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.
What are essential and non-essential cookies?
'Essential' cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website as long as your browser settings permit them, these enable our tools and charts to function correctly, server routing to be consistent and for us to store your preferences in relation to non-essential cookies. 'Non-essential' cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so when notified upon initially landing on our site.
We have listed below which of the cookies are essential and non-essential.
Types of cookie we use and why
Session Cookies
We use five 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 to ensure a consistent experience. Full details can be found below.
| Name | Essential | Expiration | Purpose |
|---|
| ARRAffinity, ARRAffinitySameSite |
Yes |
End of session |
To make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. |
| ASP.NET_SessionId |
Yes |
End of session |
Tracking cookie used to maintain an anonymised user session. |
| TiPMix |
Yes |
End of session |
Used by Azure to handle traffic during code changes. |
| x-ms-routing-name |
Yes |
End of session |
Used by Azure when determining which web server the user should be directed to. |
| ai_session |
Yes |
End of session |
Collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. |
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 | Essential | Expiration | Purpose |
|---|
| _ga, _gat, _gid |
No |
2 years, 10 minutes, 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 |
Yes |
5 years |
Set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic and improve page load speeds. |
| flashtalkingad1 |
No |
2 years |
Flashtalking use cookies to collect anonymous visitor data to measure the performance and effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. |
| ai_user |
Yes |
1 year |
This is a unique user identifier cookie enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time. |
| AWSALBCORS |
Yes |
7 days |
This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. |
| AWSALBTGCORS |
Yes |
1 day |
This cookie is also managed by AWS and includes the same information as the original stickiness cookie plus the SameSite attribute. |
| cookieSettings |
Yes |
30 days |
Retains a users preferences regarding consent to cookies. |
How to turn cookies on or off
You have a number of options when it comes to receiving cookies. You can set your browser to reject all cookies, to allow only ‘trusted’ sites to send them, or to accept only those cookies from websites you are currently using. We recommend that you don’t block all cookies, because parts of our website rely on them to work properly.
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