Our cookie policy
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. This is standard practice for all websites.
On our website (www.aiglife.co.uk), cookies are used in order to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by the website (www.aiglife.co.uk), or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how.
By using and browsing www.aiglife.co.uk, you consent to cookies being used in accordance with our policy. If you do not consent, you must disable cookies or refrain from using the site.
Please note that during your visits to the Website you may notice some cookies that are not related to AIG Life Limited. When you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube or Flickr, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. We do not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third-party websites for more information about these.
Cookies used on our website
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential to make the website function (e.g., to remember that you are logged into the website)
First party cookies
| Vendor Name | Vendor Description | Tracker Type | Tracker Name | Tracker Purpose | 3rd party sharing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | .AspNet.Cookies | When you need to login to our website, this cookie is used in the authentication process. It ensures only authorised users have access to our services. | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | HttpOnly | __RequestVerificationToken | This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser. | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | ASP.NET_SessionId | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. Required to identify requests from the same browser during a limited session time window. | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | HttpOnly | ASP.NET_Partnership.SessionId | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. Required to identify requests from the same browser during a limited session time window. | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | .ASPXAUTH | Used to identify whether the user is authenticated. These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | visid_incap_XXXXXX | Incapsula DDoS Protection and Web Application Firewall: cookie for linking certain sessions to a specific visitor (visitor representing a specific computer). In order to identify clients that have already visited Incapsula. | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | OpenIdConnect.nonce.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | This associates a visitor with a browsing session on the website to make their visit more secure. | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | nlbi_XXXXXXX | Incapsula DDoS Protection and Web Application Firewall cookie. Used to ensure requests by a client are sent to the same origin server. | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | HttpOnly | incap_ses_* | Incapsula DDoS Protectiona and Web Application Firewall: cookie for linking HTTP requests to a certain session (AKA visit). Re-opening the browser and accessing same site are registered as different visits. Needed in order to maintain existing sessions (ie, session cookie) |
No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | BIGipServercustomer.aiglife.co.uk_insurance-pool | These are load balancer cookes. These are essential to maintain our performance of the website and the page you visit. | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | BIGipServerwww.aiglife.co.uk_frontend-internal-pool | This cookie name is associated with the BIG-IP product suite from company F5. It is used for managing sessions on load balanced servers, to ensure user requests are routed consistently to the correct server. | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | encryptedAppIdCookie | An encrypted cookie that is used to allow a visitor access to an Application within a session. It is used during an application, only you and ourselves can see that data and it is not avaliable to other third party | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure | ai_session | This is a Microsoft Azure Cookie used on our main website to speed up website journey and response times. This is an integrated service within our website hosting platform | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure | ai_user | This is a Microsoft Azure Cookie used on our main website to speed up website journey and response times. This is an integrated service within our website hosting platform | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | OptanonConsent | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | No |
Third party cookies
| Vendor Name | Vendor Description | Tracker Type | Tracker Name | Tracker Purpose | 3rd party sharing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vimeo | Vimeo, Inc. is an American video hosting, sharing, and services platform provider headquartered in New York City | Secure/HttpOnly | vuid | This is used to enable us to play videos on our website that are hosted on our Vimeo website page. This is essential for the operation of the video player. | No |
| Vimeo | Vimeo, Inc. is an American video hosting, sharing, and services platform provider headquartered in New York City | HttpOnly | __cf_bm | This cookie is from Cloudflare to identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect our site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on end-user devices that access customer sites protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. | No |
| Optimizely | Optimizely is an American company that provides digital experience platform software as a service. | Secure/HttpOnly | ARRAffinity | This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session | Yes |
| Optimizely | Optimizely is an American company that provides digital experience platform software as a service. | Secure/HttpOnly | ARRAffinitySameSite | This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session | Yes |
Performance cookies
These cookies allow us to monitor the performance of the website and how it is used (e.g., analytics cookies). These cookies enable us to identify problems with the website and to identify where improvements can be made.
First party cookies
| Vendor Name | Vendor Description | Tracker Type | Tracker Name | Tracker Purpose | 3rd party sharing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | _utma | We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it’s meeting its users’ needs and to understand how we could do it better. | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | _utmb | We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it’s meeting its users’ needs and to understand how we could do it better. | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | _utmc | We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it’s meeting its users’ needs and to understand how we could do it better. | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | _utmz | We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it’s meeting its users’ needs and to understand how we could do it better. | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | ___utmvxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it’s meeting its users’ needs and to understand how we could do it better. | No |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | _ga | The _ga cookie is associated with Google Universal Analytics, it is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier used in the calculation of session data for the sites analytics reports. | Yes |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | _gat_gtag_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. | Yes |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | _gat_UA-XXXXXX-X | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It is a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | Yes |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | _gid | These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works. | Yes |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | AMCV_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX AdobeOrg |
This is a pattern type cookie name associated with Adobe Experience Cloud. It stores a unique visitor identifier, and uses an organisation identifier to allow a company to track users across their domains and services. | Yes |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | AMCVS_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX AdobeOrg |
This is a pattern type cookie name associated with Adobe Experience Cloud. It stores a unique visitor identifier, and uses an organisation identifier. | Yes |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | gpv_pn | This functionality is used to anonymously establish the journey to the page. | Yes |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | gpv_url | This functionality is used to anonymously establish the journey to the page. | Yes |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | s_cc | This cookie is used by Adobe Analytics and set and read by the JavaScript code to determine if cookies are enabled (set to “True”) | Yes |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | s_sq | This cookie is used by Adobe Analytics and set and read by the JavaScript code when the ClickMap functionality or the Activity Map functionality are enabled; it contains information about the previous link that was selected on by the user | Yes |
Third party cookies
| Vendor Name | Vendor Description | Tracker Type | Tracker Name | Tracker Purpose | 3rd party sharing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demdex | This is a legacy domain controlled by Adobe. It reflects the original, pre-acquisition name of Audience Manager (Demdex). Adobe acquired Demdex in 2011 and re-branded the company as Audience Manager. | Secure/HttpOnly | demdex | This cookie helps Adobe Audience Manger perform basic functions such as visitor identification, ID synchronization, segmentation, modeling, reporting, etc. | Yes |
| LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network on the internet. You can use LinkedIn to find the right job or internship, connect and strengthen professional relationships, and learn the skills you need to succeed in your career. | Secure/HttpOnly | AnalyticsSyncHistory | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Yes |
Functional cookies
These cookies are used to enable certain functions of the website to operate (e.g., to show embedded videos) and to remember your preferences.
