Cookie Policy
Information about our use of cookies
What Information Do We Collect
Polar Capital, Phaeacian Partners and their affiliates (the ‘Polar Capital Group’) may use “Cookies” to collect and access information concerning your visit to and use of the Website. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that your internet browser places on your computer’s hard drive and may be used by third parties to remember usernames and viewing preferences, tracking click streams on your browser and present users with personalised versions of the Website. The Polar Capital Group presently uses the information it collects to identify you and your settings when you return to the Website and to enhance your experience of the Website. For full details on the “Cookies” applied by the Polar Capital Group to your use of the website, please see the “Our Cookies” table below.
Where you are a Californian resident, the Polar Capital Group processes the information it collects from your use of the Website, other than the collection and access of such information, it will be carried out in accordance with the requirements of the California Consumer Privacy Act For more information about how Polar Capital process the personal information collected by “Cookies”, please read the Polar Capital Group’s CCPA Privacy Policy.
Types of Cookies
- Strictly Necessary – Cookies that enable the operation of this website.
- Analytical – These are cookies through which third party providers monitor the traffic on our website and help us to improve the experience for visitors.
- Functionality – These are cookies that recognise you when you visit the website on multiple occasions and may personalise the content you see on the website according to your preferences.
- Session – These cookies keep track of your use of the website for the duration that of the time that you are accessing the website.
- Targeting – The cookies will record visits to websites, the pages of those websites and the links you have clicked on within the website. The cookie will then assist us in tailoring our website and the relevance of the adverts that you see. To make the adverts more relevant, we shall provide the information to advertising networks. However, these cookies do not hold any of your personal or financial information, outside of online identifiers.
Our cookies
Information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them is included in the table below:
| Session Identifier | |
|---|---|
| Cookie Category | Cookie Identifier |
| Session | sessionid |
| Purpose | |
| Used to track avisitor’s use of the website duringtheir visit. | |
| Expiry | |
| For the length of time you browse the Website | |
| Persistent Identifier | |
|---|---|
| Cookie Category | Cookie Identifier |
| Functionality | srpperm |
| Purpose | |
| Used to remember your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions when you first visited the Website. | |
| Expiry | |
| For 90 days from the day you first accessed the Website | |
| Cookie Notification | |
|---|---|
| Cookie Category | Cookie Identifier |
| Functionality | cookie-notification-confirmed |
| Purpose | |
| Used to store your response to the cookie notification that pops up when you first visit the Website. This ensures that you won't keep seeing the cookie notification on future visits to the Website. | |
| Expiry | |
| For 1 Year from the day you first accessed the Website | |
| Online Form Security | |
|---|---|
| Cookie Category | Cookie Identifier |
| Functionality | csrftoken |
| Purpose | |
| Used to prevent cross-site request forgery. This is where a malicious cyber programme takes actions on a website not intended or requested by the user of that website. It is applied to all visitors on our Website. | |
| Expiry | |
| For 1 Year from the day you first accessed the Website | |
| Google Analytics | |
|---|---|
| Cookie Category | Cookie Identifier |
| Analytical | _ga_gid_gat |
| Purpose | |
| These cookies are used to collect information in an anonymised form about how visitors use our websites. We use the information to produce reports covering metrics such as numbers of visitors to pages and time spent on the website. | |
| Expiry | |
| _ga – 2 Years_gid – 24 Hours_gat – 1 Minute | |
| LinkedIn Insights Tag | |
|---|---|
| Cookie Category | Cookie Identifier |
| Targeting and Analytical | Lms_adLms_analyticsOatmlSugrFat_idUserMatchHisto |
| Purpose | |
| Used to track the interaction of the user with advertisements on LinkedIn (‘conversions’), provide the user with personalised advertisements and to provide information on the users interaction with Polar Capital material. | |
| Expiry | |
| Lms_ad – 30 daysLms_analytics – 30 daysOatml – 30 daysSugr – 90 days Fat_id – 30 daysUserMatchHisto – 30 days | |
| StoneShot ‘Pages Visited' | |
|---|---|
| Cookie Category | Cookie Identifier |
| Analytical | _pk_id_pk_ref_pk_ses |
| Purpose | |
| Analyses a user’s interaction with the Polar Capital website through the marketing campaigns that Polar Capital distributes via the StoneShot platform. | |
| Expiry | |
| _pk_id – 13 months_pk_rf – 6 months_pk_ses – 30 minutes | |
| Google Search | |
|---|---|
| Cookie Category | Cookie Identifier |
| Targeting | NIDSID |
| Purpose | |
| Analyses a user’s searches on Google, their interaction with adverts on Google and their visits to advertisers websites through Google and provides the user with customised adverts based on their behaviour. | |
| Expiry | |
| Approximately 2 years | |
| Non-Google Sites | |
|---|---|
| Cookie Category | Cookie Identifier |
| Targeting | IDE |
| Purpose | |
| Used to provide targeted adverts to users across the internet and are stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net. | |
| Expiry | |
| Approximately 2 years | |
| YouTube and Google.com | |
|---|---|
| Cookie Category | Cookie Identifier |
| Targeting | ANIDDSICFLCAIDTAIDexchange_uid |
| Purpose | |
| Used to track your activity across the devices you are signed in to your Google account with and allows us to coordinate the adverts we provide you with and measure your interaction with those adverts. These cookies may be set on the domains google.com/ads, google.com/ads/measurement, or googleadservices.com. | |
| Expiry | |
| Approximately 2 years | |
| Non-Google Domains | |
|---|---|
| Cookie Category | Cookie Identifier |
| Analytical | __gads__gac |
| Purpose | |
| May be set on the domain of the site users are visiting. These cookies can’t be read by Google when you’re on a site other than the one on which they were set. These cookies measure interactions with the adverts on that domain and prevent the same adverts from being shown to you too many times. | |
| Expiry | |
| Approximately 2 years | |
| Conversion Cookies | |
|---|---|
| Cookie Category | Cookie Identifier |
| Analytical | __gcl |
| Purpose | |
| Analyse how many times a user clicks on an advert and takes action on the advertiser’s website (e.g. purchasing a good from the advertiser). These cookies allow Google and the advertiser to determine that you clicked on the advert and later visited the advertiser’s site. Conversion cookies are not used by Google for personalized ad targeting. | |
| Expiry | |
| Approximately 2 years | |
How to Disable Cookies
You have the option of setting your browser to block “Cookies”. In some cases, blocking “Cookies” may reduce the functionality of the Website or prevent access to it depending on your chosen internet browser options.
Information on how you can disable cookies relevant to your browser may be found below:
If you are not using any one of these browsers, please refer to the “help” section of your internet browser for further instructions.