AXIS Capital Cookie Notice
AXIS Capital (“AXIS”) takes our responsibilities under applicable laws such as the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 seriously. This Cookie Notice is designed to assist you understand how we use cookies. This Cookie Notice should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Notice.
Who we are
The AXIS Capital Group is a group of companies that operate in various jurisdictions around the world. The AXIS entity that originally collected information from you will be principally responsible for managing your personal information. If you have an insurance policy with us, this will be the AXIS entity named on that policy.
Please see our Privacy Notice for further information on how to find out the identity of any AXIS company that collects personal information about you as part of providing insurance coverage.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, mobile phone or tablet by websites that you visit or by clicking on a link to a site within an email. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well
as to provide information to website owners.
The Cookie Notice
This Cookie Notice explains how AXIS uses cookies and it applies across all AXIS entities.
Why do we use cookies?
We use cookies on our websites to help operate our business more efficiently. This includes using cookies for the following purposes:
- To remember user preferences on our website (including language and location);
- To personalize the browsing experience based on a user's preferred settings (e.g. language and country); and
- Analytics.
The AXIS websites use analytics technology, including Google Analytics, to understand how users interact with the sites, to improve our web experience, and better market our products. You may exercise choices regarding the use of cookies from Google Analytics by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout or downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
What types of cookies do we use?
We use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our websites;
- Analytical/performance cookies: These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to and to see how visitors move around our websites when they are using those sites. This helps us to improve the way our website works, e.g. by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily; and
- Functionality cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you (e.g. your choice of language or region).
- Targeted/advertising cookies. These cookies allow us, with your consent, to enable visitors to our website to share content on social networks such as LinkedIn and to enable and evaluate the interactions with our communications and
social media tools.
Web beacons (also called 'pixel tags' or GIFs) are small image file elements placed within web pages and web-based messaging, such as newsletters and that work together with cookies to recognize visitors and how they interact with that content. Using these tools we can better understand which content is of interest to our visitors. An SDK is a piece of data code that is included in mobile applications and works in a similar way.
The table below describes in further detail the cookies that we use and why we use them.
| Name | Purpose | Description | Set by | Duration of cookie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| __cfduid | Strictly Necessary | This cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, are used to speed up page load times. According to CloudFlare it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information. | Third party Cloudfare | 30 days |
| OptanonConsent | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | First party axiscapital.com axisgroupbenefits.com | 1 year |
| ARRAffinity | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. | First party 2016yearinreview.axiscapital.com harringtonre.azurewebsites.net | Session |
| __cfruid | Strictly Necessary | Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to identify trusted web traffic. | First party axiscapital.com axisgroupbenefits.com | Session |
| __cf_bm | Strictly Necessary | 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. This is a CloudFoundry cookie | First party Investor.axiscapital.com | 1 day |
| OptanonConsent | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | First party Cloudfare | 30 days |
| TSxxxxxxxxxx | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is set by our web server infrastructure to ensure your web requests are consistently processed by the same server in our infrastructure for the duration of your session. | First party axispoint.axiscapital.com | Session |
| nlbi_XXXXXXX | Strictly Necessary | Used to provide a secure site for users | Third party globenewswire.com | Session |
| incap_ses_* | Strictly Necessary | Incapsula DDoS Protectiona and Web Application Firewall:
| Third party globenewswire.com | Session |
| f5avraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa_session_ | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is associated with F5's BIG-IP product set and is an integral part of load balancing. It is used to store the user's session in order to identify it in the application's traffic. | Third party mms.businesswire.com | Session |
| visid_incap_XXXXXX | Strictly Necessary | Incapsula DDoS Protectiona and Web Application Firewall: cookie for linking certain sessions to a specific visitor (visitor representing a specific computer). In order to identify clients that have already visited Incapsula. | Third party businesswire.com | 1 year |
| JSESSIONID | Strictly Necessary | Enables the web application to identify users during their browsing session. | Third party businesswire.com | 0 days / session |
| stsservicecookie | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is set by Microsoft for secure authentication of the users' login | Third party login.microsoftonline.com | 0 days / session |
| x-ms-gateway-slice | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is set by Microsoft for secure authentication of the users' login details | Third party login.microsoftonline.com | Session |
| esctx | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is set by Microsoft for secure authentication of the users' login details | Third party login.microsoftonline.com | Session |
| brcap | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is used to detect whether the browser has touch capabilities or not. | Third party login.microsoftonline.com | 1 year |
| buid | Strictly Necessary | Tracks browser related information. Used for service telemetry and protection mechanisms. | Third party login.microsoftonline.com | 30 days |
| dtPC | Performance | This cookie name is associated with, software from Dynatrace, an application performance management (APM) software company. Their software manages the availability and performance of software applications and the impact on user experience in the form of deep transaction tracing, synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring, and network monitoring. | First party axiscapital.com | Session |
| JSESSIONID | Performance | This domain is controlled by New Relic, which provides a platform for monitoring the performance of web and mobile applications. | Third party nr-data.net | Session |
