Cookie Policy
Last Updated: November 2025
Introduction
This Cookie Notice applies to the use by BlackRock of cookies and similar technologies (collectively “cookies”) on the BlackRock Websites (“our Websites”). The purpose of this Cookie Notice is to explain what cookies are, how they work, the cookies we use and how you can control which ones we use when you visit our Websites. It also describes the purposes for which we process Personal Information (“PI”) collected through our use of cookies and your rights. It also sets outs individuals’ rights in relation to the processing of their PI by cookies.
“Our Websites” mean any publicly available, BlackRock-domain, operated by BlackRock or by a third party on behalf of BlackRock.
“BlackRock”, “we”, “us” or “our” means BlackRock, Inc., and each of the direct or indirect subsidiaries of BlackRock, Inc., (the “BlackRock Group”).
References to “you” or “your” relate to individuals who visit our Websites.
This Cookie Notice should be read in conjunction with BlackRock’s Privacy Notice.
This Cookie Notice does not apply to any domains that we do not own or control, or to any third-party domains where BlackRock advertisements are displayed.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file which is downloaded to your device or browser when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie, in order to develop a record of the user’s online activity. Cookies may be delivered by the website a user visits, or by third parties. First party Cookies are set by BlackRock and belong to the website domain that appears in the browser address bar.
Types of cookies:
- Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies help keep our websites secure while enabling network management, site functionality and accessibility. You may disable necessary cookies in your browser settings, but that may affect how the website functions for you.
- Preference cookies
Preference cookies enable us to store certain user selections or preferences and allows for a more tailored website experience.
- Statistical Analytics
Measure the performance of our website and collect aggregate level information on how you use our site, for us to provide you with the best possible digital experience. No user level based behavioural data will be collected as part of this method. If you are visiting a European site, these are only active if you click “Accept all”. On Non-European sites, you may opt out of these separately under “Manage cookies”.
- Marketing/Tracking/Profiling cookies
Marketing/Tracking/Profiling cookies are usually placed by advertising networks and are used to deliver relevant content or measure campaign performance. Information about website usage and visits may be shared with other organizations such as advertisers.
- Conversational cookies
Conversational cookies help tie conversations and interactions to a specific visitor on our site, when you are interacting with our chatbot. These cookies must be accepted in order to interact with the chatbot on our websites.
Necessary cookies used on this website:
| 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/Profiling cookies used on this website:
| 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 |
Consent and updating your cookie preferences
On our European Websites, we will not set any cookies other than those that are Strictly Necessary without your consent.
On our Websites outside Europe, by clicking “Required only”, Statistical Analytics and Strictly Necessary cookies will be set as they do not collect any Personal Information. You may opt out of Statistical Analytics separately under “Manage cookies”.
If you are navigating between our European Websites and our Websites outside Europe, your first choice will determine the setting of Statistical Analytics; you can always change your preference under “Manage cookies”.
When you first visit our Website and on subsequent visits you will have the option to choose and then amend your other cookie preferences by clicking the Manage Cookies button which will appear on each page.
Across all sites, you will only be prompted again if we update the list of cookies we utilize or if this affects your browsing.
Cookies used on our websites
If you’d like more information on the specific cookies currently used, their purpose and how long they last, please click here. (only available in English)
“Session” Cookies are temporary and will expire at the end of a browser session; that is, when you leave a website. These allow our website to recognize you and carry information as you navigate between pages during a single browser session and allow you to use the website efficiently.
Other cookies have a defined expiry period as set out in the link above. Cookies will not be listed if they have expired, however some expired cookies may still be listed in your browser cookies settings even though they are not current on our website.
Non-cookie tracking technologies
We may also use web beacons including conversion pixels, which are small codes located on a particular web page which are triggered when someone visits a page resulting in an increase in the conversion count, or other technologies for similar purposes. We may include these on our sites, in our marketing e-mail messages or newsletters, or on affiliated websites, including client platforms and products, to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on.
How to block all cookies and what this will mean
If you want to block all cookies, you may be able to do this through the settings in your browser for each browser you use and each device you use. If you block all cookies, you may find certain features on our website will not function properly and we may not be able to respond to your request or provide you with the best service.
Please remember, if you turn off cookies using the settings in your browser, this will apply to all websites, not just BlackRock.
Further information
You can find more information about cookies on the following websites:
www.allaboutcookies.org
www.youronlinechoices.eu
Contacting us
The Global Head of Privacy and Data Protection oversees compliance with privacy and data protection law and regulation at BlackRock. If you wish to exercise any of your rights, or have questions concerning this Cookie Notice, please contact:
The Global Head of Privacy and Data Protection
BlackRock
12 Throgmorton Avenue
London
EC2N 2DL
Email: GroupPrivacy@BlackRock.com
Complaints
If you have any concerns or complaints about the way your PI is processed, please contact the Global Head of Privacy and Data Protection at GroupPrivacy@BlackRock.com. You also have a right to complain to a data protection or other competent authority with jurisdiction over privacy and data protection law in the country you live or work, or in the country where you believe an issue in relation to the processing of your Personal Information has arisen. Please contact GroupPrivacy@BlackRock.com for further details.
BlackRock Privacy Notice
Please see our separate BlackRock Privacy Notice.
Recruitment Privacy Notice
Please see our separate Recruitment Privacy Notice.
Changes to this Cookie Notice
We may modify or amend this Cookie Notice from time to time. You are advised to visit our website regularly to check for any amendments.