Cookies 

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit certain web pages and they enable the owner of the website to identify the device on which they are stored, during the period when the cookie is valid or being processed. Cookies can enhance a visitor’s experience when navigating a website and provide valuable feedback such as information regarding a visitor’s page views, downloads and technology preferences.

Why do we use cookies?

We use cookies to see how our visitors move through our website in order to provide customised information and experience when navigating our sites. In particular, cookies allow you to set your connection preferences (e.g. language) and to subscribe for advertising. The cookies we issue also enable us to collect statistical data and monitor traffic and usage volumes for the various components of our website in order to improve the performance of our site. 

How and what cookies do we use?

We use the following categories of cookies on our website:

ESSENTIAL COOKIES

These cookies are essential for parts of our website to operate. They enable you to move around our website and allow us to recognize you within our website so that we can provide you with the service that you have asked for. As these cookies are essential for the running of our sites, you are not able to opt out of these.

WEBSITE PERFORMANCE COOKIES

These cookies collect anonymous information on website usage to drive functionality that help the website and applications function. For example, we use these cookies to inform the user experience, such as tracking website consent preferences across applications and if they accept certain notices/warnings. The info stored in these cookies does not show any personal details. 

ANALYTICS COOKIES

These tags are gathered in a user’s browser and allow us to analyze and understand how users interact with our website and help us improve the experience. Some examples include identifying which pages you visit and measuring how much time is spent on a page. This allows us to optimize our content to meet our user needs. 

ADVERTISING COOKIES

These cookies are used by 3rd parties (for example, Facebook or Google) to advertise personalized content on other platforms based on your previous web interactions. These cookies collect information and use it to build a profile of users' interests and then show a more personalized and relevant ad’s experience for that specific user.

THIRD-PARTY WEBSITE COOKIES

When using our website, you may be directed to other websites for such activities as surveys, for job applications, and to view content hosted on those sites such as an embedded video or news article. These websites may use their own cookies. If you choose to accept third party cookies through our management tool please note that it is the third party’s privacy policy that controls the way your personal information is handled. Additional information on such third parties can be found in the management tool.

Your choices regarding cookies

Except for the Essential Cookies described above, cookies are recorded on a device with the consent of the user only. In other words, you have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies and which cookies you decide to accept. There are several ways to manage cookies: the user may at any time choose to express or modify their cookie preferences via their browser settings, or, for our website, by means of the tools described below.

Each browser is configured differently as described in the browser’s help menu. This will tell you how to change your general preferences regarding cookies.

If you have accepted cookies in your web browser, with the result that cookies are recorded on your device, the cookies contained in the pages and content you have viewed may be stored temporarily in a specific area of your terminal.

If you decline to allow cookies to be recorded on your device, or if you delete those already recorded on it, you will no longer be able to benefit from a number of features on our website.

The cookies we use on our site can be set individually by you according to their type.

When you consent to the use of our cookies, your consent is valid for a maximum of 12 months after which you will be asked to renew it. A renewal request may also be triggered if you connect from a different terminal or modify your browser settings or when a new version of the website is released.

To manage your cookies you can also use our automated/online tool which is available by clicking  located at the bottom right hand side of your screen.

Alternatively, please follow the below instructions to manually control your cookies.

The instructions for amending cookies will depend on the operating system and web browser you are using. For instructions on how to accept or reject cookies, consult your browser's 'Help' section. Most recent browsers provide the flexibility to reject all cookies, accept all cookies, or accept some and reject others.

How can you contact us?

Should you have any question about this notice you can contact us under (europeanprivacyadvisor@capgroup.com) for Europe.

Any changes we make to this notice in the future will be posted on this page.

For Capital Group’s Privacy Notice, please click here.

This notice is issued by:
  • Capital International Management Company Sàrl (“CIMC”), 37A avenue J.F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg. CIMC is regulated by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) and is a subsidiary of the Capital Group Companies, Inc. (Capital Group),
  • Capital International Sàrl (“CISA”), 3, Place des Bergues, 1201 Geneva, Switzerland. CISA is regulated by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) and is a subsidiary of the Capital Group Companies, Inc. (Capital Group),
  • Capital International Limited (“CIL”), 1 Paddington Square, London, W2 1GL. CIL is regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority, a subsidiary of the Capital Group Companies, Inc. (Capital Group), and
  • Capital Group UK Management Company Limited ("CGUKMC"), 1 Paddington Square, London, W2 1GL. CGUKMC is regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and is a subsidiary of the Capital Group Companies, Inc. (Capital Group).