Cookie Policy

To help you better understand what Cookies we apply to our websites, we have classified our Cookies in four categories:

• Strictly Necessary: These are essential for website functionality, security, and user authentication and help deliver content, carry info across pages, and remember your Cookie choices. These Cookies can’t be turned off from our side and blocking them in your browser may affect site performance.

• Performance: These Cookies track how you use our site such as pages visited and errors encountered to help us improve functionality and run analytics. Data collected through these Cookies is aggregated and not used to directly identify you. Disabling them may impact your browsing experience.

• Functional: These Cookies are used to remember your preferences and enhance your visit by tailoring content or enabling features like videos. Blocking these Cookies may limit personalised features and service quality.

• Targeting. These Cookies, placed by us or partners, help show ads and offers relevant to your interests. They track your site visits and advertisement interactions to improve marketing. They don’t directly identify you but may involve profiling based on your activity.

• Third-party Cookies: We may collaborate with third parties such as advertisers, search engines, social media, and analytics providers to set some of the Cookies mentioned above when you use our website who help us enhance and personalise your experience and deliver relevant content to you. No information will be shared with these third parties, as stated in the para, that can directly identify you.

Following are the Cookies that have been deployed on our website/online platforms:

How to Manage or Disable Cookies

In case you do not want to receive Cookies, most browsers allow you to control Cookies through their setting preferences. You may find further information on how to disable Cookies or manage your Cookie settings for the commonly used browsers in the following list: 

• Click here for Google Chrome 

• Click here for Internet Explorer 

• Click here for Microsoft Edge 

• Click here for Firefox 

• Click here for Safari 

Use of Analytics Tools and Third-Party Technologies

We use various analytics tools and third-party services such as Google Analytics to collect and analyse Cookie data. These providers help us understand user interactions, improve website functionality, and personalize content. We have contractual agreements with these service providers. However, they may also combine the information collected from our website with data they have gathered independently from other websites, under their own privacy policies.

You may opt out of data collection by these services through the following links:

• For opting out of Google Analytics click here 

Your Privacy Rights 

We are committed to respecting your privacy rights and protecting your Personal Information. To understand your rights in detail, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

Contact Information

If you have any questions, feedback, or wish to exercise your data protection rights, feel free to contact us at dpo@hdbfs.com.

Changes to This Policy

This Policy is effective as of July 31, 2025 and may be amended, modified, and/or updated periodically. and without prior notice to you. When changes are made to this Policy it will be posted to the website. We recommend that you check this page from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this Policy. Continued use of our website after updates are posted will be considered as your acceptance of the revised Policy. This Cookie Policy shall be reviewed annually to ensure its continued relevance and effectiveness and shall also be updated at any time in response to changes in applicable laws, regulations, or business practices that necessitate such revisions.