What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information stored in a browser when a website is visited. They can support website sessions, security and other essential functions.
Cookies Used by Sacred Vastu
Sacred Vastu uses first-party session cookies for session management and website security. These cookies are not used for advertising, personalised advertising or cross-site tracking.
| Cookie |
Duration |
Purpose |
PHPSESSID (the PHP session cookie, unless the server is configured to use another name) |
Browser session. Under PHP's default cookie lifetime, it normally expires when the browser session ends; server configuration may override the default. |
Maintains the server-side session used for website operation and session-based security functions. |
sv_bot_guard |
Browser session. It is set with an expiry of 0, so it normally expires when the browser session ends. |
Contains a randomly generated, session-bound security token used by website security controls to validate requests and help prevent misuse. |
sv_consent_accepted (Browser localStorage & 30-Day Cookie)
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Persistent tracking up to 30 days via standard browser cookies, or held persistently inside local storage until local browsing cache files are cleared manually by the user.
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Strictly Necessary. Remembers that the visitor has clicked the "ACCEPT" consent button so the welcome onboarding notification dialogue and loading curtain are not repeatedly displayed on page re-routing or refresh.
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These cookies do not store the visitor's IP address. The website may process IP addresses separately for server-side security purposes, as described in the Privacy Policy.
Session cookies do not have a fixed number of minutes, hours or days configured as their lifetime. They normally expire when the browser session ends, although browser session-restoration features may preserve session cookies after a restart.
Website Analytics
Sacred Vastu uses Umami to understand general website usage and improve the website. Umami's standard tracking script operates without cookies.
Sacred Vastu does not use Google Analytics cookies or advertising cookies in the intended website configuration.
Managing Cookies
Visitors can manage or delete cookies through their browser settings. Blocking or deleting these session cookies may affect session-dependent website functions and security checks.
Other browser storage and website diagnostic information are described in the Privacy Policy.
Changes to this Policy
This Cookie Policy may be updated when the website's cookie implementation changes. The current version will be published on this page with its effective date.