First party cookies
| Vendor Name | Vendor Description | Tracker Type | Tracker Name | Tracker Purpose | 3rd party sharing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | LPVID | This cookie name is associated with software from LivePerson, which enables website owners to add online chat funcitonality to communicate directly with visitors. | Yes |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | LPSID-60949259 | This is a pattern type cookie associated with software from LivePerson which enables online chat functionality with site visitors. | Yes |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | lpTestCookie | This cookie name is associated with the LivePerson chat software used to enable live chat on our website. | Yes |
Third party cookies
| Vendor Name | Vendor Description | Tracker Type | Tracker Name | Tracker Purpose | 3rd party sharing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LivePerson | LivePerson is a global technology company that develops conversational commerce and AI software. | Secure/HttpOnly | LPVisitorID | This cookie name is associated with the LivePerson chat software used to enable live chat on our website. | Yes |
| LivePerson | LivePerson is a global technology company that develops conversational commerce and AI software. | Secure/HttpOnly | LPSessionID | This cookie name is associated with the LivePerson chat software used to enable live chat on our website. | Yes |
Advertising cookies
These cookies are used in connection with the provision of targeted advertisements on other websites and to track any sales due to these advertisements. For example, these cookies remember that you have visited our website and may be used to show you a tailored advertisement on another website, such as a social media platform.
First party cookies
| Vendor Name | Vendor Description | Tracker Type | Tracker Name | Tracker Purpose | 3rd party sharing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services | Yes |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/Http only | In_or | Used to determine if Oribi analytics can be carried out on a specific domain. | Yes |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | Yes |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | _uetmsclkid | This is the Microsoft Click ID, which is used to improve the accuracy of conversion tracking. | Yes |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | _uetsid | This contains the session ID for a unique session on the site. Note: As of as of July 2023, _uetsid has been updated with additional parameters as follows: insights_sessionId, timestamp, pagenumber, upgrade, upload. | Yes |
| AIG Life - United Kingdom | AIG Life Limited (now owned by Aviva) | Secure/HttpOnly | _uetvid | UET assigns this unique, anonymised visitor ID, representing a unique visitor. UET stores this data in a first-party cookie. Note: As of as of July 2023, _uetvid has been updated with additional parameters as follows: insights_userId, cookieVersion, expiryTime, consent, cookie_creation_time. | Yes |
Third party cookies
| Vendor Name | Vendor Description | Tracker Type | Tracker Name | Tracker Purpose | 3rd party sharing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DoubleClick Inc. | DoubleClick was an American advertisement company that developed and provided Internet ad serving services from 1995 until its acquisition by Google in March 2008. | Secure/HttpOnly | IDE | These advertising cookies are stored in Google DoubleClick and are used to personalise advertisements shown to users based on previous visits to our website. | Yes |
| LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network on the internet. You can use LinkedIn to find the right job or internship, connect and strengthen professional relationships, and learn the skills you need to succeed in your career. | Secure/Http only | bscookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Yes | |
| LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network on the internet. You can use LinkedIn to find the right job or internship, connect and strengthen professional relationships, and learn the skills you need to succeed in your career. | Secure/Http only | bcookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. The main business purpose for this cookie is advertising. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. | Yes | |
| LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network on the internet. You can use LinkedIn to find the right job or internship, connect and strengthen professional relationships, and learn the skills you need to succeed in your career. | Secure/Http only | li_gc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. | Yes | |
| LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network on the internet. You can use LinkedIn to find the right job or internship, connect and strengthen professional relationships, and learn the skills you need to succeed in your career. | Secure/Http only | li_sugr | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Yes | |
| LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network on the internet. You can use LinkedIn to find the right job or internship, connect and strengthen professional relationships, and learn the skills you need to succeed in your career. | Secure/Http only | lidc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. | Yes | |
| LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network on the internet. You can use LinkedIn to find the right job or internship, connect and strengthen professional relationships, and learn the skills you need to succeed in your career. | Secure/Http only | UserMatchHistory | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Yes | |
| Bing.com | Microsoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads) is an online advertising platform developed by Microsoft, where advertisers bid to display brief ads, service offers, product listings and videos to web users, | Secure/Http only | MUID | This is a Microsoft cookie that contains a GUID assigned to your browser. It gets set when you interact with a Microsoft property, including a UET beacon call or a visit to a Microsoft property through the browser. | Yes |
You can refuse to accept the cookies we use by adjusting your browser settings. However, if you do not accept all the cookies on the Site, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Site and some online products.
In addition to the cookies mentioned above, cookies may also be placed on your electronic device when you open emails we send to you. We use these emails to track the effectiveness of our advertising.