Cookie Policy
Introduction
We've designed this information page to provide our visitors with accessible, transparent information about the cookies we use.
This information is relevant for visitors to the PwC Digital Store. For more information about how we process your personal data collected through the PwC Digital Store, 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 5 October 2023.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by the applications that you visit. They are used in order to make applications 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.
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.
Our Cookies Your Choice
We use two types of cookies on our site:
Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for our application to operate, see Section A below for more detail. Our application 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 by tracking page visits, visitor locations and how visitors move around the site. The information collected does not directly identify visitors. We drop these cookies and use Piwik Pro to help us analyse the data.
We’ve set these cookies off but you can turn them on at any time via the cookie settings button below:
(please add the link to the Cookie Disclaimer here)
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:
- Piwik
Section A: Strictly necessary cookies
|
Cookie Name |
First or third party Cookie? |
Cookie Duration |
Cookie Description |
Information shared with |
|
ppms_privacy |
First |
Session or 1 year |
Stores the visitor's consent to data collection and use |
Not shared |
|
PHPSESSID |
First |
Session |
Stores the PHP session |
Not shared |
|
ai_session |
First |
1 day |
Display of Microsoft Power BI interfaces |
Not shared |
|
ai_user |
First |
1 day |
Display of Microsoft Power BI interfaces |
Not shared |
|
ds-security |
First |
12 hours |
User session authentication |
Not shared |
|
ps_auth_session |
First |
12 hours |
User session authentication |
Not shared |
Section B: Analytical cookies
|
Cookie Name |
First or third party Cookie? |
Cookie Duration |
Cookie Description |
Information shared with |
|
_pk_id.<appID>.<domainHash> |
Third |
13 months for non-anonymous visitors |
This Cookie is used to recognize visitors and hold their various properties |
PwC and Piwik |
|
_pk_ses.<appID>.<domainHash> |
Third |
30 minutes |
Shows the visitor’s active session |
PwC and Piwik |
|
ppms_privacy_<appID> |
Third |
12 months |
Stores the visitor’s consent to data collection and usage. |
PwC and Piwik |
|
stg_traffic_source_priority |
Third |
30 minutes |
Stores the type of traffic source from which the visitor came to your site |
PwC and Piwik |
|
stg_last_interaction |
Third |
365 days |
Indicates whether the last visitor’s session is still running or a new session has started. |
PwC and Piwik |
|
stg_returning_visitor |
Third |
365 days |
Indicates whether the visitor has been to your site before – they are a returning visitor. |
PwC and Piwik |
|
stg_fired__<conditionID> |
Third |
Until the session ends |
The timestamp of when the tag was fired. |
PwC and Piwik |
|
stg_externalReferrer |
Third |
Until the session ends |
Stores the URL of the site that referred the visitor to your site. |
PwC and Piwik |
|
_stg_optout |
Third |
365 days |
Helps to turn off all tracking tags on your site |
PwC and Piwik |
Managing cookies on your device
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Using your browser to control cookies
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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 here.