Investis Digital Limited ("IDX", "we", "us", "our").
Updated January 2024.
Our website ('IDX') uses cookies. 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.
- Optional or non-essential cookies, which could include cookies used for various purposes (see table of cookies below) such as 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. 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). Targeting and Marketing Cookies: these cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose, so that when you are on another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website. We may also show you advertising on our website based on your browsing patterns on other websites that we have obtained from our advertising partners.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
First Party Cookies
Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration* | More information |
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AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. | 7 days | Strictly necessary |
__CookieConsentV300 | A JavaScript plugin that alerts users of the use of cookies on this website. | Session | Strictly necessary |
AWSALB | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. | 7 days | Strictly necessary |
_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. | 730 days | Optional |
_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. | 1 day | Optional |
_gat_UA-129004632-1 | 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. | 10 minutes | Optional |
*Duration means the period that our cookies are installed on your device.
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, which are not controlled by the cookie manager. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services.
Third Party Cookies
Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration* | More information |
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__cfruid | Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to identify trusted web traffic. | Session | Strictly necessary |
__cfduid | Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times. According to CloudFlare it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information. | 30 days | Strictly necessary |
UserMatchHistory | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 30 days | Strictly necessary |
lang | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. This sub-domain is connected with LinkedIn's marketing services that enable website owners to gain insight into types of users on their site based on LinkedIn profile data, to improve targetng. | Session | Strictly necessary |
bcookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 730 days | Strictly necessary |
fr | Contains browser and user unique ID combination, used for targeted advertising. | 90 days | Strictly necessary |
lidc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 1 day | Strictly necessary |
lissc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 365 days | Strictly necessary |
NID | This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. | 183 days | Strictly necessary |
bscookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 730 days | Strictly necessary |
hubspotutk | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. HubSpot report that its purpose is user authentication. As a persistent rather than a session cookie it cannot be classified as Strictly Necessary. | 390 | |
IDE | Provided by DoubleClick, this third-party cookie is used for serving targeted advertisements that are relevant to you across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to you based on your previous visits to this website. | 545 days | Strictly necessary |
__hstc | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | 390 days | Optional |
__hssrc | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | Session | Optional |
__hluid | Provided by Hubspot, this cookie is used for in-app usage tracking to identify the visitor across visits and devices. This allows the website to present the visitor with relevant advertisements. | 365 days | Optional |
__hmpl | Provided by Hubspot, this cookie is is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. | Session | Optional |
hs-messages-hide-welcome-message | Provided by Hubspot, this third party cookie is used to prevent the welcome message from appearing again for one day after it is dismissed. | 1 day | Optional |
hs-messages-is-open | Provided by Hubspot, this cookie is used to determine and save whether the chat widget is open for future visits. It resets to re-close the widget after 30 minutes of inactivity. | Session | Optional |
hsfirstvisit | Provided by Hubspot, this cookie tracks a users first visit to the website. It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). | 1 day | Optional |
__hssc | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | Session | Optional |
JSESSIONID | This domain is controlled by New Relic, which provides a platform for monitoring the performance of web and mobile applications. | Session | Strictly necessary |
li_sugr | LinkedIn Insight Tag, when IP address is not in a Designated Country | 90 days | Strictly necessary |
messagesUtk | This cookie is used to recognize visitors who chat with you via the messages tool. If the visitor leaves your site before they're added as a contact, they will have this cookie associated with their browser. If you have a history of chatting with a visitor and they return to your site later in the same cookied browser, the messages tool will load your conversation history with that visitor. | 390 days | Strictly necessary |
_fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third party advertisers. | 90 days | Strictly necessary |
_lfa | This cookie is used by Leadfeeder to store and track audience reach. | 720 days | Strictly necessary |
_gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 90 days | Strictly necessary |
The cookie manager will not be able to control the loading of these third-party cookies. 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 decline 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.
Recording of consent
To adhere to privacy regulations, it is necessary to record what consent you provided for cookies loading should loaded within the browser. A unique identifier is created when you interact with the cookie manager, this identifier is stored in a strictly necessary cookie and is also stored within our secure servers. On being provided with an identifier, we will be able to list the date and time when a selection was made within the cookie manager, along with what consent was provided. For more details on the regulation regarding the recording of consent, please see https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/consent/how-should-we-obtain-record-and-manage-consent/
Privacy
We are committed to using cookies fairly and in accordance with applicable privacy rights. Our Privacy Policy can be accessed here.
Further information
If you have any queries relating to this Cookie Policy please [email protected].
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.