Information about our use of cookies
Our website uses cookies 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 site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They 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 are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you.
- Targeting 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 more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Our cookies
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
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Cookie
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Type
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Name
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Purpose
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More information
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Google Universal Analytics cookies
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Analytical/ performance
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__utma
__utmb
__utmc
__utmv
__utmz
__ga
__gat
_gid
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our services. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
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You can view the Google Privacy Policy here.
You can opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites here.
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Amazon Web Services
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Strictly necessary
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AWSELB
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This cookie is needed to ensure your visit to our website is correctly linked to your location and instance while being directed through our web server.
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Flashtalking
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Targeting
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flashtalkingad1
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We use Flashtalking to deliver and track our adverts on third party websites. This website contains a Flashtalking cookie to track how visitors arrive on our website – for example, from one of our advertisement campaigns. We use this information to measure how effective our digital advertising is and to look for ways to improve our website. These cookies can be used to provide visitors with more relevant adverts.
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You can view Flashtalking’s Privacy Policy and opt out of their cookies here.
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Sitecore
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Analytical/ performance
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SC_ANALYTICS_SESSION_COOKIE
SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL
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Sitecore is the liontrust.co.uk content management system. It sets cookies to track pages that a user visits during a single browsing session and to record the date and time the pages were accessed. They also identify repeat visits from the same users.
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Liontrust Cookie Policy notice acceptance
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Functionality
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CookieAccepted
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Once you have closed the cookie notice which appears at the top of the page, this information will be saved to the cookie in order to hide the message.
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Online enquiry form
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Functionality
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ASP.NET_SessionId
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A cookie is applied to remember your details when you submit our online enquiry form.
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Visitor role (Professional / Private investor)
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Functionality
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VisitorRole
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The Liontrust website restricts some content to professional investors. When trying to access restricted content for the first time, you will be redirected to a gateway screen and asked to confirm you are a professional investor. Your visitor role (the default is ‘Private investor’) is stored in this cookie.
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Functionality
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OriginalURL
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The URL of the last page on the Liontrust website that you viewed before changing your visitor role is stored in this cookie. This is so that the website can redirect you back to the right place once you have navigated the visitor gateway screen.
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Functionality
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UndeterminedRole
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This cookie is set if your visitor role wasn’t known prior to you visiting the site.
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Functionality
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ConfirmURL
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This cookie stores the URL of the page you are directed to once you have changed your visitor role.
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Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You can block cookies by updating your browser settings. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access parts of our site. The following links provide further information on how to block cookies:
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Google Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Cookies
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265
Opera: http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 12 months.
This policy was last updated on 22/05/2018.