Cookie Policy

Cookies are small data files that are sent to and stored on your computer, smartphone or other device used to access the internet, whenever you visit a website. We use cookies to enable and improve certain functions on our website and gain feedback on how our website is used. If you choose to switch certain cookies off, it will affect how our website works.

Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise the device you are using. As the First Sentier Investors group are based in various jurisdictions and operate different websites for each regional business, we use cookies to store general information such as the region where you are based, the language the site is being viewed in and the type of client you are. This helps us to tailor our website to better suit your requirements. The Cookies we use here are ‘session’ cookies and will be removed every time you leave our website.

When you browse this website, you do so on the basis of these Terms and Conditions, a Cookie may set if you have accepted them. This can mean that you don’t have to re-accept them on every visit. This type of cookie is ‘persistent’ as they remember your preferences. Every time we amend our Terms and Conditions, or on an annual basis, a new Cookie will be set and you will be asked to re-accept our Terms and Conditions.

We use analytics cookies to collect information on website activity (such as the number of users who visit our website, the date and time of visits, the number of pages viewed, navigation patterns, what country and what systems users have used to access the site and, when entering our website from another website, the address of that web site). This information on its own does not identify an individual but it does provide us with statistics that can be used to analyse and improve our website. Visit Google’s site for an overview of privacy at Google and information on how to opt out of the Google Analytics cookie. These Cookies are ‘session’ cookies.

The browsers of most computers, smartphones and other web-enabled devices are usually set up to accept cookies. If your browser preferences allow it, you can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when cookies are set. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn about how to change your cookie preferences.

However, please remember that cookies are often used to enable and improve certain functions on our website. If you choose to switch certain cookies off, it will affect how our website works and certain functionality may not work. More information about cookies can be found on www.allaboutcookies.org.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics use third and first-party cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website, helping us to optimise user experience.

The duration of the Google cookies, and further information about Google cookies, can be found here.

Details of Google's privacy policy is here.

_ga: This persistent cookie is used to distinguish users and expires after two years.

_gid: This persistent cookie is used to distinguish users and expires after 24 hours.

_gat: This persistent cookie is used to throttle the request rate (limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites) from Google Analytics. It expires after 10 minutes.

_utma: This persistent cookie is used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics and expires after 2 years.

_utmb: This persistent cookie is used to determine new sessions/visits. This cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics and expires after 30 mins.

_utmc: This session cookie operates in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user is in a new session/visit. This cookie expires at the end of the browser session.

_utmz: This persistent cookie stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reaches our site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. This cookie expires after 6 months.

Google Tag Manager

dc_gtm_: Google Tag Manager is used to manage all scripts on the website. This persistent cookie expires after 10 minutes.

You can find more information about the types of cookies used by Google here.

Amazon Web Services

AWSELB: This cookie is associated with the Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing functionality for routing client request on the server.

Terms and Conditions

SIW_TERMS: This cookie is a session based cookie, used to determine agreement to our Terms and Conditions and also holds your regional selection.

Cookies

SIW_COOKIES_ACCEPTED: This cookie is a session based cookie, used to determine agreement to our Cookie Policy.