What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyse what works and where it needs improvement.

As with most of online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

Third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

You can change your cookie preferences any time by using the options below.

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Strictly necessary cookies

These essential cookies do things like:

  • remember the notifications you've seen so we do not show them to you again
  • remember your progress through a form (for example an investment application)
  • operate our on site messaging function, provided by Intercom, to enable you to contact us through the website

These cookies need to be enabled for our website to function properly.

Analytics cookies

Analytics cookies collect information about how you use our website. They do not store or process any of your personal information. They record things like how you got to our website, the pages you visit, and how long you spend on each page

We use:

  • Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on user needs.

Marketing cookies

These cookies may be set by third party websites. They perform functions such as monitoring how you engage with content on our website, track the performance of our digital advertising, and enable personalised digital advertising.

We use:

  • Google Tag Manager - a service that enables third parties to monitor and optimise the performance of their advertising. This is used by Google Adwords, which manages advertising on Google search results, as well as personalised advertising that is shown only to users who have already visited our website.