Cookies - interactive investor

We use a number of different cookies on our site. If you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit https://www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance.

The list below describes the cookies we use on this site and what we use them for. For strictly necessary cookies on the site we operate an ‘implied consent’ policy which means that we assume you are happy with this usage. We also use some cookies which are not strictly necessary for the use of the website. For these, we will ask for your consent before these are deployed. You are also able to opt in or out of these at any time on the cookie preference page https://www.ii.co.uk/cookie-preferences/

If you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete the cookies having visited the site. Due to our use of cookies for functions such as logging in, some aspects of our service may not work if you attempt to browse the site with cookies blocked.

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Strictly necessary cookies

Some essential features of the Interactive Investor website will not work without cookies.

cookie name	location	purpose
LtpaToken	account opening	Lightweight third party authentication token – IBM single sign-on token
tddi-3rd	account opening	we use this cookie to see if your browser has cookies enabled
encclino	account upgrades	encrypted account number
encsid	account upgrades	encrypted session ID
encuecode	account upgrades	encrypted unique customer identifier
Auth0 cookies	public website	stores your authentication token when you are logged in
cookie-preferences	public website	stores your cookie preferences
Google Analytics	public website trading website account opening account upgrades	We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This Analytics data is collected via a JavaScript tag in the pages of our site and is not tied to personally identifiable information. We therefore do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are. You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html
Uetsid / MUID / MUIDB	public website trading website account opening account upgrades	Microsoft Bing Ads Universal Event Tracking (UET) tracking cookies
SESSION	trading website	used to maintain your session whilst logged onto the trading website
td-isa, td-isa-top-up and td-isa	trading website	These are no longer actively used and will be removed in the near future

Functional cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make. This includes things like remembering your username to save time at login. They also give you better functionality and personal features.

The username cookie is currently set if you select to remember account number/username during the log in process. We will be changing this functionality in the near future so that if you opt out of functional cookies your username/account number will no longer be remembered.

cookie name	location	Purpose
iOneSite-siteSearch	public website	persists your last searched keyword
Username	trading website	stores your username for use when you log on in future
ii-preferences	public website	Stores your site preferences, for example, your News source selection filter

Performance and targeting cookies

These cookies help to improve the performance of the Interactive Investor website by helping us understand how you use the site. They also allow us to tailor the messaging you receive from us either through email or advertising so that it is more relevant to your needs.

Please note our Account Opening application currently applies Performance and Targeting cookies. We are currently working on a solution to apply your preferences to these.

cookie name	Location	Purpose
Audience Science	public website trading website	Behavioural advertising allows us to track customer actions on the Website and to tailor the advertisements you see on 3rd party sites. The content of these advertisements is influenced by your interactions with the Website such as the pages you view, searches you conduct and offers you show an interest in. More information
Cookies from advertisers	public website trading website	From time to time advertisers on our site might use cookies to track various things like how many times you have seen an ad, whether you have clicked on an ad before, etc. This differs from campaign to campaign and cannot be specified on a page like this. We also use cookies to enable us to target advertising or promotions for our own products that your engagement with our site suggests would be relevant to you. More information
DoubleClick	public website trading website	We serve our advertising banners via DoubleClick, a Google company. DoubleClick use cookies to make advertising more relevant to users and to help publishers and advertisers achieve their goals. Cookies let us build features that prevent the same ad from showing over and over again and enable advertisers to tell powerful stories across multiple page views. More information
Hotjar	public website	This cookie allows Hotjar and interactive investor to record actions of users who visit our website. No personal information is captured for this cookie.
Google Analytics	trading website	We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This Analytics data is collected via a JavaScript tag in the pages of our site. We will capture a federated ID which we can reference back to your account which allows us to track your actions – no other personal identifiable information will be captured or stored. You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at this link