FX Blue Cookie Policy
Our website uses cookies and other similar tracking technologies (“cookies”). Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. Our website uses both session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies enable you to move from page to page within our website and any information you enter to be remembered. A session cookie is deleted when you close your browser or after a short time. Persistent cookies allow our website to remember your preferences and settings when you visit our website in the future. Persistent cookies expire after a set period of time.
Cookies are used in the following ways on our website:
Strictly necessary
| Cookie name | Type | Purpose | Provider | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| logged-in-user, external-authentication-token, email-address, trading-account-token, websocket-password | Persistent | Maintains your logged-in session on the Website | FX Blue (first party) | 24 hours |
| verified-pins-session | Session | Records that you have entered the PIN for a protected account, so you are not asked again on every page of the same visit. It stores a signed confirmation with an expiry, not the PIN itself | FX Blue (first party) | Session (at most 4 hours) |
| NEXT_LOCALE | Session | Remembers your selected language | FX Blue (first party) | Deleted when you close your browser |
| user-country | Persistent | Detects your country for localised content | FX Blue (first party) | 24 hours |
| CookieConsent | Persistent | Remembers your cookie preferences so we don't ask again on every visit | FX Blue (first party) | 1 year |
| FCCDCF | Persistent | Holds the state of the consent message itself — which message you were shown and where you got to in it. Set as soon as the message is available, before and regardless of any choice you make, so that refusing is remembered as reliably as accepting. | Google LLC (third party), as consent management provider | 13 months |
| FCNEC | Persistent | Records the choices you make in the consent message, in the format advertising providers read. Written only once you have answered the message. | Google LLC (third party), as consent management provider | 12 months |
| rc::e, rc::h | Mixed | Distinguishes humans from bots on forms (spam / abuse protection) | Google reCAPTCHA (third party) | Session / Persistent |
Functional (non-essential)
| Cookie name | Type | Purpose | Provider | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| verified-pins | Persistent | Remembers the PIN you entered for a protected account across visits, so you are not asked again next time. Set only if you allow storing information on your device; without it the PIN is asked for once per visit instead. It stores a signed confirmation with an expiry date, not the PIN itself | FX Blue (first party) | 7 days |
| deviceId | Persistent | Identifies your browser to the charting, calendar and market-data widgets shown in embedded frames, so the widget provider can license them. Also stored in your browser's local storage. | FX Blue Labs (third-party frame) | 13 months |
Analytics (non-essential)
| Cookie name | Type | Purpose | Provider | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Persistent | Distinguishes unique users for Google Analytics | Google LLC (third party) | 2 years |
| _ga_<container-id> | Persistent | Persists session state for Google Analytics 4 | Google LLC (third party) | 2 years |
| _clck, _clsk | Persistent | Microsoft Clarity – measures how users interact with the Website (session recordings, heatmaps) | Microsoft Corporation (third party) | 1 day – 1 year |
Advertising (non-essential)
| Cookie name | Type | Purpose | Provider | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JSESSIONID | Session | Preserves session state for the partner / affiliate page shown in an embedded frame, which the provider uses to attribute referrals | PIP Affiliates (third party) | Deleted when you close your browser |
| MUID, CLID, ANONCHK, SM | Persistent | Microsoft – recognises a browser across Microsoft services, and synchronises that identifier between them | Microsoft Corporation (third party) | 1 day – 13 months |
| __gads, __gpi, IDE, __eoi | Persistent | Google Ad Manager – banner advert delivery, frequency capping and measurement | Google LLC (third party) | 13 – 18 months |
| pcs/view, pcs/activeview, csi, pagead/gen_204 | Mixed | Google Ad Manager – ad viewability, impression and event tracking | Google LLC (third party) | Session / Persistent |
| YSC, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, __Secure-YEC, __Secure-YNID, __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN, LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY, TESTCOOKIESENABLED, yt-icons-last-purged | Mixed | YouTube – measures viewing of embedded videos and stores user preferences. Only loaded after you click to play an embedded video. | Google LLC / YouTube (third party) | Session – 180 days |
- Google Analytics– we use Google Analytics to provide us with information about how you use our website. We use this information to compile statistics and to help us to improve our website and the services we offer. Google uses cookies as part of this process to collect pseudonymous information, including the number of visitors to the website, where they have come to the website from, the pages they visit and the length of time they have spent on the website.
- login to your account on the website– we use session cookies to record that you are logged in to your account on the website
- viewing PIN-protected accounts on the website– we use persistent cookies to store any PIN codes which you enter for viewing protected accounts on the website
The use of cookies in these ways is to improve the functionality of our website and your experience when using it. Cookies can also be disabled by changing the settings on your browser. If you do decide to disable cookies, you will be unable to log in to your account on the website, and you will be unable to view any PIN-protected accounts.
- External content – our website is partly funded by displaying banner adverts, and we may also display other third-party content such as economic calendars or educational videos. These external pages (“iframes”) may use their own cookies — including the widget frames operated by FX Blue Labs, which set the deviceId cookie listed above. We do not have access to the contents of third-party cookies set by anyone else. In effect, these banner adverts and other third-party content are external pages displayed in a frame on our Website, and the operational compliance of each third-party cookie is primarily the responsibility of the advertiser or content provider. Any such cookie is set by that provider when their frame loads, which means it is not governed by the preferences you set on this Website; to refuse it you would need to block third-party cookies in your browser.
Your rights and how to contact us. Information about how to contact us, your rights under UK GDPR and how to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office is set out in our Privacy Notice.
You can learn more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
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