Tata Consultancy Services Limited uses cookies (small text files placed on your device) and similar technologies
to provide our websites and to help collect data. The text in a cookie often consists of a string of numbers and letters
that uniquely identifies your computer, but it can contain other information as well.
Our Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies.
Tata Consultancy Services uses cookies and similar technologies
for several purposes, which may include:
- Sign-in and Authentication.
When you sign into our website using your credentials, we store a unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your device. This cookie allows you to move from page to page within the site without having to sign in again on each page. You can also save your sign-in information so you do not have to sign in each time you return to the site.
Some of the cookies we commonly use are listed below.
This list is not exhaustive, but it is intended to illustrate the main reasons we typically set cookies.
If you visit one of our websites, the site may set some or all of the following cookies:
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
Cookie Name | Description | Cookie Category | Domain | Expiry |
Session ID | A session ID is a unique number that a Web site's server assigns to identify a specific user for the duration of that user's visit. | First Party - Strictly Necessary | https://wfmeon.tcscognix.tcsapps.com/ | Session |
VerificationAuthToken | This token is used for user verification using 2 Way Auth. | First Party - Strictly Necessary | https://wfmeon.tcscognix.tcsapps.com/ | Session |
__RequestVerificationToken | It is an anti forgery token (prevent CSRF attack). | First Party - Strictly Necessary | https://wfmeon.tcscognix.tcsapps.com/ | Session |
TS0164ddc9 | ASM cookie is inserted into HTTP responses to client requests for security purpose. Generated due to Web Application Firewall implementation. | First Party - Strictly Necessary | https://wfmeon.tcscognix.tcsapps.com/ | Session |
How to Control Cookies Manually
You can set your browser:
• To allow all cookies
• To allow only 'trusted' sites to send them
• To accept only those cookies from websites you are currently using.
We recommend not to block all cookies because TCS.com website uses them to work properly.
Please read below points to find out how to manage cookies in the major browsers.
Google Chrome :
Click on the “Menu” tab in the upper-right corner and then click on “Settings”.
To block cookies:
Settings → Click on “Advanced” to expand → Under Privacy and Security, Click on “Content Settings” → Click on “Cookies” → To block cookies, Click on toggle button next to this line “Allow sites to save and read cookie data (recommended)“ → This will block the cookies.
To check cookies:
Settings → Click on “Advanced” to expand → Under Privacy and Security → Click on “Content Settings” → Click on “Cookies” → See all cookies and site data → Click on the website and check the cookies used in that particular site.
Mozilla Firefox :
Click on the Menu tab in the upper-right corner → Click on Options → In the left side navigation, Click on Privacy and Security → Under History, Select “Use Custom setting for history” from the Drop down → Click on Show Cookies Buttons → Select the file which you want to remove and then click on remove selected button.
Internet Explorer :
Open Internet Explorer → Click on Tools menu in the upper-right corner → Click on Internet Options → This will open a window with many tab → Click on Privacy tab → Under Settings, move the slider to the top to block all cookies or to the bottom to allow all cookies → Then click Apply.
Open Internet Explorer → Click on Tools menu in the upper-right corner → Click on Internet Options → This will open a window with many tabs → Click on Privacy tab → Click on Sites button → Enter site name and then click Allow or Block button → If user clicks block button, that website is not allowed to use cookies in IE → Then click Apply.
Safari :
Open Safari → Click on Preferences from Safari menu → Go to Privacy tab → Click on “Remove all Website data” to remove all the stored data → Click Remove now button from the pop-up → Click on Details button under “Remove all Website data” → Select the sites you want to remove the data → Click Remove → Click Done.
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.