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Cookies policy

The purpose of this notice is to explain how the National Employment Savings Trust Corporation (Nest) as Trustee of the Nest pension scheme (the Scheme) collects and uses your personal information using cookies, and how we comply with data protection law. In legal terms, Nest is a ‘data controller’ for this information.

We use cookies to improve your experience on our website. They help us to distinguish you from other users and to customise our web pages by remembering your preferences, like font size. We also use cookies to help us bring our campaigns on social media and other websites to your attention.

What's a cookie?

A cookie is a small file sent from a website which is then stored by your web browser. When you return to the website the information in the cookie can be used to recognise your last session.

Cookies can't install malicious software such as viruses on your device, whether that’s a computer or a mobile phone. They don't store any of your account information.

Where do cookies come from?

There are two sources of cookies:

  • First-party cookies are set by us on your device. They can be used to remember your preferences when you visit our website or to maintain your browser connection.
  • Third-party cookies are set by a third party that provides services to Nest, for example, cookies set by advertising networks to support Nest marketing campaigns. Please note, while Nest can control cookies set on our website, we have no control over cookies set by third parties on their own websites or other sites. You should check the third-party websites for more information about these.

How long do cookies stay on your device?

Cookies stay on your device for different periods of time:

  • Session cookies generally only last while you have your internet browser open. Once you close your browser they’re automatically deleted from your device.
  • Persistent cookies generally stay on your device after you close your internet browser, unless your browser is set up to automatically delete them. They can be used by websites to remember your preferences when you open up your browser again.

What cookies do we use?

We use three types of cookies on our website:

Essential cookies

The essential cookies we use are:

Purpose Cookie Provider Cookie Name(s) Duration
A security feature to protect against malicious attacks by identifying bot access attempts. reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis www.google.com _GRECAPTCHA 180 days
To maintain your online session Nest JSESSIONID, oam.Flash.RENDERMAP.TOKEN, PD-S-SESSION-ID Session
To display a message to remind users to log out Nest secMsgCookie Session
To display a message if multiple web chat sessions are initiated Nest Username Session
To maintain the security of your online session WAF TSxxxxxxxx (where x is replaced with a random series of numbers and letters) Session
Saves your cookie consent settings (New) Nest cookies_policy Persistent - 1 year
Lets us know that you've saved your cookie consent settings (New) Nest cookies-preferences-set Persistent - 1 year
Nest Careers Portal - these are session cookies that helps the visitor use the portal Eploy ASP.NET_SessionId ASP.NET_AuthId Eploy.Session Session
Nest Careers Portal - this is only used for multilingual sites to store the visitor’s culture and set formatting of currency, dates etc Eploy CultureSystemCodeID CultureSystemLanguageID Persistent – 1 year
Nest Careers Portal – Let’s us know that you have read the cookie banner so that it does not appear again Eploy CookiesDirective Persistent – 1 year
IPQualityScore assigns a hardware-based ID to the device ipqs.com ipqsd 365 days
IPQualityScore documents the first fingerprint scan ipqs.com fingerprint_<timestamp> 400 – 3085 days
Purpose A security feature to protect against malicious attacks by identifying bot access attempts. reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis
Cookie Provider www.google.com
Cookie Name(s) _GRECAPTCHA
Duration 180 days
Purpose To maintain your online session
Cookie Provider Nest
Cookie Name(s) JSESSIONID, oam.Flash.RENDERMAP.TOKEN, PD-S-SESSION-ID
Duration Session
Purpose To display a message to remind users to log out
Cookie Provider Nest
Cookie Name(s) secMsgCookie
Duration Session
Purpose To display a message if multiple web chat sessions are initiated
Cookie Provider Nest
Cookie Name(s) Username
Duration Session
Purpose To maintain the security of your online session
Cookie Provider WAF
Cookie Name(s) TSxxxxxxxx (where x is replaced with a random series of numbers and letters)
Duration Session
Purpose Saves your cookie consent settings (New)
Cookie Provider Nest
Cookie Name(s) cookies_policy
Duration Persistent - 1 year
Purpose Lets us know that you've saved your cookie consent settings (New)
Cookie Provider Nest
Cookie Name(s) cookies-preferences-set
Duration Persistent - 1 year
Purpose Nest Careers Portal - these are session cookies that helps the visitor use the portal
Cookie Provider Eploy
Cookie Name(s) ASP.NET_SessionId ASP.NET_AuthId Eploy.Session
Duration Session
Purpose Nest Careers Portal - this is only used for multilingual sites to store the visitor’s culture and set formatting of currency, dates etc
Cookie Provider Eploy
Cookie Name(s) CultureSystemCodeID CultureSystemLanguageID
Duration Persistent – 1 year
Purpose Nest Careers Portal – Let’s us know that you have read the cookie banner so that it does not appear again
Cookie Provider Eploy
Cookie Name(s) CookiesDirective
Duration Persistent – 1 year
Purpose IPQualityScore assigns a hardware-based ID to the device
Cookie Provider ipqs.com
Cookie Name(s) ipqsd
Duration 365 days
Purpose IPQualityScore documents the first fingerprint scan
Cookie Provider ipqs.com
Cookie Name(s) fingerprint_<timestamp>
Duration 400 – 3085 days

