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Tata Consultancy Services Limited uses cookies (small text files placed on your device) and similar technologies to provide our websites and to help collect data. The text in a cookie often consists of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely identifies your computer, but it can contain other information as well.
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Our Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies.
Tata Consultancy Services uses cookies and similar technologies for several purposes, which may include:
Storing your Preferences and Settings. Settings that enable our website to operate correctly or that maintain your preferences over time may be stored on your device.
Sign-in and Authentication. When you sign into our website using your credentials, we store a unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your device. This cookie allows you to move from page to page within the site without having to sign in again on each page. You can also save your sign-in information so you do not have to sign in each time you return to the site.
- Security. We use cookies to detect fraud and abuse of our websites and services.
Does Tata Consultancy Services use cookies for analytics?
When we send you a targeted email, subject to your preferences, which includes web beacons, cookies or similar technologies we will know whether you open, read, or delete the message.
When you allow the Performance Cookies to be dropped on your browser, we can associate cookie information with an identifiable individual. For example:
When you click a link in a marketing e-mail you receive from us or fill up a form on our website, we will also use a cookie to log what pages you view and what content you download from our websites.
Combining and analyzing personal data – We may combine data collected from performance cookies dropped on your browser. We use this information to improve and personalize your experience with our websites, provide you with content that you may be interested in, create marketing insights, and to improve our business and services.
In addition to the cookies Tata Consultancy Services sets when you visit our websites, third parties may also set cookies when you visit Tata Consultancy Services' sites. In some cases, that is because we have hired the third party to provide services on our behalf. We use cookies from Google reCAPTCHA to prevent abuse of the website and enhance its security (read Google’s privacy policy and reCAPTCHA (google.com) for further information). Our website also uses the LinkedIn Insight Tag & Conversion Pixel for website tracking and analytics. It gives us additional insights to retarget website visitors with contextual messaging. It collects data regarding members’ visits to our website, including the URL, referrer, IP address, device and browser characteristics (User Agent), and timestamp. This enables us to understand more about members interaction with our ads and how they engage with our website to take desirable actions like signing up for a newsletter or making a purchase. This feature will be enabled only if you allow the Targeting Cookies from LinkedIn to be dropped on your browser. For more details on this feature read LinkedIn’s Cookie Policy. Tata Consultancy Services sets cookies that are technical and necessary for the function of the website, for example, that allow you to browse the website and use the different options included in this for the management of the website and enable its functions and services, such as controlling data traffic and communication, identifying the session, managing payment, controlling any fraud linked to service security, completing event sign up or participation requests, counting visits for the purposes of invoicing the licenses for the software which allow the service to operate (website, platform or application), using safety elements during browsing, storing contents for video or audio broadcasting, enabling dynamic contents (for example, loading animation for a text or image) or share contents in social media.
Cookie Details
Some of the cookies we commonly use are listed below. This list is not exhaustive, but it is intended to illustrate the main reasons we typically set cookies. If you visit one of our websites, the site may set some or all of the following cookies:
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Name |
Description |
Cookie Category |
Domain |
Expiry |
OptanonConsent |
This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the user's browser when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. |
First Party - Strictly Necessary Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
NSC_WJQ_192.168.75.182 |
This cookie is required for showing TCS Stock market related information |
First Party - Strictly Necessary Cookies |
tcs.com |
SESSION |
PHPSESSID |
This cookie is generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general-purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages. |
First Party - Strictly Necessary Cookies |
sites.tcs.com |
SESSION |
JSESSIONID |
General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. |
First Party - Strictly Necessary Cookies |
tcs.com |
SESSION |
OptanonAlertBoxClosed |
This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie Banner and, in some cases, only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the Banner message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one-year lifespan and contains no personal information |
First Party - Strictly Necessary Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
ApplicationGatewayAffinityCORS |
This cookie allows the browser to manage the browsing session and keep it alive for as long as it is needed. |
First Party - Strictly Necessary Cookies |
tcs.com |
SESSION |
__cfduid |
This domain is owned by OneTrust, a privacy management software which helps organizations achieve compliance with global regulations. |
Third Party - Strictly Necessary Cookies |
onetrust.com |
PERSISTENT |
