Cookie policy
Our website uses technology to collect information about its use, to distinguish between users, to help us provide you with a good experience and to allow us to improve the site and the service we offer. This means that when you visit our website, cookies or similar technologies will be placed on your computer or other device.
What are cookies?
Cookies are files that are stored on a user’s computer when navigating the Internet and that, in particular, contain a number that allows the user’s computer to be unequivocally identified, even if the user changes locations or IP addresses. Cookies are installed while navigating the Internet, either by websites that the user visits or by third parties with which the website engages, and allows the latter to become aware of the user’s activity on the same site, or on others with which it engages, for instance: the location from which it accesses the site, connection time, the device from which it accesses (fixed or portable), the operating system and navigator used, most-visited websites, number of clicks, and the data regarding the user’s behaviour on the Internet.
The website can be accessed without needing the cookies to be activated, although deactivation may prevent the site from operating correctly.
How does Santander Asset Management UK use cookies?
Cookies allow us to recognise users (where appropriate), tailor the content on our website to fit the needs of our website's visitors and helps us improve the user experience. Without certain types of cookies enabled, we can't guarantee that the website and your experience of it are as we intended it to be.
We use cookies to obtain information about your visits and about the device you use to access our website. This includes where available, your IP address and pseudonymous identifiers, operating system and browser type and, depending on the cookie, also includes the reporting of statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns.
Authorization for the use of cookies
Users or visitors to the page accept that, when navigating the site, they expressly consent to the use of cookies as described below.
You can however set up your browser to delete or refuse some or all of them, or to notify you when you are sent a cookie and therefore choose whether or not to accept it. You may also delete or refuse, some or all of the cookies, on our website at any time.
Types of cookies
Depending on the length of time a cookie stays on your device:
- Session cookies are temporary cookies which only exist during the time you use the website (or more strictly, until you close the browser after using the website).
- Persistent cookies stay on the device after visiting our website and can be deleted by the user. Persistent cookies help us identify you as a unique visitor.
Depending on the entity that manage the cookies:
- Cookies inserted directly by the Owner of the website in the user device.
- Third parties cookies inserted by a third party in the user device. Cookies installed by the owner of the site but the information collected is managed by a third party are also considered third party cookies.
What cookies we use?
Navigating our website, you may find cookies inserted directly by the Owner as described in the following section:
- Technical cookies - Active always: These cookies are necessary to ensure the basic functioning of the Site and cannot be deactivated. For example, they allow identification of the session, access to restricted areas, use of security elements during browsing, etc.
| Cookie | Owner | Duration | Expiry | Function |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OptanonConsent | Santander Asset Management, UK | Persistent | 1 year | Allows the functioning of the cookies module |
| nlbi | Santander Asset Management, UK | Session | Session | Encapsulates DDoS Protection and Web Application Firewall: Load balancing cookie to ensure requests by a user are sent to the same origins server |
| Incap ses | Santander Asset Management, UK | Session | Session | Encapsulates DDoS Protection and Web Application Firewall: The cookie on which HTTP requests are related to a certain session (AKA visit). Re-opening the browser and accessing the same site is supposed to be considered different visits. It is used in order to maintain an existing session (i.e. session cookie) |
| Visid incap | Santander Asset Management, UK | Persistent | 1 year | Encapsulates DDoS Protection and Web Application Firewall: The cookie on which sessions are related to a specific visitor (visitor representing a specific computer)in order to identify clients which have already visited the site. |
| profile | Santander Asset Management, UK | Persistent | 1 year | This cookie is necessary to ensure the basic functioning of the site and cannot be deactivated. It allows access to restricted areas |
| terms_accepted_institutional | Santander Asset Management, UK | Session | Session | This cookie is necessary to ensure the basic functioning of the site and cannot be deactivated. It allows access to restricted areas |
| terms_accepted_intermediaries | Santander Asset Management, UK | Session | Session | This cookie is necessary to ensure the basic functioning of the site and cannot be deactivated. It allows access to restricted areas |
| accept_legal_disclaimer_intermediaries | Santander Asset Management, UK | Persistent | 1 year | This cookie is necessary to ensure the basic functioning of the site and cannot be deactivated. It allows access to restricted areas |
| accept_legal_disclaimer_retail | Santander Asset Management, UK | Persistent | 1 year | This cookie is necessary to ensure the basic functioning of the site and cannot be deactivated. It allows access to restricted areas |
| accept_legal_disclaimer_institutional | Santander Asset Management, UK | Persistent | 1 year | This cookie is necessary to ensure the basic functioning of the site and cannot be deactivated. It allows access to restricted areas |
| eZSESSID* | Santander Asset Management, UK | Session | Session | This cookie is necessary to ensure the basic functionality of the website and cannot be deactivated. They allow access to specific areas. |
| eZSESSID_SAMSESSID | Santander Asset Management, UK | Session | Session | This cookie is necessary to ensure the basic functionality of the website and cannot be deactivated. They allow access to specific areas. |
| terms_accepted_retail | Santander Asset Management, UK | Session | Session | This cookie is necessary to ensure the basic functionality of the website and cannot be deactivated. They allow access to specific areas. |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | Santander S.A | Persistent | 1 year | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some one cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. |
| YSC | youtube.com | Non-persistent | Session | 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. |
| ___utmvxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Google Analytics | Non-persistent | Session | Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. |
- Behavioural advertising cookies: These cookies, own or third party, store information on user behaviour obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits (repeated visits to a specific site, interactions, keywords, online content production, etc.), allowing the development of a specific profile in order to show advertising based on such behaviour.
