Cookie information
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Managing cookies on your device
We use cookies to personalize content and to provide you with an improved user experience. By using this website or application you consent to the deployment of cookies. You can control and manage cookies using your browser (see below). Please note that removing or blocking cookies can impact your user experience and some functionality may no longer be available.
Using your browser to control cookies
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Managing Analytics cookies
You can opt-out of having your anonymised browsing history within our websites or applications recorded by analytics cookies. We use the following service providers and you can learn more about their privacy policies and how to opt-out of their analytics cookies by clicking on following links:
Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html
Types of cookies
Necessary cookies (always active)
These cookies are necessary for the website to operate. Our website cannot function without these cookies and they can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences.
Analytical cookies
These cookies allow us to measure and report on website activity by tracking page visits, visitor locations and how visitors move around the site. The information collected does not directly identify visitors. We drop these cookies and use Adobe to help us analyse the data.
Third party marketing cookies
These cookies help us provide you with personalised and relevant services or advertising, and track the effectiveness of our digital marketing activities.
Use of cookies by PwC
The following table explains the way in which we use cookies on this website
Necessary cookies
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| Host | Cookie Name | Description | Expiry Duration | Type |
| PwC | OptanonConsent | 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 It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category.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. | 2 years | First party |
| PwC | JSESSIONID | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. | Until end of session | First party |
| PwC | bm_sv | This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots. | 2 hours | First party |
| PwC | OptanonAlertBoxClosed | 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 one year lifespan and contains no personal information. | 1 year | First party |
| PwC | RT | The roundtrip (RT) Boomerang cookie is used by Akamai to measure page load time and/or other timers associated with the page. | 7 days | First party |
| PwC | check | Until end of session | First party | |
| fonts.net | __cf_bm | This is a CloudFoundry cookie. | 30 minutes | Third party |
Analytical cookies
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| Host | Cookie Name | Description | Expiry Duration | Type |
| PwC | ak_bmsc | Security cookie used by Akamai bot Manager for bot filtering and routing. | A few seconds | First party |
| PwC | AMCV_ | This is a pattern type cookie name associated with Adobe Marketing Cloud. It stores a unique visitor identifier, and uses an organisation identifier to allow a company to track users across their domains and services. | 2 years | First party |
| PwC | AMCVS_ | This is a pattern type cookie name associated with Adobe Marketing Cloud. It stores a unique visitor identifier, and uses an organisation identifier. | Until end of session | First party |
| PwC | bm_mi | This cookie is associated with Akamai. It is used to analyse traffic to determine if it is automated traffic generated by bots or a human user. | 2 hours | First party |
| PwC | gpv | This cookie is set by Adobe Analytics to store the quantity of pages the end user views when visiting websites. | 30 minutes | First party |
| PwC | mbox | Used by Adobe Target to generate dynamic content in a marketing box on the page. Contains the following values: PC ID - ID for visitor's browser. Removed when cookie deleted, Session ID - A unique ID for a user session, Check - checks if cookies are supported. Set on each page load. | 2 years | First party |
| PwC | s_cc | This cookie is associated with the Adobe Site Catalyst. It determines whether cookies are enabled in the web browser. | Until end of session | First party |
| PwC | s_fid | This cookie name is associated with the analytics service provided by Adobe's Site Catalyst product suite. It is a new cookie introduced in 2013 as a 'fallback' visitor identifier where the s_vi cookie normally used for this purpose is blocked. It contains a randomly generated, unique id. | 2 years | First party |
| PwC | s_nr | Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, stores date of visit and if visitor is new or returning. | 1 year | First party |
| PwC | s_ppv | This cookie is associated with Adobe Analytics site tracking and is used to measure a user's scroll activity to see how much of a page they view before moving to another page. | Until end of session | First party |
| PwC | s_ppvl | This cookie is set by Adobe Analytics to store information on the percentage of the page displayed to the end user. | Until end of session | First party |
| PwC | s_sq | Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, stores information about the previous link clicked within the site. | 2 years | First party |
| PwC | s_vi | This cookie stores the visitor ID provided by our analytics provider whenever a user first visits the site. | 5 years | First party |
| PwC | test | This cookie is associated with Adobe Analytics. It checks to see if cookies are enabled. | Until end of session | First party |
| demdex.net | demdex | This cookie helps Adobe Audience Manger perform basic functions such as visitor identification, ID synchronization, segmentation, modeling, reporting, etc. | 180 days | Third party |
| demdex.net | dextp | Adobe Audience Manager cookie used to provide ad delivery or retargeting. | 180 days | Third party |
| dpm.demdex.net | dpm | This domain is owned by Adobe Audience Manager. The main business activity is online profiling for targeted marketing. | 180 days | Third party |
| everesttech.net | ev_sync_dd | This domain is owned by Adobe. The main business activity is: Advertising | 2 years | Third party |
| everesttech.net | everest_g_v2 | This domain is owned by Adobe. The main business activity is: Advertising | 1 year | Third party |
| everesttech.net | everest_session_v2 | This domain is owned by Adobe. The main business activity is: Advertising | Until end of session | Third party |
Marketing cookies
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| Host | Cookie Name | Description | Expiry Duration | Type |
| PwC | _fbp | This cookie is used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 months | First party |
| fr | This cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisments to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. | 3 months | Third party | |
| li_gc | This cookie is used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes. | 2 years | Third party | |
| lang | This cookie is used to remember a user's language setting to ensure LinkedIn.com displays in the language selected by the user in their settings. | Until end of session | Third party | |
| lidc | This cookie facilitates data centre selection. | 24 hours | Third party | |
| bscookie | This cookie is used for remembering that a logged in user is verified by two factor authentication. | 2 years | Third party | |
| bcookie | Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely indentify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abust on the platform. | 2 years | Third party | |
| UserMatchHistory | This cookie is used for LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. | 30 days | Third party | |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | This cookie is used to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie. | 30 days | Third party | |
| YouTube | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos. | 1 year | Third party |
| YouTube | YSC | This cookie is set by YouTube and allows YouTube to gather information about a visitor’s browser. PwC allows YouTube to set this cookie so that. | Until end of session | Third party |
Last updated: 6 June 2022
