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 do use cookies to record the number of unique visitors to the website and to particular pages on the site.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| webchat_dismissed | We use this to store your preferences with our live chat service | End of session | NS&I |
| WT_FPC | Anonymised cookie used for analytics, so we can better learn how people engage on nsandi.com | 2 Years | Webtrends |
| accept-cookies | This is used to remember if you have consented to the use of cookies on nsandi.com | 1 Year | NS&I |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| ACOOKIE | Anonymised cookie used for analytics, so we can better learn how people engage on nsandi.com | 2 Years | Webtrends |
| SRVNAME | We use this cookie as part of our web chat functionality, to allow your chats to persist when you move between pages on our site | End of session | Klick2Contact |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| TRACK_TLS1_0 | End of session | Qualtrics |
Our online banking website (secure3.nsandi.com)
| Cookie | Purpose | Type |
| incap_ses_801_236820 |
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Session cookie |
| nlbi_236820 |
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Session cookie |
| visid_incap_236820 |
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Session cookie |
| CLUSTER_NODE |
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Session cookie |
| fso |
|
Session cookie |
| JSESSIONID |
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Session cookie |
| LANGUAGE |
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Session cookie |
| LB |
|
Session cookie |
| LID |
|
Session cookie |
| SID |
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Session cookie |
| UID |
|
Session cookie |
Adviser website (nsandi-adviser.com)
| Cookie | Purpose | Type |
| TEXT_SIZE | Stores your preferred font-size | Permanent cookie |
| popCookieStatus | Records whether you have accepted the cookie warning | Permanent cookie |
| mySheet | Persistently stores your preferred website theme (Default or High Contrast) so that it reappears on your next visit | Permanent cookie |
| cookieStatus | Records whether you have accepted the cookie warning | Permanent cookie |
| cookieenabledcheck | Records whether you have enabled cookies | Session cookie |
| _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 |
| _utmc | Session cookie | |
| _utmb | Permanent cookie | |
| _utma | Permanent cookie | |
| _atuvc | Permanent cookie |
Corporate website (nsandi-corporate.com) and Government Payment Services website (nsandi-gps.com)
| Cookie | Purpose | Type |
| _ga | Used by google analytics. | Permanent cookie |
| _gat | Permanent cookie | |
| _gid | Permanent cookie | |
| interstitial-shown | Used to determine if we have shown you our interstitial message | Permanent cookie |
| cookies-allowed | Stores whether you have accepted our cookie message | Permanent cookie |
| landing-done | Records whether you have accepted the popup to continue to the corporate website | Permanent cookie |
