IP GROUP PLC ("we", "us", "our")
COOKIE POLICY
Updated January 2020
Our website (https://www.ipgroupplc.com/) uses cookies and other similar tracking technologies, such as pixels, plugins, scripts, tags and device fingerprinting (which we collectively refer to as "cookies" in this Cookie Policy).
We use cookies for many reasons, for example to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.
This Cookie Policy describes:
- what cookies are;
- our use of cookies;
- how you can manage cookies used on our website;
- privacy;
- further information; and
- changes to this Cookie Policy.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer, smart phone, tablet or other electronic device if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device's hard drive and some cookies may collect personal data about you. You can find more general information about cookies at: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Our use of cookies
We want you to understand the different types of cookies that are used on our website. We use a variety of types of cookies for the following purposes:
- Strictly necessary cookies: these are cookies strictly necessary for the performance of our website, for example cookies that enables website content to be delivered securely and efficiently.
- Non-essential cookies, which will include 1) performance cookies: these cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. 2) Functionality cookies: these cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
You can find more information about the individual non-essential cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Name | Description | Category | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. | Strictly necessary | 7 days |
| AWSALB | AWS ELB application load balancer | Strictly necessary | 7 days |
| AWSALBTG | AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to encode information about the selected target group. | Strictly necessary | 7 days |
| AWSALBTGCORS | This domain is owned by Investis, a UK based business. It is used for embedding investor information into a client website. | Strictly necessary | 7 days |
| AWSELBCORS | AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. Same value as AWSELB. | Strictly necessary | End of browser session |
| 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 browser session |
| www-ipgroupplc-com#lang | Remembers the user's selected language version of a web site. | Strictly necessary | End of browser session |
| _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. | Performance | End of browser session |
| _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. | Performance | 729 days |
| _ga_0MGJHQBWH2 | A Google Analytics cookie used to persist session state, collect information about how visitors use our site. This information is used to compile reports and to help improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, marketing performance, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. | Performance | 729 days |
| _ga_HDM6BN56JZ | A Google Analytics cookie used to persist session state, collect information about how visitors use our site. This information is used to compile reports and to help improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, marketing performance, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. | Performance | 729 days |
| _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. It expires after 10 minutes. | Performance | End of browser session |
| _gat_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Google Analytics Cookies | Performance | End of browser session |
| _gat_gtag_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Google Analytics Cookies | Performance | End of browser session |
| 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. | Strictly necessary | End of browser session |
| 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. | Strictly necessary | 6171 days |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos | Strictly necessary | 180 days |
| incap_ses_ | Incapsula DDoS Protectiona and Web Application Firewall: cookie for linking HTTP requests to a certain session (AKA visit). Re-opening the browser and accessing same site are registered as different visits. In order to maintain existing sessions (ie, session cookie) | Strictly necessary | End of browser session |
| RT | The RT cookie is instead assigned to the domain of the site being instrumented and is never sent to mPulse servers. It’s used exclusively on the client side, by Boomerang (Akamai). This is implemented by Akamai as to stay sessions to continue even if the end-user closes their browser and then returns within 30 minutes. | Strictly necessary | 7 days |
| __CookieConsentV300 | __CookieConsentV300 cookie is a plugin used to comply with EU guideline. __CookieConsent* would replace with version of plugin for example __CookieConsentV200. | Strictly necessary | 180 days |
| AWSELB | AWS Classic Load Balancer creates load balancing cookie: used to map the session to the instance. | Strictly necessary | 1 day |
*Duration means the period that our cookies are installed on your device.
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or marketing cookies:
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | Optional | 2 years |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | Optional | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_. | Optional | 1 minute |
To deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies, you must contact the relevant third party or opt-out at browser-level (as discussed below) to manage the use of these types of cookies.
How to manage cookies on our website
Cookies do lots of jobs on our website. However, most browsers allow you to disable them if you would like to. You can also disable certain non-essential cookies that are placed on your device when you access our website by clicking the 'Cookie Settings' link at the bottom of each web page on our website, or by clicking here. If you disable cookies, you may find that you have a less personalised experience on our website and that certain parts of our website do not work at all or do not work correctly.
Each browser is configured differently. To disable cookies via your browser settings, you should follow the instructions given by the publisher of your browser. As of the date of this Cookie Policy, these instructions are available for commonly used browsers through the following links:
If you use Microsoft Edge:
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy
If you use Internet Explorer:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
If you use Safari:
https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21447?locale=en_US
If you use Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
If you use Chrome:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&hlrm=en
If you use different devices, make sure you configure the settings of the corresponding browser according to your preferences.
If you wish to opt-out of tracking by Google Analytics across all websites you can do so here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Except for essential cookies, our session cookies will expire after your browsing session.
Privacy
We are committed to using cookies fairly and in accordance with applicable privacy rights. Our Privacy Policy can be accessed here: https://www.ipgroupplc.com/site-services/privacy
Further information
If you have any queries relating to this Cookie Policy please contact us via the email address [email protected] or by writing to us at:
IP Group plc
Head office
2nd Floor
3 Pancras Square
King’s Cross
London N1C 4AG
Changes to this Cookie Policy
If this Cookie Policy changes, the revised policy will include a new effective date and will be posted on this page. Please check back regularly to keep informed of updates.