- What are web beacons?
- What is a cookie?
- What types of cookies do we use?
- How to control or delete cookies
- Cookies that have been set in the past
- Changes to this Cookie policy
Last updated: 26 February 2024
This website “ey.com” and the My EY portal (jointly or separately referred to as ‘the website’) use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, and other web technologies such as CAPTCHA’s to improve the website’s performance, to enhance your browsing experience and to protect the website against spam robots. Certain areas of the website also use cookies to understand more about you, so we can offer you more personalized browsing experience. We use a simple counter, without storing any information on your device, to count the number of visitors who accept or decline our cookies.
You can find out more about cookies and how to manage them in the information below. You can change your cookie settings and disable some or all cookies for the website at any time by clicking on the ‘Customize cookies’ button below. You can also change your browser settings so that cookies cannot be placed on your device.
If you have any questions in relation to the cookies we use please contact us. Customize cookies
What are web beacons?
EY occasionally advertises on third-party web sites. As part of our effort to track the success of our advertising campaigns, we may at times use a visitor identification technology such as “web beacons”, or “action tags”, which count visitors who have come to the website after being exposed to an EY banner ad on a third-party site. We do not use this technology to access your personal information and it is only used to compile aggregated statistics about visitors who come to the website to gauge the effectiveness of our ads.
What is a cookie?
A “cookie” is a technology that allows the website to store tokens of information (an “identifier”) in your browser used by the website while you are on the website. Cookies are then sent back to the website on each subsequent visit, or to another webpage that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are used in order to make the website work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited the website before or whether you are a new visitor. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
When landing on the website, you have been given the opportunity to accept cookies used on the website, to accept certain categories of cookies and decline others, or to decline all cookies. If you have accepted our use of some or all cookies, the following information relates to cookies used on the website only. Please note that any consent to accept or to decline cookies is limited to the ey.com website and the My EY portal only and not to other local EY sites or any other pages, which may be hyperlinked to our website or portal. For more information on cookies used by those websites, please refer to the specific privacy notice or cookie policy on those websites. If you have any questions please contact us.
There are two broad categories of cookies:
- First party cookies, served directly by us to your device.
- Third-party cookies, which are served by a third party on our behalf.
Cookies can remain on your computer or mobile device for different periods of time. Some cookies are “session cookies”, meaning that they exist only while your browser is open. These are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Other cookies are “permanent cookies”, meaning that they survive after your browser is closed. They can be used by the website to recognize your computer when you open your browser and browse the Internet again.
What types of cookies do we use?
The website uses the cookies that perform four functions, as classified below:
- Essential/strictly necessary cookies, which are essential to the functioning of the website;
- Performance cookies, which help us measure the website’s performance and improve your experience. In using performance cookies we do not store any personal data, and only use the information collected through these cookies in aggregated and anonymised form;
- Functional cookies, which allow us to enhance your experience (for example by remembering any settings you may have selected); and
- Marketing/targeting cookies, which we use to track user activity and sessions so that we can deliver a more personalized service. Marketing cookies are set by third parties with whom we execute marketing campaigns and allow us to provide marketing relevant to you. If you identify yourself to us (e.g. filling out a form/signing up to receive email updates), EY collects information about your response to our marketing communications and your activity on this website. This information is added to your personal marketing profile and score which is used to measure campaign effectiveness and to provide content and offer services that are relevant for you.
In addition, we also utilise cookies on certain pages of the website to communicate with third party data suppliers in order to extrapolate your digital behaviour. This help us to understand and target more relevant advertising in the future. The information we receive is all aggregated and anonymous, but will include statistics such as demographics, online behaviour, product interests and lifestyle. Targeting and tracking cookies are provided via trusted third party suppliers. Should you require more information regarding our suppliers and how these cookies operate please contact us.
