Cookie Policy

Introduction

This website uses cookies. This Cookie Policy (the “Policy”) sets out the cookies that Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management (UK) Limited (“we”, “us” and “our”) uses, how and why we use them, as well as how you can manage your preference regarding the use of them. 

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your website or device by websites that you visit. They are widely used by website owners to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to website owners.

Why Do we Use Cookies?

We use cookies for various purposes, which can be captured under the categories below:

•    Strictly Necessary Cookies: We use strictly necessary cookies to help us make our website work by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to certain areas of the website. This website will not function as intended without these cookies. You also may be restricted from viewing certain pages without these cookies enabled.

•    Preferences Cookies:  We use preferences cookies that store preferences such as language settings. We use such cookies to personalise your browsing experience and help us improve the website functionality.

•    Statistics Cookies: We and our third-party service providers use statistics cookies to help us understand how our visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

•    Marketing Cookies: We and our third-party service providers use marketing cookies to track visitors across our website and for advertising purposes. The goal is for us to display information that is relevant and engaging for the website visitor.

This website utilises first-party cookies, namely cookies which are set directly by the website, as well as third-party cookies, namely cookies which are set by advertisers or website technology providers. 

Third-Party Service Provider List

Some of our third-party service providers use cookies to deliver information to us. The third-party service providers we cooperate with and the cookies they use are as follows:  

•    Google Analytics: Google Analytics uses cookies to track users’ interactions with a website, such as session duration and pages visited per session, as well as demographic and device data. The Company may use this data to gain a deeper understanding of its current clients and prospects.

•    Google Advertising: Google Advertising uses cookies for advertising, targeting specific audience based on previous users’ behaviour, and measuring the effectiveness of ads based on specific actions performed by a visitor on a website. The Company may use this data to optimise Google ad spend and targeting.

•    Microsoft Clarity: Microsoft Clarity is a behavioural analytics tool that uses cookies to track the users’ behaviour on a website, such as the clicks and scrolls, and create a heatmap. The Company may use this data to understand how the website users interact with its website.

•    LinkedIn Insight Tag: LinkedIn Insight Tag tracks users’ behaviours on the website and users who perform certain actions on the website. These activities can be utilised to create and build website audience to retarget LinkedIn members on the LinkedIn platform. LinkedIn Insight Tag uses cookies to enable the collection of data for advertising purposes. The Company may use this data to optimise LinkedIn ad spend and targeting.

•    Google Search Console: Google Search Console is a monitoring tool which measures a website’s search traffic and performance. Google Search Console tracks the search terms a user uses to get into a website, however Google Search Console does not use cookies. The Company uses Google Search Console to track the keywords its website visitors used to enter into its website.

Cookie Consent

Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent, as these are necessary for this website to function properly. 

Non-strictly necessary cookies require consent. You can exercise your right to accept or reject these cookies by setting your preferences through the Cookiebot Consent Management Platform (“CMP” or “cookie banner”). The Cookiebot CMP can be found at the bottom of this website when first visiting and at the bottom left of this website thereafter. The Cookiebot CMP shows the cookie types this website is using and allows you to select which types of cookies you wish to accept or reject. The cookie expiry dates can be found in the “Cookie Expiry” section of this Policy. The Cookiebot CMP stores the consent provided for the current domain and consent date. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website however some areas of our website may be restricted. 

Please check the cookie details in respect of each third-party service provider, including the cookie types (i.e., Marketing) in the “Cookie Expiry” section of this Policy.

Cookie Expiry

Cookies can last for different lengths of time depending on what they are used for.

Session cookies are temporary cookies and are only stored until you leave the website or when you close your browser session.

Persistent cookies last for a fixed period of time, defined within each cookie, and allow the website to identify the device again when the user returns to that website on that device.

How Can I Control the Cookies On My Browser?

As the means by which you can reject cookies through your web browser depends from browser to browser, you should visit your browser menu for more information. The following is information about cookies and how to manage them on the most popular browsers:

·         Microsoft Edge cookies information

·         Chrome cookies information

·         Firefox cookies information 

You can at any time modify your preferences around the use of cookies from the cookie banner. This will allow you to change or withdraw your consent any time.