Cookie Policy
Last Updated: August 2025
This Cookie Notice describes the types of cookies used by HPS Investment Partners, LLC and its affiliates (“HPS”) on our website, available at www.hpspartners.com (the “Site”), and any other websites that link to this Cookie Notice. In this notice, we explain how we use cookies on the Site, their purposes, and how you can control our use of them.
A “cookie” is a text file that a website sends to your computer or other Internet-connected device to uniquely identify your browser or to store information or settings in the browser. Cookies have various functions. They allow us to properly operate our site, provide content and analyze the usage of our Site. Depending on where you reside, we need your consent to use certain categories of cookies.
Cookies allow us to understand who has seen which pages of the Site, to determine how frequently particular pages are visited and to determine the most popular areas of our Site. Non-personal information such as browser type, operating system and domain names may be collected during visitors’ use of the Site and this information may be used by us to measure the number of visitors to the Site.
You may choose to block certain categories of cookies by clicking on “Cookie Settings” at the bottom of every page of our website. You can change your preferences at any time.
We currently use strictly necessary and analytics cookies on the Site. Details about the different functions these cookies perform are explained below in the “Cookies in use” section.
We use first-party cookies, which are set directly by HPS. We also use third-party cookies, which are cookies used on a site by a third party, such as a company hired to perform site analytics.
Cookies last for different lengths of time: (1) “session” cookies are deleted when you close your internet browser, and (2) “persistent” cookies stay in place for a set period of time after you close your browser, allowing us to recognize you and remember your preferences when you come back to the Site.
- Strictly necessary cookies are essential to provide you with the Site and for our compliance under data protection laws. Typically, they are set in response to an action taken by you that constitutes a request for services on the Site, such as setting your preferences or filling in forms. You cannot opt out of these cookies. This type of cookie does not collect any personally identifiable information about you and does not track your browsing habits.
Necessary Cookies
| Cookie Name | Type | Purpose | Retention |
| __cf_bm | Necessary Cookies | This is a CloudFoundry cookie that is used to detect user clients that are suspected to be bots. | 0 Days |
| _breg-uid | Necessary Cookies | This cookie is owned by Pubmatic and used by Bloomberg, which provides embedded videos to the HPS website. This cookie operates an advertising exchange platform where online publishers can sell targeted advertising space to media buyers using real time bidding. | 0 Days |
| _breg-user | Necessary Cookies | Used to track usage of the embedded video player, which has video and audio of HPS media appearances embedded from Bloomberg on the HPS website | 0 Days |
| _last-refresh | Necessary Cookies | This cookie is from Bloomberg, which provides embedded videos to the HPS website. “Last-refresh cookie” describes a cookie’s function in the context of maintaining or refreshing a user’s session or specific website elements. | 0 Days |
| _pxhd | Necessary Cookies | This cookie is to provide protection against hackers. It is owned by Bloomberg, which hosts video and audio of HPS media appearances on its website that are then embedded on the HPS website. | 1 Year |
| _reg-csrf | Necessary Cookies | This cookie is used to defend against Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. | 0 Days |
| _reg-csrf-token | Necessary Cookies | This cookie is to protect against cross-site forgery and is from Bloomberg, which has video and audio of HPS media appearances embedded from Bloomberg on the HPS website | 0 Days |
| _session_id_backup | Necessary Cookies | This cookie is from Bloomberg, which provides embedded videos to the HPS website. The cookie may be used to improve user experience or provide enhanced security | 1 Years |
| _sp_local_state | Necessary Cookies | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain | 0 Days |
| _sp_non_keyed_local_state | Necessary Cookies | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain | 0 Days |
| _sp_user_consent_31489 | Necessary Cookies | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. | 0 Days |
| _user-data | Necessary Cookies | This cookie is from Bloomberg, which provides embedded videos to the HPS website. This cookie typically refers to information collected about users’ interactions or behaviors with a website. | 0 Days |
| _user-id | Necessary Cookies | This domain is associated with Bloomberg, which hosts video and audio of HPS media appearances on its website that are then embedded on the HPS website. This cookie is likely used for authentication services to allow access to Bloomberg products and user account management. | 0 Days |
| _user-role | Necessary Cookies | This cookie is from Bloomberg, which provides embedded videos to the HPS website. This cookie typically stores information about a user’s role within a website, such as admin, editor, or user. | 0 Days |
| _user-token | Necessary Cookies | This domain is associated with Bloomberg, which hosts video and audio of HPS media appearances on its website that are then embedded on the HPS website. This cookie is likely used for authentication services to allow access to Bloomberg products and user account management. | 0 Days |
| adEdition | Necessary Cookies | This domain is owned by CNBC, which provides embedded videos to the HPS website. This cookie provides functionality for remembering settings and user preferences on the CNBC website. | 0 Days |
| agent_id | Necessary Cookies | This cookie is from Bloomberg, which provides embedded videos to the HPS website. This type of cookie is typically set by the server and sent to the client (browser) to maintain session information or track user behavior. | 1 Years |
| ak_bmsc | Necessary Cookies | These cookies are used to analyze traffic to determine if it is automated traffic generated by bots or a human user in order to protect our sites from bot intrusions. (Akamai BotMan) | 0 Days |
| AWSALB | Necessary Cookies | These cookies enable feedback options on some of our sites for Financial Intermediaries. | 6 Days |