The website deploys the following cookies:
Required/Mandatory Cookies
| Name of Cookie | Cookie Provider | Duration of Cookie | Type of Cookie | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASP.NET_SessionId | globaltaxnews.ey.com | Session | First Party | The ASP.NET_SessionId cookie stores a session ID which is a randomly generated unique ID that the server creates and associates with a session. In a session, a variable called “session variable” can or will be created to store data in a key/value format, similar to cookies. |
| UserPreferences | globaltaxnews.ey.com | 757 Days | First Party | This cookie saves user preferences on the website. Used to track usage of the embedded video player. |
| BIGipServerPOOL-134.213.193.62-MUNCHKIN-80 | 520-rxp-003.mktoresp.com | 364 Days | First Party | This Javascript allows us to track the end-user page visits to our landing pages and monitor the clicks to external web pages. This enables marketers to send triggered messages to those anonymous visitors based on their clicks, IP addresses, and other information. |
| affinity | assets-ey.eyqa.ey.com | Session | First Party | Allows for a visitor to navigate back and forth between pages without losing their previous actions during the session. |
| __cf_bm | info.ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. |
| wirewax-user | wirewax.com | 729 Days | First Party | Used to track usage of the embedded video player. |
| JSESSIONID | www.linkedin.com | Session | First Party | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. |
| cookiesToRemove | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Used to list cookies which should be removed. |
| cf_use_ob | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | This cookie is associated with sites using CloudFlare. It is used to improve page load times and to override any security restrictions based on the visitors IP address. It does not contain any user identification information. |
| acceptedCookiePolicies | ey.com | 179 Days | First Party | The cookie consists of policy checksums on country sites a visitor has given a consent. |
| ARRAffinity | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Used to aid people who need to stay with a certain instance of web app or web site in Azure. Helps in Identifying which Power BI cluster will receive and service the request sent by website when loading embedded content. |
| DNTState | ey.com | 364 Days | First Party | Used to determine visitor’s Do Not Track settings. |
| cookiePolicy | ey.com | 179 Days | First Party | Used to determine visitor’s cookie consent. It can carry on either consent for all cookies or for selected cookie categories. |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | ey.com | 179 Days | First Party | 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. |
| cf_ob_info | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | This cookie is associated with sites using CloudFlare. It is used to improve page load times and to override any security restrictions based on the visitors IP address. It does not contain any user identification information. |
| OptanonConsent | ey.com | 179 Days | First Party | 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. |
| test | ey.com | 364 Days | First Party | This cookie is associated with Adobe Analytics. It checks to see if cookies are enabled. |
| TEST_AMCV_COOKIE_WRITE | ey.com | Session | First Party | Identifies the same visitor across different Marketing Cloud Solution. |
| XSRF-TOKEN | www.ey.com | 364 Days | First Party | This cookie generates a temporary token when a user visits the website, which is necessary for submitting contact forms securely. It serves as a protective measure against cross-site scripting (XSS), a common security threat that can compromise user data. |
| __cfruid | eyusmt.zendesk.com | Session | Third Party | Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to identify trusted web traffic. |
| BIGipServerx | 520-rxp-003.mktoresp.com | Session | Third Party | This cookie name is associated with the BIG-IP product suite from company F5. Usually associated with managing sessions on load balanced servers, to ensure user requests are routed consistently to the correct server. The common root is BIGipServer most commonly followed by a domain name, usually the one that it is hosted on, but not always. |
| B | EY | 13 Months | Third Party | A cookie used to collect user identifiers. |
| OptanonConsent | EY | 364 Days | Third Party | 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. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | EY | 364 Days | Third Party | 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 contains no personal information. |
Functional Cookies
| Name of Cookie | Cookie Provider | Duration of Cookie | Type of Cookie | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARRAffinitySameSite | USEQPATSCEWAP03.azurewebsites.net | Session | First Party | This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. |
| __Host-3PLSID | accounts.google.com | 366 Days | First Party | Google cookie used for personalization and secure authentication, and ad targeting |
