Cookie settings
Please provide your consent for cookie usage on ey.com and the My EY platform. Select one or more of the cookie types listed below, and then save your selection(s). Refer to the listing below for details on the types of cookies and their purpose.
Functionality cookies, which allow us to enhance your experience (for example by remembering any settings you may have selected).
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.
Advertising/targeting cookies, which we use to track user activity and sessions so that we can deliver a more personalized service, and (in the case of advertising cookies) which are set by the third parties with whom we execute advertising campaigns and allow us to provide advertisements relevant to you.
Social media cookies, which allow you to share content on social media channels, such as Facebook and Twitter.
Required/Mandatory cookies
Mandatory cookies are required for proper functioning of the website. Those cookies helps us to ensure security. Mandatory cookies do not contain any user data.
| Name of cookie | Cookie provider | Purpose of cookie | Type of cookie | Duration of cookie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XSRF-TOKEN | EY | A temporary token obtained on the website that enables the user to submit a contact form and prevents cross-site scripting which is a security vulnerability. | First party | Session |
| cookieGroupChecksum | EY | Used to check if cookie groups have changed since the user has given consent. | First party | 3 months if consent given for selected cookie categories, 1 year if consent given for all |
| cookiePolicy | EY | Used to determine visitor's cookie consents. It can carry on either consent for all cookies or for selected cookie categories. | First party | 3 months if consent given for selected cookie categories, 1 year if consent given for all |
| cookiePolicyChecksum | EY | Used to check if cookie policy has changed since the user has accepted cookie policy. | First party | 3 months if consent given for selected cookie categories, 1 year if consent given for all |
| cookieToRemove | EY | Used to list cookies which should be removed. | First party | 1 minute |
| NID | These cookies allow our websites to remember information that changes the way the site behaves or looks, such as your preferred language or the region you are in. | Third party | 180 days |
Functional cookies
Functional cookies help us to remember your settings which you may have selected, or assist with other functionality when you browse and use the website. Thishelps us to remember what you have selected, so that on your return visit we remember your preferences.
| Name of cookie | Cookie provider | Purpose of cookie | Type of cookie | Duration of cookie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| eyup_#### | EY | A cookie used to remember that upvote was performed by the visitor on the given page. Name of the cookie equals to the name of page upvote was clicked. | First party | 1 year |
| BaseCountry | EY | Country the existing user belongs to. Geolocalization of the visitor. | First party | 1 day |
| Country | EY | An EY country website selected by the user. | First party | 180 days |
| Locale | EY | A language for the selected country. | First party | 180 days |
| LocationSelector | EY | A flag which indicates if location selector has been used. | First party | 180 days |
| Org | EY | Organization the existing user belongs to. | First party | 180 days |
| recentSearches | EY | Recent searches of the user. Website uses this information to present user's recent searches in the search box. | First party | 12 days |
| SiteSwitch | EY | Used to inform the visitor which site they are on when landing on a site for the first time. | First Party | 180 days |
| SiteSwitchStart | EY | Used to inform the visitor has once used Site Switcher from the menu | First Party | 180 days |
| SiteSwitchChange | EY | Used to inform the visitor, if the language change has just been made by Site Switcher from the menu | First Party | 1 minute |
Performance cookies
Performance cookies help us with the performance and design of this website and allow us to optimize your experience based on the use of the website by our visitors. While measuring the performance we do not store any Personal Identifiable Information about our visitors.
