What are Cookies
The term Cookie is used to describe Cookies, tags, pixels, and other similar technologies. Cookies are small data files that websites place on your computer, laptop, tablet, or mobile device. Cookies are useful because they allow our website to recognise your visit and collect information about your visit and how you used the website.
What cookies do we use?
There are different types of Cookies. The Cookies we use on our website are either strictly necessary or optional. Information about these Cookies is provided below:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These are Cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
| Provider | Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| CookieYes | cookieyes-consent | CookieYes sets this cookie to remember users’ consent preferences so that their preferences are respected on subsequent visits to this site. It does not collect or store any personal information about the site visitors. | 1 year |
Optional Cookies
We'd also like to use Cookies to provide optional features, improve our website and support advertising and social media.
We understand that not everyone likes data to be collected about them when it's not strictly necessary, and so we'll ask you to set your preferences when you first visit our website. To make it easier to choose which optional Cookies to accept, we've organised these Cookies by category below.
You can choose which categories you'd be happy for us to use in your Cookie settings and make changes at any time by selecting the cookies icon that appears at the bottom left of the website after initial selections have been made.
Functional Cookies
Functional Cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the contents of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback and other third-party features.
| Provider | Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | This cookie is used by YouTube to manage phased feature rollouts and experiments, assigning users to specific test groups to control which new features or UI changes they see. | 6 months |
| __Secure-YEC | This is a security cookie set by Google to detect spam, fraud, and abuse on YouTube and other services, preventing invalid ad interactions, ensuring fair creator compensation, and resolving service issues. | Past |
Analytical Cookies
These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website and interact with it.
| Provider | Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | _ga | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the sites analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique users. | 1 year, 1 month, 4 days |
| Google Analytics | _ga_* | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year, 1 month, 4 days |
Advertising Cookies
These Cookies are used to provide you with customised adverts based on the pages you visited previously and to analyse the effectiveness of ad campaigns.
| Provider | Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | YSC | YouTube sets this cookie to track the views of the embedded videos on YouTube pages. | Session |
| YouTube | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface. | 6 months |
| YouTube | VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s consent state for the current domain. | 6 months |
Blocking or restricting Cookies
You can stop Cookies being used on your device by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to block the deployment of all or some Cookies. To find out how, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note, if you use your browser settings to block Cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
It is also important to know that rejecting Cookies will not delete any Cookies that have been saved to your device in the past. You can delete previously saved Cookies via your browser settings.
Cookies and your browser settings
You can use your browser settings to delete Cookies that have already been set at any time. You can also use your browser settings to manage Cookies and to switch off a Cookie altogether. If you do this, it could mean that we can't use strictly necessary Cookies properly and so parts of our website may not work correctly.
For more information about how to use your browser settings to clear your browser data or to manage Cookies, check your browser ‘Help’ function.
Contact us
If you have a question about this policy, contact us by one of the following means:
By email: dataprotection@nucleusfinancial.com
By post: Data Protection Officer, Nucleus Financial Platforms Limited, Greenside, 12 Blenheim Place, Edinburgh, EH7 5JH
Policy changes
This cookie policy was most recently updated in November 2025.