| __Host-1PLSID | accounts.google.com | 261 Days | First Party | Google cookie used for personalization and secure authentication, and ad targeting. |
| BaseCountry | ey.com | 1 Day | First Party | Geolocalization of the visitor. |
| lang | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Session-based cookie used for Sign-in with Linkedin and/or for Linkedin follow feature. |
| SiteSwitchChange | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Used to inform the visitor; if the language change has just been made by Site Switcher from the menu. |
| Org | ey.com | 180 Days | First Party | Organization the user belongs to. |
| Country | ey.com | 180 Days | First Party | An EY country website selected by the user. |
| SiteSwitchStart | ey.com | 180 Days | First Party | Used to inform the visitor has once used Site Switcher from the menu. |
| SiteSwitch | ey.com | 180 Days | First Party | Used to inform the visitor which site they are on when landing on a site for the first time. |
| recentSearches | ey.com | 12 Days | First Party | Website uses this information to present user’s recent searches in the search box. |
| Local | ey.com | 180 Days | First Party | A language for the selected country. |
| LocationSelector | ey.com | 180 Days | First Party | A flag which indicates if location selector has been used. |
| WFESessionId | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Used for telemetry, it collects session information that is normally used for troubleshooting in case of issues. |
| mbox | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Used by Adobe Target to generate dynamic content in a marketing box on the page. Contains the following values: PC ID – ID for visitor’s browser. Removed when cookie deleted. Session ID – A unique ID for a user session. Check – checks if cookies are supported. Set on each page load. |
| at_check | ey.com | Session | First Party | Used to determine if a visitor supports cookies. Set each time a visitor requests a page. |
| bc_cc | ey.com | 180 Days | First Party | Used to store and set the visitor’s subtitles and language settings for video. |
| ACCOUNT_CHOOSER | accounts.google.com | 364 Days | Third Party | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| LSID | accounts.google.com | 261 Days | Third Party | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| __Host-GAPS | accounts.google.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This Cookie allows the website to identify a user and provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. |
| _zendesk_shared_session | p29.zdusercontent.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This cookie holds session information for sharing across Zendesk applications. |
| _zendesk_authenticated | p29.zdusercontent.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This cookie is used to store a binary variable determining whether a user has been authenticated. |
| lidc | A few seconds | Third Party | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website. |
Marketing/Targeting Cookies
| Name of Cookie | Cookie Provider | Duration of Cookie | Type of Cookie | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OTZ | accounts.google.com | Session | First Party | This cookie is set to collect information on user behavior and navigation which is used to optimize the website. The cookie also allows Google Ads and Google Analytics to compile information on visitors for marketing purposes. |
| RSMKTO1 | info.ey.com | Session | First Party | These encrypted cookies provide load balancing. |
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net | A few seconds | First Party | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor’s browser supports cookies. |
| IDE | doubleclick.net | A few seconds | First Party | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange |
| li_gc | linkedin.com | 179 Days | First Party | Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes. |
| AA | ey.com | 5 Years | First Party | Contains numeric identifier that is used for proprietary data onboarding solution with Dun & Bradstreet. |
| tfpsi | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Registers user behaviour and navigation on the website, and any interaction with active campaigns. This is used for optimizing advertisement and for efficient retargeting. |
| AMCV_ | ey.com | 729 Days | First Party | 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. |
| _gcl_au | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services |
| AMCVS_ | ey.com | Session | First Party | This is a pattern type cookie name associated with Adobe Marketing Cloud. It stores a unique visitor identifier, and uses an organisation identifier. |
| rlas3 | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Contains encrypted unique identifier that is used for proprietary data onboarding solution with Dun & Bradstreet. |
| fr | ey.com | 90 Days | First Party | This cookie is used to provide you with more relevant advertising across Facebook. |
