By using the Alliance Trust PLC (‘Alliance Trust’) website, you’re confirming that you are happy to accept our use of cookies. Here you can find out more about how we use them.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small, harmless files placed on your computer’s hard drive or in your browser memory when you visit a website.
What do cookies do?
Cookies help to make the interaction between users and websites faster and easier. Some of the cookies we use, help us understand how you use our website, for example the pages you visit and the links you click on, while others enable us to learn which advertisements bring users to our website. What our cookies don’t do is store any personal or confidential information about you.
Are cookies safe?
Yes, cookies are harmless text files. They can’t look into your computer or read any personal information or other material on your hard drive. Cookies can’t carry viruses or install anything harmful on your computer.
Why should I keep cookies switched on?
Parts of our website rely on cookies to work properly. If you do not keep cookies switched on during your visits to our website, our website may not function properly and there may be parts that you will be unable to access. For example, the Investor Type check box will appear on every page that you visit, or you may be able to view only the Private Investor sections of the site.
Types of cookie we use and why
1. ALLIANCE TRUST OR ‘FIRST PARTY’ COOKIES
We use only a small number of first party cookies, these are provided by our marketing partners. None of them collect any personally identifiable data.
Session Cookies
We use two session cookies, which last only for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close your browser. These simply enable us to identify that the same person is moving from page to page. Full details can be found below.
| Name | Expiration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| ARRAffinity | End of session | To make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | End of session | Tracking cookie used to maintain an anonymised user session. |
Persistent Cookies
These cookies remain on your device until they expire or are deleted, this can be anywhere between 10 minutes and 5 years. We use ones provided by Google Analytics and Cloudfare. These cookies are used for a number of purposes including retrieving information you have previously provided, for example, which type of investor you are when you visit the website and help us serve you more relevant content and save you having to enter the same information repeatedly. Full details can be found below.
| Name | Expiration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| _gat_, _ga, _gid | 10 minutes, 2 years, 24 hours | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors reach and use our website which we use to help us improve our website and user journey. |
| __cfduid | 5 years | Set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic. |
2. THIRD PARTY COOKIES
As well as using cookies from our marketing partners, from time to time we may also embed external content from other third party websites within our website.
All the third parties used are listed below and their cookie policies are available on the owner’s website.
In general terms these cookies track much the same information as the first party persistent cookies and for the same reasons. They do not collect any personally identifiable data but are used mainly to track usage of the site.
A full list of the cookies that our third parties use can be found below.
IS Application
| Name | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| __utma | 2 years | Tracks each user's amount of visits, and the time of the first, the previous, and the current visit (presumably partly for double checking). |
| __utmb | 30 minutes | Used to track how long you stay on a site - when a visit starts and approximately ends. |
| __utmc | End of session | Used to track how long you stay on a site - when a visit starts and approximately ends. |
| __utmz | 6 months | This tracks where a visitor came from; search engine, search keyword, link etc. |
| MyInvestisCookie | End of session | Stores encrypted tokens passed through MyInvestis. |
| myinvestisdata | End of session | Stores user data when login using myinvestis. |
| sc_fv | End of session | Flash Version. |
| #sitename#lang | End of session | This stores the language for the website. |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | End of session | SessionId what .NET Manages for maintaining the session. |
| .ASPXAUTH | End of session | Auth Id, which .NET assigns as a uniqueue ID to authenticate user on each request. |
Control Based Cookies
| Name | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| itmeid_cookie | Persistent until deleted | Cookie from Mynotes. |
| cookieCollection | Persistent until deleted | Cookie from Mynotes. |
| myNotesCounter | Persistent until deleted | Cookie from Mynotes. |
| pdfPages | Persistent until deleted | Cookie from PDF Basket – 2 Items added Separated by |. |
| PreviewPages | Persistent until deleted | Cookie from PDF Basket. |
| selectedTab | Persistent until deleted | Cookie from Mynotes. |
ID Application
| Name | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| _cookieConsent | 1 year | Cookie Consent Disclaimer text. |
| _ga, _gat, _gat_newTracker | 2 years | Tracking ID for the analytics. |
| has_js | End of session | To check if js is enabled or not. |
IR Tools
| Name | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| .ASPXFORMSAUTH | End of session | This attribute is used to specify the HTTP cookie to use for authentication. |