ApplicationGatewayAffinity |
This cookie allows the browser to manage the browsing session and keep it alive for as long as it is needed. |
First Party - Strictly Necessary Cookies |
tcs.com |
SESSION |
_grecaptcha |
This cookie is set by Google as part of the reCAPTCHA functionality to provide spam protection and verify whether the data entry on our website is done by a human being or by an automated program. |
Third Party - Strictly Necessary Cookies |
Google.com |
PERSISTENT |
AWSALBCORS |
AWS Application Load Balancer cookie for rendering media via Adobe Dynamic Media / Scene7 Services. |
Third Party - Strictly Necessary Cookies |
s7ap1.scene7.com |
PERSISTENT |
ak_bmsc |
This cookie is used by Akamai to optimize site security by distinguishing between humans and bots. |
Third Party - Strictly Necessary Cookies |
akamai.com |
PERSISTENT |
bm_sv |
This cookie is necessary for the Akamai cache function. A cache is used by the website to optimize the response time between the visitor and the website. |
Third Party - Strictly Necessary Cookies |
akamai.com |
PERSISTENT |
| NID | This cookie is essential for viewing YouTube embedded videos on the website. It is used to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language, how many results you prefer to have shown on a search results page (for example, 10 or 20), and whether you want to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. | Strictly Necessary Cookies | google.com | PERSISTENT |
Performance Cookies
Name |
Description |
Cookie Category |
Domain |
Expiry |
at_check |
A simple test value used to determine if a visitor supports cookies |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
SESSION |
sc_dslv |
Determines the number of days since a user last visited your site and captures this information in an Analytics variable. |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
mbox |
This cookie is used to give website operators the ability to test which content is more relevant to visitors. |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
s_sq |
This cookie contains information about the previous link that was clicked on by the user. |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
SESSION |
s_ppvl |
Store information about percentage of page displayed |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
SESSION |
s_ppv |
Store information about percentage of page displayed. |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
SESSION |
_mkto_trk |
This cookie is associated with an email marketing service provided by Marketo. This tracking cookie is encrypted and stored to allow a website to link visitor behavior to the recipient of an email marketing campaign, to measure campaign effectiveness. |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
sc_dslv_s |
Determines the number of days since a user last visited your site and captures this information in an Analytics variable. |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
s_cc |
Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, determines whether cookies are enabled in the browser |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
SESSION |
gpv_pn |
Captures the value of an Analytics variable on the next page view. |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
s_nr |
Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, stores date of visit and if visitor is new or returning. |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
s_fid |
Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, used to identify unique visitors. |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
s_ecid |
The purpose of this cookie is to allow persistent ID tracking in the 1st-party state and is used as a reference ID if the AMCV cookie has expired |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
s_vi |
Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, used to identify unique visitors, with an ID and timestamp. |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
BiGipServerPool |
This is an encrypted session cookie that is used to do load balancing in the Marketo network |
Third Party - Performance Cookies |
744-fui-742.mktoresp.com |
SESSION |
s_plt |
Tracks the time that the previous page took to load |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
SESSION |
s_pltp |
Provides page name value (URL) for use by Adobe Analytics |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
SESSION |
s_tp |
Tracks percent of page viewed |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
SESSION |
s_ips |
Tracks percent of page viewed |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
SESSION |
s_nr30 |
Every time a visitor visits the website, it drops the time stamp of the visit and Next time, the plugin calculates the New and Repeat customer based on the old timestamp present in the same cookie and new time stamp gets updated in the consecutive visits. |
First Party - Performance Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
tuuid_lu |
This tracks the date when the TUUID was last updated. |
Third Party - Performance Cookies |
company-target.com |
PERSISTENT |
tuuid |
This cookie is used for analytics and advertising services provided by Demandbase products. |
Third Party - Performance Cookies |
company-target.com |
PERSISTENT |
Functional cookies
Name |
Description |
Category |
Domain |
Expiry |
category_id |
The purpose of this cookie is to identify the preference of the user. Based on the previous 3-page navigation done by the user, AI will predict in which cluster the user belongs to. And this cluster information is stored as a cookie. Cards as per the users' interest are shown based on this cookie value. |
First Party - Functional Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
UUID |
This cookie is used to identify a repeat user on the website |
First Party - Functional Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
Targeting cookies
Name |
Description |
Cookie Category |
Domain |
Expiry |
bscookie |
Used for remembering that a logged in user is verified by two factor authentication.
