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What are cookies?
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They also help us customise our web pages by remembering your preferences, such as font size, etc. When you return to our websites, we use the cookie information to identify your previous session.
This contributes to the overall quality of your experience on our websites.
Why do we use cookies?
We use cookies to make our websites work as you’d expect. They also help us to:
- continually improve our websites
- improve speed and security of our websites
- remember your search settings during and between visits
- let you share pages with social networks like Facebook and add comments to our site
- make our marketing more efficient so you should only see advertising or promotions that are relevant to you, eg via Google or Facebook.
We don’t use cookies to:
- gather any personally identifiable or sensitive data
- send personally identifiable data to third parties.
What type of cookies do we use?
The People’s Pension
Manage consents| Cookie type | Name | Where we use it | Why we use it and how long it lasts | Cookie category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Third-party cookie | __cf_bm | .t.co | Used by Cloudflare’s Bot Management service. It helps to manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. Expires after 1 day. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-1PAPISID | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. Expires after 12 months. | Marketing | |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-1PSID | Used to secure digitally signed and encrypted data from the unique Google ID. It also stores the most recent login time that Google uses to identify visitors, prevent fraudulent use of login data and to protect visitor data from unauthorised parties. This can also be used to show relevant and personalised advertising content. Expires after 12 months. | Functional | |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-1PSIDCC | Used to detect spam, fraud, and abuse to protect advertisers and YouTube creators. Expires after 13 months. | Marketing | |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-3PAPISID | Used to detect spam, fraud, and abuse to protect advertisers and YouTube creators. Expires after 13 months. | Marketing | |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-3PSID | Stores user consent on use of session data use within replays (not masked vs. full masked). Expires after 13 months. | Marketing | |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-3PSIDCC | Stores the URL-encoded custom variables from the session. Expires after Session length. | Marketing | |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-ENID | Stores the URL-encoded custom variables from the session. Expires after Session length. | Marketing | |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-YEC | YouTube | Stores the user’s preferences and other information. This includes the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page and the decision whether or not to activate Google’s SafeSearch filter. Expires after 13 months. | Functional |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-YNID | YouTube | This cookie is for YouTube integration and/or analytics. Expires after 12 months. | Functional |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_c | People’s Pension website | Checks if the browser supports cookies and sets flags. Expires Immediately. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_cvars | People’s Pension website | Cookies generated for Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics integrations which help determine the main domain on which to create integration cookies. Expires Immediately. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_cvars | People’s Pension website | _fbp summary cookie is used by Facebook to store and track visits across websites for marketing purposes. Expires after 90 days. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_debug | People’s Pension website | To identify unique users. Expires after 2 years. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_ex | People’s Pension website | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. Expires after 3 months. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_id | People’s Pension website | Used to determine which domain a cookie can be set on (since public suffix domains block setting cookies on the top level). Expires Immediately. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_mk_aa | People’s Pension website | Event properties cookie. Expires after 13 months minus a day. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_mk_ga | People’s Pension website | Contains last event timestamp. Expires after 13 months minus a day. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_mk_pa | People’s Pension website | Contains all metadata related to user/session. Expires after 13 months minus a day. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_optout | People’s Pension website | Used by Bing Ads to store and track visits across websites. Expires after 1 day. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_root-domain | People’s Pension website | Used by Bing Ads to store and track visits across websites. Expires after 1 day. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_s | People’s Pension website | Stores the user’s preferences and other information. This includes the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page and the decision whether or not to activate Google’s SafeSearch filter. Expires after 13 months. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_same_site | People’s Pension website | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. Expires after 2 years. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_t | People’s Pension website | The cookie is set by CookieYes to remember the user’s consent to the use of cookies on the website. Expires after 12 months. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_tld{nnnnnnnnnnnnn} | People’s Pension website | Used to remember the action taken by the user. Expires after 12 months. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _fbp | People’s Pension website | Used to store users’ consent for cookies in the ‘Advertisement’ category. Expires after 12 months | Marketing |
| First-party cookie | _ga | Google Analytics | Ensures Piano Analytics dimensions and eVars are set only once every 30 minutes. Expires after 30 minutes. | Analytics |
| First-party cookie | _gcl_au | People’s Pension website | Used to store a visitor’s unique Optimizely Experimentation identifier. This is a combination of a timestamp and a random number. No other visitor information is stored. Expires after 6 months. | Marketing |
| Third-party cookie | _hp2_hld | People’s Pension website | Used to store users’ consent for cookies in the ‘Analytics’ category. Expires after 12 months | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _hp5_event_props.ENV_ID | People’s Pension website | Used to store users’ consent for cookies in the ‘Functional’ category. Expires after 12 months | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _hp5_let.ENV_ID | People’s Pension website | Used as a unique identifier for visitors according to their consent. Expires after 12 months. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _hp5_meta.ENV_ID | People’s Pension website | Used to store users’ consent for cookies in the ‘Necessary’ category. Expires after 12 months. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _uetsid | Bing Ads | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. Expires after 12 months. | Marketing |
