Cookie policy

What is a cookie?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information, which your computer or mobile device downloads when you visit a website. When you return to these websites – or visit other websites that use the same cookies – they recognise these cookies and therefore your browsing device.

Cookies help websites to do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences and generally improving your browsing experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

What types of cookies do we use?

The type of cookies used on this website can be put into one of four categories based on the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) guide for cookie categories: Strictly Necessary, Performance, Functionality and Targeting.

Strictly Necessary Cookies – These cookies are essential in order to enable you to navigate our websites and to access secure content. Without these cookies, we won’t be able to offer you services you’ve asked for, such as internet banking facilities,. These cookies don’t collect information about you for profiling or targeted marketing purposes.

This category can’t be disabled using the cookies preference selection on this website.

Performance Cookies – These cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors use our websites, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect personally identifiable information; the information collected is anonymous and is only used to improve the performance of our websites.

These cookies aren’t used to target you with online advertising and without these cookies we don’t know how our website is performing, and make relevant enhancements that could help improve your experience when using our online services.

Functionality Cookies – These cookies let our websites to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you're in) and tailor the website to provide enhanced features and content for you. These cookies can also be used to remember customisation changes that you may make (for example text size or fonts). They may also be used to provide services you asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is anonymous and can’t be used to track your browsing activity on other websites.

Without these cookies, a website can’t remember choices you've previously made or personalise your browsing experience.

Targeting Cookies – These cookies collect information about your browsing habits. They remember that you've visited a website and share this information with other organisations such as advertisers. They do this in order to provide you with adverts that are more relevant to you and your interests. Although these cookies can track your visits to other websites, they don’t usually know who you are.

Disabling these cookies will not stop online adverts from being displayed to you. However without these cookies, online adverts you see may be less relevant to you and your interests.

To find out more about the cookies in each category, read the full list of cookies used on our websites.

Control cookies we use

You can use the control below to change the types of cookies we use on the International Bank website. 

More information

Information about cookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org
Internet Advertising Bureau: Guide to online advertising and privacy
International Chamber of Commerce United Kingdom: ICC UK cookie guide [PDF, 284KB]

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