| AMCVS_xxxxxAdobeOrg | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | 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.This is a pattern type cookie name associated with Adobe Marketing Cloud. It stores a unique visitor identifier, and uses an organisation identifier. |
| pxrc | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Contains unique identifier for recency tracking that is used for proprietary data onboarding solution with Dun & Bradstreet. |
| RUL | ey.com | 1 Year | First Party | DoubleClick uses cookies to improve advertising. Some common applications are to target advertising based on what’s relevant to a user, to improve reporting on campaign performance, and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen. |
| _fbp | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | This cookie is used to provide you with more relevant advertising across Facebook. |
| UUID | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Contains encrypted unique identifier that is used for proprietary data onboarding solution with Dun & Bradstreet. |
| AMCV_xxxxxAdobeOrg | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor for tracking purposes by Adobe Experience Cloud.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. |
| _uetsid | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. |
| MUIDB | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the website. |
| BizoID | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Used by LinkedIn Insight Tag to enable in-depth campaign reporting and discover new business demographics by layering LinkedIn data to website visitors data. |
| sa-user-id-v2 | ey.com | 1 Year | First Party | Random Identifier for user identification (newer version of ID). |
| A3 | ey.com | 13 Months | First Party | A cookie used to collect user identifiers. |
| _gcl_dc | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Used through Google Campaign Manager and DV 360 to understand how users engage interaction with the website and advertainments. It helps in understanding user behavior and interaction patterns with the site’s content and associated marketing campaigns. |
| LinkedIn Insight Tag | ey.com | 180 Days | First Party | This cookie facilitates comprehensive analysis of marketing campaign performance by integrating LinkedIn insights with data from website visitors. It allows for the monitoring of a wide range of campaign metrics, such as user engagement, in relation to LinkedIn data. Additionally, it enables comparison of these metrics with data from visitors who have not been exposed to LinkedIn advertisements. The cookie collects anonymized Business Demographic profile information, ensuring that no personally identifiable information is stored. |
| TUUID | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Used for analytics and advertising services provided by Demandbase. |
| tt_viewer | ey.com | 1 Year | First Party | Used to track the number of visitors coming to EY.com via the Teads display ads. It also enables remarketing, analysis and reporting of EY’s advertising campaigns by matching EY.com visitors anonymously to their Teads ID. |
| lissc | ey.com | 365 Days | First Party | Used to ensure there is correct SameSite attribute for all cookies in that browser. |
| sa-user-id | ey.com | 1 Year | First Party | Random Identifier for user identification. |
| AB | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Contains encrypted unique identifier that is used for proprietary data onboarding solution with Dun & Bradstreet. |
| auth_token | ey.com | 2 Years | First Party | Used when a user logs in to the twitter.com website. |
| ar_debug | Doubleclick | A few seconds | Third Party | The purpose of the “ar_debug” cookie is to aid in the debugging and troubleshooting of ads served by DoubleClick, which is a subsidiary of Google that provides ad management and ad serving technology. |
| test_cookie | Doubleclick | A few seconds | Third Party | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor’s browser supports cookies. |
| receive-cookie-deprecation | Doubleclick | 179 Days | Third Party | These cookies are used to deliver adverts relevant to your interests. They also limit how often you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. Advertising networks place them with the website operator’s permission. These cookies remember your visits to websites, and this information is shared with other organizations we collaborate with, such as advertisers. Targeting or advertising cookies are linked to site functionality provided by these other organizations. |
| INGRESSCOOKIE | bh.contextweb.com | A few seconds | Third Party | Used to manage the user session and ensure a consistent and secure navigation on the website. |
| demdex | demdex.net | 179 Days | Third Party | The demdex cookie contains the demdex ID, which is generated by the DCS. |
| i | openx.net | A few seconds | Third Party | This cookie by OpenX is typically used for online advertising and targeting. OpenX is an ad exchange platform that facilitates real-time bidding for ad space across websites. The cookie is often associated with tracking user behavior and interests to deliver targeted advertisements. |
