Cookie Policy

1Cookies and how we use them

This Cookie Policy explains how Circin ("we", "us") uses cookies and similar technologies on the website circin.ai (the "Website"). It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which describes how we handle personal data across the Circin platform, including the mobile applications used by schools, teachers, students, parents and drivers. This policy covers the Website only.

A cookie is a small text file that a website places on the device you use to browse the internet, and that the same website can read back on later requests. We use the word "cookie" in this policy to also cover similar technologies that store or read information on your device — browser localStorage, IndexedDB, and comparable storage — because the law treats them the same way.

In short: this Website uses only required cookies — the ones it needs to work and to keep you safe. It does not use analytics, personalisation or advertising cookies, and no third party sets a cookie on this Website. Because nothing optional is stored, we show you a short notice rather than asking for consent; the sections below explain the details and what would change if that ever differs.

2Your cookie choices

• The cookie notice. On your first visit we show a notice at the bottom of the page. Choosing OK records that you have seen it. If we ever introduce optional cookies, the same notice will instead offer Accept all, Reject optional and Manage settings, with every optional category switched off until you turn it on, and rejecting will be as easy as accepting. You will be asked again if this policy changes materially.
• Cookie settings. You can review or change your choices at any time from the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page.
• Global Privacy Control (GPC). If your browser sends the GPC signal, we treat it as a refusal of every optional category: the banner still tells you that we use required cookies, but optional cookies are kept off, cannot be switched on, and no "Accept all" is offered while the signal is present — even if you accepted them on an earlier visit.
• Your browser. You can set your browser to block or delete cookies, or to warn you before a cookie is stored: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge. Blocking the required cookies listed below will stop parts of the Website — such as signing in or sending the contact form — from working.

3Types of cookies we use

Required cookies (always on)

Needed for the website to work: keeping you signed in, protecting forms against forgery, remembering that you have seen this notice, and running the human check on the contact form. They cannot be switched off.

Categories we do not use

• Personalisation: Remembers choices that go beyond what the site needs to function. Not used on this Website.
• Analytics: Measures how visitors use the website (pages visited, time on page) so we can improve it. Off until you switch it on. Not used on this Website.
• Advertising: Builds a profile of your interests to show you advertising elsewhere. We do not sell or share personal data for advertising. Not used on this Website.

4Third-party services your browser contacts

Some parts of the Website are delivered by other companies' servers. When your browser fetches them, that company receives your IP address and basic browser details, as any web server does. None of these services sets a cookie on this Website; each processes the request under its own privacy policy, linked below. These providers operate servers outside India and the European Economic Area, so your IP address may be processed in other countries; each provider publishes the safeguards it applies to such transfers in the policy linked.

5How long cookies stay

Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies stay for the period shown in the tables above, or until you delete them.

The cookie that remembers that you have seen the notice lasts 12 months. After that, or sooner if this policy changes materially, you will be shown the notice again.

6The legal basis for what we do

• The required cookies above are strictly necessary to provide the Website you asked for and to keep it secure. Laws that govern storage on your device — including Article 5(3) of the EU ePrivacy Directive and Regulation 6 of the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations — exempt such cookies from the consent requirement. Where personal data is involved, we rely on our legitimate interest in operating a secure website (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)) and, for signing in, on providing the service you requested (Article 6(1)(b)).
• The third-party requests described in section 4 are made to deliver the Website (fonts, scripts, sign-in, the bot check on the contact form). For the delivery services we rely on our legitimate interest in running a fast, secure website (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)); for sign-in and the contact form we rely on providing the service you asked for (Article 6(1)(b)). Where a provider processes data outside your country, section 4 and the provider's own policy describe the transfer and its safeguards (GDPR Article 13(1)(f)).
• For visitors in India, this processing falls within the legitimate uses recognised by the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (section 7), and this page serves as the notice described in section 5 of that Act.
• If we ever introduce optional cookies, we will not set them before you have given consent through the banner described in section 2, and you will be able to withdraw that consent as easily as you gave it.

7Changes to this policy

We update this policy when the cookies we use change. The version and "last modified" date at the top tell you which edition you are reading; a material change re-triggers the notice so you see it on your next visit.