Cookie policy

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES

Our website (including any subdomain of our website) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our cookie policy

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

For further information on cookies you can visit: http://www.aboutcookies.org

 

TYPES OF COOKIES USED ON OUR WEBSITE

We use the following cookies on our website:

Essential Cookies – These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. We use a session cookie to remember your log-in for you and offer you secure services.

We may also use a number of third-party web services / Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) on the site to provide rich features and functionality.

We deem these necessary cookies for the working of the website. If these are disabled, then various feature on the site may be unavailable or not work as intended.

Non-essential Cookies – These cookies record a visit to our site, the pages visited, and the links followed. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. Performance cookies include those provided by Google analytics or similar services.

You can find out more information about some of the cookies we use in the table below:

Cookie name Cookie provider Type Expiry Information
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary iPensions Group Necessary 365 Days GDPR cookie consent – Saves user preference about cookie acceptance
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary iPensions Group Necessary 365 Days GDPR cookie consent – Saves user preference about cookie non-acceptance
viewed_cookie_policy iPensions Group Necessary 365 Days GDPR cookie consent – Saved user consent
_ga Google Analytical Non-Necessary 2 Years Used to distinguish users and their behaviour on the website
_gid Google Analytical Necessary 1 day Used to distinguish users and their behaviour on the website
_gat Google Analytical Non-Necessary 1 Minute Used to throttle request rate
_grecaptcha iPensions Group Necessary Persistent Used to distinguish between humans and bots
_GRECAPTCHA Google Necessary 179 days Used to distinguish between humans and bots
rc::a Google Necessary Persistent Used to distinguish between humans and bots
rc::b Google Necessary Persistent Used to distinguish between humans and bots
rc::c Google Necessary Persistent Used to distinguish between humans and bots
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress iPensions Group Non-Necessary 1 day Used to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors
_hjFirstSeen iPensions Group Non-Necessary 1 day Used to determine if the user has visited the website before
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample iPensions Group Non-Necessary 1 day Used to detect whether the user navigation and interactions are included in the website’s data analytics
_hjIncludedInSessionSample iPensions Group Non-Necessary 1 day Registers data on visitors' website-behaviour
_hjRecordingLastActivity iPensions Group Non-Necessary Session Allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes
_hjSession_# iPensions Group Non-Necessary 1 day Collects statistics on the visitor's visits to the website
_hjSessionUser_# iPensions Group Non-Necessary 1 year Collects statistics on the visitor's visits to the website
_hjViewportId iPensions Group Non-Necessary Session Collects statistics on the visitor's behaviour on the website
_hjRecordingEnabled iPensions Group Non-Necessary Session Used to identify the visitor and optimize ad-relevance by collecting visitor data from multiple websites
ads/ga-audiences Google AdWords Non-Necessary Session Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites.
AnalyticsSyncHistory .linkedin.com Non-Necessary 6 Months Used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes
li_gc .linkedin.com Non-Necessary 1 Month Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries.
_gat_UA-212987827-1 isipp.co.uk Non-Necessary 1 Minute This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It is a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.
guest_id .twitter.com Non-Necessary 2 Years This cookie is set by Twitter to identify and track the website visitor.
bcookie .linkedin.com Non-Necessary 1 Year This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media.
_uetvid .isipp.co.uk Non-Necessary 1 Year This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website.
bscookie .linkedin.com Non-Necessary 1 Year Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.
SRM_B .c.bing.com Non-Necessary 1 Year This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website.
_fbp .isipp.co.uk Non-Necessary 3 Months Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
_uetsid .isipp.co.uk Non-Necessary 1 day This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site.
_CLID www.clarity.ms Non-Necessary 1 year This cookie is usually set by Dstillery to enable sharing media content to social media. It may also gather information on website visitors when they use social media to share website content from the page visited.
MUID .clarity.ms Non-Necessary 1 year This cookie is widely used my Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking.
ANONCHK .c.clarity.ms Non-Necessary 10 minutes This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
UserMatchHistory .linkedin.com Non-Necessary 1 month This cookie is used to track visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented based on the visitor's preferences.
MUID .bing.com Non-Necessary 1 year This cookie is widely used my Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking.
SM .c.clarity.ms Non-Necessary Session This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie which we use to measure the use of the website for internal analytics.
personalization_id .twitter.com Non-Necessary 2 Years This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
lidc .linkedin.com Non-Necessary 1 day This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website.
lang .linkedin.com Non-Necessary Session There are many different types of cookies associated with this name, and a more detailed look at how it is used on a particular website is generally recommended. However, in most cases it will likely be used to store language preferences, potentially to serve up content in the stored language.
lang .ads.linkedin.com Non-Necessary Session There are many different types of cookies associated with this name, and a more detailed look at how it is used on a particular website is generally recommended. However, in most cases it will likely be used to store language preferences, potentially to serve up content in the stored language.

We use Google Analytics to understand how the site is being used in order to improve the user experience. User data is anonymous. This analytics tool is used to analyse site usage, how our users arrive at our site, what they do on the site, what browser they are using and on what operating system etc. However, this analytics data is not tied to personal information. You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

 

HOW YOU CAN MANAGE COOKIES

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit:

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

 

UPDATES TO THIS COOKIE POLICY

We may update this policy from time to time. You should regularly return to this page, so you can review any changes we may make and see details of any new cookies we may add to this cookie policy.

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