Cookie Policy
Last Updated: January, 28, 2025
1. SCOPE OF THIS POLICY
We (“Sands Capital”, “we”, “our” and “us”) respect the privacy of all visitors to our website https://www.sandscapital.com (“Website”). This is our policy on the use of cookies and other technologies on the Website.2. INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
We collect information from you, including browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, domain name, and/or a date/time stamp for your visit, through the use of cookies and similar technology. When you first visit our Website, we set strictly necessary cookies on your Device (as defined in section 3 below). We deploy non-necessary cookies on your Device when we have obtained your prior consent to do so (see section 5 of this policy for further details). If you choose to consent to our use of non-necessary cookies, you may withdraw your consent to these cookies at any time (see section 8 of this policy for further details). We have more information about these cookies in sections 6 and 7 of this policy and you can find further details about our information practices in our Website Privacy Notice.3. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small text files that are stored in your web browser on your PC, mobile device, or other Internet-connected device (each a “Device”). Cookies “remember” information about you and your visit(s) to a website or connection to web application. Certain cookies may also collect personal data about you from your Device. Cookies can be “first party” which are cookies set by us, or “third-party” which are cookies that are placed on your Device by a third party when you visit our Website. Third-party cookies may be placed on your Device by a third party providing a service to us. For example, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how our Website is being used.4. WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website. This helps us to provide you with a better experience when you visit our Website. It also assists us to make improvements to our Website. Cookies enable the Website to remember your interactions and preferences over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them when you come back to the Website or browse from one page to another. For example, data relating to your Device such as language settings, font size settings, display preferences, or other information relating to your Device [(e.g. the type of device being used to browse the Website ]. Cookies also help our Website to work faster and route information over your network.5. TYPES OF COOKIES ON OUR WEBSITE
We use the following types of cookies:- Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are strictly necessary for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that register the type and version of your browser. For this reason, we do not obtain your prior consent to place these cookies on your Device. If you disable these cookies, then the Website will not function properly.
- Statistical cookies: These cookies help us to understand how visitors interact with our Website by collecting and reporting information on an aggregated basis. We obtain your prior consent to use these cookies on your Device.
- Performance/ Marketing cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize visitors to our Website. These cookies also count the number of visitors to our Website and help us to understand how visitors use our Website. This information helps us to improve the way our Website works. For example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily. This information is gathered anonymously – it is not to enable us to identify visitors to our Website. We use these cookies to determine the kind of content and services our visitors value the most. We are required to obtain your prior consent to use these cookies on your Device.
6. MORE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR FIRST PARTY COOKIES
The table below provides more information about the first party cookies that we use on the Website, why we use them and the period for which the Website will retain information collected by each cookie:| Cookie Name | Cookie Type | Purposes | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpresspass_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | Necessary | This cookie is used authenticate website administrator login. | 1 day |
| wordpress_sec_ | Necessary | This cookie is used by WordPress to provide protection against hackers, store account details for logged in users and for logged in user authentication. WP Admin logged in cookie which is created dynamically. | 1 day |
| wordpress_logged_in_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | Necessary | This cookie is used by WordPress to indicate when a user is logged in, and who the user is, for most interface use. On login, WordPress uses the wordpress_[hash] cookie to store authentication details. Its use is limited to the Administration Screen area. | 1 day |
| __cf_bm | Necessary | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots | 30 minutes |
| elementor | Necessary | Used in context with the Website's WordPress theme. The cookie allows the website owner to implement or change the Website's content in real-time. | Duration of Session |
| _ga | Statistical | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 1 year and 1 day |
| _ ga_# | Statistical | Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. | 1 year and 1 day |
| _ gat | Statistical | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | 1 year and 1 day |
| _gid | Statistical | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 1 year and 1 day |
| pardot | Statistical | A session cookie named pardot is set in your browser while you’re logged in as a user or when a visitor accesses a form, landing page, or page with Account Engagement tracking code. The cookie denotes an active session and isn’t used for tracking. | Length of Website user's browser session |
7. INFORMATION ABOUT THIRD-PARTY COOKIES
Third-party cookies are cookies which have been set on our Website but are not directly related to, or overseen by, Sands Capital. We set out more information about these cookies in the table below:
| Cookie Name | Cookie Type | Purposes | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| player | Functional | This cookie is used for the embedded website video player. | 1 Year |
| __cf_bm | Functional | This is a CloudFoundry cookie. | Length of Website user's browser session |
| vuid | Functional | This cookie is used for the website video player to identify the video id. | 1 Year |
| _cfuvid | Functional | This cookie is a part of the services provided by Cloudflare - Including load-balancing, deliverance of Website content and serving DNS connection for Website operators. | Length of Website user's browser session |
| bscookie | Advertising | This cookie is owned by LinkedIn and is used for remembering that a logged in user is verified by two factor authentication and has previously logged in. | 1 Year |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Advertising | This cookie is owned by LinkedIn and is used to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie. | 30 Days |
| bcookie | Advertising | This cookie is owned by LinkedIn and is a Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform. | 1 Year |
| lidc | Advertising | This cookie is owned by LinkedIn and is used to facilitate data center selection. | 24 hours |
| UserMatchHistory | Advertising | This cookie is owned by LinkedIn and is used to track usage of the embedded video player. | 1 Month |
| li_sugr | Advertising | This cookie is owned by LinkedIn and is used to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity. | 90 days |
| _guid | Advertising | This cookie is owned by LinkedIn and is used to identify a LinkedIn Member for advertising through Google Ads. | 90 days |
| ar_debug | Advertising | This cookie supports Google attribution reporting API integration to mitigate signal loss. | Length of Website user's browser session |
8. CONTROLLING COOKIES: YOUR PREFERENCES AND CONSENT
We deploy strictly necessary cookies upon the initial loading of our Website. All other types of cookies need your prior consent to deploy them. We request your prior consent to use non-necessary cookies via our cookie banner:- by clicking “Accept”, you will consent to our use of all strictly necessary and non-necessary cookies;
- by clicking “Deny”, we will only use strictly necessary cookies; and
- by clicking “Update my preferences”, you can consent to some, all or none of our non-necessary cookies before they are deployed on your Device