Cookies
What are cookies?
When you starting browsing this website one or more cookies will be placed on your computer.
A cookie is a piece of information in the form of a small text file placed on an internet user's computing device. The cookies sent from this website are not intended to identify visitors to this website or to analyse personal information about visitors to the website. They are performance cookies created and used by the website to allow the site’s functions to operate, such as recalling your preferences, and to allow the monitoring of usage, which helps us improve the user experience on the website. By using this website, you agree that HLS (Huntingdon Life Sciences) can place these types of cookies on devices from which you access this website.
Performance cookies
Performance cookies are cookies used to improve a website, for example for analytics that let companies see how their website is used and where to make improvements.
The performance cookies used by this website are set out in the table below:
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Purpose
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Cookie details
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Sitecore Analytics
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These cookies help us to deliver personalised content to you and provide anonymous reports to us on how visitors use our site.
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SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE -
Randomly generated identifier assigned to a visitor to help identify returning visits to the site. Expires one year after creation.
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Google Analytics
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These cookies are used to provide meaningful reports about how visitors use this Website. The member areas of the Website also have a second set of Google Analytics cookies which are exactly the same, apart from a 2_prefix, and have the same purpose.
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_utma - tracks the number of times a visitor has been to the site, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things such as days and visits to purchase. Expires two years after creation.
_utmz - tracks where the visitor came from, what search engine was used, what links are clicked on, what keyword was used, and where they are in the world. Expires six months after creation.
_utmc - works with _utmb to calculate how long a visit takes. Expires when the browser is closed.
_utmb - works with _utmc to calculate how long a visit takes. Expires 30 minutes after creation.
_umtv - allows us to identify areas of the sites under certain categories and tracks visitor statistics across these categories. Expires when the browser is closed.
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Accessibility
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These cookies help us display content in a way that is easier/more comfortable for you to read.
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page_size - stores the chosen font size so that a visitor doesn't have to change it on every page.
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Disabling Cookies
If you do not wish to receive cookies from this website you can adjust your browser settings to refuse or screen cookies. You can find instructions on how to configure this within the Help function within your web browser.
If you set your web browser to refuse cookies from this website, please be aware this may impair the functionality and your usability of the website. For more information on cookies and browser settings, please go to www.allaboutcookies.org.
Privacy Policy
Please note: this privacy policy only covers pages of the website where you do not have to login or register. A separate privacy policy for areas of the website that require login and registration can be found in the secure login areas of the web service for members of the Scheme.
We take the issue of data protection very seriously. Our policy is set out in this privacy policy.
GPP Pension Providers are a registered data controller under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Set out below is an explanation of how the GPP Pension Providers process information about users of the website.
Collection of your personal information:
In general, you can visit and use this website without giving the GPP Pension Providers or HLS any information and neither the GPP Pension Providers nor HLS will know who you are in such circumstances. However, you have the option on certain pages within this website to submit personal information to the GPP Pension Providers if you want to ask questions or give feedback.
The way the GPP Pension Providers use your information:
GPP Pension Providers will use any information you provide through this website to help answer any queries you submit via this website in relation to your pension plan or the administration of your pension plan.
GPP Pension Providers may disclose information about you to third parties where it is necessary to respond to your query or deal with your feedback (which may involve disclosing your details to HLS or its group companies, or the administrator of the Scheme) or where the GPP Pension Providers are required to do so by law or because a court, the police or other enforcement agency has asked for it, or in other limited circumstances permitted by law.
The Trustee’s commitment to data security
To prevent unauthorised access and help maintain data security, the GPP Pension Providers have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information within this website.
How to get copies of or amend your personal information
You may request details of personal information which the GPP Pension Providers or HLS hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee may be payable.