1. Business Information

Website and Brand Name: Mastiwala.in
Business Name: BigVed Company
Website: www.mastiwala.in

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies help websites remember certain information about your visit, such as:

– Login status
– Shopping-cart contents
– Website preferences
– Selected language
– Session information
– Cookie choices
– Website usage and performance information

Some cookies are necessary for the website to function, while others are used for optional purposes such as analytics, advertising, and personalisation.

3. Similar Technologies

In addition to cookies, Mastiwala.in or its authorised service providers may use similar technologies, including:

– Pixels
– Tags
– Web beacons
– Local storage
– Session storage
– Software development tools
– Device identifiers
– Tracking links
– Analytics scripts

For the purposes of this Cookie Policy, references to “cookies” also include these similar technologies where appropriate.

4. Why We Use Cookies

Mastiwala.in may use cookies for purposes including:

– Operating the website
– Maintaining website security
– Keeping products in the shopping cart
– Processing checkout
– Remembering login sessions
– Remembering customer preferences
– Preventing fraud and misuse
– Understanding website performance
– Identifying technical errors
– Measuring website traffic
– Measuring advertising performance
– Improving products, pages, and customer experience
– Remembering cookie-consent choices

We will not use cookies for an unlawful purpose.

5. Types of Cookies We May Use

5.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are required for the basic operation, security, and functionality of Mastiwala.in.

These cookies may be used for:

– Shopping-cart functionality
– Checkout and payment processing
– Customer login sessions
– Website security
– Fraud prevention
– Server load management
– Saving privacy or cookie preferences
– Remembering products during the shopping session
– Protecting forms and website functions

Without these cookies, important parts of Mastiwala.in may not work correctly.

Strictly necessary cookies are not used solely for advertising purposes.

5.2 Functional Cookies

Functional cookies help Mastiwala.in remember choices and provide improved website features.

These cookies may remember:

– Preferred language
– Delivery location or PIN code
– Previously selected product options
– Account preferences
– Recently viewed products
– Display preferences

If functional cookies are disabled, some optional website features may not work as expected.

5.3 Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use Mastiwala.in.

These cookies may collect information such as:

– Pages visited
– Time spent on the website
– Navigation between pages
– Referring website or advertisement
– Browser and device type
– Approximate location based on IP address
– Website errors
– Checkout or page-performance information
– General interaction with website features

We may use this information to improve:

– Website design
– Page-loading speed
– Product pages
– Checkout experience
– Navigation
– Customer experience
– Technical performance

Analytics Services Used: Google Analytics

Only list services that are actually installed and active on Mastiwala.in.

5.4 Advertising and Marketing Cookies

Where enabled and permitted, advertising cookies may be used to:

– Measure advertising performance
– Determine whether an advertisement resulted in a website visit
– Determine whether an advertisement resulted in an order
– Create or manage website visitor audiences
– Limit repeated advertisements
– Understand the general effectiveness of advertising campaigns
– Display advertisements that may be more relevant to visitors

Advertising Services Used: Meta Pixel / Google Ads / Other Service

Advertising providers may receive technical and activity-related information according to their own privacy policies and terms.

Mastiwala.in does not guarantee that advertisements shown by independent platforms will always be relevant to a particular user.

5.5 Payment and Checkout Cookies

Payment gateways, banks, UPI providers, fraud-prevention services, and checkout tools may place or use cookies necessary to:

– Process a transaction
– Verify payment status
– Prevent payment fraud
– Maintain checkout security
– Authenticate the payment session
– Complete an order

These cookies may be controlled by the relevant payment provider.

Payment Gateway Used: Paytm Payment Gateway 

Customers should review the payment provider’s privacy and cookie information where available.

5.6 WooCommerce and WordPress Cookies

Mastiwala.in may use WordPress and WooCommerce cookies to support:

– Shopping-cart contents
– Checkout sessions
– Customer accounts
– Login status
– Recently viewed products
– Website administration
– Security and session management

The exact cookies used may vary according to the plugins, theme, payment gateway, security tools, and website features enabled from time to time.

6. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are placed directly by Mastiwala.in or through the systems used to operate the website.

They may support:

– Cart and checkout
– Login sessions
– Security
– Preferences
– Website performance

Third-Party Cookies

Third-party cookies may be placed by independent service providers whose technologies are used on Mastiwala.in.