| XANDR_PANID | adnxs.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This cookie registers data of the visitor. The information is used to optimize advertisement relevance. |
| anj | adnxs.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This domain is owned by AppNexus Inc. The company provides a range of online advertising technology and services. |
| uuid2 | adnxs.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This domain is owned by AppNexus Inc. The company provides a range of online advertising technology and services. |
| APISID | google.com | 366 Days | Third Party | This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. |
| HSID | google.com | 366 Days | Third Party | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests and show relevant ads on other sites. |
| SID | google.com | 366 Days | Third Party | This is a very common cookie name but where it is found as a session cookie it is likely to be used as for session state management. |
| __Secure-xxxxxxx | google.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalized Google advertising. |
| SAPISID | google.com | 366 Days | Third Party | This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. |
| NID | google.com | Session | Third Party | This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer’s adverts appear. |
| SIDCC | google.com | 366 Days | Third Party | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| SSID | google.com | 366 Days | Third Party | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| anProfile | pro-market.net | A few seconds | Third Party | This domain is owned by Datonics, Used to personalise online ads based on past actions of Datonics’ online customers. |
| MUID | bing.com | 389 Days | Third Party | This cookie is widely used my Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking. |
| MSPTC | bing.com | 389 Days | Third Party | This domain is owned by Microsoft – it is the site for the search engine Bing. |
| muc_ads | t.co | 399 Days | Third Party | Collects data on user behaviour and interaction in order to optimize the website and make advertisement on the website more relevant. |
| dpm | dpm.demdex.net | 179 Days | Third Party | Adobe Audience Manager – data management platform uses this cookie to record information around synchronisation of IDs. |
| pb_rtb_ev_part | contextweb.com | A few seconds | Third Party | Used to track participation in events in real time to improve performance analysis. |
| VP | contextweb.com | A few seconds | Third Party | Used to track users’ preferences to improve the personalization of the site’s content. |
| sa-user-id-v3 | srv.stackadapt.com | A few seconds | Third Party | The cookie is owned by StackAdapt, a platform for programmatic advertising. It collects data on users across websites, which is used to make advertisements more relevant. |
| tluidp | 3lift.com | A few seconds | Third Party | The cookie is a partitioned version of the TLUID cookie. It is used to identify web browsers on a top-level domain over time for ad serving purposes in situations where third party cookies are disabled. |
| tluid | 3lift.com | A few seconds | Third Party | The cookie is used to identify web browsers across sites and over time for ad serving purposes |
| CMPRO | casalemedia.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This domain is owned by Casale Media. The main business activity is: Advertising |
| CMPS | casalemedia.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This domain is owned by Casale Media. The main business activity is: Advertising |
| CMID | casalemedia.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This domain is owned by Casale Media. The main business activity is: Advertising |
| csync | smartadserver.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This domain is owned by Smart Ad Server. The main business activity is: Advertising |
| pid | smartadserver.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This domain is owned by Smart Ad Server. The main business activity is: Advertising |
| TestIfCookieP | smartadserver.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This domain is owned by Smart Ad Server. The main business activity is: Advertising |
| ssi | sitescout.com | 364 Days | Third Party | This domain is owned by Sitescout. This cookie registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. |
| _ssuma | sitescout.com | 30 Days | Third Party | Presents the user with relevant content and advertisement. The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. |
| OSID | myaccount.google.com | 366 Days | Third Party | Advertising cookie by google |
| guest_id | 399 Days | Third Party | This cookie is set by X.com to identify and track the website visitor. | |
| personalization_id | A few seconds | Third Party | This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting. | |
| guest_id_marketing | A few seconds | Third Party | This cookie is for advertising when logged out | |
