Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies and Local Storage?

Cookies are small alphanumeric text files placed on your computer, tablet, or smartphone by web servers when you navigate across websites. They allow web platforms to remember your device, maintain authenticated login sessions, track multi-stage procurement RFQs, and understand how users navigate through our directory of 38 industrial commodity sectors.

In addition to HTTP cookies, B2B India may utilize modern browser storage technologies, including localStorage and sessionStorage, to securely store temporary transaction tokens, quotation filters, and APMC mandi rate display preferences without transmitting excess overhead with every server request.

2. Categories of Cookies We Use

We classify the cookies utilized across our digital trade terminal into four primary functional categories:

• Strictly Necessary & Security Cookies: Essential for authenticating buyers and suppliers via Supabase/Firebase Auth, preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), and verifying 10% advance escrow transactions on Razorpay. The platform cannot operate reliably without these technologies.
• Performance & Analytics Cookies: Facilitate measurement of platform metrics, such as page load speed, search query efficiency across 498+ mandi commodities, and user drop-off points. We anonymize IP addresses to uphold institutional procurement confidentiality.
• Functional & Preference Cookies: Retain your chosen platform configurations, including vernacular language selection, state-level freight pincode filters, and collapsed catalog views between visits.
• Transaction & Communication Cookies: Power real-time customer support chat, WhatsApp quotation dispatch confirmation, and automated delivery milestone push alerts.

3. Overview of Cookies Deployed on B2B India

4. Compliance with Indian Digital Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023

In strict adherence to India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 and the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011, B2B India collects only data deemed strictly necessary for commercial trade execution and compliance. We do not sell or lease institutional transaction records or browser telemetry to third-party data brokers.

5. How to Control and Manage Cookies

Most contemporary web browsers permit granular control over cookie permissions through their respective privacy configurations. You may instruct your browser to reject all cookies, purge existing session logs, or notify you each time a website attempts to set a cookie:

• Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and Security → Third-Party Cookies.
• Mozilla Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking Protection.
• Apple Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Block all cookies / Prevent cross-site tracking.
• Microsoft Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies.

Please note that disabling essential cookies may prevent you from logging into your supplier account, accessing RFQ bids, or completing escrow payment transactions.