| dtCookie | Performance | This cookie name is associated with, software from Dynatrace, an application performance management (APM) software company. Their software manages the availability and performance of software applications and the impact on user experience in the form of deep transaction tracing, synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring, and network monitoring. | First party axiscapital.com | Session |
| dTValidationCookie | Performance | Used to determine the top-level domain. | Third party Dynatrace | A few milliseconds |
| dTCookie | Performance | This cookie name is associated with, software from Dynatrace, an application performance management (APM) software company. Their software manages the availability and performance of software applications and the impact on user experience in the form of deep transaction tracing, synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring, and network monitoring. | Third party Dynatrace | A few milliseconds |
| dTValidationCookie | Performance | Used to determine the top-level domain. | Third party dynatrace.com | Session |
| rxVisitor | Functional | This cookie is used to store an anonymous ID for the user to correlate across sessions on the world service. | First party axiscapital.com | Session |
| wfvt_ | Functional | This cookie is stored once a website visitor is verified as human and not a bot, to distinguish the traffic from automated attack patterns | First party 2016yearinreview.axiscapital.com | Session |
| __cf_bm | Functional | 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. This is a CloudFoundry cookie | Third party vimeo.com | 1 year |
| vuid | Functional | This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing | Third party vimeo.com | 2 years |
| bpazaws52gukakzc__ctrl0_ctl48_uccaptcha | Functional | Analytics cookie. | First party axiscapital.com | Session |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | Functional | This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session | First party axiscapital.com | Session |
| ARRAAffinitySameSite | Functional | This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session | First party harringtonre.com harringtonre.azurewebsites.net | Session |
| _gat_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Targeted/advertising | Google Analytics - Used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | First party axiscapital.com | Session |
| sp | Targeted/advertising | This cookie is associated with Eventbrite and is used to deliver content tailored to the end user's interests and improve content creation. This cookie is also used for event-booking purposes. | First party investor.axiscapital.com | 1 year |
| _gat_gtag_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Targeted/advertising | Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously. | First party axiscapital.com | Session |
| lidc | Targeted/advertising | To facilitate data center selection | Third party linkedin.com | 1 day |
| li_sugr | Targeted/advertising | Used to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity outside the Designated Countries | Third party linkedin.com | 90 days |
| linkedin.com | Targeted/advertising | Used to remember a user's language setting to ensure LinkedIn.com displays in the language selected by the user in their settings | Third party ads.linkedin.com | Session |
| bscookie | Targeted/advertising | Used for remembering that a logged in user is verified by two factor authentication. | Third party linkedin.com | 2 years |
| bcookie | Targeted/advertising | Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform | Third party linkedin.com | 2 years |
| UserMatchHistory | Targeted/advertising | LinkedIn Ads ID syncing | Third party linkedin.com | 30 days |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Targeted/advertising | Used to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie | Third party linkedin.com | 30 days |
| li_gc | Targeted/advertising | Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes | Third party linkedin.com | 2 years |
| sf-prs-ss | Targeted/advertising | Holds the time of first page visit. | First party axiscapital.com | 0 days |
| sf-prs-lu | Targeted/advertising | Saves the landing URL. | First party axiscapital.com | Session |
| ln_or | Targeted/advertising | Registers statistical data on users' behavior on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | First party axiscapital.com | 1 day |
| fpc | Targeted/advertising | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Third party login.microsoftonline.com | 29 days |
Third Party Cookies
Please note that third parties (including, for example, providers of external services such as web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
What personal information do we collect using cookies?
We collect only limited amounts of personal information as part of our use of cookies, such as IP addresses. In particular, we do not look to collect special categories of personal data (such as health data) or criminal convictions data through our use of cookies.
Where can I find further information about cookies?
To find out more about the way cookies work, how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org.
Can I control the use of cookies on my device
You may choose at any time to disable all cookies, except for cookies that are required for the functioning of our website, namely Strictly Necessary cookies as identified above. To change your cookie preferences, please see the information set out below, which explains how you can control the use of cookies using your browser settings.
Most web browsers (including Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari) allow you to control your cookie settings and to delete any cookies already stored on your computer or other devices.
You can control the use of cookies on your device, including deleting and blocking the cookies we and others use, through the browser settings on your device; but please note that any changes you make may affect the functionality of our site and/or prevent you from accessing certain areas or features of our site.
To find information relating to the relevant browser you are using, visit the web browser developer’s website.
Your consent to our use of cookies
Your consent to our use of cookies applies to the following domains: (a) axiscapital.com; (b) investor.axiscapital.com (c) axisgroupbenefits.com (d) axispoint.axiscapital.com and (e) harringtonre.com.
Updates on cookies policy
As part of our efforts to ensure that we properly manage, protect and process your personal data, we will be reviewing our policies, procedures and processes from time to time.
We reserve the right to amend the terms of this Cookies Notice at any time at our absolute discretion.
You may contact us at any time to ensure that you are well informed of our latest policies in relation to personal data protection.
How to Contact Us
Please address all inquiries, requests, and other communications regarding your personal information or this Privacy Policy to:
Contact: Data Protection Officer
Email: [email protected]
Address: 52 Lime Street, London EC3M 7AF
Phone: +44-20-7877-3800
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Published: 1 March 2023 v1.1
