A cookie is a text file containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies do lots of different jobs, such as letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences and goods and services you wish to purchase, and providing you with content that is relevant to you and your interests.

The aim of this cookie list is to help you recognise the cookies placed on your browser when you visit our websites or see adverts for us elsewhere.

We have tried to list all the cookies, which we, or our technology partners use, but sometimes there may be a short delay in updating this list. If you think we’ve missed any, or any that should be listed, please feel free to contact us and we’ll be happy to investigate and list.

Please also visit the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers on cookie opt in/outs.

 

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are necessary in order for you to navigate our website and for remembering items in your shopping basket and preferences. You may opt out of these strictly necessary cookies through your browser settings but in doing so, you will not be able to use the website properly.

These are the Strictly Necessary cookies used on our website.

  • JSESSIONID

Used by LinkedIn.Com to preserve users states across page requests

  • csrftoken

Used by pinterest to help  prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.

  • SESS#

Used by pinterest to help preserve users states across page requests

  • wc_cart_hash_#

Woocommerce – stores a visitors shopping basket

  • wc_fragments_#

Woocommerce –  stores a visitors login information so they don’t need to keep logging in if browser closed

  • wordpress_test_cookie

Used to test if the users browser supports cookies

Preference cookies

  • Lang

Used by Linkedin when a page has a “follow us” request embedded on the page.

Performance cookies

Google Analytics

We use cookies provided by Google Analytics to help us understand how you got to our website, measure the effectiveness of our advertising and understand how visitors use our website. The information helps us learn things such as what pages are more attractive to our visitors, which of our products most interest our customers and the kind of offers our customers like to see. 

  • _ga

This cookie is typically written to the browser upon the first visit. If the cookie has been deleted by the browser operator, and the browser subsequently visits pwc.com, a new _ga cookie is written with a different unique ID. In most cases, this cookie is used to determine unique visitors to pwc.com and it is updated with each page view. Additionally, this cookie is provided with a unique ID that Google Analytics uses to ensure both the validity and accessibility of the cookie as an extra security measure.

  • _gat

This cookie is typically written to the browser upon the first visit. If the cookie has been deleted by the browser operator, and the browser subsequently visits pwc.com, a new _gat cookie is written with a different unique ID. In most cases, this cookie is used to determine unique visitors to our websites and it is updated with each page view. Additionally, this cookie is provided with a unique ID that Google Analytics uses to ensure both the validity and accessibility of the cookie as an extra security measure.

  • _gid

is used to distinguish users and has an expiration of 24-hours.

Marketing Cookies

  • _twitter_sess

collects anonymous data related to the user’s visits to the web site, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and which pages have been loaded, with the purpose being to personalise visits.

  • bcookie/bscookie

Used by Linkedin for tracking the use of embedded services.

  • CheckConnectionTempCookie#

Used by YouTube to check if the users browser supports cookies

  • ct0

Used by twitter.com, details unknown

  • GAPS

Google+ sharing used to identify the user when sharing content

  • GPS

Used by YouTube to register a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical data

  • guest_id

Used by Twitter to collect anonymous data about time spent on the website

  • leo_auth_token/lidc/visit

Used by LinkedIn for tracking the use of embedded services.

  • NID

Registers a unique ID to identify a returning visitor

  • personalisation_id

Used by twitter.com – currently unclassified

  • UID/UIDR

Used by scorecardresearch.com to understand visitor behaviour and preferences

  • PREF, VISITOR_INFO1-LIVE/YSC

YouTube uses these cookies help track the number of views for a particular video. The pref cookie will track user preferences and serve up related content or adverts within an embedded YouTube video.

Unclassified

  • _auth/_pinterest_sess/cm_sub/G_ENABLED_IDPS

Used by pinterest

  • catAccCookies

About this cookie policy

We will update this policy if we introduce new cookies or change the way we use the cookies described above.

Our website contains links to websites managed by third parties. We don’t know what cookies those other websites use. Please check the cookies policies of those third party websites if you would like to know more.

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