Introduction
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MakeMyTrip (India) Private Limited and
its subsidiaries / affiliates (“MMT”
or
“we”) are committed to protecting the
privacy of your personally identifiable
information. We advise you to read this Cookie
Disclosure Policy (“Policy”) carefully to
understand the use of cookies on any of MMT’s
customer interface channels including its
website, mobile site, mobile app & offline
channels including call centres and offices
(collectively referred herein as
"Sales Channels").
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Purpose
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We use cookies to ensure that any person who
uses our sales channels gets the best possible
experience. In this notice we have provided
detailed information about how and when we use
cookies.
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What is a Cookie?
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A cookie is a small text file that is placed on
to your device when you visit a website. Cookies
are then sent back to the originating website on
each subsequent visit, or to another website
that recognizes that cookie. It allows us to
recognize your device and store some information
about your preferences or past actions. Cookies
can make your next visit easier and the site
more useful to you. Cookies cannot access any
other information on your computer.
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MMT advertises on third-party websites. As part
of our effort to track the success of our
advertising campaigns, we may at times use a
visitor identification technology such as “web
beacons”, or “action tags”, which count visitors
who have come to the website after being exposed
to an MMT banner ad on a third-party site. We do
not use this technology to access your personal
information and it is only used to compile
aggregated statistics about visitors who come to
the website to gauge the effectiveness of our
ads.
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Types of Cookies Used
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There are two broad categories of cookies:
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First party cookies, served directly by us to
your device.
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Third-party cookies, which are served by a
third party on our behalf.
Cookies can remain on your device for different
period of time. We use following types of
cookies:
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Persistent / Permanent cookies:
Persistent cookies helps us recognise
you as an existing user, so it’s easier for
you to return to our sales channel without
signing in again. After signing in, the
persistent cookies stay on your browser and
will be read when you return to our sales
channel. These remain on your computer/device
for a pre-defined period.
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Session cookies: Session cookies only
last for as long as the session exists, (they
are erased when the user closes the browser).
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How We use Cookie?
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MMT uses cookies to enhance and improve your
browsing experience. We use cookies primarily
for:
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Essential Cookies: We use cookies for
security purposes that allows us to block many
types of attacks. In addition, we also use
cookies that enable sales channels to work
efficiently that enables us to understand how
people use our products/services so that we
can improve them. Cookies allow our sales
channel to remember information about you that
changes the way the site behaves or looks,
such as your preferred language or the region
you are in. Remembering your preferences
enables us to personalise and display
advertisements and other contents for you.
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Marketing / Advertising: We use cookies
to make advertising more engaging to our
users. Some common applications of cookies are
made to select advertising based on what’s
relevant to you, to improve reporting on
campaign performance and to avoid showing ads
you would have already seen. Cookies capture
information about how you interact with our
sales channel, which includes the pages that
you visit most. We may use information
collected via cookies to communicate with you,
for sending newsletters, seeking your opinion
and feedback and providing you services and
promotional materials.
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1. Basis for Lawful Processing
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We process your cookies with your explicit
consent. You can accept the cookies to be placed
on your browser by clicking on the Allow Cookies
or I Agree button. We seek to renew your consent
every 12 months from the date of obtaining the
consent.
The Company will perform quarterly review of the
cookie scan report to ascertain the count of
identified cookies along with unclassified
cookies, which would be classified and assigned
a purpose using manual intervention within 7
days of extraction of the report. The consent of
the visitors to the sales channel to store
necessary cookies, statistics cookies, marketing
cookies and other categories of cookies post
classification will be sought online through a
pop-up alert to regularize the same.
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How Do I Turn Off Cookies or Withdraw Consent?
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Most browsers allow you to control cookies
through their setting preferences. If you want
to restrict or block the cookies that are set by
our sales channel, you can do so through your
browser settings. If you wish to revoke your
consent for use of cookies, please reach out to
us at
dpo@makemytrip.com
. MMT’s platforms and systems are cookie
based, so for the opt-out to work for you, your
browser must allow third-party cookies.
If
we detect that you have enabled the do not track
setting in your browser, we will automatically
disable advertising/ targeting cookies.
If
you have disabled one or more cookies, we may
still use information collected from cookies
prior to your disabled preference being set;
however, we will stop using the disabled cookie
to collect any further information.
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2. Your Privacy rights and whom to contact:
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We respect your legal rights in relation to your
data. For details on the rights available to
you, please refer our
Privacy Policy
. In case you have any questions,
comments or concerns about this Policy or wish
to exercise any of the rights available to you,
please contact
dpo@makemytrip.com
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