cookie does not necessarily identify you by name.
However, certain cookie identifiers, IP addresses, device information or combinations of technical information may potentially be associated with an identifiable individual.
Where cookie-related information constitutes personal data under applicable law, it will be handled in accordance with applicable data-protection requirements and the ShikheeCares Privacy Policy.
We do not intend to use cookies to create unnecessary personal profiles of visitors.
7. We Do Not Sell Personal Information Through Cookies
ShikheeCares does not intend to sell or rent personal information collected through cookies.
We do not operate the Website as a personal-data brokerage service.
If advertising, affiliate or other commercial technologies are introduced in the future that involve additional forms of tracking, the Website may update this Cookie Policy and, where required, seek appropriate consent before using such technologies.
8. Advertising and Affiliate Cookies
The Website does not use advertising or affiliate cookies, pixels or other tracking technologies.
If that ever changes, this Cookie Policy will be updated first and, where the law requires it, you will be asked for your consent before any such technology is used.
9. Cookie Consent
The Website uses only the strictly necessary cookies described in section 3.1, so it does not show a cookie banner or ask for consent to cookies.
If non-essential cookies are ever introduced, the Website will ask for your consent before using them where applicable law requires it.
10. Withdrawing or Changing Consent
Because the Website uses no cookies that need your consent, there is no consent to withdraw. You can delete or block the Website's cookies in your browser at any time (see section 11); its forms may then not work.
11. Browser Controls
Most modern browsers allow you to control or delete cookies through their settings.
Depending on your browser, you may be able to:
View stored cookies;
Delete existing cookies;
Block cookies;
Block third-party cookies;
Allow cookies only from selected websites;
Receive warnings before cookies are stored; or
Automatically delete cookies when the browser is closed.
The exact process differs between browsers and devices.
You should consult the help or privacy settings of your browser for instructions.
12. Mobile Devices
Mobile devices and operating systems may provide additional privacy and tracking controls.
Depending on your device, you may be able to restrict:
Website tracking;
Advertising identifiers;
Cross-site tracking;
App-based tracking; or
Other forms of device-level data collection.
These settings are controlled by your device or operating system and may operate independently of ShikheeCares.
13. Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers and devices offer “Do Not Track” or similar privacy settings.
Because there is currently no universally consistent technical standard governing all such signals, the Website may not respond to every Do Not Track signal in the same manner.
Where applicable law requires a particular response to a recognised privacy signal, ShikheeCares will comply with the relevant legal requirements.
14. How Long Cookies Remain
The Website's two cookies expire two hours after the last page you open on it. The administration area's “Remember me” cookie, used only by the people who manage the Website, lasts up to 400 days or until they sign out.
If these durations change, this Cookie Policy will be updated.
15. Changes to the Cookies We Use
The cookies and technologies used by a website may change over time.
For example, ShikheeCares may:
Add analytics tools;
Change hosting providers;
Introduce new Website functionality;
Add social-media integrations;
Introduce newsletter functionality;
Introduce affiliate links;
Introduce advertising or sponsorship technologies; or
Replace existing technical services.
This Cookie Policy lists, by name, every cookie the Website uses today.
Where material changes affect your privacy choices or consent obligations, the Website will take appropriate steps to update the relevant information.
16. Information Security
Cookie information and related technical information may be processed by ShikheeCares or its service providers.
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures intended to protect information against unauthorised access, misuse, loss or disclosure.
However, no internet-based system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
For more information about our general approach to protecting personal information, please refer to the Privacy Policy.
17. Children's Privacy
ShikheeCares is not intended to operate as a website directed toward children.
The Website does not intentionally use cookies to build profiles of children or to target children with advertising.
Some Website content may, however, contain photographs or stories involving children as part of Shikhee's personal family and motherhood content.
The publication of such content is separate from the collection of information through cookies.
For more information, please refer to the provisions concerning children and family information in our Privacy Policy and Content & Image Usage Policy.
18. International Visitors
ShikheeCares may be accessed by visitors from countries outside India.
The Website's cookies are set and read only by the Website itself; no third-party technology on the Website processes them.
Different jurisdictions may have different requirements concerning cookies and online tracking.
Where required by applicable law, appropriate consent and safeguards will be implemented.
19. Links to Other Websites
ShikheeCares may contain links to external websites.
Once you leave ShikheeCares, the cookie and tracking practices of the external website will apply.
We do not control or take responsibility for cookies used by external websites.
You should review the privacy and cookie policies of those websites before interacting with them or providing information.
20. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights concerning personal information processed through cookies and similar technologies.
These may include rights relating to:
Access;
Correction;
Deletion;
Withdrawal of consent;
Restriction or objection to certain processing;
Opting out of certain communications or tracking; and
Other rights provided under applicable law.
Further information is available in the ShikheeCares Privacy Policy.
21. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.
An updated version will be published on this page together with a revised “Last Updated” date.
If material changes are made to the way we use cookies or similar technologies, we may provide additional notice or seek consent where required by applicable law.
22. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or the way ShikheeCares uses cookies and similar technologies, please contact:
ShikheeCares
Email: info@shikheecares.com
For privacy-related enquiries, please mention “Cookie Policy Query” in the subject line of your communication.
23. Summary
In simple terms:
ShikheeCares uses two small cookies, only to make the Website and its forms work securely.
We do not use cookies to track you, to understand how people use the Website, or for advertising, and we do not sell visitors' personal information.
If we ever introduce cookies that need your consent, we will ask for it first.
You can also manage or delete cookies through your browser or device settings.
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