In 2011 the EU e-Privacy directive came into effect in the UK. Please find details of our use of cookies on the CFA Society of the United Kingdom (CFA UK) websites. CFA UK websites use cookies to allow us to collect information automatically in order to personalise your use of our websites
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files of information, downloaded onto your computer or mobile device when you access a website. The information is stored in the form of a small data file written to your hard drive. It allows the website to recognize your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions. This file is neither a virus nor spyware. Access to secure areas of our websites are dependent upon the use of cookies.
Most web browsers have options that allow you to control whether or not to accept cookies and give you the option to delete all cookies. However, please note that disabling cookies in your browser may prevent access to some parts of our websites.
Cookies used in the CFA UK website
Here is a list of the cookies that we store:
cfauk.org - CFA UK corporate website – for professional membership body representing more than 12,000 investment professionals in the UK.
- ASP.NET_SessionId – system cookie
- SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE – system cookie
- 1P_JAR - This cookie is used to stores information about how the user uses the website, recent searches or any other interactions with advertisements before visiting the website. This information is used to provide the users with personalized advertisements
- NID - This cookie is used to a profile based on user's interest and display personalized ads to the users.
- _ga - This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
- _gid - This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.
- _gat - This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites.
Shop.cfauk.org – CFA UK’s transactional portal taking CFA UK qualification and Official Training Manuals (OTM) registrations and payment.
- CFID – system cookie
- CFTOKEN - system cookie
- 1P_JAR - This cookie is used to stores information about how the user uses the website, recent searches or any other interactions with advertisements before visiting the website. This information is used to provide the users with personalized advertisements.
- NID - This cookie is used to a profile based on user's interest and display personalized ads to the users.
- _ga - This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
- _gid - This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.
- _gat - This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites.
cfauk.fuseuniversal.com- CFA UK ‘s on-demand professional learning platform.
- _fuse_session – system cookie
connect.cfauk.org – CFA UK’s community and volunteer management portal.
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ASP.NET_SessionId - system cookie
- HLTC - system cookie
- __HL-RequestVerificationToken - system cookie
- _ga - This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
- _gid - This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.
- _gat_UA-231528-21 - This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.
Google Analytics
CFA UK uses Google Analytics across our websites to measure and analyse visitor information related to that experience. This involves your IP address, Internet traffic data and data on your browser type and PC being collected by the following cookies:
- _utma is used by Google Analytics to identify first-time site ('unique') visitors vs. returning visitors. It expires after two years
- _utmc identifies unique visitors vs. returning visitors but expires when you close your browser.
- _utmb is used for general visitor tracking and expires after 30 minutes.
- _utmz tracks source visits (the origin of the visit). It expires after six months.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
Our websites may also employ a software technology called clear gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs), which helps us to better manage content on our sites by informing us what content is viewed or clicked on. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier similar in function to cookies. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a visitor's computer, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on web pages and e-mails and are about the size of a period.
Consent
By using the CFA UK website, by continuing to use the website you consent to the collection and use of the information. CFA UK reserves the right to alter this Cookie Policy from time to time and any changes will take effect from the date they go live on the website.