| AWSALBCORS | Necessary Cookies | These cookies enable feedback options on some of our sites for Financial Intermediaries. | 6 Days |
| country_code | Necessary Cookies | This cookie is set when a user chooses a preferred language and keeps the settings information during user’s session. | 0 Days |
| exp_pref | Necessary Cookies | This cookie is from Bloomberg, which provides embedded videos to the HPS website. This cookie likely stores user preferences for the website, such as language, layout preferences, or settings related to experimental features being tested by the website owner. | 0 Days |
| geoEdition | Necessary Cookies | This cookie is from CNBC, which provides embedded videos to the HPS website. This cookie is used to determine what country the visitor comes from – This allows the website to set the language accordingly | 0 Days |
| isDelinquent | Necessary Cookies | Security cookie used by Bloomberg’s APIs | 0 Days |
| jwplayer.bandwidthEstimate | Necessary Cookies | Used to suggest an initial bandwidth estimate (in bits per second) which overrides the default bandwidth estimate of the player for new viewers of the site | 0 Days |
| jwplayerLocalId | Necessary Cookies | Used to determine the optimal video quality based on the visitor’s device and network settings. | 0 Days |
| lastKnownUserInfo | Necessary Cookies | Stores the user’s Bloomberg sign in and subscription states. | 0 Days |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | Necessary Cookies | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year and contains no personal information. | 1 Year |
| OptanonConsent | Necessary Cookies | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | 1 Year |
| pvf_levels | Necessary Cookies | This domain is associated with Bloomberg, which hosts video and audio of HPS media appearances on its website that are then embedded on the HPS website. This cookie is likely used for authentication services to allow access to Bloomberg products and user account management. | 0 Days |
| session_id | Necessary Cookies | This cookie is from Bloomberg, which provides embedded videos to the HPS website. The cookie typically used to maintain an anonymized user session by the server. This cookie is generated as part of the sign-in process and used to defend against Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) | 1 Year |
| session_key | This cookie is generated as part of the sign-in process and used to defend against Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) | 1 Year |
- Marketing/Tracking/Profile cookies allow us to improve your experience on the Site by providing us with information about how our visitors use the Site. These cookies provide information on how a website works and helps us improve the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that visitors are finding what they are looking for easily.
Marketing/Tracking/Profiling Cookies
| Cookie Name | Type | Purpose | Retention |
| _ga | Marketing/Tracking/Profiling | These cookies are used to distinguish users from different clients by assigning a randomly generated number on our career site. | 1 Year |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | Marketing/Tracking/Profiling | Google Analytics 4 is used on some of our third party operated non-European sites for analytics and site statistics purposes only. | 1 Year |
| IDE | Marketing/Tracking/Profiling | A tag associated with paid search ads in Google search to enable creation of audience lists and retargeting. | 1 Year |
| IXWRAPPERLiveRampIp | Marketing/Tracking/Profiling | Collects anonymous data on the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded with the purpose of generating reports for optimizing the website content. | 0 Days |
| IXWRAPPERMerkleIp | Marketing/Tracking/Profiling | Collects anonymous data on the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded with the purpose of generating reports for optimizing the website content. | 0 Days |
| test_cookie | Marketing/Tracking/Profiling | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies | 0 Days |
| youbora.accCode | Marketing/Tracking/Profiling | Presents the user with relevant content and advertisement. The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. | 0 Days |
| youbora.data | Marketing/Tracking/Profiling | Presents the user with relevant content and advertisement. The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. | 0 Days |
| youbora.dataTime | Marketing/Tracking/Profiling | Presents the user with relevant content and advertisement. The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers | 0 Days |
| youbora.session | Marketing/Tracking/Profiling | Presents the user with relevant content and advertisement. The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. | 0 Days |
| youbora.sessionExpire | Marketing/Tracking/Profiling | Presents the user with relevant content and advertisement. The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. | 0 Days |
| youboraOffline.views | Marketing/Tracking/Profiling | Presents the user with relevant content and advertisement. The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. | 0 Days |
You can click on “Cookie Settings” at the bottom of every page of our website to amend your cookie preferences at any time.
You can also control and delete cookies through most browsers by changing your cookie settings, which are typically found in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser. Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
Each type of browser offers ways to restrict and delete cookies. Be aware though that when you delete cookies, you may also lose some saved information (e.g. site preferences) and note that, without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of all the features on our Site. For more information about cookies generally, please visit All About Cookies.
In addition to the browser-based controls, you can manage third party cookies by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices/. In the EU, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu/. For mobile devices, you can manage how your device and browser share certain device data by adjusting the privacy and security settings on your mobile device.
If you have any concerns or questions about how we use cookies on the Site, you can contact us at privacy@hpspartners.com.
We may change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Cookie Policy from time to time and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our use of cookies. We will indicate at the top of the policy when it was most recently updated. We encourage you to periodically check our Site for updates.