Your use of IDRC’s website is important to us, and we use cookies to help to enrich your visitor experience. We set out here the information that you need so as to be fully aware of the cookies we use, so enabling you to make an informed choice about your acceptance of them.

What are cookies ?

Cookies are text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when our website is loaded onto your browser. These cookies help us to ensure that the website functions properly, is made more secure, provides a better user experience, and for us to understand how the website is performing, so as to analyse what works well and where improvements may be needed.

How do we use cookies ?

As with most online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are necessary for the website to function efficiently, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data. 

The third-party cookies used on our site are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, to keep our services secure, to provide advertisements that are relevant to you, and generally to provide you with the best possible user experience and to help us to speed up your future interactions with our website.

IDRC cookies

Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket, and checkout securely. 

Statistical: These cookies store information such as the number of visitors to the site, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us to understand and to analyse how well the website performs and whether it needs improvement.

Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. Marketing cookies are used to personalise the advertisements that we show so that they are relevant to you. They also help us to keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns. The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser.

Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website, including embedding content such as videos or sharing content on social media platforms.

Preferences: These cookies help us to store your settings and browsing preferences, such as language preferences, so that you have a better and more efficient experience on future visits to the site.

Below are the details of the cookies used in our website.

Managing cookie preferences

Different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies. You can change the settings of your browser to block or delete. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.