What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, mobile phone or other device you use when you browse certain websites. These files contain data that can be accessed by a web server, letting it know if the user has visited the site before. They are often used to tailor a web page with settings that are specific to the user, for instance; when a browser stores your username and password.
The time of expiration of a cookie depends on the type of cookie it is. Session cookies expire once you close down your browser. Persistent cookies do not expire once you close down your browser – they remain on your hard disk until their later expiration date or they are deleted. We use both session and persistent cookies on our website. For further general information regarding cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Who sets Cookies?
Cookies may be set by our websites or by another site prior to or during your visit to our Website.
These are known as ‘first–party’ and ‘third–party’ cookies.
First–party cookies belong to the website domain that appears in the browser address bar.
Third-party cookies belong to website domains different from the one shown in the address bar. Some web pages can feature content from third-party domains (such as banner ads). Other sites may also set cookies on your device during a visit to one of our websites. These sites will be approved partners.
How We Use Cookies
Below we describe the cookies we deploy on our websites, organized by the categories defined by the International Chamber of Commerce.
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how you use a website, for example which pages you go to most often and if you get error messages from certain pages. These cookies don’t gather information that identifies you. Information collected by these cookies is anonymous and is only used to improve how a website works.
Performance cookies are not used to target you with online advertising. You can disable them, but then the website owner will be unable to see how its websites are performing and make relevant improvements to enhance your browsing experience
Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features such as changes you have made to text size, fonts and other part of web pages that can be customized.
The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, if you want to enjoy the full functionality of the website, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.
Email: Ed.Froggatt@RaymondJames.com | Phone: +44 (0)20 3883 2810