| guest_id_ads | A few seconds | Third Party | Used by Twitter to assign a unique id to guest users of their content for the purposes of marketing. | |
| UserMatchHistory | 29 Days | Third Party | 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. | |
| bcookie | 364 Days | Third Party | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media. | |
| li_sugr | A few seconds | Third Party | 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. | |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | 29 Days | Third Party | 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. | |
| TapAd_DID | tapad.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| TapAd_3WAY_SYNCS | tapad.com | 59 Days | Third Party | TapAd sets this cookie for data synchronization with advertising networks. |
| TapAd_TS | tapad.com | 59 Days | Third Party | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| _ljtrtb_16 | lijit.com | A few seconds | Third Party | Lijit Advertising Platform sets this cookie temporarily, when multiple partners pass their IDs to the platform simultaneously. To avoid conflicts, each partner’s ID is stored using separate cookies, which are merged to the ljtrtb cookie when it is available. |
| ljt_reader | lijit.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This domain is owned by Federated Media Publishing. The main business activity is: Advertising |
Performance Cookies
| Name of Cookie | Cookie Provider | Duration of Cookie | Type of Cookie | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _gid | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Used to distinguish users. |
| s_sq | ey.com | Session | First Party | This cookie is set and read by the JavaScript code when the ClickMap functionality and the Activity Map functionality are enabled; it contains information about the previous link that was clicked on by the user. |
| intEmailHistoryId | ey.com | 1 Year | First Party | Used to identify a unique visitor as they click onto the site from a newsletter to which they have subscribed with articles from the site. The cookie records the pages visited on the site and time spent on the page. |
| s_ecid | ey.com | 399 Days | First Party | The s_ecid cookie contains a copy of the Experience Cloud ID (ECID) or MID. The MID is stored in a key-value pair that follows this syntax, s_ecid=MCMID. |
| s_cc | ey.com | Session | First Party | This cookie is set and read by the JavaScript code to determine if cookies are enabled (simply set to “True”). |
| _ga | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | 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 customizable by website owners. |
| _uetvid | ey.com | 389 Days | First Party | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. |
| U | ey.com | 90 Days | First Party | Used by LinkedIn Insight Tag for Browser Identifier. |
| _bc_uuid | ey.com | 15 Years | First Party | Unique identifier of the visitor. |
| D41ID | ey.com | 1 Year | First Party | Contains a GUID that uniquely identifies that individual in our cloud-based cache. |
| wirewax-player-impressions | ey.com | 2 Years | First Party | Latest videos played on the page. |
| BizoNetworkPartnerIndex | ey.com | 180 Days | First Party | Used by LinkedIn Insight Tag to enable in-depth campaign reporting and discover new business demographics by layering LinkedIn data to website visitors data. |
| BizoUserMatchHistory | ey.com | 180 Days | First Party | Used by LinkedIn Insight Tag to enable in-depth campaign reporting and discover new business demographics by layering LinkedIn data to website visitors data. |
| _gclxxxx | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Google conversion tracking cookie. |
| BizoData | ey.com | 180 Days | First Party | Used by LinkedIn Insight Tag to enable in-depth campaign reporting and discover new business demographics by layering LinkedIn data to website visitors data. |
| mp_####_mixpanel | ey.com | 360 Days | First Party | Identify who user is for tracking purposes. |
| s_dfa | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Used to restrict DoubleClick for Advertisers calls to once per visit. |
| _mkto_trk | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | This tracks visitor behaviour on the sites on which the cookie is installed and to link a visitor to the recipient of an email marketing campaign, to measure campaign effectiveness. Tracking is performed anonymously until a user identifies himself by submitting a form. |
| optimizelyEndUserId | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | Cookie set by the Optimizely website optimisation platform. This cookie is a unique user identifier. |
| IUUID | ey.com | 2 Years | First Party | Used for performance and optimization of Demandbase data and reporting. |
| TEST_AMCV_COOKIE | ey.com | 399 Days | First Party | Adobe Analytics site tracking. |
| MR | ey.com | A few seconds | First Party | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie which we use to measure the use of the website for internal analytics. |
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