1. What are cookies?
Our websites use cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer (or internet-enabled device) by websites you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work and to improve their efficiency, as well as to provide website usage information to the website owner.
2. Why do we use cookies?
2.1 Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our websites in order to help us to improve your experience when you browse our websites. (For example, they allow you to navigate between pages efficiently and to log in to areas of the websites for which you choose to register) and for the purpose in points 4, 5 and 6 below.
3. What cookies do we use?
3.1 Our websites use three kinds of cookie (using categories suggested in the International Chamber of Commerce UK's ("ICC") Cookie guide):
- Strictly necessary cookies;
- Performance (or analytical) cookies; and
- Targeting cookies.
For more information on these categories, please see the ICC's Cookie guide available here.
4. Strictly necessary cookies
These are essential to enable you to move around our websites and to allow the features of the sites to work correctly. Without these, services you request – such as navigating between pages – cannot be provided.
We use the following strictly necessary cookies on our websites:
| Cookie name | Where used | Purpose | Further information |
|---|---|---|---|
| _cf_bm | These cookies are used on Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website and its KnowledgeSOURCE website | They are used to identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect our site from bad bots. | Click here to learn more about this cookie. |
| ASPSESSIONIDCUQCDCQB | These cookies are used across Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website | These are used to provide temporary storage of information necessary for the Vuture platform to run | |
| marketing.hsf.com_VxSessionId | These cookies are used across Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website | These are used to provide temporary storage of information necessary for the Vuture platform to run | |
| cf_clearance | These cookies are used on Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website and its KnowledgeSOURCE website | These are set by CloudFlare to store proof that a visitor has successfully completed a CAPTCHA or JavaScript Challenge. | Click here to learn more about this cookie. |
| CookieControl | These cookies are used on Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website and its KnowledgeSOURCE website | These are used to store user consent preferences for our websites | |
| csrf | These cookies are used on Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website and its KnowledgeSOURCE website | These are used to protect websites from unauthorised, malicious requests from other websites, even if the user is authenticated | |
| region | These cookies are used across Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website | These are used to store the region you are visiting from to allow the serving of region specific content | |
| INGRESSCOOKIE | These cookies are used on Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's KnowledgeSOURCE website | These are used to assign you to a specific serve | |
| JSESSIOND | These cookies are used on Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's KnowledgeSOURCE website | These are used to identify a user's session and to provide session specific behaviour on the website | |
x-ms-cpim-cache|e7baa0iidegi6kg5ccem6w_0 x-ms-cpim-csrf x-ms-cpim-sso:orjklbobi0cm_qvnmwa8ia_0 x-ms-cpim-trans | These cookies are used on Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's KnowledgeSOURCE website | These cookies are used by Microsoft Azure Active Directory for authentication and session management, Cross-Site Request Forgery protection, maintaining the SSO, and tracking transactions (i.e. number of authentication requests to Azure AD B2C) | Click here to learn more about these cookies. |
| _s_id | These cookies are used on Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's KnowledgeSOURCE website | These are used to track user's video watching behaviour | |
| Sproutvideo session cookies | These cookies are used on Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's KnowledgeSOURCE website video streaming powered by Sproutvideo. | Two types of cookies are implemented which are essential for the operation of the website and the individual tracking of the video viewed on the KnowledgeSOURCE site. | Click here to visit Sproutvideo’s website |
| languagecheck | These cookies are used on all Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's websites. | Which are used to store information on whether you are viewing the site in an appropriate language |
5. Performance cookies/technologies
If you click through from one of our emails or landing pages to our website we use additional cookies on our website to connect your e-marketing journey with your website journey. These enable us to collect information about how you use our websites or read our publications, for instance which pages are viewed by visitors most frequently. All information collected in this way is used to improve how our websites work or the effectiveness of our client publications.