Analytics, performance and campaign cookies

The analytics, performance and campaign cookies we use are:

Purpose Cookie Provider Cookie name(s) Duration
To monitor unique visitors Nest partyID Session
To monitor number of visitors and how they interact with our website Google Analytics _ga Persistent - 2 years
To manage the volume of page view requests made   Google Analytics _gat Persistent - 10 minutes
To monitor unique visitors Google Analytics _gid Persistent - 24 hours
Identifies if user’s browser accepts cookies. 1 – Cookies are allowed 3 – Opt-out Adform C If C=1 - 60 days If C=3 - 3650 days
Identifies if user’s browser accepts third party cookies Adform TPC 14 days
Identifies if there is a need to re-check partner‘s cookie matching existence Adform GCM 1 day
Identifies if there is a need to re-check partner‘s cookie matching existence (set by AdServing) Adform CM 1 day
Identifies if there is a need to re-check partner‘s cookie matching existence (set by Cookie Matching) Adform CM14 14 days
Security token for opt out functionality Adform token session
Advertiser specific opt-out Adform otsid 3650 days
Unique identifier Adform uid 60 days
Sequential rotator information – contains total impressions, daily impressions, total clicks, daily clicks, and last impression date Adform SR<RotatorID> 1 day
Identifies last click membership for 3rd party pixels on advertiser’s pages Adform CT<TrackingSetupID> 1 hour
Identifies daily frequency capping for expanding banner Adform EBFCD<BannerID> 7 days
Identifies total frequency capping for expanding banner Adform EBFC<BannerID> 7 days
Compound banner frequency capping Adform CFFC<TagID> 7 days
This cookie is used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users. Google Ads NID 6 months
This cookie enables sites to show Google ads. Google Ads __gads 13 months
Ensures that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. These cookies prevent malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without that user’s knowledge. The cookie ‘pm_sess’ also helps maintain your browser session. Google Ads pm_sess 30 minutes
Used by Google for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Google Ads pm_sess_NNN 30 minutes
Associates multiple requests made by a user on a page with that user's session. Google Ads aboutads_sessNNN 30 minutes
Used to collect information about the user and their activity on the website for analytics and reporting. Google Ads FPAU 90 days
Used to show Google ads on non-Google sites. If you have personalized ads enabled, the ‘ANID’ cookie is used to remember this setting and lasts for 13 months in the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, and the United Kingdom (UK), and 24 months everywhere else. Google Ads ANID 13 months EEA UK / 24 months elsewhere
Used to link activity on other devices previously logged into with your Google account to coordinate the ads you see and conversion events measured. Google Ads AID 13 months EEA UK / 540 days elsewhere
Used to link activity on other devices previously logged into with your Google account to coordinate the ads you see and conversion events measured. Google Ads TAID 14 days
For showing ads, including personalized ads, and measuring their effectiveness. SDI uses Google advertising services for showing ads for SDI products and services. Google Ads _gcl_au 90 days
This service uses the “DoubleClick” Cookie, which tracks use of this Website and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered. Google Ads RUL 12 months
Used to write Google Ads click IDs into first-party cookies Google Ads FPGCLAW 90 days
Used to write Google Ads click IDs into first-party cookies Google Ads FPGCLGB 90 days
Used to store campaign information in order to provide Google Ads with a more reliable way to measure interactions Google Ads _gcl_gb 90 days
Used to store campaign information in order to provide Google Ads with a more reliable way to measure interactions Google Ads _gac_gb_<wpid> 90 days
Used to help tags measure click data so that conversions are measured effectively Google Ads _gcl_aw 90 days
Used to provide ad delivery or retargeting. Google Ads 1P_JAR 30 days
Used to track conversions through ad campaigns and send data to Google Ads. Google Ads Conversion 90 days
Used to authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect you as you interact with a service. This cookies used to prevent spam, fraud, and abuse by ensuring that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. It prevents malicious sites acting without a user’s knowledge and as if they were that user. Google Ads YSC Session
Used by YouTube to show more relevant ads, provide bandwidth estimations, and detect and resolve problems with the service. Google Ads VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE 180 days
Used by YouTube to show more relevant ads, provide bandwidth estimations, and detect and resolve problems with the service. Google Ads VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE_ 180 days
Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform Linkedin.com bcookie 1 year
Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes Linkedin.com li_gc 6 months
To facilitate data center selection, used for routing. Linkedin.com lidc 1 day/24 hours
Bot detection provided by Cloudflare Linkedin.com __cf_bm 30 mins
Used to remember a user's language setting to ensure LinkedIn.com displays in the language selected by the user in their settings. Linkedin.com lang Session
This cookie is set by Meta to deliver advertisement when they are on Meta or a digital platform powered by Meta advertising after visiting this website. Meta _fbp 2 months
Purpose To monitor unique visitors
Cookie Provider Nest
Cookie name(s) partyID
Duration Session
Purpose To monitor number of visitors and how they interact with our website
Cookie Provider Google Analytics
Cookie name(s) _ga
Duration Persistent - 2 years
Purpose To manage the volume of page view requests made  
Cookie Provider Google Analytics
Cookie name(s) _gat
Duration Persistent - 10 minutes
Purpose To monitor unique visitors
Cookie Provider Google Analytics
Cookie name(s) _gid
Duration Persistent - 24 hours
Purpose Identifies if user’s browser accepts cookies. 1 – Cookies are allowed 3 – Opt-out
Cookie Provider Adform
Cookie name(s) C
Duration If C=1 - 60 days If C=3 - 3650 days
Purpose Identifies if user’s browser accepts third party cookies
Cookie Provider Adform
Cookie name(s) TPC
Duration 14 days
Purpose Identifies if there is a need to re-check partner‘s cookie matching existence
Cookie Provider Adform
Cookie name(s) GCM
Duration 1 day
Purpose Identifies if there is a need to re-check partner‘s cookie matching existence (set by AdServing)
Cookie Provider Adform
