Cookie Policy

In this Cookie Policy, any use of the words “you”, “yours” or similar expressions shall mean any user of this website whatsoever. Terms such as “we”, “us, “our” or similar expressions shall mean Marlborough Select Platform Limited.

Cookies

Cookies are very small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit some websites. They don’t typically contain any personal information. We use cookies to improve the performance of our websites and the quality of your online experience. Specifically they help identify your computer so we can tailor your user experience. You can disable any cookies already stored on your computer, but these may stop our website from functioning properly.

Types of Cookies We Use

Cookies on our website are used for a variety of different purposes, but their use can be broken down into the following categories:

1. Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are to allow the website to function correctly by performing roles such as supporting authentication, navigation and look and feel.  This type of cookie only lasts for the duration of time that you are logged in and interacting with the website, and expire when you log out, or automatically if you stop interacting with the website for a short period of time.
2. Analytic/Performance Cookies: These allow us to recognise and count the number of users of our website and see how such users navigate through our website. This helps to improve how our website works, for example, by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for easily. They also hep us to track which pages you visit so that we know how and where to improve our products and services. They can also be used to allow third parties to collect non-personally identifiable information about your usage of the service. Some of these cookies will expire when the site is closed. Others may have longer lifespans.
3. Functionality Cookies: These improve the functional performance of our website and make it easier for you to use. For example, they perform such roles as allowing you to (i) reload the page without losing information that you’ve already entered, (ii) personalise the website according to your details, such as welcoming you by name and providing content to reflect your preferences such as remembering your username for logging in faster in the future. This type of cookie will remain on your hard drive unless you decide to delete them. If you decide to delete them the website may function differently.
4. Re-targeting: These cookies make communications and advertising more relevant to you and your interests by performing roles such as (i) allowing us to collect information about aggregated browsing habits so we can be more efficient with advertising campaigns. We may partner with third parties such as Google Adwords, and (ii) allowing us to collect information about individual user browsing habits so we can contact users, where permitted within the constraints of our Privacy Policy, so we can help users more appropriately and directly. You can opt to disable other tracking cooking by updating your browser settings as described in the ‘How to Disable Cookies’ section below. For these type of cookies, some will expire when the site is closed, but others may have longer lifespans.

What Information is Collected?

We use cookies if you have registered for any of our online services, purchased a product or service online, or visited one of our websites.

Some cookies collect information such as:

• Recording how far through a process you are, allowing you to return to the same position at a later date
• Maintaining your identity for a specified time whilst you are logged in, allowing you to use our websites without having to log in every time you navigate to a different page, ensuring your experience is secure and relevant.
• Information provided in web forms so that it can be loaded and validated on form submission to ensure forms are submitted directly through the site and not through third party robots/external forms etc.
• Your investor type so you don’t need to keep re-specifying if you are a private or professional user on every page load.

How we Use this Information

Some cookies contain information that never leave your machine, such as a preference to remember your investor type so that you don’t need to keep re-specifying it on each page load.

Some cookies contain information that allow us to gather insights about how users interact with our websites, enabling us to measure things like which sections of our websites are used most. In conjunction with collection partners like Google Analytics, this information helps us to regularly assess and improve the usefulness of our websites.

How You Can Manage Your Cookie Preferences

Most web browsers allow you to manage cookies via the browser settings. For example you may choose to delete existing cookies, prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie or disable cookies altogether. It is worth noting that in the event that cookies are disabled you will find that certain areas of the website will not work, or won’t work correctly.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We reserve the right to revise or supplement this Cookie Policy from time to time. You should bookmark and periodically review this page to ensure that you are familiar with the most current version of this Cookie Policy and so you are aware of what the cookies on our websites are used for. You can determine when this Cookie Policy was last revised by checking the “Date of last update” legend at the top of this Cookie Policy.

More Information

Questions, comments and requests regarding this Cookie Policy should be addressed to platform.compliance@marlboroughgroup.com or to Marlborough House, 59 Chorley New Road, Bolton, BL1 4QP.

For more information about cookies in general, including seeing what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.