| Third-party cookie | _uetvid | Bing Ads | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. Expires after 13 months. | Marketing |
| Third-party cookie | APISID | Enables/disables specific behaviour of the Tag for debugging purposes. Expires after each visit. | Functional | |
| Third-party cookie | Bcookie | When set, the user is opted-out from tracking. Expires after 13 months. | Marketing | |
| Third-party cookie | cky-action | People’s Pension website | Used to store users’ consent for cookies in the ‘Other’ category. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cky-consent | People’s Pension website | Used to store users’ consent for cookies in the ‘Performance’ category. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyes-advertisement | People’s Pension website | Stores the user’s preferences and other information. This includes the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page and the decision whether or not to activate Google’s SafeSearch filter. Expires after 13 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyes-analytics | People’s Pension website | To measure visitors’ actions after they click through from an advert. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyes-functional | People’s Pension website | Used to store guest consent for the use of cookies for non-essential purposes. Expires after 2 years. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyesID | People’s Pension website | LinkedIn cookie used for routing from share buttons and ad tags. Expires after 24 hours. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyes-necessary | People’s Pension website | Used to manage user authentication. It may store encrypted or hashed data that helps the website recognise a logged-in user without requiring them to re-enter their credentials repeatedly. Expires after 13 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyes-other | People’s Pension website | This cookie is used to show relevant advertisements to visitors. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyes-performance | People’s Pension website | This is set by X (formerly known as Twitter) and is used for optimising ad relevance by collecting a visitor’s navigation data. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | HSID | When set, the user is excluded from tracking. Expires after 30 days. | Functional | |
| Third-party cookie | IDE | doubleclick.net | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. Expires after 13 months. | Marketing |
| Third-party cookie | li_gc | Stores the URI-encoded main domain name of the site. Expires Immediately. | Functional | |
| Third-party cookie | Lidc | Stores Session Replay data. Expires after 30 minutes. | Marketing | |
| Third-party cookie | LOGIN_INFO | YouTube | Stores the user’s preferences and other information. This includes the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page and the decision whether or not to activate Google’s SafeSearch filter. Expires after 13 months. | Functional |
| Third-party cookie | MSPTC | Bing | Targeting cookie. Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant personalised Google advertising. Expires after 13 months. | Marketing |
| Third-party cookie | muc_ads | X (formerly Twitter) | When an end-user browses to a site that’s instrumented with mPulse, Boomerang generates an RT cookie. It contains various pieces of information about the user’s session, as viewed by Boomerang. Expires after 7 days. | Marketing |
| Third-party cookie | MUID | Bing | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. Expires after 13 months. | Marketing |
| Third-party cookie | optimizelyEndUserId | People’s Pension website | Used to identify unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. Expires after 12 months. | Marketing |
| Third-party cookie | personalization_id | X (formerly Twitter) | Stores certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. Expires after 13 months. | Performance |
| First-party cookie | Recite.Persist | People’s Pension website | Check if the browser supports the SameSite flag. Expires Immediately. | Functional |
| First-party cookie | Recite.Preferences | People’s Pension website | This cookie is set by X (formerly known as Twitter) to measure the performance of advertising campaigns through X across different browsers and devices used by a visitor. Expires after 12 months. | Functional |
| Third-party cookie | RT | People’s Pension website | This stores a flag to indicate whether toolbar should persist between pages or not. Expires after each visit. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | SAPISID | peoplespension.co.uk | Used to store the recite toolbar preferences. Expires after 12 months. | Functional |
| Third-party cookie | SID | Stores technical user data. Expires after 13 months. | Functional | |
| Third-party cookie | SIDCC | Ensures Adobe Analytics dimensions and eVars are set only once every 30 minutes. Expires after 30 minutes. | Analytics | |
| Third-party cookie | SSID | Ensures Google Analytics dimensions and eVars are set only once every 30 minutes. Expires after 30 minutes. | Functional | |
| Third-party cookie | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube | To allow YouTube to collect usage information for YouTube hosted videos. Expires after 179 days. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | YouTube | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. Expires after 6 months. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | YSC | YouTube | Used to track video views and create accurately tailored experiences based on user preferences. Expires at the end of your session. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | YSC | YouTube | To allow YouTube to collect usage information for YouTube hosted videos. Expires after each visit. | Marketing |
Adviser Hub
| Cookie type | Name | Where we use it | Why we use it and how long it lasts | Cookie category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Third-party cookie | _fbp | _fbp summary cookie is used by Facebook to store and track visits across websites for marketing purposes. Expires after 90 days. | Marketing | |
| First-party cookie | _ga | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | To identify unique users. Expires after 2 years. | Marketing |
| First-party cookie | _gcl_au | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. Expires after 3 months. | Marketing |
| Third-party cookie | _hjSessionUser_1538465 | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | This cookie is set when a user first lands on a page. It ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. Expires after 12 months. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _uetsid | Bing | Used by Microsoft Bing Ads. It allows us to engage with a user who has previously visited our website. Expires after 24 hours. | Marketing |
