Use of cookies by PwC

Provider

Name

Purpose

Duration

Necessary Cookies

PwC

ak_bmsc

This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots.

PwC

test

This cookie is associated with Adobe Analytics. It checks to see if cookies are enabled.

PwC

JSESSIONID

General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server.

PwC

bm_sv

This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots.

PwC

pwc_uuid

1 year

Analytical/Performance Cookies

pwc.com

_gclxxxx

Google conversion tracking cookie

2 Months

pwc.com

AMCVS_

This is a pattern type cookie name associated with Adobe Marketing Cloud. It stores a unique visitor identifier, and uses an organisation identifier.

pwc.com

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

pwc.com

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

pwc.com

_ga

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners._ga

1 year

pwc.com

RT

The roundtrip (RT) Boomerang cookie is used by Akamai to measure page load time and/or other timers associated with the page.

6 days 

pwc.com

s_ppvl

This cookie is set by Adobe Analytics to store information on the percentage of the page displayed to the end user.

pwc.com

gpv

This cookie is set by Adobe Analytics to store the quantity of pages the end user views when visiting websites.

pwc.com

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 from set/update

Adobe Analytics

s_cc

This cookie allows Adobe Analytics to determine whether or not cookies are enabled in your browser.

Until end of session

Adobe Analytics

_gid

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited._gid

Adobe Analytics 

_gat

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.

Adobe Analtyics

s_nr

Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, stores date of visit and if visitor is new or returning

1 year

Adobe Analytics

_ga_xxxx

To generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the Service.

1 year

Adobe Analytics

dtCookie

This cookie name is associated with, software from Dynatrace, an application performance management (APM) software company. Their software manages the availability and performance of software applications and the impact on user experience in the form of deep transaction tracing, synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring, and network monitoring.

everest_g_v2

everest_session_v2

The "everest_g_v2" cookie is used for analytical purposes. It helps track and analyze user behavior on websites that use Adobe Experience Cloud solutions. This cookie enables the collection of data related to website performance, user engagement, and other metrics that help in optimizing the user experience and improving the website's overall performance.

The "everest_session_v2" cookie is also used for analytical purposes. It facilitates the tracking and analysis of user sessions on websites that utilize Adobe Experience Cloud solutions. This cookie captures data about user interactions, page visits, and session duration, providing valuable insights for website analytics and performance evaluation.

1 year 

AWSALB

USERLANGUAGE

SUSERLOGIN

SACCOUNTNAME

JSESSIONID

JSESSIONID_FOSameSite

Marketing & Social Media Cookies

PwC

_gat_gtag_xxx

Google Analytics

PwC

_fbp

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers

2 months

pwc.com

ln_or

This is a LinkedIn cookie used to determine if Oribi analytics can be carried out on a specific domain

youtube.com

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

5 months

youtube.com

VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.

youtube.com

CONSENT

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.

youtube.com

YSC

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.

LinkedIn

bcookie

This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.

1 year

LinkedIn

AnalyticsSyncHistory

This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.

1 month

LinkedIn

li_sugr

This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.

2 Months

LinkedIn

lidc

This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.

LinkedIn

UserMatchHistory

This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.

1 month

LinkedIn

li_gc

This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.

LinkedIn

bscookie

This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.

doubleclick.net

test_cookie

This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange

doubleclick.net

IDE

This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange

www.facebook.com

This domain is owned by Facebook, which is the world's largest social networking service. As a third party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the 'Like' button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. In 2014 it also started serving up behaviourally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies.