Cookie Policy – Disclaimer

Who we are

The pages on the website (“the Website”) are published by Victrex plc, a company registered in England and Wales with company registration number 2793780, whose registered address is at Victrex Technology Centre, Hillhouse International, Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire FY5 4QD, United Kingdom (“Victrex plc”).

What are cookies?

When you visit Victrex plc’s Website, we use cookies to maintain your connection to the Website. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

Cookies help Victrex plc to provide you with a good experience when you browse the Website and also allow Victrex plc to improve the Website. By continuing to browse the Website, you are agreeing to the use of cookies. If you do not agree to the use of cookies, please stop using the Website immediately.

The cookies which are used

Victrex plc uses the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log in to secure areas of the Website.

  • Analytical/performance cookies. These allow Victrex plc to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

  • Marketing/targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to the Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. Victrex plc will use this information to make the Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. Victrex plc may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are always active and are necessary for this website to function. They cannot be switched off. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences.

You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

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Cookie Name

Provider

Purpose

Expiry

CookieControl

.victrexplc.com

Stores your cookie consent preferences for this website.

3 months

.AspNetCore.Antiforgery.*

www.victrexplc.com

Security token that protects website forms from cross-site request forgery.

Session

ShareGraph3AntiForgery

tools.eurolandir.com

Security token used by our investor relations tool to protect forms from cross-site request forgery.

Session

__cf_bm

.vimeo.com

Used by Cloudflare's bot management to distinguish genuine visitors from automated traffic on embedded Vimeo content.

30 minutes

Analytics & Performance cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular, and see how visitors move around the site.

All information that is collected by these cookies is aggregated, and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

These cookies are set by the Google Analytics service, but hosted by victrexplc.com.

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Cookie Name

Provider

Purpose

Expiry

_ga

.victrexplc.com

Used by Google Analytics to distinguish unique users.

1 year

_ga_*

.victrexplc.com

Used by Google Analytics to persist session state for this website.

1 year

vuid

.vimeo.com

Used by Vimeo Analytics to assign a unique visitor ID for embedded video statistics.

1 year

Marketing &Targeting cookies

These cookies are set through our site by embedded video content from third parties. They may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant content on other sites.

Cookie Name

Provider

Purpose

Expiry

YSC

.youtube.com

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of which YouTube videos the user has seen.

Session

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

.youtube.com

Estimates the user's bandwidth on pages with embedded YouTube videos; also used for marketing.

6 months

__Secure-YNID

.youtube.com

Set by YouTube to support embedded video content and personalisation.

6 months

__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN

.youtube.com

Set by YouTube to manage the roll-out of new player features for embedded video content.

6 months

Third-party cookies

Please note that third parties (including, for example, providers of external services such as web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over Victrex plc has no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

How to refuse the use of cookies

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, if you do this you may lose some useful functionality such as personalisation and “keep me signed in” and “remember me” features.