| Cookie | Owner | Duration | Expiry | Function |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CONSENT | Youtube | Session | 1 year | Youtube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. Youtube collects user data throught videos enmbedded 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. |
| _fbp | Persistent | 2 Months | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | |
| YouTube | Youtube | Persistent | 5 Months | It is a YouTube cookie that is used in the context of visitor privacy on websites. It is used to store information about the visitor's privacy settings, such as whether they have accepted or rejected the use of cookies or whether they have opted out of tracking. |
| YouTube | Youtube | Persistent | 6 Months | This cookie contains a unique ID that Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language, the number of search results you want to display per page, and is also used to detect and resolve problems with the service. |
- Analytical cookies: These cookies, either our own or those of third parties, are used to obtain information on the performance of the Site and the use made of it by the user, such as, for example, quantifying the number of users who have visited the Site, measuring and analysing statistics on how users arrive at the Site and what use they make of it
| Cookie | Owner | Duration | Expiry | Function |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | Persistent | 2 years | We use Google Analytics to collect anonymize statistics of visits and use of our website. This information help us to understand the activity and be able to improve the ongoing user experience. |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Persistent | 2 years | We use Google Analytics to collect anonymize statistics of visits and use of our website. This information help us to understand the activity and be able to improve the ongoing user experience. |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | Google Analytics | Persistent | 1 Year | To generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the Service |
| _utma | Google Analytics | Persistent | 2 years | We use Google Analytics to collect anonymize statistics of visits and use of our website. This information help us to understand the activity and be able to improve the ongoing user experience. |
| _utmb | Google Analytics | Persistent | 2 years | We use Google Analytics to collect anonymize statistics of visits and use of our website. This information help us to understand the activity and be able to improve the ongoing user experience. |
| _utmc | Google Analytics | Persistent | 2 years | We use Google Analytics to collect anonymize statistics of visits and use of our website. This information help us to understand the activity and be able to improve the ongoing user experience. |
| _utmz | Google Analytics | Persistent | 2 years | We use Google Analytics to collect anonymize statistics of visits and use of our website. This information help us to understand the activity and be able to improve the ongoing user experience. |
| _gid | Santander Asset Management | Persistent | 1 day | Used to distinguish users |
| _gat_UA- | Santander Asset Management | Persistent | 1 day | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
These cookies are collected by a third party (Google Inc.). Google Analytics stores cookies in data centres located in USA and do not share your information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of Google except in the following cases: with your consent, with domain administrators, for external processing or for legal reasons.
More information about Google privacy and terms in http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
More information about Google cookies usage in https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage?hl=en&csw=1
Third party cookies
When you visit our website, you may receive cookies that are set by third parties. These may include cookies set by Google, YouTube, Financial Express. These cookies are used for certain functionalities in the website. We do not control the setting of these third-party cookies, so we suggest you might wish to check the third party website for more information about their use of cookies and how to manage them.
Google Maps: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en
YouTube: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en
Financial Express (For Fund centre): https://www.fefundinfo.com/en-gb/about/legal-and-policies/privacy-and-cookie-policy/
Deleting and controlling cookies in browser
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developers website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Policy
Cookie Policy data and contacts
To help you understand cookies and the reasons for them, we’ve provided a description of each cookie that we use, what it does, and that it does not collect personal data about you. We use a feature that allows us to anonymize all the user’s IPs addresses within our website. The IP anonymization/masking takes place as soon as data is received by the Analytics Collection Network, before any storage or processing takes place. It also includes pseudonymous identifiers (e.g. strings of numbers or letters) if it is possible for us to identify you from these.
If you would like to make any queries about our Website’s Cookie Policy or to revoke the previously provided consent, please contact us at the following email address: samukbpqueries@santanderam.com.