Cookie Policy

Last revised: 14th September 2021

This Policy explains the use of cookies by FD Technologies Plc and its affiliates (“we”, “us”, “our”) on firstderivative.com.

General

We use different types of cookies to help us:

• Analyse how you use our sites
• Improve website performance and experience
• Maintain visitor settings, preferences, performance and identity (if submitted to us) while you are using our products or services

What are cookies?

Cookies.

A Cookie is a small text file that may be stored on your device when you visit the website. The cookies allow us to recognise your browser when you visit the site again. Cookies may store your preferences and other information but cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.

• First party cookies are set by a website owner.
• Third party cookies are set by other parties and enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (i.e. advertising, social media functions and analytics). Please read their privacy policies to understand their data processing activities, policies and procedures.

How to control cookies

When you first access the website, you will see a pop-up banner advising you that cookies are in use with a link to our Cookies Policy. Please click the link and read the Cookies Policy carefully before deciding which cookies to accept or reject.

By clicking “Accept” you are confirming your acceptance of ALL cookies identified in this Cookies Policy.

If you do not wish to accept all cookies, please click on the “Cookie Settings” button to manage your preferences.

Please note that some cookies are essential for the website to function properly. These strictly necessary cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website and cannot be switched off. They are also used to record your preferences in terms of which cookies you accept or reject.

Apart from necessary cookies, you do not have to accept cookies and consent can be withdrawn at any time, although you may not be able to use certain features on the website. In addition to the cookies consent management tool on our sites, you can control use of cookies in the following ways:

• By using Cookie Settings on our sites to disable all or specific cookies, apart from necessary cookies.
• By activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.

If you use different devices to access our website, you will need to express your cookie preferences using our consent management tool via each browser of each device and you may wish to adjust the browser is set to your cookie preference.

If you wish to delete any cookies previously placed via our website (e.g. necessary cookies or optional cookies that you previously accepted), you can do so via the browser settings on each device.

Further information

More general information on all aspects of cookies can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org.