This Cookie Policy explains how the Indian Forum Awards website uses cookies and similar technologies when you browse the public site, create an account, submit an application, or make a payment.
It should be read with our Privacy Policy.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your browser. They let the website remember a visit, keep you signed in, and protect forms from misuse. Similar technologies, such as local storage used by the applicant portal, can serve the same kind of purpose.
These cookies are required for the website to work. The site does not ask you to switch them off, because sign-in, applications, and payments depend on them.
XSRF-TOKEN cookie helps protect forms and account actions from cross-site requests.Sign-in, registration, and other sensitive forms may use Google reCAPTCHA. Google may set its own cookies or collect technical information to tell genuine visitors from automated abuse. That processing is covered by Google’s policies as well as this one.
Application and package fees are taken through Razorpay. When you pay, Razorpay may use cookies on its own payment pages. Indian Forum Awards does not use those cookies to store your card number, UPI PIN, or banking password. Razorpay’s own privacy notice describes how it handles that information.
We do not sell personal information. We do not use advertising cookies to follow you around other websites. Pages you open, and the browser and device you use, may still be recorded in server logs so we can keep the site secure and fix faults. That is described in the Privacy Policy.
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block essential cookies, sign-in, application forms, and payment may stop working. Blocking third-party cookies can also stop the security check or the payment window from completing.
If the cookies we use change, we will update this page and revise the effective date.
Questions about cookies can be sent to the secretariat:
Indian Forum Awards Secretariat
New Delhi, India – 110001
Phone: +91 11 4000 0000
Email: [email protected]
Last Updated: 2 October 2026