| Third-party cookie | _uetvid | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | Used by bing.com to store and track visits across websites. Expires after 12 months. | Marketing |
| Third-party cookie | AWSELBCORS | Optimizely | This cookie is managed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is used for load balancing. Expires at the end of the browser session. | Functional |
| First party cookie | bandce_oauth_state | People’s Partnership | The oauth_state cookie is part of the OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol and is used to restore the previous state of your application. | Necessary |
| First-party cookie | bandce_oauth_state | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | Used as part of secure authentication. Expires after 30 minutes. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cky-action | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | The cookie is set by CookieYes to remember the user’s consent to the use of cookies on the website. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cky-consent | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | Used to remember the action taken by the user. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyes-advertisement | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | Used to store users’ consent for cookies in the ‘Advertisement’ category. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyes-analytics | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | Used to store users’ consent for cookies in the ‘Analytics’ category. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyes-functional | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | Used to store users’ consent for cookies in the ‘Functional’ category. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyesID | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | Used as a unique identifier for visitors according to their consent. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyes-necessary | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | Used to store users’ consent for cookies in the ‘Necessary’ category. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyes-other | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | Used to store users’ consent for cookies in the ‘Other’ category. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyes-performance | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | Used to store users’ consent for cookies in the ‘Other’ category. Expires after 12 cookies in the ‘Performance’ category. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | optimizelyEndUserId | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | Used to store a visitor’s unique Optimizely Experimentation identifier. This is a combination of a timestamp and a random number. No other information about you or your visitors is stored. Expires after 6 months. | Performance |
| Third-party cookie | optimizelyRumLB | Optimizely | This cookie is used for Optimizely Experimentation. Expires after 6 months. | Performance |
| Third-party cookie | RT | People’s Partnership | When an end-user browses to a site that’s instrumented with mPulse, Boomerang generates an RT cookie. It contains various pieces of information about the user’s session, as viewed by Boomerang. Expires after 7 days. | Analytics |
| First-party cookie | tpp.idsrv.xsrf | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | This cookie is used for authentication. Expires at the end of the browser session. | Necessary |
| First-party cookie | tpp.SignInMessage.0c6a34d821a152285c14278840f33184 | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | This cookie is used for authentication. Expires at the end of the browser session. | Necessary |
| First-party cookie | wordpress_logged_in_ | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | To help us keep you logged in to our site. Expires after each visit. | Necessary |
| First-party cookie | wordpress_sec_ | People’s Pension website – Adviser Hub | To help us keep you logged in to our site. Expires after each visit. | Necessary |
Additional information
First-party cookies
We set first-party cookies on behalf of the website you are visiting.
Third-party cookies
Third-party cookies collect and use anonymous information about your visits and interactions with our websites. We use third-party cookies to serve and personalise advertisements for our products and services. They also ensure we implement opt-outs made via the third party.
Necessary cookies
Cookies in this category are necessary for the site to function normally, so cannot be turned off.
Analytics cookies
These cookies are used to help us improve the performance of some or all pages on our website.
For instance, we use Google Analytics to look at how people navigate through our website and use this to make improvements.
Functional cookies
These cookies are used to enable certain functionality on our site such as personalisation.
Disabling may lead to a poorer browsing experience.
Marketing cookies
These cookies will be used to track your preferences and only show adverts relevant to your interests.
Social website cookies
So you can easily ‘Like’ or share our content on social networks (such as Facebook) we’ve included sharing buttons on our websites. These are set by ShareThis, AddThis and X (formerly known as Twitter).
The privacy implications will vary from social network to social network. They depend on the privacy settings you’ve chosen on these networks.
Anonymous visitor statistics cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics – such as how many people have visited our website, how long they spend on the site and what pages they look at.
We use Google Analytics to provide these statistics, which help us to continuously improve our website. They also tell us, on an anonymous basis, how people reached our websites (for example from a search engine) and whether they’ve visited before.
You can opt out of Google Analytics by using Google’s opt-out tool.
What to do about unwanted cookies
Deleting cookies. Some web browsers allow you to delete cookies. If your browser allows this, you’ll be able to change your settings so that whenever you close your browser, it will delete any cookies that have been put on during that session of browsing.
Refusing cookies. Just remember that if you change your browser settings to refuse all cookies – in other words, websites won’t be able to put them on your device at all – you won’t be able to access your Online Account with us. If you’re worried about ‘spyware’, then rather than refusing all cookies, you may find you can use anti-spyware software to achieve the same goal by automatically deleting cookies it thinks are invasive.
Getting a warning about cookies. You can change your browser settings to warn you before cookies are used (and get the option of using them or not). You can do this by following the instructions in your browser. These are normally in the Help, Tools, or Edit menus.
How to stop unwanted adverts
Opting out of online adverts. To stop getting online interest-based advertisements from Facebook and other participating companies, visit the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance. You’ll need to opt-out separately with each browser you use.
Where to go for more information about cookies
Visit allaboutcookies.org
Or check out the Information Commissioner’s Office website.