Cookies are small text files placed on your computer by the websites that you visit. They are used to make the technology we provide to you work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide PwC with information how users interact with the technology.
Types of cookies
Necessary cookies are essential to enable you to use the service provided to you by the technology.
Functionality cookies allow the technology to remember any choices you make (such as changes to text size, customised pages, language).
Analytics cookies allow us to measure and report on activity in the technology such as which pages are visited most frequently and how visitors move around the site. The information collected does not directly identify any visitors individually.
Provider |
Name |
Purpose |
Type |
Duration |
Necessary Cookies |
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Discover |
GroupId |
Used to invalidate user session if they login from another browser with a different group ID |
Session |
At the end of session |
Discover |
RingtailVersion |
Checks that served files match server version |
Session |
At the end of session |
Discover |
FedAuth |
Multipart Cookie used by c# Federation for state. Managed by .NET |
Session |
At the end of session |
Discover |
IpCookie-# |
Used in IP Restrictions. # Can be variable |
300s |
At the end of session |
Discover |
CaseId |
Used to invalidate user session if they login from another browser with a different case ID |
Session |
At the end of session |
Discover |
GroupName |
Used for legacy .net mvc code to pass group name |
Session |
At the end of session |
Discover |
RingtailVersionIssuer |
Server name used in the RingtailVersion comparison |
Session |
At the end of session |
Discover |
RingtailLoginRedirect |
Used in parts as storage for deeplinking when authenticating. Deleted after used. |
300s |
At the end of session |
Discover |
FedAuth# |
Multipart Cookie used by c# Federation for state. Managed by .NET. This has gone up to FedAuth1, FedAuth2, FedAuth3, and FedAuth4 |
Session |
At the end of session |
Login Service |
DiscoverLogin.sig |
Unique session id since we use a session cookie |
Session |
At the end of session |
Discover |
_applications_build_imageviewer-all.jsJsHash |
Used to cache bust javascript |
Session |
At the end of session |
Discover |
_applications_build_web-all.jsJsHash |
Used to cache bust javascript |
Session |
At the end of session |
Discover |
.ASPXAUTH |
used to maintain ASP.NET Session State - Managed by .NET |
Session |
At the end of session |
Login Service |
DiscoverLogin |
Used to pass necessarily information around for each of the different steps of login. Mostly configuration. |
Session |
At the end of session |
Using your browser to control cookies
Most browsers allow you to view, manage, delete and block cookies for a website. Please note that removing or blocking cookies can impact your user experience and some functionality may no longer be available, including the ability to opt-out from cookies as this function itself requires placement of an opt out cookie on your device. Guidance on how to control cookies for common browsers is linked below.
For information on additional browsers and device types please see http://www.aboutcookies.org/ or http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/.
