🍪 Your Privacy & Cookie Controls
We value your transparency. We only use cookies that are strictly necessary to authenticate your sessions, secure forms against CSRF attacks, and enhance your portal navigation. You have complete control to review or modify your cookie consent settings below at any time.
Your Cookie Preferences
🔒 Strictly Necessary Cookies Always Active
Required for core functionality, login authentication, and CSRF security tokens. The platform cannot function without these.
⚙️ Functional & Preference Cookies
Stores your UI preferences, search filter toggles, and modal states for a frictionless browsing experience.
📊 Analytics & Performance Cookies
Anonymized telemetry to measure aggregate traffic patterns, discover slow pages, and improve platform performance.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small alphanumeric text files stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) by your web browser when you visit websites. They allow web applications to maintain session continuity, remember your logged-in state, protect against unauthorized cross-site requests, and customize interface views.
2. Schedule of Cookies We Use
| Cookie Name | Category | Provider | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| portal_session | Strictly Necessary | PortalForInterns | 2 Hours (Session) | Maintains your authenticated student or company user session |
| XSRF-TOKEN | Strictly Necessary | PortalForInterns | 2 Hours (Session) | Protects application forms against Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks |
| pfi_cookie_consent | Functional | PortalForInterns | 365 Days | Stores your accepted cookie and tracking preferences in local storage |
| rzp_checkout | Payment Gateway | Razorpay PA | Session | Secures checkout modal communication and fraud detection during upgrades |
3. How to Manage Cookies in Your Browser
Most web browsers allow you to block, manage, or delete cookies through browser settings. Here is how to access settings in popular browsers:
- Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies.
- Mozilla Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data.
- Apple Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data.
- Microsoft Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies.