Security
Our people and the service providers that assist us are obliged to respect the confidential nature of your personal information. While the transmission and filing of your personal information are safeguarded in accordance with current technology, we have no liability for disclosure of any information obtained due to errors in transmission or the unauthorized acts of third parties.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. By continuing to use our website you consent to the use of these cookies. Therefore, please read the following statement to understand what types of cookies are used and for what purpose these are used.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device through your web browser when you visit our website. On each following visit these cookies are sent back to our website. Cookies are useful because they allow our website to recognize your device and save your preferences and site interaction in order to improve your experience.
Types of cookies used on our site
Strictly necessary cookies- In order to improve your user experience we use a cookie that verifies if javascript is enabled in your browser.
Third party cookies / Performance cookies - Our website allows third parties to collect information about the performance of our website. The information that is collected by these cookies is aggregated and anonymous. Cookies from Google Analytics are used to compile data about site traffic. Cookies from Add This are used to allow you to interact with our website via your social media account. These third party cookies are not under our control. If you wish to refuse cookies by our website or third parties you can adjust the settings of your browser to let you know each time that a website tries to set a cookie. However, by refusing cookies our website will not work properly.
| Name | Description | Category | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| __CookieConsentV300 | A plugin used to comply with EU guidelines. This cookie deals with alerting users of the use of cookies at the time of the first load. It stores the preferences saved by the user and helps drop only those cookies that are consented to by the user. | Strictly necessary | 90 days |
| AWSALB | AWS ELB application load balancer. | Strictly necessary | 6 days |
| AWSCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. | Strictly necessary | 7 days |
| AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. | Strictly necessary | 6 days |
| AWSALBTGCORS | AWS Elastic Load Balancer Cookie: Used to map the user’s session to the server in order to enable “sticky sessions” for target groups (a collection of endpoints or servers) associated with cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests. This helps optimise network resource usage and ensure that the content of a page loads quickly and effectively. | Strictly necessary | 7 days |
| AWSALBTG | AWS Elastic Load Balancer Cookie: Used to map the user’s session to the server in order to enable “sticky sessions” for target groups (a collection of endpoints or servers). This helps optimise network resource usage and ensure that the content of a page loads quickly and effectively. | Strictly necessary | 7 days |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | Strictly necessary | End of broswer session |
| OptanonConsent | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | Strictly necessary | 1 Years |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. | Strictly necessary | 1 Years |
| ak_bmsc | This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots. | Strictly necessary | 0 days |
| __cf_bm | This is a cookie placed by Cloudflare which is necessary to support Cloudflare bot management. In order to identify and mititgate automated traffic to protect our site from bad bots, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. | Strictly necessary | This cookie expires after 30 minutes of continuous inactivity by the end user |
| _gat_UA-3125678-12 | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics to distinguish unique users of the IG Group website by using the pattern element on the name which 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. | Performance Cookies | 0 days |
| _ga | This cookie is associated with Google Universal Analytics and is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. In addition, it is used to calculate the number of visitors, sessions, and campaign data for the site's analytics reports. | Performance Cookies | 1 Years |
| _gat | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. | Performance Cookies | 0 days |
| _gid | This cookie is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It is used to distinguish users, store and count pageviews by updating a unique value for each page visited. | Performance Cookies | 0 days |
| _ga_863P825M7Z | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics to distinguish unique users of the IG Group website by using the pattern element on the name which 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. | Performance Cookies | 1 Years |
| __utmt | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. According to their documentation it is used to throttle the request rate for the service - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes | Performance Cookies | 0 days |
| __utmc | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. It is not used in most sites but is set to enable interoperability with the older version of Google Analytics code known as Urchin. In this older versions this was used in combination with the __utmb cookie to identify new sessions/visits for returning visitors. When used by Google Analytics this is always a Session cookie which is destroyed when the user closes their browser. Where it is seen as a Persistent cookie it is therefore likely to be a different technology setting the cookie. | Performance Cookies | 0 days |
| s_sq | Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, stores information about the previous link clicked within the site | Performance Cookies | 0 days |
| __utmz | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour measure of site performance. This cookie identifies the source of traffic to the site - so Google Analytics can tell site owners where visitors came from when arriving on the site. The cookie has a life span of 6 months and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | Performance Cookies | 6 Months |
| __utmb | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie determines new sessions and visits and expires after 30 minutes. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Any activity by a user within the 30 minute life span will count as a single visit, even if the user leaves and then returns to the site. A return after 30 minutes will count as a new visit, but a returning visitor. | Performance Cookies | 0 days |
| __utma | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie lasts for 2 years by default and distinguishes between users and sessions. It it used to calculate new and returning visitor statistics. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The lifespan of the cookie can be customised by website owners. | Performance Cookies | 1 Years |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. | Performance Cookies | 0 days |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | Performance Cookies | 0 days |
| s_cc | This cookie is associated with the Adobe Site Catalyst. It determines whether cookies are enabled in the web browser. | Performance Cookies | 0 days |
| _gali | Google Analytics – Used to distinguish users. | Performance Cookies | 0 days |
| ajs_anonymous_id | These cookies are generally used for Analytics and help count how many people visit a certain site by tracking if you have visited before. This cookie has a lifespan of 1 year. | Performance Cookies | 0 days |
| _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | Google Analytics Cookies | Targeting Cookies | 0 days |
| _gat_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Google Analytics Cookies | Targeting Cookies | 0 days |
| AMCV_434717FE52A6476F0A490D4C%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. | Targeting Cookies | 2 Years |
| anj | This cookie contains data denoting whether a cookie ID is synced with an AppNexus partner. | Targeting Cookies | 0 days |
| YSC | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | Targeting Cookies | 0 days |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | Targeting Cookies | 5 Months |
| CONSENT | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | Targeting Cookies | 16 Years |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos. | Targeting Cookies | 6 Months |
| 1P_JAR | 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. | Targeting Cookies | 0 days |