This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. The cookies we use are to record your options for your visit and future visits. They are designed to expire and do not record any personally identifiable information.
In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping baskets, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser.
We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.
Our website uses a number of cookies for a number of reasons. We explain these in this policy. Before we can use some – but not all – of these cookies, we need your consent.
You may alter your consent preferences – including to withdraw consent to non-essential cookies which you have previously given – at any time by moving the on/off toggles below, or by clicking ‘Reject all non-essential cookies’ to reject all optional cookies. Any selections you make will be automatically saved and you may navigate away from the Cookie Policy.
Your cookie settings
Essential cookies These are used to operate the core functions of our website, so that you may visit and move around it, and use its features. We do not require your consent to use these cookies. More information Experience enhancing cookies at present, we do not use these types of cookies. Choosing to ‘Allow all cookies’ or moving this toggle to ‘on’ will have no impact. If we wish to use these types of cookies in the future, we will provide details of the cookies so that you can make an informed choice as to whether you consent to our use of them at that time. More information
Analytics cookies
These help us to understand how visitors use and move around our website, which inform improvements and adaptions to our website. Rejecting these cookies prevents us from collecting such data. The performance of our site will not be affected.
More information Social media cookies
These provide us with anonymised demographics and browsing activity information, and help us to tailor and measure the effectiveness of our advertising on social media sites. Rejecting these prevents us from relating your visits to our website to our social media marketing campaigns and prevents social media sites from setting cookies on your device via pinsentmasons.com. More information
- Essential cookies
- Experience enhancing cookies Analytics cookies
- Social media cookies
- Reject all non-essential cookies*
*Your selections will be automatically saved and you may navigate away from the Cookie Policy.
If you have any queries concerning our use of your personal information, please email [email protected]. Please also visit our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect your personal information, what we do with it and your rights in respect of it.
- What are cookies?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Software on your device, for example a web browser, stores the cookies and sends them back to a website next time you visit. Cookies allow websites to recognise your device and preferences, and provide information to the owners of sites which can be used to improve your online experience.
You can find more information about cookies and similar technologies at www.aboutcookies.org
- The types of cookies that we use
This section sets out information about the cookie technology that we use on our site for which we are responsible. Where ‘personal data’ is processed by these cookies, Habitua Lts is the ‘data controller’ of that information, within the meaning of applicable data protection legislation. For an explanation of the meaning of these and other data protection legislation terms, and for comprehensive information about our responsibilities when handling personal data – including transfers of personal data across Habitua’s business worldwide – and your rights in respect of any personal information of yours that we process, please see our Privacy Policy.
Third party providers of the cookie technology that we use may process data collected by the cookies on our site, in an aggregated form, for their own purposes. If this is the case in respect of any of the third party cookie providers that we use, we have indicated as much in the tables set out in this section.
Basic performance – ‘necessary’ or ‘essential’ cookies
We use essential cookies to operate the core functions of our website, so that you may visit and move around it, and use its features. We do not require your consent to use these cookies but you may be able to block these cookies yourself on your device/browser (see section 4 of this Policy). However, without these cookies, our site is unlikely to work as you would expect and certain services that you may ask for, for example, signing into your online account, cannot be provided.
Where we process ‘personal data’ using these essential cookies, we do so on the basis of our legitimate interests to provide a website for visitors to use and to promote our business.
More information about our use of essential cookies
Purpose of Essential cookies
The essential cookies that we use on our website are technically necessary for the site to function properly.
For example, essential cookies are required so that you can log into your account, set your preferences and complete forms. They remember you and your settings, and save you having to retype information when navigating between pages. They ensure our pages load quickly by distributing the workload. Essential cookies are also necessary for our site to distinguish between browsers, differentiate users behind a shared IP address so as to deliver correct content, and to recognise trusted traffic and apply security settings.
Data processed by Essential cookies
When you navigate to and around our website our essential cookies collect your session ID, a time stamp of your visit and log in, and session verification data. Our essential cookies may also collect information about your browser type and settings, device type and settings, operating system and mobile network.
Recipients
We process data collected by essential cookies on our own servers. Data collected by certain essential cookies may be collected, in aggregate form only from which no one visit to our site can be identified or distinguished from another, by our third-party essential cookie providers such as Sitecore, for their own purposes.
Transfers
Our global presence means that your personal information may be transferred across the business worldwide due, for example, to our shared IT systems and datacentres, and cross-border working practices. For more information about such transfers across our business please see our Privacy Policy.
Duration
Certain of our essential cookies are session cookies, meaning they expire once you exit your session and close your browser.
Other of our essential cookies may last for six months or longer, for example, to remember your cookie preferences for this period and to recognize trusted traffic, or for as long as you retain an online account with us.
Help us to improve – ‘analytics’ cookies
Analytics cookies are used by us for statistical analysis purposes. This helps us to understand how visitors use and move around our website, which informs improvements and adaptions to our website to best meet our visitors’ needs by, for example, making the most popular features the easiest to find and access or ensuring that our site works properly on the devices and technologies that our visitors use.
These cookies work by using a distinctive sequence of characters from which your browser or device can be identified (‘unique ID’), which, for example, can be used by us to recognise the date and time of your visit(s) to our site. Our analytics cookies may also collect information about your browser type and settings, device type and settings, operating system and mobile
network. This information is used to distinguish you from other visitors to our site, but it cannot be used to identify you as a named individual.
We will only set these types of cookies where you have provided us with your consent to do so by either choosing to ‘Allow all cookies’ or by adjusting your cookie settings via the ‘Your cookies settings’, above. Where we process your personal information using these types of cookies, we do so on the basis of that consent.
Rejecting our analytics cookies will prevent us from collecting the data described above to improve our site for you and other visitors. The performance and functionality of our site will not be affected.
The analytics cookies that we use
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a widely used platform for measuring the performance of a website. It helps us to understand things like what our visitors are reading and what technology (e.g. browsers) we should prioritise for testing. This information is used to help us give you the best possible experience – more of what you want, and less of what you don’t.
We process the data collected by these Google Analytics cookies. Google Analytics may provide us with technical support. Data may be collected – in aggregate form only from which no one visitor to our site can be identified or distinguished from another – by Google Analytics to help improve Google Analytics’ products and services.
Rejecting analytic cookies will prevent us from using Google Analytics cookies to collect data about your visit(s) to our site, which would be used by us in aggregation with other visitors’ data to understand visitors’ behaviour and how many visits are made to our site. This will not affect any consent to the use of Google Analytics cookies that you may give to other websites.
Cookie |
Purpose |
Duration |
| _ga | To distinguish users. | 2 Years |
| _gid | To distinguish users. | 24 Years |
| _gat | To throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_. |
1 minute |
| AMP_TOKEN | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. |
30seconds to 1year |
| _gac_ | Contains campaign related information. Where we have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. Learn more. | 90 days |
Social media cookies
We have configured the social media plug-ins on our website to only set cookies on devices used by logged-in members of those social media platforms. For example, we may advertise the services that we provide and job opportunities on certain third party websites such as LinkedIn. We use cookies from those third parties’ sites on our own website to:
- provide us with anonymised demographics and browsing activity information of the logged-in visitors to our own website;
- help us to tailor our advertising on the websites of those third parties to previous logged-in visitors to certain pages of our own site; and
- help us measure the effectiveness of our
These cookies work by using a distinctive sequence of characters from which your browser or device can be identified (‘unique ID’). Social media cookies may also collect information about your browser type and settings, device type and settings, operating system and mobile network. This information is used to distinguish you from other visitors to our site, but it cannot be used to identify you as a named individual.
We will only set these types of cookies where you have provided us with your consent to do so by either choosing to ‘Allow all cookies’ or by adjusting your cookie settings via the ‘Your cookies settings’, above. Where we process your personal information using these types of cookies, we do so on the basis of that consent.
Rejecting these cookies will prevent us from relating your visits to our website to our LinkedIn marketing campaigns. It will also prevent any cookies that you have given consent for LinkedIn to use to better understand your browsing behavior to be stored on your device via Habitua Ltd.
The social media cookies that we use
These cookies help us to understand the performance of any advertising we do on the LinkedIn platform. They also allow us to deliver adverts to people who are likely to be interested in them (based on what they have read on our website). For example, we might promote the new version of an annual report to those who read the previous year’s report.
We process the data collected by these LinkedIn cookies. LinkedIn may provide us with technical support. Data may be collected – in aggregate form only from which no one visitor to our site can be identified or distinguished from another – by LinkedIn for its own purposes.
UserMatchHistory
.linkedin.com
Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place
for users in EU, EEA, and
Switzerland (the ‘Designated Countries’).
li_oatml
.linkedin.com
Used to identify LinkedIn Members who are not on LinkedIn at that time for advertising and analytics outside the Designated Countries and, for a limited time,
lms_ads
.linkedin.com
Used to identify LinkedIn Members who are not on at that time LinkedIn in the Designated
Countries for advertising.
lms_analytics
.linkedin.com
Used to identify LinkedIn Members in the Designated Countries for analytics.
li_fat_id
Various, first party dom
Member indirect identifier for Members
for conversion tracking, retargeting and analytics.
li_sugr
.linkedin.com
Used to make a probabilistic match
of a user’s identity outside the Designated Countries.
U Browser Identifier for users outside the Designated Countries.
.adsymptotic.com
_guid linkedin.com
Used to identify a LinkedIn Member for advertising through Google Ads.
lidc Used for routing.
.linkedin.com
bcookie Browser ID cookie.
.linkedin.cobscookie Secure browser ID cookie.
.linkedin.com
L1c Browser ID cookie.
.linkedin.com
BizoID LinkedIn Ad analytics.
ads.linkedin.com
BizoData LinkedIn Ad analytics.
ads.linkedin.com
BizoUserMatchHistory LinkedIn Ad analytics.
ads.linkedin.com
BizoNetwork PartnerIndex
ads.linkedin.com
LinkedIn Ad analytics.
- Note on ‘Experience Enhancing’ cookies
At present, we do not use experiencing enhancing cookies. Experiencing enhancing cookies would allow us to tailor content for you, for example to make our site and information displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
Choosing to ‘Allow all cookies’ or moving the on/off toggle for ‘Experience enhancing’ to ‘on’ in your ‘Manage my cookies’ preference centre will have no impact at this time. We have included this section and consent toggle functionality as we anticipate that in the future we may wish to use these types of cookies with your consent. If we wish to process your personal information using these types of cookies in the future, we will do so on the basis of your informed consent at that time. This means that we will provide details of the cookies so that you can make an informed choice as to whether you consent to our use of them.
- Cookie set by third parties
‘Third party cookies’ are cookies set by a domain other than the one that you are visiting. When you visit our website, third party organizations may place cookies on your browser, even if you are not a logged-in member of those organizations. This is because third party cookies do not require you to actively engage with the third party’s content or visit their site, just load a page on which the third party’s technology sits. For example, we use third party technologies such as video and audio hosting platforms to enable you to watch videos and listen to podcasts on our website. The providers of these technologies may deploy cookies to your browser when you visit the pages on our site where we are using their technologies.
These cookies may inform the third party organizations about your visit to our site which may be used by those organizations to deliver targeted messages and advertising to you. In all cases, we do not set these cookies and we have no access to the information that they gather. Such cookies are subject to the third party organizations’ own cookie policies.
The third party technologies that we use on our website
- How to manage cookies using your browser
All recent versions of popular browsers give you a level of control over cookies. You can set your browser to accept or reject all, or certain, cookies. For instructions on how to manage cookies, please read the ‘Help’ section of your browser or visit our guide at www.aboutcookies.org.
If you use your browser settings to block all cookies, which would include blocking our ‘basic performance’/ essential cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
Cookies can also be controlled by your web browser settings. Whether our cookies are used will depend on your browser settings, so you are in control. All browsers allow you to reject and/or delete cookies either one at a time or all at once. The procedure for this depends on the browser you use.
To find out more about how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them on various common browsers, please use the following links:
Internet Explorer – more information Chrome – more information
Firefox – more information Safari – more information Opera – more information
iPhone, iPad and other equipment from Apple – more information All phones and other equipment on Android – more information
You may specifically opt-out of data being collected and used by Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on
Please note that where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources. In relation to third-party cookies, you may change your settings by setting your preferences on that third party’s website.