Northern Trust (“we”, “us”, “our”) use a variety of cookies across all of our websites. We do this to provide you with the most secure and effective way of viewing pages on our sites. In general, cookies:
This policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, how they affect you and what you can do if you do not wish to accept some or all of the cookies we use on our websites.
Please read this policy in conjunction with our Consumer Privacy Policy.
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information that are placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other means of access the internet (each, a “device”) whenever you visit most websites. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes the cookie.
Cookies are useful because they allow us to recognise your device. They serve many different purposes, like allowing you to navigate between pages more efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your overall experience of our websites.
Cookies may be used to record details of pages relating to particular products and services you have looked at on our websites. This is to provide us with data to allow us to improve our websites and to provide you with information in which you may be interested.
Cookies can also be used to recognize and count the number of visitors to our websites and to see how you navigate our websites when you use them. This helps us improve the way our websites work (for example, by making sure you can easily find what you need).
You can find more information about cookies at: All About Cookies and Your Online Choices.
There are two types of cookie we use on our websites:
Both types of cookie can either be first-party (i.e. owned by us) or third-party (i.e. owned by a trusted affiliate of ours).
Whether a cookie is first-party or third-party depends on which website the cookie comes from. First-party cookies are those set by us when you visit any of our websites. All other cookies are third-party cookies. We use both first-party and third-party cookies, which you can read more about under the four categories of cookies described below.
The cookies used on our websites fall into one of four categories, based on the International Chamber of Commerce guide to cookie categories. The categories are: “strictly necessary”, “performance”, “functionality”, and “targeting”.
These cookies are essential to help you move around our websites and use the functionality, such as accessing secure areas of our website. Without these cookies, certain features and functionality will not be available to you.
We categorize the following cookies as strictly necessary:
These cookies give you extra functionality, such as being able to ask us to remember your preferences. They also let us monitor how our websites are performing so we can take steps to improve them.
We categorize the following cookies as performance or functional cookies:
These cookies contain a unique key that can distinguish individual users’ browsing habits or store a code that can be translated into to a set of browsing habits or preferences using information stored elsewhere.
They do not store personal information directly, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising. We categorize the following cookies as targeting cookies:
The web browsers of most devices are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your web browser to disable cookies or to let you know when a website is attempting to add a cookie. You can also delete cookies that have previously been added to your device’s cookie file.
For more information on how to modify your browser settings, identify your browser and click on the link to review:
If you choose to turn on the do-not-track (DNT) and block third-party cookies command or to block all cookies, Northern Trust will not send cookies to the browser you modified or to third-parties.
If you disable session cookies, you will still be able to view most of the pages on our websites, but you may not be able to log into any secure pages (i.e. those which require a username and password).
Please visit Manage Cookie Preferences to update your cookie preferences.
By using our websites, you agree to us placing certain types of cookies described in this policy on your device; however, if you choose to, you can block these cookies using your browser settings.
Cookies cannot retrieve information from your device which tells us about you or your family and, unless you have logged in to a secure part of the website, cookies cannot be used to identify who you are.
Cookies cannot be used by anyone else who has access to your device to find out anything about you, other than someone using the same device has visited a certain site. Cookies do not compromise the security of your device.
Cookies will not be used to contact you for any sales or marketing purposes.
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