Cookie Policy

Updated March 2022

This cookie information is relevant for visitors to the PwC Alumni Network. For more information about how we process your personal information collected through the PwC Alumni Network, please visit our PwC Alumni Network privacy statement.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device by the websites and applications that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites and apps work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site or app. The use of cookies and similar technologies is now standard for most websites and apps. 

Managing cookies on your device

You can control and manage cookies using your browser settings as well as certain opt-out tools (see below). Please note that if you are accessing this PwC Alumni Network using multiple browsers or devices, you will need to manage cookies on each browser and device, as applicable. Please also note that removing or blocking cookies can impact your user experience and some functionality may no longer be available.

Using your browser to control cookies

Most browsers allow you to view, manage, delete and block cookies for a website or application. Be aware that if you delete all cookies then any preferences you have set will be lost, including the ability to opt-out from cookies as this function itself requires placement of an opt out cookie on your device. Guidance on how to control cookies for common browsers is linked below.

Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox

MacOS Safari

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Microsoft Edge

Opt-out tools to control cookies

Some of the third parties that collect information from or about you on PwC sites or apps may participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (“DAA”) self-regulatory program. To make choices about the use of information from or about you for online behavioral or interest-based advertising on websites (desktop and mobile browsers), please visit the DAA, and within mobile applications, you can download the DAA’s AppChoices application from your mobile device at www.aboutads.info/appchoices or from your device’s app store.

You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the PwC Alumni Network may no longer work.

Use of cookies 

Below is a detailed list of the cookies we use on the PwC Alumni Network. We classify the use of cookies into the following categories: (1) required; (2) performance and functionality; and (3) targeting. You can find more information about each category in the relevant sections below. For each cookie listed below, we also note the duration of the cookie and identify whether it is a first party or third party cookie. Please note:

‘First party’ cookies are directly stored by the website (or domain) you visit. These cookies allow website owners to collect analytics data, remember language settings, and perform other useful functions that provide a good user experience.

‘Third party’ cookies are created by domains that are not the website (or domain) that you are visiting. These are usually used for analytics and/or online-advertising purposes and placed on a website through scripts or tags. A third-party cookie is accessible on any website that loads the third party server’s code.

Necessary cookies

These cookies are necessary for the PwC Alumni Network to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. 

You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the PwC Alumni Network may no longer work.

Performance and functionality cookies 

These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of the PwC Alumni Network but are non-essential to its use. For example, these cookies may allow us to collect PwC Alumni Network performance and error data, enable customer support for users, and enable localized dates/times. They may be set by us or by our third-party providers, including JSESSIONID, NID, whose services we have added to the PwC Alumni Network.

If you do not allow these cookies, we will not be able to monitor the performance of the PwC Alumni Network and certain functionality may become unavailable.

Targeting cookies 

These cookies allow us to deliver a more personalized service and provide advertisements to you on other sites based on relevant topics that may interest you. They may be set by us or by our third-party providers, whose services we have added to the PwC Alumni Network and with whom we may execute advertising campaigns.

If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.