Cookies Policy

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.

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.

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). 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.

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:

Cookie Name	Description	Cookie Category	Domain	Expiry
NSC_WJQ_192.168.75.182	This cookie is required for showing TCS Stock market related information.	First Party - Strictly Necessary	tcs.com	Session
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 users 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	tcs.com	Persistent
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	sites.tcs.com	Session
ApplicationGatewayAffinityCORS	This cookie allow the browser to manage the browsing session and keep it alive for as long as it’s needed.	First Party - Strictly Necessary	tcs.com	Session
ApplicationGatewayAffinity	This cookie allow the browser to manage the browsing session and keep it alive for as long as it’s needed.	First Party - Strictly Necessary	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	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 information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.	First Party - Strictly Necessary	tcs.com	Persistent
__cfduid	This domain is owned by OneTrust, a privacy management software which helps organizations achieve compliance with global regulations.	Third Party - Strictly Necessary	onetrust.com	Persistent
NID	NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information.	Third Party - Strictly Necessary	google.com	Persistent
s_cc	Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, determines whether cookies are enabled in the browser.	First Party - Performance	tcs.com	Session
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	tcs.com	Persistent
s_ppv	Store information about percentage of page displayed.	First Party - Performance	tcs.com	Session
_ga	It is used for visitor tracking. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.	First Party - Performance	tcs.com	Persistent
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	tcs.com	Persistent
s_sq	This cookie contains information about the previous link that was clicked on by the user.	First Party - Performance	tcs.com	Session
_mkto_trk	This cookie is associated with an email marketing service provided by Marketo. This tracking cookie allows a website to link visitor behaviour to the recipient of an email marketing campaign, to measure campaign effectiveness.	First Party - Performance	tcs.com	Persistent
mbox	This cookie uses to give website operators the ability to test which content is more relevant to visitors.	First Party - Performance	tcs.com	Persistent
at_check	A simple test value used to determine if a visitor supports cookies.	First Party - Performance	tcs.com	Session
gpv_pn	Captures the value of an Analytics variable on the next page view.	First Party - Performance	tcs.com	Persistent
_gid	This cookie is used to store “Session ID” and to group the entire session’s activity together for each user.	First Party - Performance	tcs.com	Persistent
_gat	This cookie is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.	First Party - Performance	tcs.com	Session
s_nr	Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, stores date of visit and if visitor is new or returning.	First Party - Performance	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	tcs.com	Persistent
s_ppvl	Store information about percentage of page displayed.	First Party - Performance	tcs.com	Session
spId	This cookie is used to control the splash screen. Splash screen will be shown only once in a browser session.	First Party - Performance	tcs.com	Session
category_id	The purpose of this cookie is to identify the preferrence 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' intrest are shown based on this cookie value.	First Party - Functional	tcs.com	Persistent
UUID	This cookie is used to identify a repeat user on the website.	First Party - Functional	tcs.com	Persistent
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos	Third Party - Functional	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 - Functional	youtube.com	Session
AMCV_35DC284C55D1CEAD7F000101%40AdobeOrg	This is a pattern type cookie name associated with Adobe Marketing Cloud. It stores a unique visitor identifier, and uses an organisation identifier.	First Party - Targeting	tcs.com	Persistent
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	tcs.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 targetng.	Third Party - Targeting	ads.linkedin.com	Session
dpm	Adobe Audience Manager - data management platform uses this cookie to record information around synchronisation of IDs.	Third Party - Targeting	dpm.demdex.net	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	everesttech.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	everesttech.net	Session
ev_sync_dd	Used to link anonymous analytics data into a visitor profile and help provide a personalised experience through the website, marketing and advertising.	Third Party - Targeting	everesttech.net	Persistent
bscookie	Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.	Third Party - Targeting	linkedin.com	Persistent
UserMatchHistory	This cookie is used to track visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented based on the visitor's preferences.	Third Party - Targeting	linkedin.com	Persistent
lidc	This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website.	Third Party - Targeting	linkedin.com	Persistent
bcookie	This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social.	Third Party - Targeting	linkedin.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	linkedin.com	Persistent
lissc	This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.	Third Party - Targeting	linkedin.com	Persistent
lang	This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.	Third Party - Targeting	linkedin.com	Persistent
li_sugr	It is used for advertising purpose.	Third Party - Targeting	linkedin.com	Persistent
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	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	scorecardresearch.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	demdex.net	Persistent

Customise Cookies

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.