NIMD’s website uses cookies to improve user experience and ensure that it is functioning effectively. This policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use, and your choices regarding cookies.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the site owners.

Types of Cookies We Use

Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website. Necessary cookies are always enabled.

  • wpEmojiSettingsSupports (session) – WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user’s browser can display emojis properly.

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This helps us to improve our site and the services we offer.

  • _ga_* (1 year 1 month 4 days) – orgGoogle Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.
  • _ga (1 year 1 month 4 days) – The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features.

Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.

Advertisement Cookies

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.

  • YSC (session) – YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages.
  • VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE (6 months) – A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface.
  • VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA (6 months) – YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain.

Other Cookies

This category includes cookies that do not fit into the other categories or are still in the process of being classified.

Your Choices Regarding Cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site, and some services and functionalities may not work.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at [email protected].