Cookie policy

Cookie Policy

Effective Date: 7 September 2026
Last Updated: 7 September 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how ShikheeCares (“Website”, “Site”, “we”, “us”, “our” or “ShikheeCares”) may use cookies and similar technologies 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

Depending on the Website's features and technology in use, cookies and similar technologies may be used to:

• Make the Website function properly;

• Maintain Website security;

• Remember certain preferences;

• Understand how visitors use the Website;

• Measure Website traffic;

• Improve Website performance;

• Identify technical problems;

• Improve navigation and user experience;

• Understand which content is useful or popular;

• Support embedded content;

• Enable social-media functionality; and

• Support other legitimate Website functions.

We do not use cookies simply for the purpose of collecting personal information about visitors.

3. Categories of Cookies

The cookies used on ShikheeCares may broadly fall into the following categories.

3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies may be necessary for the Website to operate properly.

They may support functions such as:

• Page navigation;

• Security;

• Session management;

• Form functionality;

• Basic Website operations;

• Remembering essential technical settings; and

• Preventing misuse or malicious activity.

Because these cookies may be necessary for the operation of the Website, disabling them may affect Website functionality.

3.2 Preference or Functional Cookies

These cookies may remember choices or preferences made by visitors.

For example, they may help remember:

• Language preferences;

• Display preferences;

• Certain interface settings;

• Previously selected options; or

• Other non-essential Website preferences.

Where these cookies are not necessary for basic Website operation, they may be subject to applicable consent requirements.

3.3 Analytics and Performance Cookies

ShikheeCares may use analytics technologies to understand how visitors interact with the Website.

Analytics information may include:

• Number of visitors;

• Pages viewed;

• Approximate time spent on pages;

• Traffic sources;

• Device and browser information;

• General geographic information;

• Navigation patterns; and

• Website performance information.

Analytics information is generally used in aggregate to understand Website usage and improve content and functionality.

Analytics providers may use cookies or similar technologies to collect this information.

4. Third-Party Cookies

Certain third-party services integrated into ShikheeCares may place cookies or use similar technologies.

These services may include:

• Analytics providers;

• Video platforms;

• Social-media platforms;

• Embedded content providers;

• Security services;

• Website performance services;

• Newsletter or email providers;

• Advertising platforms, if introduced in the future; and

• Affiliate or partnership platforms, if applicable in the future.

Third-party services operate according to their own policies.

ShikheeCares does not control cookies placed directly by third-party websites or platforms.

5. Social Media and Embedded Content

ShikheeCares may contain links, widgets, buttons, embedded posts, videos or other content provided by third-party platforms.

For example, a page may contain:

• Social-media content;

• Video embeds;

• Social sharing buttons;

• Embedded photographs;

• External media players; or

• Other third-party interactive content.

When such content is loaded or interacted with, the relevant third party may collect information about your device or interaction and may place cookies or use similar technologies.

This may occur even though the third-party content appears within a ShikheeCares webpage.

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

ShikheeCares may in the future participate in:

• Affiliate programmes;

• Brand partnerships;

• Sponsored campaigns;

• Advertising programmes;

• Product recommendation programmes; or

• Other commercial arrangements.

If such arrangements involve cookies, pixels or other tracking technologies, the relevant technologies may be used in accordance with applicable law and the terms of the relevant service.

Where legally required, visitors will be given appropriate information and choices before non-essential tracking technologies are used.

Affiliate links themselves do not necessarily place cookies on your device. However, the third-party destination or affiliate network may use tracking technologies once you interact with the link.

9. Cookie Consent

Where applicable law requires consent for the use of particular categories of cookies or similar technologies, ShikheeCares will seek consent through an appropriate cookie banner, preference centre or other mechanism.

You may be provided with options such as:

• Accepting non-essential cookies;

• Rejecting non-essential cookies;

• Selecting particular cookie categories; or

• Managing cookie preferences.

Strictly necessary technologies may continue to operate where they are required for the Website to function or where otherwise permitted by applicable law.

10. Withdrawing or Changing Consent

Where a cookie consent mechanism is provided, you may change or withdraw your consent through the available cookie settings mechanism.

Withdrawing consent does not generally affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

Certain Website functionality may be affected if particular cookies are disabled.

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 length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on the type of cookie.

Some cookies are deleted when your browser session ends.

Others may remain for a defined period.

The duration may also be determined by the third-party service placing the cookie.

Cookie durations may change as Website technologies and third-party services are 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.

Accordingly, this Cookie Policy may not list every individual cookie by name.

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.

Third-party technologies used on the Website may process technical or cookie-related information in countries other than the country in which you are located.

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 may use cookies and similar technologies to make the Website work, understand how people use it and improve the overall experience.

We do not intend to use cookies as a means of unnecessarily collecting or selling visitors' personal information.

Where non-essential cookies require your consent, we will provide an appropriate mechanism for you to make that choice.

You can also manage or delete cookies through your browser or device settings.

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