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We also use analytical cookies, which allow us to recognise and count the number of users on our website and to see how users move around the site when they are using it. This helps us improve the way the website works, for example by making sure users find easily what they need.

Cookie Name Cookie Description
ASP.NET_SessionId This is a session cookie that tells us that you are actively using our website and in total how many people are using our sites at that specific moment
RT_uk_LANG RT_**_LANG = Morningstar site language setting. Morningstar has web sites in many countries around the world and this cookie defines the language of the web site you're looking at
HPTopAd_uk HPTopAd_** = Tracks the the user has seen the interstitial ad and that we only show it to each user a specific number of times a day (usually once)
cookies This cookie is for Morningstar's internal user tracking system that tells us the number of people that have used the site, how many page views have been looked at, length of time spent on the site and whether the user is registered
_utma Morningstar uses Google Analytics to track what users are doing on our site. This cookie determines whether a user is a unique visitor to our site
_utmb Morningstar uses Google Analytics to track what users are doing on our site. This cookie defines how many times a user has visited the site and the length of the visit
_utmc This is cookie is no longer used by Google Analytics
_utmv Morningstar uses Google Analytics to track what users are doing on our site. This cookie tracks specific events on our site, for example a user clicking on the sign up link
_utmz Morningstar uses Google Analytics to track what users are doing on our site. This cookie defines how a user got to our sites, for example via a search engine, direct to our site etc
mi_trow1 This cookie is used by the Market Indices graph on our front, equities and markets page and remember which graph each user looked at last
mstar This cookie is for Morningstar's internal user tracking system that tells us the number of people that have used the site, how many page views have been looked at, length of time spent on the site and whether the user is registered
PSI Cookie that tracks whether a user is a free or Premium user of the sites. This is for Morningstar's internal tracking system
RT_uk_BS Shows whether a user is logged into our site
RT_uk_CD If a user is logged in this cookie tells Morningstar that the user has a portfolio set up on the site
RT_uk_MD This cookie identifies that a user is a registered
RT_uk_MS Defines whether the user is free or Premium member of the site
RT_uk_PS Defines whether a user is a Premium member
RT_uk_USERNAME When a user logs in this allows Morningstar to put the users user name in the page header next to the Morningstar logo, for example Welcome James
Backbutton_ If a user navigates away from a search related page on Morningstar, for example from one of our Quick Rank pages, and then clicks back on their browser the user will be shown the original search results
fp This cookie is for Morningstar's internal user tracking system that tells us the number of people that have used the site, how many page views have been looked at, length of time spent on the site and whether the user is registered
ASP.NET_SessionId This is a session cookie tells us that you are actively using our website and in total how many people are using our sites at that specific moment. Tools.morningstar are another part of Morningstar that provide some of the pages on our site
BackButton_ If a user navigates away from a search related page on Morningstar, for example from one of our Quick Rank pages, and then clicks back on their browser the user will be shown the original search results. Tools.morningstar are another part of Morningstar that provide some of the pages on our site
cookies Set to true if the application requires cookies to be enabled, and false otherwise.This is for Morningstar's internal tracking system.
_utma Google Analytics - The cookie determines whether a user is a unique visitor to our site
_utmb Google Analytics - The cookie defines how many times a user has visited the site and the length of the visit
_utmc Google Analytics - This is cookie is no longer used by Google Analytics
_utmz Google Analytics - This cookie defines how a user got to our sites, for example via a search engine, direct to our site etc
CfP Served by Adtech who are Morningstar's ad serving partner. This cookie tells the ad server whether a user of our site has accepted cookies
JEB2 Served by Adtech who are Morningstar's ad serving partner. This cookies is the server's anonymous unique user ID, used for example to control the number of ads seen by the user.

ADTECH, Morningstar's ad serving partner, uses cookies to the following non-personal information:
- Browser type
- Operating system
- Date and time a specific ad was delivered
fspublicsession Served by Formstack who provide Morningstar with a service that allows us to run user surveys on our sites
uid Served by Add This who provide Morningstar with the functionality that allows users to share our news content on social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter
uvc Served by Add This who provide Morningstar with the functionality that allows users to share our news content on social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter
psc Served by Add This who provide Morningstar with the functionality that allows users to share our news content on social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter
k Cookie created by Twitter to tell Morningstar whether a user is logged into their Twitter account or not

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