Cookie Policy

1. What This Policy Covers

This Cookie Policy explains how 221 B Baker ST ("we", "us" or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on www.twotwo1bbs.com (the "Website"). It expands on the cookies section of our Privacy Policy, which describes the wider picture of how we handle personal information, and should be read together with our Terms & Conditions.

It does not cover the cookies set by other websites you reach through links from ours. Those operate under their own policies.

2. What Cookies Are

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store on your device. When you return, the browser sends the file back, so the site can recognise the session, remember a preference, or count the visit. Cookies cannot read other files on your device or run programs, and they do not carry viruses.

Alongside cookies, websites use a few related technologies that work in a similar way:

• Local and session storage. Browser storage areas that hold small amounts of data for a page or a session.
• Pixels and web beacons. Tiny transparent images or script calls that register that a page or message was opened.
• Software development kits (SDKs). Third-party scripts embedded in a page — such as a social or chat widget — that may set their own cookies.

Where this policy says "cookies", it means all of the above.

First-party and third-party

A first-party cookie is set by the site you are visiting. A third-party cookie is set by another domain whose content is embedded in the page — for example an analytics or social script. Most of the cookies on this Website are third-party ones belonging to the providers listed in section 5.

Session and persistent

A session cookie is deleted when you close the browser. A persistent cookie stays until it expires or you delete it, so the site can recognise a returning visitor.

3. Why We Use Them

• To make the site work. Serving pages correctly and letting our enquiry and career forms be submitted.
• To keep it secure. Distinguishing genuine visitors from bots and blocking automated or fraudulent form submissions.
• To understand what is useful. Counting visits, seeing which pages and industry sections are read, and spotting where people drop off, so we can improve the content.
• To support embedded features. Running the social and chat elements included in the page.

We do not use cookies to build advertising profiles, to serve behavioural ads, or to track you across unrelated websites, and we do not sell or rent the data they generate.

4. Categories of Cookies We Use

5. Cookies Used on This Website

The table below lists the cookies we expect to be set on a typical visit. Providers occasionally rename cookies or adjust their lifetimes, so treat the durations as indicative rather than exact.

Google Fonts and the unpkg content-delivery network also serve assets used by our pages. These deliver fonts and scripts and do not set advertising cookies, though the request itself is visible to those providers.

6. Third-Party Cookies & Scripts

Some of the cookies described above are set by third parties whose scripts we embed. We do not control those cookies, and the providers process the data they collect under their own terms:

• Google — Analytics and reCAPTCHA. See the Google Privacy Policy and how Google uses cookies.
• Meta (Facebook) — social and chat features. See the Meta Cookie Policy.

Because these providers operate globally, the data they collect may be processed outside your country. Our Privacy Policy explains the safeguards we apply to international transfers.

7. Your Consent & Choices

Strictly necessary cookies are set because the Website cannot work without them, and no consent is required for them. For analytics and functional cookies, where the law applicable to you requires consent — such as the ePrivacy rules and GDPR in the EU/UK, or India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 — we rely on the choice you express through your browser settings and the opt-out mechanisms described below.

You can change your mind at any time by clearing the cookies already stored, adjusting your browser settings, or using the provider opt-outs in section 9. Withdrawing consent does not affect anything collected before you withdrew it.

8. Managing Cookies in Your Browser

Every major browser lets you see which cookies are stored, delete them individually or in bulk, and block them by default or per site. Private or incognito windows discard cookies when the window closes.

• Google Chrome — Clear, allow and manage cookies
• Apple Safari — Manage cookies and website data
• Mozilla Firefox — Clear cookies and site data
• Microsoft Edge — Delete cookies in Edge

On a mobile device, the equivalent controls sit in the browser app's settings, or under the privacy settings of the operating system.

9. Opting Out of Analytics & Social Tracking

• Google Analytics. Install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to stop your visits being measured on any site using Analytics.
• Meta. Adjust the ad and off-Facebook activity settings in your Facebook or Instagram account, or block third-party cookies for facebook.com in your browser.
• Tracker blocking. Most modern browsers include built-in tracking protection, and reputable privacy extensions can block analytics and social scripts before they load.

10. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers send a "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal. Because no common industry standard for interpreting DNT has been agreed, our Website does not currently respond to it. The browser controls and provider opt-outs described above remain the effective way to limit tracking. Where a recognised standard emerges, we will update this policy.

11. If You Disable Cookies

You are free to block or delete any cookie. Be aware that:

• Blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent the enquiry and career forms from being submitted, because the anti-spam check will not complete.
• Blocking functional cookies disables the embedded social and chat features.
• Blocking analytics cookies has no effect on how the site works for you — we simply stop counting the visit.
• Deleting cookies resets any preference you have expressed, so a choice made earlier will need to be made again.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy when we add or remove a tool, or when the law changes. The current version is always the one on this page, with the "Last updated" date shown above. Where a change materially affects how you are tracked, we will take reasonable steps to bring it to your attention. Please review this page periodically.

13. How to Contact Us

For any question about this Cookie Policy, or to exercise your rights over the data these cookies generate, our Grievance Officer can be reached at:

• Email: cyan@twotwo1bbs.com
• Phone: +91 99032 10221 / +91 90510 71810
• Post: 221 B Baker ST, WEBEL TOWER-I, Module No. 204, BN Block, Sector V, Bidhannagar, Kolkata, West Bengal 700091, India

"You see, but you do not observe." We would rather you saw exactly what we observe — and switched it off if you wish. — 221 B Baker ST