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Last updated: Friday 3 October 2025

To provide you with secure, user-friendly websites that display content relevant to you, we (Fortescue Limited) use cookies and other tracking technologies that distinguish you from other website visitors and collect information about you and how you use our websites.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that may be placed onto your device when a website is loaded in your browser. Cookies store information on your device. There are two main types:

  • Session cookies: deleted automatically when you close your browser.
  • Persistent cookies: remain on your device until they expire or you delete them.

Cookies can be placed on our websites by us (“first-party cookies”) or by third parties (“third-party cookies”). Third parties include those that serve embedded content (like videos), or that provide website analytics services to us.

Other technologies, such as pixels tags and web beacons, are used for similar purposes but may not be stored on your device.

Types of cookies

We use the following types of cookies on our websites:

  • Performance Cookies – Help us understand how visitors use our websites, which helps us to improve their performance and provide a good user experience.
  • Targeting Cookies – Used to record your visit to the website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed, so that we can make the website and the content displayed on it more relevant to your interests. For example, these cookies allow us to highlight news stories in areas you regularly follow (such as Pilbara updates) or make the job listings displayed more relevant to you.
  • Functional Cookies – Allow us to recognise you when you return to our websites, remember your preferences (e.g. language, region), and improve your browsing experience.
  • Strictly Necessary Cookies – Enable core website functions such as security, authentication, and fraud prevention. Our websites cannot function properly without these cookies.

Which cookies do we use?

You can find more information about the cookies we use in this table:

We update this table as our cookies change.

Your choices

When you visit a Fortescue website for the first time, you will see a cookie banner. By clicking “Accept all cookies” or “Accept selected cookies,” you consent to us placing all cookies, or the types of cookies that match your selections, on your device.

This consent applies to all our websites, not just to the website you first visit. A list of all Fortescue websites is available.

You can change your cookie preferences later, by:

Strictly Necessary Cookies cannot be disabled using the cookie settings tool, as they are required for our websites to function. If you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including Strictly Necessary Cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our websites, and website functionality may be limited.

Except for Strictly Necessary Cookies, all cookies will expire after six months.

How to manage or delete cookies through your browser settings

You can block or delete cookies at any time through your browser settings. Instructions for common browsers:

  • Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and other site data
  • Safari: Preferences > Privacy
  • Microsoft Edge: Settings > Cookies and site permissions
  • Mozilla Firefox: Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and site data

If you disable cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies that are not stored on your device, may still load when you visit our websites, however their functionality will be restricted.