Cookies
Federated Hermes Limited (“FHL”, “we”, or “us”) use cookies on our website. This Cookie Notice provides you with detailed information about the types of cookies we use and the purposes for using those cookies. For information about how FHL collects, uses, and shares other types of information, please read our Privacy Notice.
FHL use a variety of technologies, such as cookies, web beacons, and similar mechanisms, as described further below, to collect information that helps us understand how our website is used. We may also use similar tracking technologies in emails that we or third parties send to you, as further described below. When you visit our website, you have the ability to accept or decline these cookies and other tracking mechanisms, except those that are strictly necessary in order for you to enter and use our website, and you can change your preference at any time using the preference indicator at the top of this page.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information to the owners of the site.
Some of the cookies we set are ‘session cookies’, which remain only for the duration of your browser session and are deleted when you exit your web browser. Others are ‘persistent cookies’, which remain on your device or computer for a period of time after you have exited your web browser.
Our website and the emails that you receive from FHL use an application known as a “web beacon” (also known as a “pixel tag” or “clear gif”). A web beacon is an electronic file that usually consists of a single-pixel image. In some cases, a web beacon triggers the placement or updating of a persistent cookie on your device.
There are two ways in which cookies are set. First party cookies are those set by, or on behalf of, the website you are visiting at that moment. Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by another domain (that is, one other than the website you are looking at).
Over the course of your visit to the FHL digital estate, you may visit different domains (for example, hermes-investment.com, federatedinvestors.com, federatedhermes.com and federatedinvestors.co.uk) on which we host different content or applications. These domains are owned by us but may share cookies between them; this means that we use both first and third-party cookies to maintain security and ensure we can provide you with the best service across our digital estate. We may also use third-party cookies provided by our authorised third parties.
FHL uses cookies for a range of tasks that include allowing you to browse between pages effectively, recording and storing your preferences, personalising your repeat visits, and generally improving your online experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and helps us to improve our site.
When you first visit this website, you will see a message that lets you know that we use cookies and directs you to the cookie page. The cookie settings on this website are set to ‘allow all cookies’ to improve the overall performance of our website and give you the best user experience. By clicking “Proceed”, you are agreeing to our use of cookies and the storing of cookies on your device to enhance site usage and assist in our marketing efforts. If you don’t agree to our use of cookies, you should close your browser and stop using this website.
When you visit our website, we collect information about your use of our site, such as information about the device or browser you use to access the site (including device type, operating system, screen resolution and so forth) and the way you interact with it. You may not be able to initiate or complete some activities within our secure online services unless these cookies or similar technologies are installed.
‘Strictly necessary’ cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our website and use its features safely, such as accessing secure areas of our website. Without these essential cookies, services you have specifically asked for cannot be provided, such as applying for one of our products. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or retargeting purposes, nor do they remember where you have been on the internet.
This category of cookies cannot be disabled.
- The strictly necessary cookies used on our website are categorised as follows:
Host | Cookie Name | Description | Persistent / Session | Expiry |
Hermes-modal |
| This cookie will distinguish you on our site by the type of professional user you are and what country you are in to display the correct fund information. | 365 days | |
video.hermes-investment.com | session_referer | This cookie is generated as part of the sign-in process and used to defend against Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) | Session | 0 days |
www.hermes-investment.com | __cf_bm | “The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. | Persistent | 0 days |
‘Performance cookies’ collect information about how you use our website e.g. which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors. These cookies don’t collect any information that could identify you directly – all the information collected is anonymous or pseudonymous. Performance cookies are not used to target you with online advertising; without these cookies, we can’t learn how our websites and applications are performing, and so help us improve your digital browsing experience.
In limited cases for online application issues, these cookies enable us to identify specific issues you may have had.
