At Greaves Cotton Limited (hereinafter referred to as ‘GCL’), we understand and respect your privacy concerns and greatly value our relationship with you. We use technology to gather information that assists us in improving your experience and refining our products and services. This notice details the nature and purpose of the cookies we employ on this website. This Cookie Notice is aligned with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA), and GCL acts as a Data Fiduciary under this regulation.
Cookies enable us to recognize you, your browsing device, and your interactions with this website. They help us understand your preferences, enhancing your browsing experience and delivering essential services. These cookies are stored locally on your device's hard drive.
Our cookie banner provides three options: “Accept All”, “Reject All”, and “Manage Preferences”. Your selection will be stored in a consent cookie valid for 12 months. After expiry, you will be prompted to renew your preferences. This ensures compliance with consent logging and user control requirements.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files placed on your computer or mobile device's hard drive when you visit a website. They are widely used to perform various functions, such as allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your browsing experience. When you visit this website, we deploy these technologies to provide an online service more suited to the device you connect from, for administrative purposes, and to enhance your online experience by keeping track of your behaviour within the website.
‘Session cookies’ are automatically deleted once you leave this website. We collect information about your use of the website, as well as information about the device or browser you use to access it.
General type of cookies we use
As indicated in our cookie banner, we use two types of cookies:
a. Essential cookies - These cookies are strictly necessary for our website to operate or to provide you with a service on our website that you have requested.
b. Non-essential cookies - These cookies are used to collect aggregated statistics about your visit. You can see below what information we collect about your visit.
If you don't make a choice in the banner, only the essential cookies will be deployed, and the banner will reappear every time you visit our website.
Why do we use cookies?
a. To improve website functionality: Cookies help websites to remember user preferences, such as language settings, font size and other display preferences, so users don’t have to re-enter them every time they visit the website.
b. To enhance user experience: Cookies enable websites to provide personalized content, recommendations, and advertisements based on user’s past browsing pattern and interest.
c. Gathering Analytics data: Cookies collect information about how users interact with the website, such as which page they visit often, how long they stay on the website, and they encounter any errors. This data helps website owners to improve the performance and usability of their sites.
What type of cookies does this website use?
We use a limited number of cookies for several reasons as listed in this cookie notice. It allows us to enrich your experience by remembering your online behavior while using this website and to improve the effectiveness of ads and services. It also helps in navigating you from one webpage to the other without undue delay. We classify our cookies as:
a. Strictly Necessary - These cookies are essential, as they ensure your security and privacy when you use this website, as well as enable you to move around this website and use its features securely. Without these cookies, certain services on a website cannot be made possible and a website cannot perform as smoothly as it should. It remembers your past activities on the web page from the same session. It expires as soon as the session is terminated, or when you exit this website.
b. Session Cookies - These are temporary cookies that are erased when the user closes their web browser.
c. Functional Cookies - Functional cookies are essential for providing specific features and
functionalities on a website. They allow the website to remember choices you make and provide
enhanced more personal features. For example, Functional cookies remember your login details,
language preferences, or region. It enables you to navigate the website and use its features effectively.
These cookies do not track your browsing activity across other websites. They are usually first-party
cookies meaning they are set by the website you are visiting. To provide seamless and personalized
user experience functional cookies are necessary. They help to customize the website according to
your preferences and make your browsing experience more convenient. Functional cookies do not
collect the information that could be used for marketing purposes. They set to expire after a session
or a short period of time. Cookies can be controlled by browser settings. However, if you disable
functional cookies it may result into limiting the websites functionalities.
o Functional Cookies can be disabled at your convenience.
d. Performance/Analytical - Performance cookies collect statistical information about the use of this
website, help to improve the way this website works and to help us to identify issues you may have
when using our online services.
o Performance/Analytical Cookies can be disabled at your convenience.
e. Persistent - Persistent cookies work by tracking your online preferences. But if you personalize this
website to fit your preferences, persistent cookies will remember and implement those preferences the
next time you visit this website such as storing your login information, language selections, menu
preferences and internal bookmarks.
o Persistent cookies can be disabled at your convenience.
f. Marketing/Tracking - These cookies are required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to
track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. These cookies
can be set up through this website by our carefully selected and monitored advertising partners. They
are likely to be used by those third-party partners to build a profile of your interests and show you
relevant advertisements on their websites.
o Marketing/Tracking cookies can be disabled at your convenience.
Consent to collecting your browsing experience
GCL websites must clearly explain how they track users and give them the option to say no to being tracked. GCL shall not use technologies like cookies to monitor user behavior without getting permission first. GCL websites shall provide a notice to users about their tracking practices and shall make it easy for users to opt out if they don’t want to be tracked. GCL shall keep records of users consent and explain how they use the data they collect.
You may, though, choose to consent to our processing of any personal data collected during your browsing experience on our website to allow us to produce aggregated statistics.
While some browsers offer a ‘Do Not Track’ feature, we rely on explicit cookie consent mechanisms to manage your preferences. You can modify your cookie settings at any time via the Cookie Preferences section. If you have not enabled the Do Not Track option, we will show you a cookie banner for you to make your choice and install a cookie to keep track of your choice. This cookie expires after 3 months, after which you will be shown the cookie banner again to renew your choice. Then, if your Do Not Track option is not enabled, you will be shown the cookie banner again to renew your choice.
We maintain centralized records of user consent in accordance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023. You may withdraw your consent at any time via the Cookie Preferences section.
Third Party Cookies
Currently, no third-party cookies are in use on this website. This section will be updated if such cookies are introduced in the future.
Do we use social networking cookies?
These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on this website through third party social networking such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other websites. We may use the information along with other information we know or infer about you including your preferences to tailor content, services, advertising and offers for you if you have provided your consent for the same.
These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or "like" button on GCL websites or apps, or when you engage with our content on or through a social media website such as Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.
Links to other websites
When using this website, you may be directed to other websites. These websites may use their own
cookies. We do not have control over the placement of cookies by other websites you visit, even if you
are directed to them from this website. If you access those other websites, please read any cookie or
privacy statements on those websites if you wish to know what cookies are being used.
How can I control cookies
You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use this website, though your access to some functionality and areas of this website may be restricted. As for how you can refuse cookies through your web, browser controls vary from browser to browser. You should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
Cookie control settings in different web browsers
Cookies collected in the past
The collection of your personal data from our cookies can be deleted. You can delete existing cookies from your browser. If cookies are deleted, the information collected prior to the preference change may still be used; however, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information from your user experience. Cookies used on this website are set to expire after a maximum of 3 months, unless otherwise specified. You may delete cookies manually via your browser settings.
How often we will update the cookie notice
This Cookie Notice will be reviewed annually or upon significant changes to cookie practices or applicable laws. We reserve the right to make any changes and corrections to this cookie notice to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please, therefore, revisit this cookie notice regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the start of this Cookie Notice indicates when it was last updated.
Contact us
At the group level, GCL, is located at J-2, MIDC Industrial Area, Chikalthana, Aurangabad - 431210,
acts as the fiduciary of your personal data.
If you would like to exercise your Data Principal rights under the Applicable Laws or have any questions
about this cookie notice, please contact our Responsible Privacy Personnel/ DPO at:
Greaves Cotton Limited Corporate Office: Unit No. 1A, 5th Floor, Tower 3, Equinox Business Park,
LBS Marg, Kurla (W) Mumbai - 400070.
Email: privacypolicy_website@greavescotton.com
