Cookie Policy

This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, Pension Insurance Corporation plc, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to the website, www.pensioncorporation.com (‘our public website’). This Cookies Policy is effective from 2nd December 2020.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. This policy explains the cookies we use and why.

‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access or take certain actions on our public website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. For information on the difference between essential and non-essential cookies, see the section below entitled About cookies.

For information on how you consent and how you can withdraw your consent to us placing non-essential cookies and other technologies on your computer or device, see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.

Contents

• About cookies
• List of cookies used
• Essential cookies
• Non-essential cookies
• How to accept or reject cookies used by our public website

About cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies are frequently categorised in a number of different ways:

Essential and Non-essential

Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:

• used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
• strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our public website or a service on our public website) which you have requested.

Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse and understand how people use a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).

Cookie persistence

Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.

First party and Third party

First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our public website domain.

Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.

If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org

List of cookies used

Source of cookie	Cookie name	Purpose	Cookie Persistence
Category: Essential Cookies
Purpose: To ensure the website operates as it should
Custom cookie	ASP.NET_SessionId	Used to store a unique identifier for session.	Duration of session
Ruter’s servers	__RequestVerificationToken	Ruter's servers use this cookie to ensure communication with your browser.	Duration of session
Umbraco CMS	UMB_UCONTEXT	This cookie is set by websites using the Umbraco CMS. It is necessary for CMS and is usually only seen by site administrators accessing the back end of the website, rather than general visitors	Duration of session
Umbraco CMS	XSRF-TOKEN	Used for preventing Cross-site request forgery attacks.	Duration of session
Umbraco CMS	XSRF-V	Used for preventing Cross-site request forgery attacks.	Duration of session
Custom cookies	cookiesAccepted	Used when user accepts cookie policy.	1 years
Custom cookies	pic_disclaimer	Used when user accepts disclaimer	Duration of session
Category: Non-essential Cookies
Purpose: For Analytical or website performance purposes
Google.com	_ga	Used to distinguish users to calculate visitor, session and campaign data.	2 years
Google.com	_gid	Used to distinguish users.	24 hours
Google.com	_gat	Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>.	1 minute
Purpose: For targeting, or marketing purposes
Addtoany.com	Uvc	The uvc cookie is one of the cookies used to track usage of the Addthis.com service. It allows a user to share a webpage with many social sites.	1 day
Addtoany.com	__cfduid	Used to track sharing of pages	1 year
Addtoany.com	Ct0	This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media associated with the website.	4 hours
Twitter.com	tfw_exp	This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media.	1 Day
Twitter.com	csrf_same_site	This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media.	2 years
Twitter.com	guest_id	This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media.	2 years
Twiter.com	personalization_id	Twitter uses these cookies to collect statistical data about performance and improve the content of the adverts displayed to visitors based on the content that seems to interest them the most. These cookies are also used for twitter widgets, such as the Share button.	2 years
Twitter.com	_twitter_sess	These cookies, provided by Twitter, are used in conjunction with the Twitter social plugins in order to allow following our Twitter accounts easily, share content via Twitter, and to display the latest tweet. Twitter makes use of cookies to improve its own service.	Duration of session
Twitter.com	external_referer	Twitter uses these cookies to collect statistical data about performance and improve the content of the adverts displayed to visitors based on the content that seems to interest them the most. These cookies are also used for twitter widgets, such as the Share button.	7 days
Twitter.com	ads_prefs	These cookie tracks visitor activity from Twitter ads on the website.	2 years
Twitter.com	kdt	This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media.	2 years
Twitter.com	remember_checked_on	This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media.	2 years
Twitter.com	rweb_otion	This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media.	2 years
Vimeo.com	vuid	Used to assign Vimeo analytics unique ID.	2 years
Vimeo.com	player	Created by Vimeo and used to remember user’s player mode preferences.	1 year
Vimeo.com	_uetvid	These cookies track information about how the Vimeo Service is being used. This is a Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie used by Vimeo.	9 days
Vimeo.com	_abxps	Cookie set up by Vimeo video service to display externally stored videos.	1 year
Vimeo.com	_fbp	This cookie is used to provide you with more relevant advertising across Facebook. This cookie is used by Vimeo.	83 days
Vimeo.com	_ga	These cookies track information about how the Vimeo Service is being used.	2 years
Vimeo.com	_gcl_au	Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. This cookie is used by Vimeo.	7 days
Vimeo.com	continuous_play_v3	Used to keep track of whether continuous play is on or not for a user. This cookie is used by Vimeo.	282 days

How to accept or reject cookies used by our public website

When using our public website, you can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘Manage cookie preferences’ link in the footer of the website. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then click ‘Save and Close’. You may need to refresh your page for the new settings to take effect.

Alternately, most web browsers allow some control of cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Opera
• Apple Safari

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.