Last updated: July 2022
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We use three categories of cookies on our site.
Strictly necessary |
These cookies are necessary for the website to operate. Our website cannot function without these cookies and they can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences. | |
Performance | 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 Adobe and Google to help us analyse the data. | |
Advertising | These cookies help us provide you with personalised and relevant services or advertising, and track the effectiveness of our digital marketing activities. Read our privacy policy for more information. |
The following tables list the cookies we use on this website.
Type | First or third party | Name | Description |
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Strictly necessary |
First party |
ak_bmsc |
This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots. |
Strictly necessary |
First party |
bm_sv |
This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots. |
Strictly necessary |
First party |
check |
This cookie is set to make split-tests on the website, which optimises the website's relevance towards the visitor – the cookie can also be set to improve the visitor's experience on a website. |
Strictly necessary |
First party |
JSESSIONID |
General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. |
Strictly necessary |
First party |
OptanonAlertBoxClosed |
This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. |
Strictly necessary |
First party |
OptanonConsent |
This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. |
Type | First or third party | Name | Description |
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Performance |
First party |
_gclxxxx |
This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. |
Performance |
First party |
_ga |
Identifies a new user's first session on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar's seeing this user for the first time. |
Performance |
First party |
_gat_UA- |
This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. |
Performance |
First party |
_gid |
This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. |
Performance |
First party |
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress |
A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. |
Performance |
First party |
_hjFirstSeen |
Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
Performance |
First party |
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample |
When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. |
Performance |
First party |
_hjIncludedInSessionSample |
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. |
Performance |
First party |
_hjSession_xxxxxx |
This is a pattern type cookie name associated with Adobe Marketing Cloud. It stores a unique visitor identifier, and uses an organisation identifier. |
Performance |
First party |
_hjSessionUser_xxxxxx |
YouTube: Only loads YouTube cookies for embedded videos on pwc.ie if the user clicks 'play' on a video. |
Performance |
First party |
_hjTLDTest |
This cookie helps Adobe Audience Manger perform basic functions such as visitor identification, ID synchronization, segmentation, modeling, reporting, etc. |
Performance |
First party |
AMCV_ |
This domain is owned by Adobe - Audience Manager. The main business activity is: Online profiling for targeted marketing |
Performance |
First party |
AMCVS_ |
This domain is owned by Adobe Audience Manager. The main business activity is online profiling for targeted marketing. |
Performance |
Third party |
CONSENT |
This domain is owned by Adobe. The main business activity is: Advertising |
Performance |
Third party |
demdex |
This domain is owned by Adobe. The main business activity is: Advertising |
Performance |
Third party |
dextp |
This domain is owned by Adobe. The main business activity is: Advertising |
Performance |
Third party |
dpm |
Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, stores date of visit and if visitor is new or returning |
Performance |
Third party |
ev_sync_dd |
This cookie is set by Adobe Analytics to store the quantity of pages the end user views when visiting websites. |
Performance |
Third party |
everest_g_v2 |
Cookie set by Adobe SiteCatalyst analytics software - used for measuring the performance of page content using A/B split testing |
Performance |
Third party |
everest_session_v2 |
Adobe Target: This cookie is set in order to make split-tests on the website, which optimises the website's relevance towards the visitor. The cookie functions by making smaller alterations on the website and measuring the results. |
Performance |
First party |
s_nr |
Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, determines whether cookies are enabled in the browser |
Performance |
First party |
gpv |
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. |
Performance |
First party |
mbox |
Adobe Site Catalyst cookie. |
Performance |
Third party |
pwc!mboxSession |
This cookie is set by Adobe Analytics to store information on the percentage of the page displayed to the end user. |
Performance |
First party |
s_cc |
Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, stores information about the previous link clicked within the site |
Performance |
First party |
s_fid |
|
Performance |
First party |
s_ppv |
Adobe Analytics site tracking. |
Performance |
First party |
s_ppvl |
This cookie is set by Adobe Analytics to store information on the percentage of the page displayed to the end user. |
Performance |
First party |
s_sq |
Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, stores information about the previous link clicked within the site |
Performance |
Third party |
s_vi |
|
Performance |
First party |
test |
Adobe Analytics site tracking. |
Type | First or third party | Name | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Advertising |
First party |
_fbp |
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
Advertising |
Third party |
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. |
Advertising |
Third party |
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. |
Advertising |
Third party |
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. |
Advertising |
Third party |
IDE |
This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange |
Advertising |
Third party |
lang |
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. |
Advertising |
Third party |
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. |
Advertising |
Third party |
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. |
Advertising |
Third party |
test_cookie |
This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange |
Advertising |
Third party |
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. |
Advertising |
Third party |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos |
Advertising |
Third party |
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. |
Advertising |
Third party |
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. |
Advertising |
First party |
kms_ctamuls |
|
Advertising |
Third party |
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. |
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