|
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
linkedin.com |
PERSISTENT |
everest_g_v2 |
This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
everesttech.net |
|
AMCVS_35DC284C55D1CEAD7F000101%40AdobeOrg |
This is a pattern type cookie name associated with Adobe Marketing Cloud. It stores a unique visitor identifier and uses an organization identifier. |
First Party - Targeting Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
demdex |
This cookie helps Adobe Audience Manger perform basic functions such as visitor identification, ID synchronization, segmentation, modeling, reporting, etc. |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
demdex.net |
PERSISTENT |
everest_session_v2 |
This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
everesttech.net |
SESSION |
dpm |
Adobe Audience Manager - data management platform uses this cookie to record information around synchronization of IDs. |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
dpm.demdex.net |
PERSISTENT |
ev_sync_dd |
Used to link anonymous analytics data into a visitor profile and help provide a personalized experience through the website, marketing and advertising. |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
everesttech.net |
PERSISTENT |
lidc |
This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website. |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
linkedin.com |
PERSISTENT |
lang |
This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. This sub-domain is connected with LinkedIn's marketing services that enable website owners to gain insight into types of users on their site based on LinkedIn profile data, to improve targeting. |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
ads.linkedin.com |
SESSION |
UserMatchHistory |
LinkedIn Ads ID syncing |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
linkedin.com |
PERSISTENT |
bcookie |
Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
linkedin.com |
PERSISTENT |
AMCV_35DC284C55D1CEAD7F000101%40AdobeOrg |
This is a pattern type cookie name associated with Adobe Marketing Cloud. It stores a unique visitor identifier and uses an organization identifier. |
First Party - Targeting Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
li_sugr |
Used to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity outside the Designated Countries |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
linkedin.com |
PERSISTENT |
lang |
Used to remember a user's language setting to ensure LinkedIn.com displays in the language selected by the user in their settings. |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
linkedin.com |
SESSION |
UIDR |
This domain is owned by ScorecardResearch (comScore). The main business activity is Advertising. The cookies in this domain have lifespans of 2 years. |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
scorecardresearch.com |
PERSISTENT |
UID |
This domain is owned by ScorecardResearch (comScore). The main business activity is Advertising. The cookies in this domain have lifespans of 2 years. |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
scorecardresearch.com |
PERSISTENT |
AnalyticsSyncHistory |
Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
linkedin.com |
PERSISTENT |
lms_ads |
Used to identify LinkedIn Members off LinkedIn in the Designated Countries for advertising |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
.linkedin.com |
PERSISTENT |
lms_analytics |
Used to identify LinkedIn Members in the Designated Countries for analytics |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
.linkedin.com |
PERSISTENT |
li_fat_id |
Member indirect identifier for Members for conversion tracking, retargeting, analytics |
First Party - Targeting Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
_guid |
Used to identify a LinkedIn Member for advertising through Google Ads |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
.linkedin.com |
PERSISTENT |
BizographicsOptOut |
Determine opt-out status for 3rd party tracking |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
.linkedin.com |
PERSISTENT |
li_giant |
Indirect identifier for groups of LinkedIn Members used for conversion tracking |
First Party - Targeting Cookies |
tcs.com |
PERSISTENT |
li_oatml |
Used to identify LinkedIn Members off LinkedIn for advertising and analytics outside the Designated Countries and, for a limited time, advertising in the Designated Countries |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
.linkedin.com |
PERSISTENT |
li_gc |
Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
.linkedin.com |
PERSISTENT |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos. |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
youtube.com |
PERSISTENT |
YSC |
YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
youtube.com |
SESSION |
ln_or |
Used to determine if Oribi analytics can be carried out on a specific domain |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
linkedin.com |
PERSISTENT |
XB |
Response header information and usage statistics for XB yahoo.co.jp x-a-cookie. |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
.yahoo.co.jp |
PERSISTENT |
XA |
Response header information and usage statistics for yahoo.com x-a-cookie |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
.yahoo.co.jp |
PERSISTENT |
IDE |
These cookies set by a third party (DoubleClick) and are used for serving targeted advertisements that are relevant to user across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to user based on your previous visits to this website. |
Third Party - Targeting Cookies |
.doubleclick.net |
PERSISTENT |
Customise Cookies
We may periodically update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in our practices. If needed, in such situations we will prompt you to revisit your cookie settings and submit your preferences again.
How to Control Cookies Manually
You can set your browser:
• To allow all cookies
• To allow only 'trusted' sites to send them
• To accept only those cookies from websites you are currently using.
We recommend not to block all cookies because TCS.com website uses them to work properly.
Please read below points to find out how to manage cookies in the major browsers.
Google Chrome:
Click on the “Menu” tab in the upper-right corner and then click on “Settings”.
To block cookies:
Settings → Click on “Advanced” to expand → Under Privacy and Security, Click on “Content Settings” → Click on “Cookies” → To block cookies, Click on toggle button next to this line “Allow sites to save and read cookie data (recommended)“ → This will block the cookies.
To check cookies:
Settings → Click on “Advanced” to expand → Under Privacy and Security → Click on “Content Settings” → Click on “Cookies” → See all cookies and site data → Click on the website and check the cookies used in that particular site.
Mozilla Firefox:
Click on the Menu tab in the upper-right corner → Click on Options → In the left side navigation, Click on Privacy and Security → Under History, Select “Use Custom setting for history” from the Drop down → Click on Show Cookies Buttons → Select the file which you want to remove and then click on remove selected button.
Internet Explorer:
Open Internet Explorer → Click on Tools menu in the upper-right corner → Click on Internet Options → This will open a window with many tab → Click on Privacy tab → Under Settings, move the slider to the top to block all cookies or to the bottom to allow all cookies → Then click Apply.
Open Internet Explorer → Click on Tools menu in the upper-right corner → Click on Internet Options → This will open a window with many tabs → Click on Privacy tab → Click on Sites button → Enter site name and then click Allow or Block button → If user clicks block button, that website is not allowed to use cookies in IE → Then click Apply.
Safari:
Open Safari → Click on Preferences from Safari menu → Go to Privacy tab → Click on “Remove all Website data” to remove all the stored data → Click Remove now button from the pop-up → Click on Details button under “Remove all Website data” → Select the sites you want to remove the data → Click Remove → Click Done.
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
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