Cookies

A cookie is a small file this site asks your browser to keep, which your browser sends back the next time you visit. Buyders uses them only to make the site work: to keep you signed in, to block forged requests, and to remember choices like your language and your city.

Why we did not ask you to accept cookies

Consent banners exist for cookies a site does not need in order to work — mainly advertising and tracking. We set none of those, so there is nothing to ask you to accept, and we would rather not add a click that decides nothing. If that ever changes we will ask first, and refusing will be exactly as easy as accepting.

What We Do Not Do

We set no advertising, profiling or cross-site tracking cookies, and we run no ad network. Our own visitor counting is built to work without cookies at all — each visit carries a code made from your network and browser that changes every day, and the key that makes it is deleted once that day has been counted.

The blog remembers which posts you have read on this device, so it can suggest others. It stays in your browser and is never sent to Buyders. You can clear it or turn it off from the blog at any time.

The Cookies We Set

Name: NEXT_LOCALE
What It Does
Remembers whether you are reading Buyders in English or Hindi.
Set When
On your first visit.
Lasts
Until You Close Your Browser
Name: rm_sessionServer only — this site's own scripts cannot read it
What It Does
Keeps you signed in. It holds a random token — never your name, number or password.
Set When
When you sign in.
Lasts
30 days
Name: rm_auth_ticketServer only — this site's own scripts cannot read it
What It Does
Holds your place between a correct code and signing in, while you finish your profile or recover your account. It holds a random token and nothing else.
Set When
When you enter a correct code and have another step to finish.
Lasts
30 minutes
Name: rm_signed_in
What It Does
A yes-or-no marker that you are signed in, so a page can show the right menu without unlocking the session itself.
Set When
On the first page you open after signing in.
Lasts
30 days
Name: rm_csrf
What It Does
Proves a form or request came from this site, and not from another site pretending to be it.
Set When
When a page needs to submit something.
Lasts
Until You Close Your Browser
Name: rm_city
What It Does
Remembers the city you chose, so Buyders opens there next time.
Set When
When you pick a city.
Lasts
180 days
Name: rm_rkServer only — this site's own scripts cannot read it
What It Does
Lets us recognise a repeat report of the same listing without asking you to create an account.
Set When
When you report a listing.
Lasts
365 days
Name: rm_view_as
What It Does
Shows a banner telling you that a Buyders staff member is viewing the site as your account, during a support session you asked for.
Set When
Only during a staff support session.
Lasts
15 minutes

This page is generated from the site's own code, so it changes when the cookies do.

Turning Them Off

Your browser can block or delete cookies for any site, Buyders included. Blocking the essential ones will stop you signing in; blocking the rest only means a forgotten preference.

Other Companies

Some pages load services that are not ours: Google Maps where a map is shown, Cloudinary for photos and video, and PostHog for product analytics when it is switched on. Buyders sets no cookie through any of them, and PostHog is configured to run without cookies. Google may set its own cookies on its own domains when a map loads — Google's privacy policy governs those, not this page.

Read the Full Privacy Policy