Who we are
The pages on the website (“the Website”) are published by Investis Limited (“Investis”), a company registered in England and Wales with company registration number 03930926, whose registered address is at 24 Fashion Street, London E1 6PX, on behalf of Assura plc, a company registered in England and Wales with company registration number 09349441, whose registered address is at Assura plc, 3 Barrington Road, Altrincham, WA14 1GY (“ Assura plc”).
What are cookies?
When you visit Assura plc’s Website, Investis uses cookies to maintain your connection to the Website. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is stored 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.
Cookies help Investis to provide you with a good experience when you browse the Website and also allow Investis to improve the Website. By continuing to browse the Website, you are agreeing to the use of cookies. If you do not agree to the use of cookies, please stop using the Website immediately.
The cookies which are used
Investis uses the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
- Analytical/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.
Third-party cookies
Please note that third parties (including, for example, providers of external services such as web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which Investis and Assura plc have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
Details of cookies
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AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. | 7 Days | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
__CookieConsentV300 | A plugin used to comply with EU guidelines. This cookie deals with alerting users of the use of cookies at the time of the first load. It stores the preferences saved by the user and helps drop only those cookies that are consented to by the user. | 180 Days | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
AWSALB | AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. | 7 Days | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
AWSELB | AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. | 0 Day | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
vuid | This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing | 730 Days | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
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continuous_play_v3 | Used to keep track of whether continuous play is on or not for a user | 318 Days | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
AWSELBCORS | AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. Same value as AWSELB. | 0 Day | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
AWSALBTGCORS | This domain is owned by Investis, a UK based business. It is used for embedding investor information into a client website. | 7 Days | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
ASP.NET_SessionId | SessionId what .NET Manages for maintaining session | 0 Day | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
AWSALBTG | AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to encode information about the selected target group. | 7 Days | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
1P_JAR | The cookie is used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. | 30 Days | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
_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 | Performance Cookie |
_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 | Performance Cookie |
_gat_UA-63205385-1 | 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. | 0 Day | Performance Cookie |
BC_ACCOUNT | This is the ID of the currently logged in Brightcove account | 1 Day | Performance Cookie |
BC_EMAIL | Used if "Remember me" is selected at login | 21 Days | Performance Cookie |
BC_POD | Defines the regional pod in which the Studio resides | 0 Day | Performance Cookie |
BC_TOKEN | Brightcove session cookie; anonymous unique identifier for Studio users | 0 Day | Performance Cookie |
fs_uid | These cookies identify the visitor in a third-party service for replaying sessions from users. These cookies to helps understand how users interact with site and to replicate any issues users may encounter. | 365 Days | Performance Cookie |
__cf_bm | To read and filter requests from bots. | A few seconds | Strictly Necessary |
_cfuvid | The _cfuvid cookie is set on a user’s browser to assign them a unique ID in addition to identifying them through their IP address. Without this cookie, visitors to a site will be recognized as the same user if they share the same IP, and any data collected will be shared for all users with that IP. | End of session | Strictly Necessary |
cf_clearance | The Clearance Cookie stores proof that a challenge was passed. If present, it prevents issuing the challenge again and is needed to access the origin server. | 1 Year | Strictly Necessary |
Google Analytics
The Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies (text files placed on your computer) to help website operators analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using this Website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
How to refuse the use of cookies
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