- The performance cookies used on our website are categorised as follows:
Host | Cookie Name | Description | Persistent / Session | Expiry |
hermes-investment.com | _hjSession User_xxxxxx | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | Persistent | 364 |
www.hermes-investment.com | _hjIncludedIn SessionSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s daily session limit. | Persistent | 0 |
www.hermes-investment.com | _hjIncludedIn PageviewSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s pageview limit. | Persistent | 0 |
hermes-investment.com | _hjTLDTest | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. | Session | 0 |
hermes-investment.com | _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners._ga | Persistent | 730 |
hermes-investment.com | _gat_UA- | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | Persistent | 0 |
hermes-investment.com | _hjAbsolute SessionIn Progress | This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | Persistent | 0 |
hermes-investment.com | _gclxxxx | Google conversion tracking cookie | Persistent | 90 |
hermes-investment.com | _hjFirstSeen | Identifies a new user’s first session on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar’s seeing this user for the first time. | Persistent | 0 |
hermes-investment.com | _hjSession_ xxxxxx | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. | Persistent | 0 |
hermes-investment.com | _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited._gid | Persistent | 1 |
‘Functionality’ cookies are used to provide other services such as our online calculators and certain navigation elements of the website which enhance your browsing experience, for example, directing you back to a promotion that might have attracted your attention on your first visit. They can also enable us to remember setting choices you make to improve your visit. These cookies may be used to ensure that all our services and communications are relevant to you. The information these cookies collect cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. Without these cookies, our web sites may not be able to remember choices you’ve previously made or personalise your browsing experience.
- We do not use Functionality cookies.
‘Targeting’ cookies are used to collect information in order to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. These cookies also allow you to ‘like’ and ‘share’ our pages via social networking sites such as Facebook.
These cookies and similar technologies gather information about your browsing habits. They remember that you’ve visited a website and share this information with other organisations, such as advertisers and platforms on which we advertise. Although these cookies and similar technologies can track your visits to other websites, they don’t usually know who you are.
- The targeting cookies used on our website are categorised as follows:
Host | Cookie Name | Description | Persistent / Session | Expiry |
video.hermes-investment.com | uuid | This cookie is used to optimize ad relevance by collecting visitor data from multiple websites – this exchange of visitor data is normally provided by a third-party data-center or ad-exchange. | Persistent | 90 |
video.hermes-investment.com | ad_session_id | This cookie is generally associated with 23 Video and is used to collect statistics and preferences of videos that have been served by visitors. | Persistent | 0 |
- Third Party Targeting Cookies
Host | Cookie Name | Description | Persistent / Session | Expiry |
linkedin.com | bcookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Persistent | 730 |
linkedin.com | li_gc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Persistent | 717 |
linkedin.com | lidc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Persistent | 1 |
doubleclick.net | IDE | This domain is owned by DoubleClick (Google). The main business activity is: DoubleClick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange | Persistent | 390 |
www.linkedin. com | bscookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Persistent | 730 |
linkedin.com | li_sugr | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Persistent | 89 |
linkedin.com | AnalyticsSync History | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Persistent | 30 |
doubleclick. net | test_cookie | This domain is owned by DoubleClick (Google). The main business activity is: DoubleClick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange | Persistent | 0 |
linkedin.com | UserMatch History | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Persistent | 30 |
linkedin.com | lang | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Session | 0 |
ads.linkedin. com | lang | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. This sub-domain is connected with LinkedIn’s marketing services that enable website owners to gain insight into types of users on their site based on LinkedIn profile data, to improve targeting. | Session | 0 |
We and our service providers may also use web beacons and cookies to determine whether and when you receive and open our emails; these beacons and cookies may also capture information such as the type of device, operating system, email program, and web browser used to view the email, the IP address from which you opened the email, and whether you click on any links in the email. These technologies enable us to gauge the effectiveness, relevance, and value of our email communications, as well as to target relevant advertising to you and to measure the impact of that advertising on your FHL relationships.
For more information about Interest-Based Advertising and how to opt out, please visit:
- Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) opt-out page; and
- European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) opt-out page
Last updated on September 2023.
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can set your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. You also may be able to reject mobile device identifiers by activating the appropriate setting on your mobile device.
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FHL provides a convenient method to discontinue electronic communication via an “unsubscribe” link tick box via emails. Alternatively, you can contact us at [email protected] to unsubscribe.
We keep our cookie notice under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page. This cookies notice was last updated in August 2023.
Last updated December 2024.
