Cookie Policy

Information about our use of cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
 
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of the following cookies.
 
    • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. The include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, or transact using the Eiger Trading Platform (“ETP”).
    • Analytical/performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
    • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences(for example, your choice of language or region)
    • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

 
Cookie
Name
Purpose
Type
Session Storage
localstorage, sessionstorage
Local storage enables a website or application to store information locally on your device(s). Local storage may be used to improve the visitor experience, for example, by enabling features, remembering your preferences and speeding up site functionality.
Functional
Google Analytics cookie
_ga
The _ga cookie allows us to individually count and recognize the number of visitors to our website. Two random 32-bit numbers are generated and set in this cookie. No personal information is tracked.
Analytical/performance cookies
Google Analytics cookie
_gat
The _gat cookie is used to throttle the request rate back to Google.
Analytical/performance cookies
Google Analytics cookie
_gid
The _gid cookie is used to group the users behaviour together for each user. The structure is similar to the _ga cookie and it expires after 24 hours of inactivity
Analytical/performance cookies
Cookie Law preference cookie
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary
This cookie records your choice of whether you have accepted or rejected necessary cookies .
Functionality cookies
Cookie Law preference cookie
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary
This cookie records your choice of whether you have accepted or rejected non-essential cookies .
Functionality cookies
Cookie Law preference cookie
This cookie records your choice of whether you have accepted or rejected necessary cookies .
This cookie records your choice of whether you have accepted or rejected necessary cookies .
Functionality cookies

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by accessing the ‘Privacy & Cookies Policy’ pop-up at the bottom of the page. You can then click ‘Accept’ or ‘Reject which will save your preferences. 

Alternatively, you may be able to block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of the website, and in particular if you work for one of our existing clients you may not be able to access the ETP. Further detailed instructions about how to block cookies on your browser are available here.

This policy was last updated on 1 April 2020.