Cookie policy

Our websites make use of cookies to collect data in order to administer the websites and to enable its services.
www.nsandi.com/
nsandi-adviser.com
nsandi-corporate.com/
www.nsandi-gps.com/

About cookies

Cookies are small items of data, created when you visit a website and stored on your computer. We use both permanent and session cookies. Session cookies are automatically deleted when you close all of your browser windows. Permanent cookies expire at a defined future date.

Find out more about cookies and how to manage them

How we use cookies

We do not use cookies to track you or profile your activity on other websites.

We collect information about how you use our website. For example, which pages you visit and your online experiences. These cookies enable us to maintain our website and ensure customers get the best online experience. These cookies don't collect any information that you could identify you - all the information collected is anonymous.

We also use cookies to store your preferences for accessibility and other website options. Some of our cookies are essential to the operation of the website, for example making online transactions and forms work properly.

You may delete or block cookies from our websites, but parts of the websites may no longer work as expected and your options will no longer be remembered.

Cookie list

A list of all the cookies we use can be found below.

This list is intended to include all the cookies placed on your computer when you visit our website. Please bear in mind that there may sometimes be a short delay in updating this list.

Contact us if you think a cookie is missing

This website

Cookie Purpose Lifespan Organisation Essential
WT_FPC Cookie set by Webtrends analytics service, used to track and report on visitor behaviour on a site for performance improvement 2 Years Webtrends Non essential
accept-cookies This is used to remember if you have consented to the use of cookies on nsandi.com 1 Year NS&I Non essential
has_js We use this cookie as part of the Prize Checker, to remember if you have javascript enabled on your browser, and to allow the Prize Checker to function. End of session NS&I Non essential
visid_incap_* We use the incapsula CDN to increase reliability, security and speed of nsandi.com. As part of this, incapsula sets cookies to improve functionality and performance. 1 Year Incapsula Non essential
nlbi_* We use the incapsula CDN to increase reliability, security and speed of nsandi.com. As part of this, incapsula sets cookies to improve functionality and performance. End of session Incapsula Non essential
incap_ses_* We use the incapsula CDN to increase reliability, security and speed of nsandi.com. As part of this, incapsula sets cookies to improve functionality and performance. End of session Incapsula Non essential
ACOOKIE Cookie associated with web analytics services provided by Webtrends, and acts as a user session identifier. 2 Years Webtrends Non essential
optimizelyEndUserId From time to time, we show different users different versions of a page, and monitor engagement with these pages to find the best version. This cookie stores which variation of an experiment you would see. 2 Months Optimizely Non essential
YouTube cookies We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page. Varies Alphabet (Google Youtube) Non essential
TRACK_TLS1_0 End of session Qualtrics Non essential
utag_main Anonymised Universal tag used for maintaining several first party cookies and help us collect information about how customers use our website 1 year Tealium Non essential
CONSENTMGR Reflects the state of the visitor's consent and the timestamp 3 months Tealium Non essential
sc.ASP.NET_SessionID, sc.Status, sc.UserID The information collected does not include bank details or any sensitive personal data. Data collected by SessionCam is for internal use only. The information collected is used to improve our website usability and is stored and used for aggregated and statistical reporting. 1 year SessionCam Non essential
_bcvm_vid_XXXXXX, _bcvm_vrid_XXXXXX, bc_pv_end, bc-visit-id, bc-visitor-id, _bc-curl, _url-cid, _bc_aa, _reboot-cid We may use these cookies as part of our web chat functionality, to allow the website to remember choices you make, provide enhanced personal features, and to allow the chat agent to better assist you during a chat session. Varies Bold360 Non essential

Our online banking website (secure3.nsandi.com)

Cookie Purpose Type Essential
incap_ses_801_236820
Session cookie Essential
nlbi_236820
Session cookie Essential
visid_incap_236820
Session cookie Essential
CLUSTER_NODE
Session cookie Essential
fso
Session cookie Essential
JSESSIONID
Session cookie Essential
LANGUAGE
Session cookie Essential
LB
Session cookie Essential
LID
Session cookie Essential
SID
Session cookie Essential
UID
Session cookie Essential
CONSENTMGR Reflects the state of the visitor's consent and the timestamp Permanent cookie Essential
utag_main Anonymised Universal tag used for maintaining several first party cookies and help us collect information about how customers use our website Permanent cookie Essential

Adviser website (nsandi-adviser.com)

Cookie Purpose Type Essential
TEXT_SIZE Stores your preferred font-size Permanent cookie Non essential
popCookieStatus Records whether you have accepted the cookie warning Permanent cookie Essential
mySheet Persistently stores your preferred website theme (Default or High Contrast) so that it reappears on your next visit Permanent cookie Non essential
cookieStatus Records whether you have accepted the cookie warning Permanent cookie Essential
cookieenabledcheck Records whether you have enabled cookies Session cookie Essential
_utmz Google Analytics Cookies – anonymous unique identifiers used to track first-time and returning website visitors.You can opt out here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout Permanent cookie Non essential
_utmc Session cookie Non essential
_utmb Permanent cookie Non essential
_utma Permanent cookie Essential
_atuvc Permanent cookie Essential

Corporate website (nsandi-corporate.com) and Government Payment Services website (nsandi-gps.com)

Cookie Purpose Type Essential
_ga Used by google analytics. Permanent cookie Non essential
_gat Permanent cookie Essential
_gid Permanent cookie Essential
interstitial-shown Used to determine if we have shown you our interstitial message Permanent cookie Non essential
cookies-allowed Stores whether you have accepted our cookie message Permanent cookie Essential
landing-done Records whether you have accepted the popup to continue to the corporate website Permanent cookie Non essential