The following cookies are used:
| Cookie name | Where used | Purpose | Further information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics: _ga _gid _gat | These cookies are used on Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website and its KnowledgeSOURCE website | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our sites. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our websites. The cookies enable us to distinguish one visitor from another and to track user behaviour over multiple sessions, where visitors have come to the sites from and the pages they visited, as well as the number of visitors to the sites. These cookies also provide technical monitoring, store and count pageviews for statistical purposes. | Click here to visit Google's website for further details on analytics cookies |
LinkedIn: Li_gc | These cookies are used on all Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's websites. | These cookies are set by LinkedIn and are used to enable LinkedIn functionalities on our sites and for tracking the use of embedded services. These cookies are also used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes | Click here to visit LinkedIn’s website for further information on LinkedIn cookies |
| {Your Back-end Vuture URL}_VxSessionId | This cookie is used across Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website | This is a Vuture session cookie and it tracks your website journey. It expires as soon as the browser is closed. | Click here to visit Vuture's website for further information on email tracking |
| intEmailHistoryId | This cookie is used across Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website | This is a Vuture cookie and it connects your e-marketing journey with your website journey. This is used by the Vuture platform to uniquely identify you if you click onto an HSF Kramer web page from an email marketing communication from us. The cookie records the pages you visit on HSF Kramer’s website and the time spent on the page. It expires after 1 year if you do not click on a link in a Vuture email from us for 1 year. | Click here to visit Vuture's website for further information on email tracking |
| {sitesUrl}_VxSessionId | This cookie is used across Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website | This is a Vuture cookie and it records in Vuture the links you clicked on, for reporting purposes. It expires as soon as the browser is closed. | Click here to visit Vuture's website for further information on email tracking |
6. Targeting cookies
These cookies are used to deliver information more relevant to you and your interests. They remember that you have visited a website, and this information is shared with other organisations. Quite often these cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by other organisations like advertisers.
We use the following targeting cookies on our websites:
| Cookie name | Where used | Purpose | Further information |
|---|---|---|---|
| __SecureROLLOUT_TOKEN | This cookie is used across Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website | These cookies are used by a third party to manage the phased rollout of new feature and updates | |
| bcookie | This cookie is used across Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website | These cookies are used by LinkedIn to track the use of embedded services | |
| herbertsmithfreehills.vuturevx.com_VxSessionId | This cookie is used across Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website | These cookies are used to identify that a back-end Vuture user is accessing the website | |
| intEmailHistoryId | This cookie is used across Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website | These cookies are used to connect your e-marketing journey with your website journey. It is used to identify you if you click onto our webpage from an email marketing communication from our firm. The cookie records the pages you visit on HSF Kramer's website and time spent on the page | |
| test_cookie | This cookie is used across Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website | These cookies are placed by DoubleClick to determine if your browser supports cookies | |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used across Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website | This cookie tries to estimate your bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | This cookie is used across Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website | These cookies are Youtube visitor privacy metadata cookies | |
| YSC | This cookie is used across Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's main website | These cookies register a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube you've seen. |
7. Third Party websites
Our websites link through to third party websites (including, for example for the delivery of podcasts) which may also use cookies over which we have no control. We recommend that you check the relevant third party's privacy policies for information about any cookies which may be used.
8. Consent and Control
When you sign up via our websites to receive services which we are aware use performance or targeting cookies or clear gifs (see above) or their equivalent, we will inform you as part of the registration process and ask you to consent to these. If you do not wish to consent, then please do not sign up for the service.
8.1 If you wish to restrict, block or delete the cookies which are set by any websites, you can generally do this through your browser settings. The "Help" function within your browser should tell you how.
8.2 Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.allaboutcookies.org which contains information on how to block cookies from a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies.
8.3 Please note that by deleting or blocking cookies, our websites may not function correctly and you may not be able to access certain areas.
9. Changes
9.1 We may need to update this Cookie Policy in the future and so encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are using cookies. This cookie policy was last updated June 2025.
10. Further information
You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and for a video about cookies visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies.
9.1 If you have any questions or comments regarding this Cookie Policy, please email [email protected].