These providers may include:

– Payment gateways
– Analytics providers
– Advertising platforms
– Video or media providers
– Website-security providers
– Customer-support tools
– Social-media platforms
– Courier or tracking tools

Third-party providers process information according to their own terms and privacy policies.

BigVed Company does not control every cookie placed directly by an independent third-party service.

7. Cookie Consent

Where consent is required or considered appropriate, Mastiwala.in may display a cookie banner or cookie-settings tool.

The tool may allow visitors to:

– Accept all optional cookies
– Reject optional cookies
– Select particular cookie categories
– Save cookie preferences
– Change preferences later

Strictly necessary cookies may remain active because they are required for core website functions, security, checkout, or the recording of privacy choices.

Optional analytics, advertising, or personalisation cookies will be managed according to the choices made through the available cookie settings and applicable law.

A visitor’s refusal of optional cookies will not prevent access to the basic website, although certain optional features may work differently.

8. Clear Choice and No Forced Consent

Where a cookie choice is provided:

– Optional consent should not be treated as granted merely because a visitor browses the website
– Optional categories should not be presented in a misleading manner
– The visitor should be given a reasonable way to reject optional cookies
– Consent choices should be recorded where technically supported
– Withdrawing or changing a choice should be reasonably accessible

The purchase of a product should not ordinarily depend on accepting advertising cookies that are not necessary to process the order.

9. How to Change Cookie Preferences

Where available, visitors may change their cookie preferences by selecting:

Cookie Settings

The Cookie Settings option may be displayed in:

– The cookie banner
– The website footer
– The Privacy Policy
– This Cookie Policy
– Another clearly accessible website location

Changing preferences may not automatically remove cookies already stored on a device.

Visitors may also delete stored cookies through their browser or device settings.

10. Browser Cookie Controls

Most web browsers allow users to:

– View stored cookies
– Delete cookies
– Block all cookies
– Block third-party cookies
– Block cookies from particular websites
– Receive a warning before a cookie is placed
– Clear browsing data after closing the browser

The steps differ between browsers and devices.

Blocking all cookies may affect:

– Login
– Cart functionality
– Checkout
– Saved preferences
– Payment processing
– Other important website features

Customers should ensure that essential website and payment functions remain available before completing an order.

11. Cookies and Personal Information

Some cookie data may be anonymous or aggregated.

Other cookie information may be connected with personal information, including:

– IP address
– Device identifier
– Customer account
– Order activity
– Website session
– Advertising identifier
– Browser information
– Interaction history

Where cookie data identifies or can reasonably be linked with an individual, it will be handled according to our Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection requirements.

12. Advertising Measurement

Where advertising tools are active, Mastiwala.in may use them to understand whether an advertising campaign resulted in:

– A website visit
– A product-page view
– An addition to the shopping cart
– Beginning checkout
– A completed order
– Another defined website action

Advertising platforms may use cookies, pixels, or identifiers to perform this measurement.

We do not authorise advertising providers to collect confidential payment credentials through our advertising cookies.

13. Sensitive Nature of the Website

Mastiwala.in offers adult personal wellness products.

Because visits to the website may reveal an interest in personal wellness products, we aim to use advertising and analytics technologies responsibly.

We do not intentionally provide payment PINs, banking passwords, OTPs, complete card credentials, private customer-support messages, or the contents of customer emails to advertising platforms.

Where advertising or analytics tools are used, only information reasonably required for the stated purpose should be processed.

14. Data Minimisation

We aim to limit cookie-related collection to information reasonably necessary for:

– Website functionality
– Security
– Customer preferences
– Performance measurement
– Advertising measurement where enabled
– Legitimate business and legal requirements

We do not intentionally use cookies to collect information unrelated to the stated website purpose.

15. Cookie Duration

Cookies may remain on a device for different periods.

Session Cookies

Session cookies generally expire when the browser is closed or the website session ends.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies may remain on the device for a defined period or until deleted by the user.

Cookie duration may depend on:

– The purpose of the cookie
– Website configuration
– WordPress or WooCommerce settings
– Payment gateway settings
– Analytics-provider settings
– Advertising-platform settings
– Security requirements

We aim to avoid retaining cookie-related information longer than reasonably necessary for its stated purpose or as required by law.