| Name of cookie | Cookie provider | Purpose of cookie | Type of cookie | Duration of cookie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMCV_####@AdobeOrg | Adobe Analytics | Identifies the same visitor across different Marketing Cloud Solution. | First party | 2 years |
| AMCVS_####@AdobeOrg | Adobe Analytics | Cookie used to detect new sessions for getting the visitor ID cookie AMCV_###@AdobeOrg. The value is a 0 or 1. | First party | 1 year |
| demdex | Adobe Analytics | The demdex cookie contains the demdex ID, which is generated by the DCS. | Third party | 180 days |
| s_cc | Adobe Analytics | This cookie is set and read by the JavaScript code to determine if cookies are enabled (simply set to "True"). | First party | Session |
| s_sq | Adobe Analytics | 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. | First party | Session |
| _gid | BrightCove | Used to distinguish users. | Third party | 1 day |
| _ga | BrightCove | Used to store the Client ID for tracking purposes. | Third party | 2 years |
| _bc_uuid | BrightCove | Unique identifier of the visitor. | Third party | 15 years |
| IUUID | Demandbase | Used for performance and optimization of Demandbase data and reporting. | Third party persistent | 2 years |
| TUUID | Demandbase | Used for analytics and advertising services provided by Demandbase. | Third party persistent | 2 years |
| D41ID | Dun & Bradstreet | Contains a GUID that uniquely identifies that individual in our cloud-based cache. | Third party persistent | 1 year |
| D41IDT | Dun & Bradstreet | Contains a “transaction ID” that is used to group all events originating from a single pixel fire event. | Third party session | Session |
| intEmailHistoryId | Vuture | 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. | Third party | 1 year |
| wirewax-player-impressions | Wirewax Player | Latest videos played on the page. | First party | 2 years |
| _ga | Wirewax Player | Used to store the Client ID for tracking purposes. | Third party | 2 years |
| optimizelyEndUserId | Wirewax Player | Stores unique optimizely identifier. It's a combination of a timestamp and random number. No other information about visitor is stored inside. | Third party | 10 years |
| mp_####_mixpanel | Wirewax Player | Identify who user is for tracking purposes. | Third party | 1 year |
| mp_####_mixpanel | Wirewax Player | Identify who user is for tracking purposes. | Third party | 1 year |
| BizoID | Used by LinkedIn Insight Tag to enable in-depth campaign reporting and discover new business demographics by layering LinkedIn data to website visitors data | Third party |
180 days | |
| BizoData | Used by LinkedIn Insight Tag to enable in-depth campaign reporting and discover new business demographics by layering LinkedIn data to website visitors data | Third party |
180 days | |
| BizoUserMatchHistory | Used by LinkedIn Insight Tag to enable in-depth campaign reporting and discover new business demographics by layering LinkedIn data to website visitors data | Third party |
180 days | |
| BizoNetworkPartnerIndex | Used by LinkedIn Insight Tag to enable in-depth campaign reporting and discover new business demographics by layering LinkedIn data to website visitors data | Third party |
180 days | |
| UserMatchHistory | Used by LinkedIn Insight Tag to enable in-depth campaign reporting and discover new business demographics by layering LinkedIn data to website visitors data | Third party |
30 days | |
| U | Used by LinkedIn Insight Tag for Browser Identifier | Third party |
90 days | |
| li_sugr | Used by LinkedIn Insight Tag for Browser Identifier | Third party |
90 days | |
| mbox | Adobe Target | A cookie used to keeps a number of values (session ID, pc ID, check and disable) to manage how visitors experience Target campaigns | First party | 2 years |
Advertising/Targeting cookies
We use cookies to track user activity and sessions, which helps us to understand your interests as you browse the content on the website, so we can tailor and deliver to you a more personalized service in the future. In addition, some tracking cookies allows us to understand more information about you.
| Name of cookie | Cookie provider | Purpose of cookie | Type of cookie | Duration of cookie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| id | Doubleclick | 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. | Third party | 2 years |
| _mkto_trk | Marketo | This allows a website to track 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. | First party | 2 years |
| NID | Microsoft Bing Ads | Helps advertisers determine how many times people who click on their ads end up purchasing their products or services across devices. | Third party | 30 days |
| MR | Microsoft Bing Ads | Analytics cookie that's used to pass user action information to the Bing advertising network. | Third party | 180 days |
| MUID | Microsoft Bing Ads | Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. This bing.com cookie enables tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains. | Third party | 390 days |
| MUIDB | Microsoft Bing Ads | This cookie registers data about you from multiple visits and on multiple websites. This information is used to measure the efficiency of advertisement on websites. | Third party | 390 days |
| _fbp | This cookie is used to provide you with more relevant advertising across Facebook. | First party | 90 days | |
| fr | This cookie is used to provide you with more relevant advertising across Facebook. | Third party | 90 days | |
| _gcl_au | Used as a conversion linker tag in web and AMP containers that can be configured to link across domains for cases where you have the landing pages and conversion pages on multiple domains for Google Adsense | First party | Impressions - 14 days; Clicks - 30 days | |
| _gcl_dc | Used as a conversion linker tag in web and AMP containers that can be configured to link across domains for cases where you have the landing pages and conversion pages on multiple domains for Google Campaign Manager | First party | Impressions - 14 days; Clicks - 30 days | |
| IDE | Advertising cookie on non-Google sites. | First party | Impressions - 14 days; Clicks - 30 days | |
| sa-user-id | StackAdapt | Random Identifier for user identification | Third party | 1 year |
| sa-user-id-v2 | StackAdapt | Random Identifier for user identification (newer version of ID) | Third party | 1 year |
Social media cookies
We use social media cookies to allow you to share content from this site with social media channels of your choice.
| Name of cookie | Cookie provider | Purpose of cookie | Type of cookie | Duration of cookie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lang | Session-based cookie used for Sign-in with Linkedin and/or for Linkedin follow feature | Third party | Session | |
| bscookie | Secure Browser Cookie | Third party |
2 years | |
| bcookie | Cookie used for Sign-in with LinkedIn and/or for LinkedIn follow feature | Third party |
2 years | |
| lidc | Cookie used for Sign-in with Linkedin and/or for Linkedin follow feature | Third party |
1 day |
