Information about our use of cookies

What Information Do We Collect

Polar Capital 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. Polar Capital 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 Polar Capital to your use of the website, please see the “Our Cookies” table below.

Where Polar Capital 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 General Data Protection Regulations (EU) 2016/679 (‘GDPR’). For more information about how Polar Capital process the personal information collected by “Cookies”, please read the Polar Capital Data Privacy Notice.

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 – These 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:

Cookie Type	Cookie Category	Cookie Identifier	Description	Duration of Cookie Operation
Session Identifier	Session	sessionid	Used to track a visitor’s use of the website during their visit.	For the length of time you browse the Website
Persistent Identifier	Functionality	srpperm	Used to remember your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions when you first visited the Website.	For 90 days from the day you first accessed the Website
Cookie Notification	Functionality	cookie-notification-confirmed	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.	For 1 Year from the day you first accessed the Website
Online Form Security	Functionality	Csrftoken	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.	For 1 Year from the day you first accessed the Website
Google Analytics	Analytical	_ga _gid _gat	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.	_ga – 2 Years _gid – 24 Hours _gat – 1 Minute
LinkedIn Insights Tag	Targeting and Analytical	Lms_ad Lms_analytics Oatml Sugr Fat_id UserMatchHisto	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.	Lms_ad – 30 days Lms_analytics – 30 days Oatml – 30 days Sugr – 90 days Fat_id – 30 days UserMatchHisto – 30 days
StoneShot ‘Pages Visited'	Analytical	_pk_id _pk_ref _pk_ses	Analyses a user’s interaction with the Polar Capital website through the marketing campaigns that Polar Capital distributes via the StoneShot platform.	_pk_id – 13 months _pk_rf – 6 months _pk_ses – 30 minutes
Google Search	Targeting	NID SID	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.	Approximately 2 years
Non-Google Sites	Targeting	IDE	Used to provide targeted adverts to users across the internet and are stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net.	Approximately 2 years
YouTube and Google.com	Targeting	ANID DSIC FLC AID TAID exchange_uid	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.	Approximately 2 years
Non-Google Domains	Analytical	__gads __gac	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.	Approximately 2 years
Conversion Cookies	Analytical	__gcl	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.	Approximately 2 years

Session Identifier
Cookie Category	Session
Cookie Identifier	sessionid
Description	Used to track a visitor’s use of the website during their visit.
Duration of Cookie Operation	For the length of time you browse the Website
Persistent Identifier
Cookie Category	Functionality
Cookie Identifier	srpperm
Description	Used to remember your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions when you first visited the Website.
Duration of Cookie Operation	For 90 days from the day you first accessed the Website
Cookie Notification
Cookie Category	Functionality
Cookie Identifier	cookie-notification-confirmed
Description	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.
Duration of Cookie Operation	For 1 Year from the day you first accessed the Website
Online Form Security
Cookie Category	Functionality
Cookie Identifier	Csrftoken
Description	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.
Duration of Cookie Operation	For 1 Year from the day you first accessed the Website
Google Analytics
Cookie Category	Analytical
Cookie Identifier	_ga _gid _gat
Description	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.
Duration of Cookie Operation	_ga – 2 Years _gid – 24 Hours _gat – 1 Minute
LinkedIn Insights Tag
Cookie Category	Targeting and Analytical
Cookie Identifier	Lms_ad Lms_analytics Oatml Sugr Fat_id UserMatchHisto
Description	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.
Duration of Cookie Operation	Lms_ad – 30 days Lms_analytics – 30 days Oatml – 30 days Sugr – 90 days Fat_id – 30 days UserMatchHisto – 30 days
StoneShot ‘Pages Visited'
Cookie Category	Analytical
Cookie Identifier	_pk_id _pk_ref _pk_ses
Description	Analyses a user’s interaction with the Polar Capital website through the marketing campaigns that Polar Capital distributes via the StoneShot platform.
Duration of Cookie Operation	_pk_id – 13 months _pk_rf – 6 months _pk_ses – 30 minutes
Google Search
Cookie Category	Targeting
Cookie Identifier	NID SID
Description	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.
Duration of Cookie Operation	Approximately 2 years
Non-Google Sites
Cookie Category	Targeting
Cookie Identifier	IDE
Description	Used to provide targeted adverts to users across the internet and are stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net.
Duration of Cookie Operation	Approximately 2 years
YouTube and Google.com
Cookie Category	Targeting
Cookie Identifier	ANID DSIC FLC AID TAID exchange_uid
Description	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.
Duration of Cookie Operation	Approximately 2 years
Non-Google Domains
Cookie Category	Analytical
Cookie Identifier	__gads __gac
Description	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.
Duration of Cookie Operation	Approximately 2 years
Conversion Cookies
Cookie Category	Analytical
Cookie Identifier	__gcl
Description	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.
Duration of Cookie Operation	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:

Internet Explorer – https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Chrome – https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB
Firefox – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefox

If you are not using any one of these browsers, please refer to the “help” section of your internet browser for further instructions.

More Information Regarding Cookies

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