16. Cookie List

The exact list of cookies may change when website tools, plugins, or providers are updated.

Where technically available, detailed cookie information may be displayed through the Cookie Settings tool, including:

– Cookie name
– Provider
– Purpose
– Category
– Duration

Mastiwala.in may periodically review its website tools to identify active cookies.

17. Services That May Place Cookies

Depending on the tools actually installed, cookies may be placed by services such as:

– WordPress
– WooCommerce
– [Enter Payment Gateway]
– Google Analytics
– Google Ads
– Meta Pixel
– Microsoft Clarity
– Website hosting provider
– Website-security plugin
– Courier tracking service
– Email or customer-support service

Remove any service from this list that is not used on Mastiwala.in.

Add any active service not currently listed.

18. Social-Media Features

Mastiwala.in may contain social-media links, buttons, embedded content, or pixels.

A social-media provider may recognise a visitor or receive technical information when:

– The visitor selects a social-media link
– Embedded social-media content loads
– The visitor is logged in to the relevant platform
– An advertising pixel is active
– The visitor interacts with a social-media feature

Such processing is controlled partly or entirely by the relevant social-media provider.

Visitors should review the provider’s privacy and cookie policies.

19. Embedded Content

Pages on Mastiwala.in may include embedded content such as:

– Videos
– Maps
– Payment interfaces
– Courier-tracking tools
– Social-media content
– Other third-party features

Embedded content may behave as though the visitor accessed the third-party website directly.

The third party may collect information, use cookies, or track interaction according to its own terms and policies.

20. Security Cookies

Security-related cookies or technologies may be used to:

– Detect suspicious activity
– Prevent automated abuse
– Protect customer accounts
– Prevent fraudulent transactions
– Protect checkout and payment sessions
– Identify repeated failed login attempts
– Maintain website integrity

Security cookies may be necessary for the protection of customers and Mastiwala.in.

21. Children and Minors

Mastiwala.in is intended exclusively for individuals who are 18 years of age or older.

We do not knowingly use cookies to create advertising profiles for minors through Mastiwala.in.

Where we reasonably believe that a user is under 18, access or order activity may be restricted in accordance with our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.

22. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers provide a “Do Not Track” setting.

There is no guarantee that every website tool, advertising platform, analytics provider, or browser interprets such signals in the same way.

Visitors should use the Cookie Settings tool and browser controls to manage cookies where available.

23. International Processing

Some analytics, advertising, hosting, payment, security, or technology providers may process cookie-related information using systems located outside India.

Any such processing will be subject to:

– Applicable Indian law
– The relevant provider’s privacy policy
– Contractual or technical safeguards where applicable
– Any government restriction that applies to cross-border personal-data processing

24. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Subject to applicable law, users may be able to:

– Refuse optional cookies
– Withdraw optional cookie consent
– Change cookie preferences
– Delete cookies through browser settings
– Request information about eligible personal data
– Request correction or erasure of eligible personal data
– Raise a privacy grievance

Privacy-related requests will be handled according to our Privacy Policy.

25. Privacy Contact

For questions about cookies or personal information, contact:

Email: mastiwalamart@gmail.com

The request should include:

– Full name
– Registered email address, where applicable
– Details of the cookie or privacy concern
– Browser or device information, where relevant
– Screenshot or supporting information, where available

Do not send your UPI PIN, card PIN, banking password, OTP, or other confidential payment credentials.

26. Updates to This Cookie Policy

BigVed Company may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in:

– Website functionality
– WordPress or WooCommerce settings
– Plugins and tools
– Payment providers
– Advertising services
– Analytics services
– Data-protection requirements
– Business operations

Any revised Cookie Policy will be published on Mastiwala.in with an updated “Last Updated” date.

Visitors are encouraged to review this page periodically.

27. Relationship with Other Policies

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our:

– Privacy Policy
– Terms and Conditions
– Payment Policy
– Shipping and Delivery Policy
– Return and Refund Policy
– Cancellation Policy
– Contact Us page

If there is a conflict concerning the handling of personal information, the Privacy Policy and applicable law will apply.

28. Contact Information

For cookie-related enquiries, contact:

Website: www.mastiwala.in
Website and Brand Name: Mastiwala.in
Business Name: BigVed Company

Customer Support Email: mastiwalamart@gmail.com

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