Cookie name(s) CM
Duration 1 day
Purpose Identifies if there is a need to re-check partner‘s cookie matching existence (set by Cookie Matching)
Cookie Provider Adform
Cookie name(s) CM14
Duration 14 days
Purpose Security token for opt out functionality
Cookie Provider Adform
Cookie name(s) token
Duration session
Purpose Advertiser specific opt-out
Cookie Provider Adform
Cookie name(s) otsid
Duration 3650 days
Purpose Unique identifier
Cookie Provider Adform
Cookie name(s) uid
Duration 60 days
Purpose Sequential rotator information – contains total impressions, daily impressions, total clicks, daily clicks, and last impression date
Cookie Provider Adform
Cookie name(s) SR<RotatorID>
Duration 1 day
Purpose Identifies last click membership for 3rd party pixels on advertiser’s pages
Cookie Provider Adform
Cookie name(s) CT<TrackingSetupID>
Duration 1 hour
Purpose Identifies daily frequency capping for expanding banner
Cookie Provider Adform
Cookie name(s) EBFCD<BannerID>
Duration 7 days
Purpose Identifies total frequency capping for expanding banner
Cookie Provider Adform
Cookie name(s) EBFC<BannerID>
Duration 7 days
Purpose Compound banner frequency capping
Cookie Provider Adform
Cookie name(s) CFFC<TagID>
Duration 7 days
Purpose This cookie is used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users.
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) NID
Duration 6 months
Purpose This cookie enables sites to show Google ads.
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) __gads
Duration 13 months
Purpose Ensures that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. These cookies prevent malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without that user’s knowledge. The cookie ‘pm_sess’ also helps maintain your browser session.
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) pm_sess
Duration 30 minutes
Purpose Used by Google for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads.
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) pm_sess_NNN
Duration 30 minutes
Purpose Associates multiple requests made by a user on a page with that user's session.
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) aboutads_sessNNN
Duration 30 minutes
Purpose Used to collect information about the user and their activity on the website for analytics and reporting.
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) FPAU
Duration 90 days
Purpose Used to show Google ads on non-Google sites. If you have personalized ads enabled, the ‘ANID’ cookie is used to remember this setting and lasts for 13 months in the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, and the United Kingdom (UK), and 24 months everywhere else.
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) ANID
Duration 13 months EEA UK / 24 months elsewhere
Purpose Used to link activity on other devices previously logged into with your Google account to coordinate the ads you see and conversion events measured.
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) AID
Duration 13 months EEA UK / 540 days elsewhere
Purpose Used to link activity on other devices previously logged into with your Google account to coordinate the ads you see and conversion events measured.
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) TAID
Duration 14 days
Purpose For showing ads, including personalized ads, and measuring their effectiveness. SDI uses Google advertising services for showing ads for SDI products and services.
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) _gcl_au
Duration 90 days
Purpose This service uses the “DoubleClick” Cookie, which tracks use of this Website and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered.
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) RUL
Duration 12 months
Purpose Used to write Google Ads click IDs into first-party cookies
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) FPGCLAW
Duration 90 days
Purpose Used to write Google Ads click IDs into first-party cookies
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) FPGCLGB
Duration 90 days
Purpose Used to store campaign information in order to provide Google Ads with a more reliable way to measure interactions
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) _gcl_gb
Duration 90 days
Purpose Used to store campaign information in order to provide Google Ads with a more reliable way to measure interactions
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) _gac_gb_<wpid>
Duration 90 days
Purpose Used to help tags measure click data so that conversions are measured effectively
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) _gcl_aw
Duration 90 days
Purpose Used to provide ad delivery or retargeting.
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) 1P_JAR
Duration 30 days
Purpose Used to track conversions through ad campaigns and send data to Google Ads.
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) Conversion
Duration 90 days
Purpose Used to authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect you as you interact with a service. This cookies used to prevent spam, fraud, and abuse by ensuring that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. It prevents malicious sites acting without a user’s knowledge and as if they were that user.
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) YSC
Duration Session
Purpose Used by YouTube to show more relevant ads, provide bandwidth estimations, and detect and resolve problems with the service.
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Duration 180 days
Purpose Used by YouTube to show more relevant ads, provide bandwidth estimations, and detect and resolve problems with the service.
Cookie Provider Google Ads
Cookie name(s) VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE_
Duration 180 days
Purpose Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform
Cookie Provider Linkedin.com
Cookie name(s) bcookie
Duration 1 year
Purpose Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes
Cookie Provider Linkedin.com
Cookie name(s) li_gc
Duration 6 months
Purpose To facilitate data center selection, used for routing.
Cookie Provider Linkedin.com
Cookie name(s) lidc
Duration 1 day/24 hours
Purpose Bot detection provided by Cloudflare
Cookie Provider Linkedin.com
Cookie name(s) __cf_bm
Duration 30 mins
Purpose Used to remember a user's language setting to ensure LinkedIn.com displays in the language selected by the user in their settings.
Cookie Provider Linkedin.com
Cookie name(s) lang
Duration Session
Purpose This cookie is set by Meta to deliver advertisement when they are on Meta or a digital platform powered by Meta advertising after visiting this website.
Cookie Provider Meta
Cookie name(s) _fbp
Duration 2 months

