Cookie Policy
How we protect your identity while maintaining free utilities, session state, and policy-compliant advertising.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small alphanumeric text files stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser when you visit a website. They allow websites to remember user preferences, maintain secure login sessions, and understand how visitors interact with the site to optimize performance and usability.
2. How Kagazo Uses Cookies & Local Storage
Kagazo is fundamentally designed on a Zero-Retention, Privacy-First Architecture. We do NOT use cookies to track, inspect, or build personal profiles around your identity documents, Aadhaar records, or exam marks.
We use cookies and browser storage strictly for three purposes:
Required for user authentication, security tokens (CSRF mitigation), and anonymous daily usage counters.
Preserves your selected language preference (English vs. Tamil) and UI settings across page reloads.
Aggregated, anonymous telemetry (Google Analytics 4 & Vercel Analytics) measuring page load times and errors.
3. Google AdSense & Advertising Cookies
To keep our document verification and exam resizer tools 100% free for students and cyber café operators, Kagazo may display contextual advertisements served by Google AdSense and authorized advertising partners.
- Google uses cookies (including the DoubleClick cookie) to serve ads based on prior visits to our website or other sites on the internet.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve personalized or non-personalized ads based on your visit history.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings: google.com/settings/ads.
- Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting aboutads.info.
4. Client-Side In-Memory Guarantee (No Document Cookie Storage)
5. How You Can Manage or Block Cookies
You have the right to accept, reject, or delete cookies at any time through your browser settings:
- Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and Security > Third-party cookies.
- Mozilla Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data.
- Apple Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Block all cookies.
- Microsoft Edge: Settings > Cookies and site permissions.
*Note: Disabling essential cookies may prevent session persistence or language switching, but basic client-side photo resizing will continue to function.
6. Updates & Contact
This policy is reviewed periodically to remain strictly compliant with the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 and international privacy regulations. For any questions regarding our cookie practices: