This cookie notice applies to the FCA website fca.org.uk only.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your electronic device (such as a laptop, mobile or tablet). Cookies are widely used to make websites work, or to work more efficiently, or to provide information to the owners of the site.
Our website uses cookies to distinguish one user of our website from another. This helps us to provide a better experience when you browse our website, and allows us to improve our site and measure the performance of our advertisement campaigns.
When someone visits our website, we use first-party and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are set directly by our website and third-party cookies are set by a domain other than the one the user is visiting. For example, we use Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information, such as details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to identify the number of visitors to various parts of the site. This information is processed in a way which does not identify any individual.
We use the following cookies:
- Necessary cookies. These cookies enable core functionality on our website such as security, network management, and accessibility.
- Non-essential cookies. These are optional cookies. We only use these cookies to provide us with anonymous data. We rely upon your consent to allow us to do this. Analytical/performance 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.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use, and why we use them, in the table below:
Necessary cookies
| Cookie | Category | Purpose | Description | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fca-cookie-agreed | Drupal - content management cookies |
Ensures the consent banner is not displayed again for a set period after a user has clicked on it. |
We use Drupal cookies to display and remember content based on selections you have already made. | 90 days. |
| has_js | Drupal - content management cookies |
Typical content: Boolean. |
We use Drupal cookies to display and remember content based on selections you have already made | When user closes the page. |
| JSESSIONID | New Relic cookies |
Used to store a session identifier so that New Relic can monitor session counts for an application. |
You can find out more about New Relic Browsers security measures on the New Relic Browser website. | Deleted when the browser closes. |
| fca_popup_global | Drupal – content management cookies | Determines if user has acknowledged a FCA pop-up banner. Typical content: Boolean. | We use Drupal cookies to display and remember content based on selections you have already made. | 30 days. |
| fca_popup | Drupal – content management cookies | Determines if a user has acknowledge a banner on a specific page (not global). Typical content: Boolean. | We use Drupal cookies to display and remember content based on selections you have already made. | 30 days. |
| ad_session_id | TwentyThree – video platform cookies | Used for traffic balancing so performance is stable. | You can find out more on the TwentyThree cookie policy on their website. | 90 days. |
Non-essential cookies
| Cookie | Category | Purpose | Description | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | This cookie enables us to distinguish users and estimate our audience size and usage pattern. | For further details on Google Analytics cookies, including those not used by fca.org.uk, visit Google. | 2 years. |
| nmstat | Siteimprove analytics | This cookie enables us to distinguish users and is used to collect statistics about site usage, such as when the visitor last visited the site. | For further details on Siteimprove cookies, visit Siteimprove privacy. | 1000 days. |
| siteimproveses | Siteimprove analytics | This cookie enables us to identify order of pages a visitor looks at during a visit. | For further details on Siteimprove cookies, visit Siteimprove privacy. | Maximum time allowed by browser. |
| fca-cookie-agreed-categories | Drupal - content management cookies | Determines if user has accepted analytics and campaign advertising cookies. Typical content: Boolean. | We use Drupal cookies to display and remember content based on selections you have already made. | 3 months |
| Bing Universal event Tag | Bing search | We will capture cookie data using this tag. This will enable us to re-target users via search. | For further details on Bing Universal Event cookies, visit Bing ads. https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/privacystatement. | 180 days |
| AdWords Re-marketing Tag | Google AdWords | We will capture cookie data using this tag. This will enable us to re-target users via search. | For further details on Google AdWords cookies, visit AdWords Help. | Up to 180 days. |
| _fbp | This cookie allows us to measure the performance of our Facebook advertising and serve targeted adverts on the Facebook platform. | For further details on Facebook cookies, including those not used by fca.org.uk, visit cookies set by Facebook. | 90 days | |
| _glc_dc | Doubleclick | This cookie is used as a means of tracking your website activity to help us optimise our advertising. | For further details on Doubleclick cookies, including those not used by fca.org.uk, visit cookies set by Doubleclick. | 1 year. |
| guest_id | This cookie allows us to measure the performance of our Twitter advertising and serve targeted adverts on the Twitter platform. | For further details on Twitter cookies, including those not used by fca.org.uk, visit cookies set by Twitter. | 2 years. | |
| _scid | Snapchat | This cookie is used as a means of tracking your website activity to help us optimise our advertising. | For further details on Snapchat cookies, including those not used by fca.org.uk, visit cookies set by Snapchat. | 13 months |
| _gcl_au | GoogleAdsense | This cookie is used as a means of tracking your website activity to help us optimise our advertising. | For further details on Google Adsense cookies, including those not used by fca.org.uk, visit Google Adsense Help. | 3 months. |
| _ttp | TikTok | This cookie is used as a means of tracking your website activity to help us optimise our advertising. | For further details on TikTok cookies, including those not used by fca.org.uk, visit TikTok. | 13 months. |
| _tt_enable_cookie | TikTok | This cookie is used as a means of tracking your website activity to help us optimise our advertising. | For further details on TikTok cookies, including those not used by fca.org.uk, visit TikTok. | 13 months. |
| TDID | Trade Desk | This cookie is used as a means of tracking your website activity to help us optimise our advertising. | For further details on Trade Desk cookies, including those not used by fca.org.uk, visit Trade Desk. | 1 year. |
To understand how the FCA collects and processes personal data please refer to the FCA privacy notice.
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19/08/2019: Link changed Fixed broken link to https://www.allaboutcookies.org/