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
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
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 Cookie associated with web analytics services provided by Webtrends, and acts as a user session identifier. 2 Years Webtrends
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
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
CONSENTMGR Reflects the state of the visitor's consent and the timestamp 3 months Tealium
_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

Our online banking website (secure3.nsandi.com)

Cookie Purpose Type
incap_ses_801_236820
Session cookie
nlbi_236820
Session cookie
visid_incap_236820
Session cookie
CLUSTER_NODE
Session cookie
fso
Session cookie
JSESSIONID
Session cookie
LANGUAGE
Session cookie
LB
Session cookie
LID
Session cookie
SID
Session cookie
UID
Session cookie
CONSENTMGR Reflects the state of the visitor's consent and the timestamp Permanent cookie
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

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