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What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file which is downloaded to your device (e.g. a computer, tablet or mobile) whenever you visit a website. Cookies are widely used to improve the browsing experience and help websites work more efficiently.
This website uses both session and persistent cookies:
Strictly Necessary Cookies:
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
Performance Cookies (includes Session and Persistent Cookies):
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
Cookies source
Cookies can be classified as first-party or third-party cookies. First-party cookies are those issued on behalf of the website visited, all other cookies are third-party cookies. This website uses both first-party and third-party cookies.
Why we collect cookies
This website and third parties will place cookies on your computer. These help the website to remember your session and allow some functionality of the website. They also allow us to collect website usage statistics, which we can use to continually improve the website and our systems.
An element of website usage analysis includes using IP address data associated with the devices through which you are accessing our sites. We use IP address data only for this purpose and do not combine it with other personal information.
Your consent
When you first visit this website, you will see a message that lets you know that we use cookies and directs you to this cookie page. If you continue to browse this website, you’re agreeing to our use of cookies by continuing to use this website. If you don’t agree to our use of cookies, you should close your browser and stop using this website.
Cookies we use on this website
We have listed all the cookies currently used on this website. What cookies your device downloads depends on the pages or services you use on this website or how you were brought to this website.
| Name |
Purpose |
Expiry |
Category / Classification |
| _cookieConsent |
A JavaScript plugin that alerts users of the use of cookies on this website. |
3 months |
Strictly necessary |
| ASP.NET_SessionId |
General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. |
End of browser session |
Strictly necessary |
| AWSELB |
This cookie name is associated with the Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing functionality for routing client request on the server. |
Removed after session with server closes |
Strictly necessary |
| AWSALB |
AWS ELB application load balancer |
7 days |
Strictly necessary |
| AWSALBCORS |
This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. |
7 days |
Strictly necessary |
| RT |
The roundtrip (RT) Boomerang cookie is used by Akamai to measure page load time and/or other timers associated with the page. |
7 days |
Strictly necessary |
| mandg_press_disclaimer |
This is used to remember the selection of the user whether he/she is a journalist or member of media. |
30 days |
Strictly necessary |
| mandg_investor_disclaimer |
This is used to remember the selection of the user whether he/she is an investment professional or not. |
30 days |
Strictly necessary |
| __cf_bm |
To read and filter requests from bots. |
A few seconds |
Strictly necessary |
| _cfuvid |
The _cfuvid cookie is set on a user’s browser to assign them a unique ID in addition to identifying them through their IP address. Without this cookie, visitors to a site will be recognized as the same user if they share the same IP, and any data collected will be shared for all users with that IP. |
End of session |
Strictly necessary |
| cf_clearance |
The Clearance Cookie stores proof that a challenge was passed. If present, it prevents issuing the challenge again and is needed to access the origin server. |
1 year |
Strictly necessary |
| _ga |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users / visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analyzed Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics. |
2 years |
Performance |
| _ga_1LPZ2S3XRK,_ga_FB5VNNY0S4 |
These cookie names are associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. These cookies are used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 400 days, although this is customisable by website owners. |
400 days |
Performance |
| _gat_UA-3299630-1 |
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 appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
1 day |
Performance |
| _gat_UA-110821334-2 |
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 appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
1 day |
Performance |
| _gid |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users / visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analyzed Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics. |
1 day |
Performance |
| gpv |
This cookie is set by Adobe Analytics to store the quantity of pages the end user views when visiting websites. |
1 day |
Performance |
| s_cc |
Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, determines whether cookies are enabled in the browser |
1 day |
Performance |
| _lfa |
Used to identify the organisation of the visitor. |
2 Years |
Performance |
| AMCVS_210BDD9D56D6C97D7F000101%40AdobeOrg |
This is a pattern type cookie name associated with Adobe Marketing Cloud. It stores a unique visitor identifier, and uses an organisation identifier. |
End of browser session |
Targeting |
| AMCV_210BDD9D56D6C97D7F000101%40AdobeOrg |
This is a pattern type cookie name associated with Adobe Marketing Cloud. It stores a unique visitor identifier, and uses an organisation identifier to allow a company to track users across their domains and services. |
2 years |
Targeting |
| dpm |
This domain is owned by Adobe Audience Manager. The main business activity is online profiling for targeted marketing. |
180 days |
Targeting |
| everest_g_v2 |
This domain is owned by Adobe. The main business activity is: Advertising |
2 years |
Targeting |
| sessioncookie |
If you know anything about this host and its uses please add your contributions here. |
1 day |
Targeting |
| everest_session_v2 |
This domain is owned by Adobe. The main business activity is: Advertising |
End of browser session |
Targeting |
| demdex |
This cookie helps Adobe Audience Manger perform basic functions such as visitor identification, ID synchronization, segmentation, modeling, reporting, etc. |
180 days |
Targeting |
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Changes to this cookie information
We update this information whenever we add or remove cookies.