When you use the Website, we may obtain information about your
computer and general internet usage, including your IP address,
operating system and browser type, for system administration purposes.
Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s
hard drive. Cookies allow us to tailor our Website to your needs by
gathering and remembering information about your usage and preferences.
In particular, cookies enable us:
5.3.1 to gather information on IP addresses and pages visited;
5.3.2 to analyse trends;
5.3.3 to administer the website;
5.3.4 to track users’ movements on the website; and
5.3.5 to undertake statistical analysis.
Most web browsers
automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to
decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full
advantage of our Website or accessing certain parts. Our system will
issue cookies when you access our Website unless you have adjusted your
browser settings so that it will refuse cookies.
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and
numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by
the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time
the browser requests a page from the server.
Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a
persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid
until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry
date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the
user session, when the web browser is closed.
Cookies can be used by web servers to identify and track users as
they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning
to a website.
The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:
Name of cookie | Owner | Purpose for the cookie |
Google Analytics | | This
is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc which uses cookies to
show us how visitors found and explore our site, and how we can enhance
their experience. It provides us with information about the behaviour
of our visitors (eg how long they stayed on the site, the average number
of pages viewed) and also tells us how many visitors we have had. |
DoubleClick.net |
| YouTube has inbuilt advertising and uses DoubleClick.net to display relevant ads. As such this gets embedded at the same time. |
Option |
| Link out to YouTube |
Session Cookies |
| To allow access to the Investment Enquiry Forms |
Windows 10 uses the Microsoft edge | Chrome, Firefox etc | Windows 10 uses the Microsoft edge browser by default unless you install Chrome, Firefox etc |
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example:
in
Firefox (version 51) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”,
“Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from
the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”; in Chrome
(version 55), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customise and
control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and
“Content settings”, and then selecting “Block sites from setting any
data” under the “Cookies” heading; and in Internet Explorer (11) you can
turn “Cookies” off by opening Internet Explorer, click Internet options
and select the “Privacy” tab. Under “Settings” move the slider to the
top or bottom to decline or allow “Cookies” by selecting high or low and
then press “apply”.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:
- in Firefox (version 51), you can delete all cookies by clicking
“Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings
for history” from the drop-down menu, clicking “Show Cookies”, and then
clicking “Remove All Cookies”;
- in Chrome (version 55), you can
delete all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and
clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”,
and then selecting “Cookies and other site and plug-in data” before
clicking “Clear browsing data”; and
- In Internet Explorer
(11) you can select the safety button and then select Delete Browsing
History. Then select the check box next to “Cookies”. Select the
“preserve favourites” website data check box if you don’t want to delete
the “Cookies” associated with website in their favourites list. Select
delete.