Cookie Policy

1. INTRODUCTION

Fundsmith LLP ("we", "our", "Fundsmith LLP") website (https://www.fundsmith.eu/) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we will store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies collect information about how you browse a website and allow the website to remember your preferences and tailor your experience of that website to best suit you.

We may collect information from your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration purposes and to enable us to monitor the effectiveness of our Website so as to ensure that we are continuing to provide useful, relevant and informative content. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

For the same reasons, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive for record keeping purposes. The cookie assigns you an ID which allows us to recognise you when you return to our Website. They help us to improve our Website and deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:

1. to estimate our audience size and to track user trends and usage patterns;
2. to store information about preferences, and so allow us to customise our Website according to your individual interests;
3. to speed up your searches; and
4. to recognise you when you return to our Website; without cookies every time you open a new web page the server where that page is stored will treat you like a completely new visitor.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

2. THIRD PARTY COOKIES

Please note that third party providers (including, for example, providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies to assess the ways in which you make use of the Website. Fundsmith has no control over these. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies.

3. DISABLE COOKIES

You will see a message on our Website before we store a cookie on your computer which describes the types of cookies we use and what information they might collect. This message will give you options around cookie use.

Alternatively, you may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse cookies. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our website. These settings are usually found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your internet browser. Otherwise, you should use the 'Help' option in your internet browser for more details.

However, please note that strictly necessary cookies are necessary for the Website to function and cannot be disabled.

4. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may update this Cookie policy from time-to-time at our sole discretion effective immediately upon the updating of this page. Your continued use of our services and/or our Website will be deemed to constitute your acceptance of any changes. If you do not agree to any changes we make to this policy you must not continue to use our Website or our services.

5. CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests for further information regarding this policy are welcomed and should be sent to us by email at ir@fundsmith.co.uk.

You may also find more information about cookies on http://www.allaboutcookies.org.