Cookies information
We've designed this information page to provide our site visitors with accessible, transparent information about the cookies we use.
This information is relevant for visitors to www.pwc.co.uk and the areas of our site which provide you with access to our blogs, careers information and marketing content. As you move around our site you may see more than one Cookie ‘pop up’ appearing - this is to ensure we keep you fully informed about the cookies used in the particular area of the site you are visiting.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by the websites that you visit. They are used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide statistical information to site owners. Some cookies also enable the display of relevant advertising when you move from site to site.
Our Cookies Your Choice
We use three types of cookies on our site:
Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for our site to operate. They don’t access or store any personal data. Our website cannot function without these cookies so they are always set on.
You can manage and control cookies through your browser (a good search term is ‘managing cookies’). Your choices will include removing cookies by deleting them from your ‘browser history’ when you leave our site. If you do switch cookies off for our site it may not work as well as you would expect it to.
Analytics Cookies
These cookies allow us to measure and report on website activity 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. We drop these cookies and use Adobe to help us analyse the data.
We’ve set these cookies on but you can turn them off at any time via the cookie settings button below.
Marketing Cookies
These cookies help us provide personalised and relevant services or advertising to our site visitors, and to assess the effectiveness of our digital marketing activities.We also use these cookies to enable third party ‘plug-ins’ like social media sharing and like buttons. They also ensure that video content can be played.
The tables below provide details about the actual cookies we use of each type. We’ve included information on the duration of each cookie, its purpose and if its use involves the transfer of information to any of our third party business partners.
These partners include:
Adobe
Google
LinkedIn
OneTrust
Salesforce
Twitter
We are in discussion with our third party partners about the duration of some of the cookies i.e. where we think the duration could be reduced.
Section A: Strictly necessary cookies
| Cookie name | First or third party? | Cookie duration | Cookie description | Information shared with |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OptanonConsent | First | 1 year | This cookie stores information about the cookies on our site and records the cookie choices that the user has made. The cookie contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | PwC and One Trust |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | First | 1 year | This cookie records that information about cookies we use has been displayed. This enables us to ensure that returning visitors are not presented with the same information again. The cookie contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | PwC and One Trust |
| _cfduid | Third | 1 month | This cookie is set to differentiate visitors to our site who have the same IP address. This way cookie choices can be applied on a per visitor basis. | PwC and One Trust |
| pwc_int_usr | First | 3 months | This cookie is used to distinguish internal PwC users from external website visitors. It is set when a member of staff accesses the website from within the PwC network (VPN or office) to determine what content that person can see. | PwC |
| BIGipServerPOOL-69.20.11.37-Dispatch | First | Until end of session | This cookie is set by the servers hosting PwC sites to allow a visitor to receive site content from one of multiple servers as the visitor browses the site. This improves performance and allows the visitor’s session to be maintained. | PwC |
| s_fid | First | 2 years | This cookie is used when visitors do not accept analytics cookies so the site is able to recognise the visitor as they navigate around the site and so the site can function during that visit. | PwC and Adobe |
| ADRUM_BT1 | First | 1 min | These are cookies that are used for the technical monitoring of the Marketing Cloud part of our website to ensure they are working as required for visitors. | PwC and Salesforce |
| ADRUM_BTa | First | 1 min | These are cookies that are used for the technical monitoring of the Marketing Cloud part of our website to ensure they are working as required for visitors. | PwC and Salesforce |
| ADRUM_BTs | First | 1 min | These are cookies that are used for the technical monitoring of the Marketing Cloud part of our website to ensure they are working as required for visitors. | PwC and Salesforce |
| check | First | Session | This is a platform cookie, used to confirm successful loading of a page. No information is stored. | PwC |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Third | 6 months | reCAPTCHA uses cookies to help protect our websites from spam and abuse by assessing activities to tell humans and bots apart. | PwC and Google |
Section B: Analytics cookies
All of our analytic cookies are provided by Adobe. They contain no information that can identify an individual.
| Cookie name | First or third party? | Cookie duration | Cookie description | Information shared with |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gpv | First | 30 minutes from set/update | This cookie records the number of pages that each visitor views when visiting PwC sites. | PwC and Adobe |
| s_ppv | First | Browser session | This cookie records how far visitors scroll down the page and how much of the page was displayed. | PwC and Adobe |
| s_ppvl | First | Browser session | This cookie records how far visitors scroll down the page and how much of the page was displayed. | PwC and Adobe |
| s_cc | First | Browser session | This cookie records whether cookies are enabled in your browser. | PwC and Adobe |
| sat_track | First | Browser session | This cookie anonymously identifies new visitors, analyses visitor clicks and tracks visitor’s historical activity on the website. | PwC and Adobe |
| s_sq | First | 2 years | This cookie enables us to identify previous links you clicked on on our websites. | PwC and Adobe |
| s_nr | First | 1 year | This cookie records the date(s) you visit the Websites, and whether or not you are a new or returning visitor. | PwC and Adobe |
| s_vi | Third | 2 years | This cookie identifies visitors as a unique visitor to our site. | PwC and Adobe |
| s_campaign | 30 days | This cookie stores the number of visits from a visitor to the site so we can understand how often visitors return to the site. | PwC and Adobe | |
Section C: Marketing cookies
| Cookie name | First or third party? | Cookie duration | Cookie description | Information shared with |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JSESSIONID | Third | Browser Session | This is a general purpose platform session cookie which is set by LinkedIn. | PwC and LinkedIn |
| mbox | First | 2 weeks | This cookie enables us to test what content is of most interest to visitors to the website. | PwC and Adobe |
| mboxPC | Third | 1 year + 1 day | This cookie helps us assess which menus, links, content and banners work best. | PwC and Adobe |
| mboxSession | Third | 30 minutes | This cookie creates a unique ID every time a visitor starts a new session as a user. | PwC and Adobe |
| demdex | Third | 6 months | This cookie assigns every visitor a unique ID when you visit our site to help optimise a visitor’s user experience. | PwC andAdobe |
| dpm | Third | 6 months | This cookie assigns you a unique ID when a visitor visits our site. This enables us to optimise a visitor’s user experience. | PwC and Adobe |
| everest_g_v2 | Third | 2 years | This cookie synchronizes a visitors unique ID whenever they visit our site. This enables us to optimise a visitor’s user experience. | PwC and Adobe |
| everest_session_v2 | Third | Browser session | This cookie synchronizes a visitors unique ID whenever they visit our site. This enables us to optimise a visitor’s user experience. | PwC and Adobe |
| AMCV* | Third | 2 years | This cookie records a visitors unique ID as well as our organisation's ID, enabling us to understand how visitors navigate across our site's domains and service offerings. | PwC and Adobe |
| AMCVS* | Third | Browser session | This cookie is set to record a visitor’s unique ID as well as our organisation's ID,enabling us to track when a visitor's session begins and ends. | PwC and Adobe |
| twll | Third | 4 years | This cookie is set by Twitter as part of Twitter's embedded services within our sites, e.g. Twitter's like or sharing features. | PwC and Twitter |
| secure_session | Third | 14 years | This cookie is set by Twitter as part of Twitter's embedded services within our sites, e.g. Twitter's like or sharing features. | PwC and Twitter |
| guest_id | Third | Two years | This cookie is set by Twitter when a visitor clicks to share PwC website content on Twitter. | PwC and Twitter |
| personalization_id | Third | Two years | This cookie is set by Twitter to measure the performance of advertising campaigns through Twitter, across different browsers and devices used by a visitor. | PwC and Twitter |
| remember_checked | Third | 4 years | This cookie is set by Twitter as part of Twitter's embedded services within our sites, e.g. Twitter's like or sharing features. | PwC and Twitter |
| remember_checked_on | Third | 4 years | This cookie is set by Twitter as part of Twitter's embedded services within our sites, e.g. Twitter's like or sharing features. | PwC and Twitter |
| BizoID,__utma,__utmv | Third | 1 year | This cookie allows us to deliver tailored adverts and content about PwC visitors who subsequently visit LinkedIn. It also enables us to understand how many people visit LinkedIn from our website. | PwC and LinkedIn |
| IDE,id | Third | 1 year | This cookie is set by Google and is activated when a visitor plays a video that is embedded on our website from Youtube. | PwC and Google |
| lidc | Third | 1 day | This cookie allows visitors to ‘share’ content from our site to LinkedIn. | PwC and LinkedIn |
| bscookie | Third | 2 years | This cookie recognises a secure Browser ID. | PwC and LinkedIn |
| bcookie | Third | 2 years | This cookie is linked to the LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags on our site, and is set by LinkedIn to identify whether visitors have a secure browser ID. | PwC and LinkedIn |
| UserMatchHistory | Third | 6 months | This cookie is set by LinkedIn to record advertisement analytics. | PwC and LinkedIn |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Third | 6 months | This cookie is set by Youtube to understand how Youtube videos are viewed on our site. | PwC and YouTube |
| PREF | Third | 4 years | This cookie is set by Youtube to set our visitors’ preferred language preferences. | PwC and YouTube |
| NID | Third | 6 months | This cookie is set by Youtube to record visitor preferences, including preferred language, number of search results per page, etc. | PwC and YouTube |
| GPS | Third | 19 minutes | This cookie is set by Youtube as part of embedded Youtube services on our websites. | PwC and YouTube |
| YSC | Third | Session | This cookie is set by Youtube as part of embedded Youtube services on our websites. | PwC and YouTube |
| _fbp | Third | 3 months | This cookie is set by Facebook as part of their embedded services on our websites (likes, sharing etc.). | PwC and Facebook |
| fr | Third | 3 months | This cookie is set by Facebook as part of their embedded services on our websites. | PwC and Facebook |
| NID | Third | 6 months | This cookie is set by Google and is used when the visitor accesses a blog on PwC blogs. | PwC and Google |
| test_cookie | Third | 15 minutes | This cookie is set by Google to enable advertising to be displayed to the visitor and is active on PwC blogs. | PwC and Google |
| IDE | Third | 1 year | This cookie is set by Google and is activated when a user plays videos that are embedded on our website from Youtube. | PwC and Google |
| _ce.s | First | 5 years | This cookie is set by CrazyEgg and records anonymous usage activity on the site to help define common user patterns to improve functionality and content development in the future. | PwC and Crazy Egg |
_sfid_ |
First |
2 years |
This cookie controls the matching of information captured via "_evga_[ID]" with Salesforce Marketing Cloud Personalization. |
PwC and Salesforce |
_evga_ |
First |
2 years |
This cookie is used to present users with customized content based on their user behavior. |
PwC and Salesforce |
| gtag.js | First | 90 days | This cookie collects marketing and behavioural analytics across the PwC website.The cookie contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | PwC and Google
|
Cookies in PwC sales and marketing emails
Cookie Name |
First or Third Party |
Cookie Duration |
Cookie Description |
Information shared with |
Salesforce Marketing Cloud email tracking pixel |
Third |
1 year |
This 1x1 transparent GIF is inserted into every email to gather statistics on email performance: opens, clicks, delivery rates, unsubscribes and forwards. This tracking helps us to monitor and improve email performance. |
PwC and Salesforce |
Managing cookies on your device
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Using your browser to control cookies
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For information on additional browsers and device types please see http://www.aboutcookies.org/ or http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/.
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
Google Analytics: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
