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The cookies which are used
Investis uses the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log in to secure areas of the Website.
- Analytical/performance cookies. These allow Investis to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Website when they are using it. This helps to improve the way the Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to the Website. This enables Investis to personalise content for you and remember your account preferences.
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to the Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. Investis will use this information to make the Website more relevant to your interests.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Name | Description | Category | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWSALB | Classic AWS load balancer first receives a request from a client, it routes the request to a target, generates a cookie named AWSALB that encodes information about the selected | Strictly necessary | 1 Day |
| AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. | Strictly necessary | 6 Days |
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | Performance | 2 years |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | Performance | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_. | Performance | 1 minute |
| _gat_UA-55131347-1 | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics and is placed by Investis Digital's Sitecore platform on which this website is built. It is used to throttle the request rate-limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. This is further used in rate-limiting on logging to Insights GA. | Performance | 1 minute |
| __CookieConsent | Any site using Investis Digital Cookie Manager will contain this cookie. The 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 |
| __CookieConsentV200 | Any site using Investis Digital Cookie Manager will contain this cookie. The 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 |
| _cfuvid | The _cfuvid cookie is used by Cloudflare to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address for the purpose of enforcing rate limiting rules. | Strictly necessary | 0 Day |
| __cf_bm | The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. This is a CloudFoundry cookie. | Strictly necessary | 0 Day |
| 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. | Strictly Necessary | 365 Days |
Third-party cookies
Please note that third parties (including, for example, providers of external services such as web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which Investis and Deloitte have no control. The types of third-party cookies used include:
Google Analytics
The Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Information on how Google uses data when you use the Website and on how you can control the information sent to Google is available at
https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners.
Sharing tools
This Website uses sharing tools. Sharing tools allow you to share content through social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. When you use one of these buttons, the social networking site may place a cookie on your computer, which is a third-party cookie set by the social networking site. If you have any questions about the use of these third-party cookies, you should check the relevant social networking site’s cookie policy.
How to refuse the use of cookies
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, if you do this you may lose some useful functionality such as personalisation and “keep me signed in” and “remember me” features.