Cookie information
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by the websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The use of cookies is now standard for most websites. If you are uncomfortable with the use of cookies, you can manage and control them through your browser, including removing cookies by deleting them from your ‘browser history’ (cache) when you leave the site.
Types of cookies
- ‘Session’ cookies remain in your browser during your browser session only, i.e. until you leave the website.
- ‘Persistent’ cookies remain in your browser after the session (unless deleted by you).
Use of cookies by PwC
The following table explains the way in which we use cookies on this website.
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | __utma | This cookie is set to allow PwC to track individual visitors and their use of the site. It is set when you first visit the site and updated on subsequent visits. PwC does not use Google Analytics to collect personal information, other than IP address, from our visitors. | First Party Persistent | 2 years from set/update |
| Google Analytics | __utmb | This cookie is set to allow PwC to track individual visitors and their use of the site. It is set when you first visit the site and updated on subsequent visits. PwC does not use Google Analytics to collect personal information, other than IP address, from our visitors. | First Party Persistent | 30 minutes from set/update |
| Google Analytics | __utmc | This cookie is set to allow PwC to determine whether a visitor’s use of the site is a first visit. It will be deleted once you exit your browser. PwC does not use Google Analytics to collect personal information, other than IP address, from our visitors. | First Party Persistent | Until browser is closed |
| Google Analytics | __utmt | This cookie is set to regulate the interval at which the site will request and obtain updated information from your browser. PwC does not use Google Analytics to collect personal information, other than IP address, from our visitors. | First Party Persistent | 10 minutes from set/update |
| Google Analytics | __utmz | This cookie is set to allow PwC to track individual visitors and their use of the site. In particular, it allows PwC to understand where a visitor came from (for example, by finding the site during a Google search). It is set when you first visit the site and updated on subsequent visits. PwC does not use Google Analytics to collect personal information, other than IP address, from our visitors. | First Party Persistent | 6 months from set/update |
| BizoNetworkPartnerIndex | This cookie is set by LinkedIn and tracks when PwC receives industry/segment data for a given LinkedIn user. PwC allows this cookie to be set in order to obtain information from LinkedIn about which industries’ and segments’ professionals visit the site. | First Party Persistent | 90 days from set/update | |
| BizoUserMatchHistory | This cookie stores the last time at which LinkedIn cookies present on Extraordinary were synched with LinkedIn. | First Party Persistent | 90 days from set/update | |
| Sizmek | Activityinfo | This cookie is used to track visits associated with a unique visitor and is used for learning where visitors come from and measuring the efficacy of advertising campaigns. | Third Party Persistent | 90 days from set/update |
| Website Tag | Conversion tracking for websites enables PwC to measure the number of Twitter users who perform a certain action on the Extraordinary website after viewing or engaging with PwC’s Promoted Tweets. | First Party Persistent | Not Set |