Cookie Statement - Recruitment Activities
Introduction
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 our Recruitment sites. For more information about how we process your personal data collected, please visit our privacy statement
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We recognise that transparency is an ongoing responsibility so we will keep this Cookie Policy under regular review. This cookie policy was last updated on 24/04/2023
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 four types of cookies on our site:
Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for our site to operate. Our website cannot function without these cookies so they are always set on.
Functional Cookies
These cookies support additional functionality that enhances our site, for example remembering your preferences. The information collected does not directly identify any visitors individually.
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. You can turn these cookies off at any time via the cookie settings.
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.
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.
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.
Section A: Strictly necessary cookies
Cookie Name |
First or third party Cookie? |
Cookie Duration |
Cookie Description |
JSESSIONID |
First |
Session |
This cookie is a general purpose platform session cookie to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. |
VISITED_VARIANT |
First |
1 year |
This cookie is a System generated unique Identifier for browser thumbprint; used to remember personalization across sessions for job recommendations |
PHPPPE_GCC |
First |
3 months |
This cookie tracks if the user has declined cookie tracking on cookie banner / settings page |
PLAY_SESSION |
First |
Session |
This cookie is used for security purposes |
Section B: Functional cookies
Cookie Name |
First or third party Cookie? |
Cookie Duration |
Cookie Description |
Per_UniqueID |
Third |
Session |
This cookie is used to remember personalisation across sessions |
ext_trk |
First |
1 year |
This cookie is used in case of a re-direct |
P_REF_CNG |
Third |
session |
This cookie will flag a wrong referring source when using social media to sign in |
VISITED_LANG |
First |
1 year |
This cookie will remember the language selected |
VISITED_COUNTRY |
First |
1 year |
This cookie will remember the country chosen |
Section C: Analytics cookies
Cookie Name |
First or third party Cookie? |
Cookie Duration |
Cookie Description |
utm_content |
Third |
Session |
This cookie is used to differentiate similar content or links from adverts |
utm_term |
Third |
Session |
This cookie is used to identify a campaign |
utm_source |
Third |
Session |
This cookie identifies the site of the referring URL |
utm_campaign |
Third |
Session |
This cookie identifies the name of the referring URL |
utm_medium |
Third |
Session |
This cookie identifies the advertising medium in the URL |
Section D: Marketing cookies
Cookie Name |
First or third party Cookie? |
Cookie Duration |
Cookie Description |
Information shared with |
li_gc |
Third |
6 months |
This cookie is used to store consent of users for non-essential cookies |
PwC and LinkedIn |
lidc |
Third |
Session |
This cookie allows visitors to ‘share’ content from our site to LinkedIn. |
PwC and LinkedIn |
bcookie |
Third |
1 year |
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 |
lang |
Third |
Session |
This cookie is used to store language preferences |
PwC and LinkedIn |
bscookie |
Third |
1 year |
This cookie recognises a secure Browser ID. |
PwC and LinkedIn |
JSESSIONID |
Third |
Session |
This is a general purpose platform session cookie which is set by LinkedIn. |
PwC and LinkedIn |
Managing cookies on your device
We use cookies to personalise content and to provide you with an improved user experience. 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
Most browsers allow you to view, manage, delete and block cookies for a website. Be aware that if you delete all cookies then any preferences you have set will be lost, 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/.
