Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

LAST UPDATED: August 2019

This Cookie Policy explains how Kennedy Wilson Europe and its group companies (collectively “(“KW”, “Kennedy Wilson”, "we", "us", or "our") use cookies and similar technologies to recognise you when you visit our website ("Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, KW) are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third party cookies". Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why do we use cookies?

We use first party and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Website. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for analytics and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described in the table below:

Types of cookie Who serves these cookies How to refuse

Essential website cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Websites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.

Cookies:

  • cookieconsent_status (expires in 1 year)

This cookie registers your cookie preferences in relation to analytics cookies.

Kennedy Wilson Europe

Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Websites to you, you cannot refuse them. You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings however, as described below under the heading "How can I control cookies?".

Performance and functionality cookies: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Websites but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos) may become unavailable.

Cookies:

  • vuid (expires in 2 years)
  • player (expires in 1 year)

These cookies are set by the Vimeo video player when you watch a video.

Vimeo

Vimeo's privacy policy

Vimeo's cookie policy

To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading "How can I control cookies?"

Alternatively, please click on the relevant opt-out link below (EU visitors and Vimeo registered users only):

Analytics and customisation cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Websites are being used or how effective are marketing campaigns are, or to help us customise our Websites for you.

Cookies:

  • _ga (expires in 2 years)
  • _gid (expires in 24 hours)
  • _gat (expires in 1 minute)

These cookies are set by Google Analytics and are used to identify users (_ga, _gid) and to throttle the request rate (_gat).

In addition, most Google users will have the NID cookie (expires in 6 months) set in their browser which records preferences for Google services.

Google, Inc.

Google's privacy policy

Google's cookie policy

To opt-out of Google Analytics, please click on the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Advertising cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

Cookies:

  • CONSENT (expires in 18 years)

Google, Inc.

Google's privacy policy

Google's cookie policy

To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading "How can I control cookies?"

Social networking cookies: These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our Websites through third party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes too.

If you click through to our Twitter profile you will have cookies set by Twitter. These may include the following:

  • _ga
  • _gid
  • ads_prefs
  • auth_token
  • csrf_id
  • csrf_same_site
  • csrf_same_site_set
  • ct0
  • dnt
  • eu_cn
  • external_referer
  • guest_id
  • kdt
  • lang
  • personalization_id
  • remember_checked_on
  • rweb_optin
  • tfw_exp
  • twid

The expiry date of these cookies varies from the duration of your browsing session to 5 years.

Twitter, Inc.

Twitter's privacy policy

Twitter's cookie policy

To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading "How can I control cookies?"

How can I control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links provided in the cookie table above.

You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.

In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.

How often will you update this Cookie Policy?

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

Where can I get further information?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at privacy@kennedywilson.eu. For further information, please visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org.