| Purpose of essential cookies |
The essential cookies that we use on our website are technically necessary for the site to function properly. For example, essential cookies are required so that you can log into your account, set your preferences and complete forms. They remember you and your settings, and save you having to retype information when navigating between pages. They ensure our pages load quickly by distributing the workload. Essential cookies are also necessary for our site to distinguish between browsers, differentiate users behind a shared IP address so as to deliver correct content, and to recognise trusted traffic and apply security settings. |
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| Data processed by essential cookies | When you navigate to and around our website our essential cookies collect your session ID, a time stamp of your visit and log in, and session verification data. Our essential cookies may also collect information about your browser type and settings, device type and settings, operating system and mobile network. |
| Recipients | We process data collected by essential cookies on our own servers. Data collected by certain essential cookies may be collected, in aggregate form only from which no one visitor to our site can be identified or distinguished from another, by our third party essential cookie providers such as Sitecore, for their own purposes. |
| Transfers | Our global presence means that your personal information may be transferred across the business worldwide due, for example, to our shared IT systems and datacentres, and cross-border working practices. For more information about such transfers across our business please see section 3 of our Privacy Policy. |
| Duration |
Certain of our essential cookies are session cookies, meaning they expire once you exit your session and close your browser. Other of our essential cookies may last for six months or longer, for example to remember your cookie preferences for this period and to recognise trusted traffic, or for as long as you retain an online account with us. |
Cookie Policy
Our website uses a number of cookies for a number of reasons. We explain these in this policy. Before we can use some - but not all - of these cookies, we need your consent. This Cookie Policy will be reviewed periodically and, in any event, if there is a change in laws and regulations.
You may alter your consent preferences - including to withdraw consent to non-essential cookies which you have previously given - at any time by moving the on/off toggles below, or by clicking 'Reject all non-essential cookies' to reject all optional cookies. Any selections you make will be automatically saved and you may navigate away from the Cookie Policy.
*Your selections will be automatically saved and you may navigate away from the Cookie Policy.
If you have any queries concerning our use of your personal information, please email [email protected]. Please also visit our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect your personal information, what we do with it and your rights in respect of it. Please note that this Cookie Policy applies only to cookies on our website and that links to third party websites will contain cookies that are governed by their own policies.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Software on your device, for example a web browser, stores the cookies and sends them back to a website next time you visit. Cookies allow websites to recognise your device and preferences, and provide information to the owners of sites which can be used to improve your online experience. Pinsent Masons does not use 1x1 image tracking pixels (sometimes referred to as tracking pixels) on either pinsentmasons.com or our email marketing.
You can find more information about cookies and similar technologies at www.aboutcookies.org.
2. The types of cookies that we use
This section sets out information about the cookie technology that we use on our site for which we are responsible. Where 'personal data' is processed by these cookies, Pinsent Masons LLP is the 'data controller' of that information, within the meaning of applicable data protection legislation. For an explanation of the meaning of these and other data protection legislation terms, and for comprehensive information about our responsibilities when handling personal data - including transfers of personal data across the Pinsent Masons business worldwide - and your rights in respect of any personal information of yours that we process, please see our Privacy Policy.
We set cookies to help us operate the core functions of our website and these are known as ‘first’ party cookies, as they are set by us. First party cookies allow us to recognise your device based on previous use of our website and store information about your preference or past actions. Third party providers of the cookie technology that we use may process data collected by the cookies on our site, in an aggregated form, for their own purposes. If this is the case in respect of any of the third-party cookie providers that we use, we have indicated as much in the tables set out in this section.
Basic performance – 'necessary' or 'essential' cookies
We use essential cookies to operate the core functions of our website, so that you may visit and move around it, and use its features. We do not require your consent to use these cookies but you may be able to block these cookies yourself on your device/browser (see section 4 of this Policy). However, without these cookies, our site is unlikely to work as you would expect and certain services that you may ask for, for example, signing into your online account, cannot be provided.
Where we process 'personal data' using these essential cookies, we do so on the basis of our legitimate interests to provide a website for visitors to use and to promote our business.
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More information about our use of essential cookies
Help us to improve – 'analytics' cookies
Analytics cookies are used by us for statistical analysis purposes. This helps us to understand how visitors use and move around our website, which inform improvements and adaptions to our website to best meet our visitors' needs by, for example, making the most popular features the easiest to find and access or ensuring that our site works properly on the devices and technologies that our visitors use.
These cookies work by using a distinctive sequence of characters from which your browser or device can be identified ('unique ID'), which, for example, can be used by us to recognise the date and time of your visit(s) to our site. Our analytics cookies may also collect information about your browser type and settings, device type and settings, operating system and mobile network. This information is used to distinguish you from other visitors to our site, but it cannot be used to identify you as a named individual.
We will only set these types of cookies where you have provided us with your consent to do so by either choosing to 'Allow all cookies' or by adjusting your cookie settings via the 'Your cookies settings', above. Where we process your personal information using these types of cookies, we do so on the basis of that consent.
Rejecting our analytics cookies will prevent us from collecting the data described above to improve our site for you and other visitors. The performance and functionality of our site will not be affected.
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The analytics cookies that we use
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a widely used platform for measuring the performance of a website. It helps us to understand things like what our visitors are reading and what technology (e.g. browsers) we should prioritise for testing. This information is used to help us give you the best possible experience – more of what you want, and less of what you don’t.
We process the data collected by these Google Analytics cookies. Google Analytics may provide us with technical support. Data may be collected - in aggregate form only from which no one visitor to our site can be identified or distinguished from another - by Google Analytics to help improve Google Analytics' products and services.
Rejecting analytic cookies will prevent us from using Google Analytics cookies to collect data about your visit(s) to our site, which would be used by us in aggregation with other visitors' data to understand visitors' behaviour and how many visits are made to our site. This will not affect any consent to the use of Google Analytics cookies that you may give to other websites.
Cookie Purpose Duration _ga To distinguish users. 2 years _ga_<container-id> Used to persist session state. 2 years Sitecore Analytics
Sitecore is the content management system on which our website sits.
The Sitecore cookie that we use serves a similar purpose to Google Analytics cookies. It is used to measure the performance of our website and help us to improve the experience of visitors.
We process the data collected by the Sitecore Analytics cookie. Sitecore Analytics may provide us with technical support. Data may be collected - in aggregate form only from which no one visitor to our site can be identified or distinguished from another - by Sitecore Analytics for its own purposes.
Rejecting analytics cookies will prevent us from tracking your visit to Pinsentmasons.com using Sitecore technology. This will not affect any consent to the use of Sitecore cookies that you may give to other websites.
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