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
| Name | Description | Duration | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| __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 |
| __cf_bm | The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. This is a CloudFoundry cookie | End of browser session | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
| _cfuvid | The _cfuvid cookie is used by Cloudflare to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address for the purpose of enforcing rate limiting rules. | End of browser session | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
| __RequestVerificationToken | This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser. | End of browser session | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | End of browser session | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
| _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. | End of browser session | Performance Cookies |
| _gclxxxx | This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to store and track conversions.Google conversion tracking cookie | End of browser session | Performance Cookies |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | Used by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. | End of browser session | Performance Cookies |
| AWSALBTG | Used to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. | 6 Days | Functional Cookies |
| AWSALBTGCORS | Used to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. | 6 Days | Functional Cookies |
| AWSALBCORS | Used to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. | 6 Days | Functional Cookies |
| _cfuvid | This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing | End of browser session | Functional Cookies |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | This domain is owned by Investis which provides functionality for load balancing and maintaining user sessions on the website. | End of browser session | Functional Cookies |
| AWSALB | Used to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. | 6 Days | Functional Cookies |
| __cf_bm | This is a CloudFoundry cookie | End of browser session | Functional Cookies |
| ar_debug | This cookie is used by Google Ad Services to debug ads. | 1 Year | Functional Cookies |
| _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | 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.Google Analytics Cookies | End of browser session | Marketing Cookies |
| AWSALB | AWS ELB application load balancerUsed to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. | 6 Days | Marketing Cookies |
| AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing.Used to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. | 6 Days | Marketing Cookies |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Functionality is to provide ad delivery or retargeting, store and track a visitor's identity, Store and track interaction. | 6 Months | Marketing Cookies |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | This cookie is hosted by YouTube and used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos | 90 Days | Marketing Cookies |
| YSC | The functionality is to Store and track interaction. | End of browser session | Marketing Cookies |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | 180 Days | Marketing Cookies |
| _gcl_au | This cookie is used to store and track conversions. | Persistent | Marketing Cookies |
| DV | This cookie is used to provide ad delivery or retargeting. | 1 day | Marketing Cookies |
| AEC | This cookie is used by Google to ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. | 6 Months | Other Cookies |
| NID | This cookie is used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users. | 6 Months | Other Cookies |
| hdntl | - | 0 Days | Other Cookies |
| ARRAffinity | - | 0 Days | Other Cookies |
| .AspNetCore.Session | - | 0 Days | Other Cookies |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | - | 0 Days | Other Cookies |
| DV | - | - | Other Cookies |
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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