You can find out more about Google Analytics cookies on the Google privacy page.

Functionality and customisation cookies

The functionality and customisation cookies we use are:

Purpose Cookie Provider Cookie Name(s) Duration
To manage the text sizer at the top of our site Nest textSizer Session
To manage the contrast functionality at the top of our site Nest highContrast Session
To monitor site performance AppDynamics ADRUM Session
Purpose To manage the text sizer at the top of our site
Cookie Provider Nest
Cookie Name(s) textSizer
Duration Session
Purpose To manage the contrast functionality at the top of our site
Cookie Provider Nest
Cookie Name(s) highContrast
Duration Session
Purpose
Cookie Provider
Cookie Name(s)
Duration
Purpose To monitor site performance
Cookie Provider AppDynamics
Cookie Name(s) ADRUM
Duration Session

Transfers outside the United Kingdom (UK)

When our analytics provider, Google Analytics, collects information, it stores this in the U.S. For this activity, Nest relies on Model Contract Clauses or any replacements applicable in the UK. More information can be found in Google Analytics privacy policy.

What can you do if you don’t want cookies on your computer?

You can block analytics, performance and campaign cookies, and functionality and customisation cookies for our website by using the slider buttons on the ‘Cookies on Nest Pensions’ page.

You can block cookies for other websites by following third-party opt-out instructions. One way of doing this is to change your internet browser settings by following the instructions provided by your browser provider. These are normally located within the 'Help', 'Tools' or 'Edit' menus. You can also use a third-party tool to manage cookies.

If you know the third-party cookie that’s being used, you can follow the provider’s instructions to opt out. For example, you can opt out from Google Analytics cookies by visiting Google's website. However, this may not delete the cookie from your browser altogether. It may just stop the cookie from being sent to your computer in the future.

Some web browsers let you delete cookies completely. If your browser allows it, you’ll be able to change your settings to delete cookies when the browser is closed.

Just remember that if you choose to refuse cookies, some website functionality may not work for you.

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