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We use necessary cookies to make our site work. We’d also like to set optional analytics cookies to help us improve it. We won’t set optional cookies unless you enable them – we will set a cookie on your device to remember your preferences.

For more detailed information about the cookies we use, and to change your preferences at any time, please see our Cookie policy.

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, compliance and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

Analytics cookies

We’d like to set Google Analytics cookies to help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. The cookies create a randomised identifier to collect information about how users interact with this and other websites.

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Cookie Declaration

Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user's experience more efficient.

The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies we need your permission.

On your first visit to our website, a banner appeared to notify you that this website uses cookies and to obtain your consent for us to place certain additional cookies.

Your preferences will be stored for a period of three months; however you can change your mind about whether or not to accept the placing of such additional cookies at any time by selecting the options below.

The duration of individual cookies (i.e. how long they remain on your device) also varies. Some are “session cookies”, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser only until you leave the site. Others are “persistent cookies”, which remain in the cookie file of your browser after the sessions for a specific period of time depending on the lifetime of the specific cookie. The duration of individual cookies is set out in the table below.

Please note that if you consent to the placing of optional cookies, and subsequently withdraw that consent, the website will no longer attempt to access the cookies stored on your device. The cookies themselves can be deleted at any time by using the cookie deletion functionality of your browser. For more information on deleting cookies see https://allaboutcookies.org/how-to-manage-cookies. Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.

Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages. We recommend that you check the relevant third party’s Cookie and Privacy Policy for information about any cookies that may be used. 

Necessary 

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

NAME PROVIDER/HOST PURPOSE EXPIRY/DURATION (Days) TYPE
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Investis Digital
This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.
1 day
HTTP Cookie
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Investis Digital
This cookie is a part of the services provided by Cloudflare - Including load-balancing, deliverance of website content and serving DNS connection for website operators.
Session
HTTP Cookie
CookieControl www.shaftesburycapital.com
The cookie is a "first party" cookie. This cookie is necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off. It is only set in response to actions made by the visitor whenever they set their privacy preferences. 90 days
HTTP Cookie
ASP.NET_SessionId Investis Digital Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests. Session HTTP Cookie
AWSALBCORS [x2] Investis Digital Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. 6 days HTTP Cookie
AWSALBTG Investis Digital Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. 7 days HTTP Cookie
AWSALBTGCORS Investis Digital Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. 6 days HTTP Cookie

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Google

This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.

Persistent

HTML Local Storage

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Google

This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.

Session

HTML Local Storage

Statistics 

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

NAME PROVIDER/HOST PURPOSE EXPIRY/DURATION (Days) TYPE

apbct_timestamp

www.shaftesburycapital.com

Sets a timestamp for when the visitor entered the website. This is used for analytical purposes on the website.

Session

HTTP Cookie

Unclassified

Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.

NAME PROVIDER/HOST PURPOSE EXPIRY/DURATION (Days) TYPE

A/N (6) [x2]

Investis Digital

Pending

7 days

HTTP Cookie

Performance

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymised. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site and will not be able to monitor its performance.

NAME PROVIDER/HOST PURPOSE EXPIRY/DURATION (Days) TYPE
_gat shaftesburycapital.com This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes._ga 0  
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shaftesburycapital.com
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.  By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners._ga 729  
_gid shaftesburycapital.com This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google.  It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited._gid 0  
_ga co.uk This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.  By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners._ga 730  
CONSENT youtube-nocookie.com This cookie is associated with YouTube. 729  

Functional

These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages.    If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.

NAME PROVIDER/HOST PURPOSE EXPIRY/DURATION (Days) TYPE
__atuvs www.shaftesburycapital.com This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. 0  
__atuvc www.shaftesburycapital.com This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing site. It allows the user to see an updated count if they share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. 395  

Targeting

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

NAME PROVIDER/HOST PURPOSE EXPIRY/DURATION (Days) TYPE
__atrfs s7.addthis.com This domain is owned by Addthis. The main business activity is: AddThis provides web widgets that site owners embed into their pages or other content, to enable visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks. They also make use of the data collected to provide advertisers and marketers with profile information for targeted, behavioural advertising. 0  
CONSENT youtube.com YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. 6076  
__atuvs s7.addthis.com This domain is owned by Addthis. The main business activity is: AddThis provides web widgets that site owners embed into their pages or other content, to enable visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks. They also make use of the data collected to provide advertisers and marketers with profile information for targeted, behavioural advertising. 0  
YSC youtube.com YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. 0  
xtc addthis.com This domain is owned by AddThis. AddThis provides web widgets that site owners embed into their pages or other content to enable visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks. They also make use of the data collected to provide advertisers and marketers with profile information for targeted behavioral advertising.  396  
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE youtube.com This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos 180  
__atuvc s7.addthis.com This domain is owned by Addthis. The main business activity is: AddThis provides web widgets that site owners embed into their pages or other content, to enable visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks. They also make use of the data collected to provide advertisers and marketers with profile information for targeted, behavioural advertising. 396  
uvc addthis.com Tracks how often a user interacts with AddThis 396