| .ASPXROLES | End of session | Cookies used to keep track of if the visitor has any permissions on the website. Only used for logged in users. |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | End of session | SessionId what .NET Manages for maintaining session. |
Webcast
| Name | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| __ga, __gat_org | 2 years | Tracking ID for the analytics. |
| __utma | 2 years | Tracks each user’s amount of visits, time of the first, the previous and the current visit. |
| __utmb | 30 minutes | Tracks how long user stays on a site – when a visit starts and approximately ends. |
| __utmc | End of session | Tracks how long user stays on a site – when a visit starts and approximately ends. This expires quickly. |
| __utmz | 6 months | Tracks where a visitor came from; search engine, search keyword, link etc. |
| cookiesAgreed | 1 day | Used to detect if the user has already agreed the cookie usage policy. |
| connect.sid | 1 day | Session ID (unique for each user). |
| note | 1 day | Stores the user note for downloading purpose. |
| reporting_id | 1 day | Reporting ID (unique for each user). |
| webcaster-stream-selection | 1 day | To detect the stream selected by the viewer before the webcast. |
| read_messages | 1 day | To detect if the viewer has read the messages. |
MI Dashboard
| Name | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| __utma | 2 years | Tracks each user’s amount of visits, time of the first, the previous and the current visit. |
| __utmb | 30 minutes | Tracks how long user stays on a site – when a visit starts and approximately ends. |
| __utmc | End of session | Tracks how long user stays on a site – when a visit starts and approximately ends. This expires quickly. |
| __utmz | 6 months | Tracks where a visitor came from; search engine, search keyword, link etc. |
| __utmt | 10 minutes | Google analytics cookie. Used to throttle request rate. |
| _ga | 2 years | Google analytics cookie. Used to distinguish users. |
| __cfduid | 1 year | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. |
| __CliPkgTyp/td> | 1 year | To serve package specific content to users. |
| ads | End of session | To serve promotional content to users on login. |
| currentUser | End of session | To display current user name. |
| geoip | 1 month | To server promotional content to user based on location information of current user. |
| FirstVisitMsgDisplayed | End of session | To preserve the welcome message visibility. |
| languagepreference | 1 year | To preserve users language preference. |
| miuseridentity | End of session | To preserve current user identity. |
| myAlertStatisticsTour | 1 year | To preserve alert statistics tour steps. |
| myAlertTour | 1 year | To preserve alert tour steps. |
| myAppsTour | 1 year | To preserve app statistics tour steps. |
| mySocialTour | 1 year | To preserve social media statistics tour steps. |
| myTour | 1 year | To preserve website statistics tour steps. |
| myTourEvents | 1 year | To preserve event calendar tour steps. |
| myWebcastTourStep | 1 year | To preserve webcast statistics tour steps. |
| myWebcastTourType | 1 year | To preserve type of webcast tour steps. |
| DCTTour | 1 year | To preserve data charting tour steps. |
| ajs_anonymous_id | 1 year | Segment IO cookies to identify known users and track their site activity. |
| ajs_group_id | 1 year | Segment IO cookies to identify known users and track their site activity. |
| ajs_user_id | 1 year | Segment IO cookies to identify known users and track their site activity. |
| intercom-id-xxxxx | 20 years | Intercom cookies to identify known users and track their site activity. |
| intercom-lou-xxx | 20 minutes | Intercom cookies to identify known users and track their site activity. |
| intercom-session-xxx | 20 minutes | Intercom cookies to identify known users and track their site activity. |
| DSID | 1 month | Doubleclick.Net. GA Advertising. |
| IDE | 2 years | Doubleclick.Net. GA Advertising. |
IS, ID Infrastructure
| Name | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| AWSELB | End of session | AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. |
| AWSALB | 1 hour | AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. |
OT Infrastructure
| Name | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| AWSELB | 1 day | AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. |
| AWSALB | 1 day | AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. |
Security
| Name | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| incap_ses_* | End of session | Incapsula DDoS Protectiona and Web Application Firewall: The cookie on which HTTP requests are related to a certain session (AKA visit) Re-opening the browser and accessing same site is supposed to be considered different visits. In order maintain existing sessions (i.e. Session Cookie). |
| nlbi_* | End of session | Incapsula DDoS Protectiona and Web Application Firewall: Load balancing cookie. To ensure requests by a client are sent to the same origin server. |
| visid_incap_* | 12 months | Incapsula DDoS Protectiona and Web Application Firewall: The cookie on which sessions are related to a specific visitor (visitor representing a specific computer) In order to identify clients which have already visited Incapsula. The only cookie that is persistent, for the duration of 12 months. |
| __utmv | 900 seconds | Incapsula Classification cookie: To see how the client reacts and handles a malformed cookie in order to identify what that client is. |
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