Cookie Policy

Introduction

This website uses cookies. This Cookie Policy (the “Policy”) sets out the cookies that Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management (Deutschland) GmbH ('SMD-AM DE', 'we', 'us' and 'our') uses, how and why we use them, as well as how you can manage your preference regarding the use of them. 

For more information about how we use the personal data we collect from you (including data collected through our use of cookies), please see our Privacy Policy.

This Cookie Policy was last updated on the date indicated at the beginning of this policy.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your browser or hard drive of your computer, smartphone, Smart TV or other smart device by websites that you visit. They are widely used by website owners to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to gather information about your use of the website, enable the website to recognise you as an existing customer when you return to our website at a later date and provide security.

Why do we use Cookies?

We use cookies for various purposes, which can be captured under the categories below:

•    Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website such as page navigation and access to certain areas of the website. These essential cookies are always enabled because this website will not function as intended without these cookies. You also may be restricted from viewing certain pages without these cookies enabled. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website.

•    Preferences / Functionality Cookies:  These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. We use preferences cookies that store preferences such as language settings. We use such cookies to personalise your browsing experience and help us improve the website functionality.

•    Statistics / Analytical / Performance Cookies: These allow us  and our third-party service providers to use statistics / analytical/performance cookies to recognise and count the number of visitors and to help us understand how our visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

•    Marketing Cookies: We and our third-party t providers use marketing cookies to record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed and for advertising purposes. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose so that they can serve you with relevant advertising on their websites.

This website utilises first-party cookies as well as third-party cookies. First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. Third-party cookies are cookies of external services.

Third-Party service provider list

Some of our third-party service providers use cookies to deliver information to us. The third-party service providers we cooperate with and the cookies they use are as follows:  
•    Google Analytics: Google Analytics uses cookies to track users’ interactions with a website, such as session duration and pages visited per session, as well as demographic and device data. The Company may use this data to gain a deeper understanding of its current clients and prospects.
•    Google Advertising: Google Advertising uses cookies for advertising, targeting specific audiences based on previous users’ behaviour, and measuring the effectiveness of ads based on specific actions performed by a visitor on a website. The Company may use this data to optimise Google ad spend and targeting.
•    Microsoft Clarity: Microsoft Clarity is a behavioural analytics tool that uses cookies to track the users’ behaviour on a website, such as the clicks and scrolls, and create a heatmap. The Company may use this data to understand how the website users interact with its website.
•    LinkedIn Advertising: LinkedIn Insight Tag tracks users’ behaviours on the website and users who perform certain actions on the website. These activities can be utilised to create and build website audience to retarget LinkedIn members on the LinkedIn platform. LinkedIn Insight Tag uses cookies to enable the collection of data for advertising purposes. The Company may use this data to optimise LinkedIn ad spend and targeting.
•    Google Search Console: Google Search Console is a monitoring tool which measures a website’s search traffic and performance. Google Search Console tracks the search terms a user uses to get into a website, however Google Search Console does not use cookies. The Company uses Google Search Console to track the keywords its website visitors used to enter into its website.
•   Salesforce and Account Engagement: Salesforce is a customer relationship management platform that uses cookies to enhance its functionality and accelerate the processing time. Account Engagement is a marketing tool that uses first-party cookies to implement marketing campaigns and track the visitors’ behaviour allowing the tool to record the prospects’ activity.

How do we use cookies?

Cookie consent

Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent, as these are necessary for this website to function properly. 

Non-strictly necessary cookies require your consent. Everytime you visit our website, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies. You also have the option to save your consent for a period of 180 days. If you select this option, you will only be asked for your consent again before this period expires if something has changed/has been amended in the cookies you have agreed to. You can exercise your right to accept or reject these strictly necessary cookies by setting your preferences through the Cookiebot Consent Management Platform (“Cookiebot CMP” or “cookie banner”). The Cookiebot CMP can be found at the bottom of this website when first visiting and at the bottom left of this website thereafter. The Cookiebot CMP shows the cookie types this website is using and allows you to select which types of cookies you wish to accept or reject. The cookie expiry dates can be found in the detailed table in the “How do we use cookies?” section of this Policy. The Cookiebot CMP stores the consent provided for the current domain and consent date. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website however some areas of our website may be restricted. 

Please check the cookie details in respect of each third-party service provider, including the cookie types (i.e., Marketing) in the “How do we use cookies?” section of this Policy.

Cookie expiry

Cookies can last for different lengths of time depending on what they are used for.

Session cookies are temporary cookies and are only stored until you leave the website or when you close your browser session.

Persistent cookies last for a fixed period of time, defined within each cookie, and allow the website to identify the device again when the user returns to that website on that device.

For further details please check the details in respect of each cookie in the “How do we use cookies?” section of this Policy.

How can I control the cookies on my browser?

As the means by which you can reject cookies through your web browser depends from browser to browser, you should visit your browser menu for more information. You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited. Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. language preferences). You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all. The following is information about cookies and how to manage them on the most popular browsers:

·         Microsoft Edge

·         Chrome

·         Firefox

You can at any time modify your preferences around the use of cookies from the cookie banner. This will allow you to change or withdraw your consent any time.   

Changes to this Policy

We may change this Policy at any time by posting a copy of the revised Cookie Policy on our website. Any changes will take effect seven days after the date we post the amended terms on our website.

Contact

If you have any questions or concerns about cookies or data protection when using our website, please use the contact details in the ‘How to contact us’ section of our Privacy Notice.