Cookie Policy


OVERVIEW
 

Funds Europe, publisher of Funds Global Asia, uses cookies to improve your user experience by “remembering” you. This is done to help you move around the website easily and ensures you have access to the features and information available on it that you need. Cookies are also used by Funds Global Asia to provide information about how the website is being used. This enables the website to carry out the functions set out in the ‘What cookies are used on our website?’ section below.

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

A cookie is a small file which is downloaded on to the devices you use to access our website, such as your computer, tablet or smartphone. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. Cookies are sent back to the website each time you re-visit it, enabling the website to retrieve and read the information held to “remember” you and /or your devices. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites. Information stored in cookies may be encrypted.  More information on cookies and their use can be found at www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

WHY WE USE COOKIES?

When we collect information automatically, we and our service providers use Internet server logs, cookies, tags, SDKs, tracking pixels and other similar tracking technologies. We use these technologies in order to offer you a more tailored experience in the future, by understanding and remembering your particular browsing preferences. As we adopt additional technologies, we may also gather information through other methods.

We also use cookies to measure the effectiveness of our marketing communications, for example by telling us if you have opened a particular marketing email.

TYPES OF COOKIES

     •   SESSION COOKIES - these allow Funds Global Asia to link your actions as a user of the website during a browser session. These cookies expire after the browser session ends.
     •   ANALYTICAL/ PERFORMANCE COOKIES – they 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 improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
     •   FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES – these are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
     •   TARGETING COOKIES – these cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

WHAT COOKIES ARE USED ON OUR WEBSITE?

Cookies

Type

Expires

Purpose

fundsglobalasia.com

__cfduid

STRICTLY NECESSARY

1 year

The '__cfduid' cookie is set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic. It does not correspond to any user id in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information.

fundsglobalasia.com

has_js

STRICTLY NECESSARY

When session ends

Whether user's browser is able to use JavaScript or not

fundsglobalasia.com

cookie-agreed

FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES

100 days

Whether to show or not 'cookie warning'

fundsglobalasia.com

smcx_0_last_shown_at

FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES

When session ends

Unclassified

fundsglobalasia.com

cookie-agreed

FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES

100 days

Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain

fundsglobalasia.com

'session_name' - differs every time

ANALYTICAL/ PERFORMANCE COOKIES

When session ends

Internal Drupal usage, multiple possibilities - where user curently is, what menu has been seen etc.

fundsglobalasia.com

__asc

ANALYTICAL COOKIES

30min

Alexa analytics cookies are used to track and report information to the Alexa analytics services.

fundsglobalasia.com

__auc

ANALYTICAL COOKIES

1 year

Alexa analytics cookies are used to track and report information to the Alexa analytics services.

fundsglobalasia.com

_ga

ANALYTICAL COOKIES

2 years

Used by Google Analytics to registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how a visitor uses the website.

fundsglobalasia.com

_gid

ANALYTICAL COOKIES

24 hours

Used by Google Analytics to registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how a visitor uses the website.

fundsglobalasia.com

_gat

ANALYTICAL COOKIES

1 minute

Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>

doubleclick.net

test_cookie

ANALYTICAL COOKIES

When session ends

Used to by DoubleClick for Publishers to check if the user's browser supports cookies.

youtube.com

GPS

ANALYTICAL/ PERFORMANCE COOKIES

When session ends

Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.

youtube.com

PREF

ANALYTICAL/ PERFORMANCE COOKIES

8 months

Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites.

youtube.com

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

ANALYTICAL/ PERFORMANCE COOKIES

8 months

Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

youtube.com

YSC

ANALYTICAL/ PERFORMANCE COOKIES

When session ends

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

surveymonkey.com

CX_XXXXXXXX

FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES

1 Year

Used to determine if embedded site collector popup should be shown

surveymonkey.com

ep201

FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES

1 hour

Set by load balancer, user tracking for abuse and troubleshooting problems

surveymonkey.com

ep202

FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES

1 hour

Set by load balancer, user tracking. Source attribution (attributing where the respondent has arrived from), abuse monitoring, persistent_id, optimization tracking (provides aggregate data to help us optimize use of service), completion rates tracking. Used as a unique user identifier to test experiment survey taking experiences (e.g. display survey in different ways to see what is most effective)

surveymonkey.com

P_XXXXXXXX

FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES

1 year

Only used for pop-up surveys- used to track whether survey was taken already and avoid re-showing the pop-up

surveymonkey.com

RP_XXXXXXXX

STRICTLY NECESSARY

90 days

Enforces survey creator's restricting 1 response per respondent and survey

spotler.co.uk

wow.session

SESSION COOKIES (ESSENTIAL)

Session

Standard session cookie served by the web server

spotler.co.uk

wow.anonymousid

ANALYTICAL

2 years

Does not store user data, only stores active menu node over post-back

spotler.co.uk

wow.schedule

SESSION COOKIES (ESSENTIAL)

Session

Standard session cookie served by the web server

spotler.co.uk

wow.utmvalues

ANALYTICAL COOKIES

Session

Does not store user data, only stores active menu node over post-back

spotler.co.uk

wow.trackingdata

FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES

Session

1st party cookie which is only used by GatorMail integration so GatorLeads (previously known as WOW Analytics) knows email contacts visiting website

spotler.co.uk

wow.data

ANALYTICAL COOKIES

2 years

1st party cookie which is only used by GatorMail integration so GatorLeads (previously known as WOW Analytics) knows email contacts visiting website

spotler.co.uk

ASPXAUTH

FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES (ESSENTIAL)

Session

Authentication cookie served by the CommuniGator product

spotler.co.uk

ASP.NET_SessionId

SESSION COOKIES

Session

Standard session cookie served by the web server

We have also integrated Social Media Plug-ins components of LinkedIn and Twitter on this website. Each individual page that you visit, where the social media plug-in is integrated, your personal information will be collected by, transmitted to and stored by the provider of that social media plug-in. The information includes your IP address, the address of the website the social media plug-in is located, your browser information and operating system used, data and time the website was accessed or activated.

Please note that you can change your settings to notify you when a cookie is being set or updated, or to block cookies altogether. You can also manage the use of Flash technologies, including flash cookies and local storage objects with the Flash management tools available at Adobe's website.

How do I change my cookie settings?

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

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

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

Please keep in mind that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

We may periodically update the cookies we use and our Cookie Policy, and you should revisit this page if you wish to keep yourself informed.

Last updated April 10, 2018.

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