What are cookies?
A cookie is a tiny file that is saved by your browser when you visit a website. It enables certain information about your visit to be stored by the site and saves you from re-entering that information in the future. Cookies can also enhance your overall experience including the speed and security of the website. Some cookies are essential for the normal functioning of the website.
Cookies can be cleared when you clear your cache or change your cookie consent.
Types of cookies and their duration
- Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling certain functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website.
- Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
- Statistics cookies help ICAEW understand the usage of its websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously. Users that are registered with ICAEW (e.g. members and students) will have their unique ID captured. This is for statistical and reporting purposes only.
- Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. Data is collected to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user.
- Session id cookies keep track of user inputs and are active during your session on the website and will automatically delete after you close your browser.
- Persistent and timed cookies stay active either indefinitely or for a timed period.
Does ICAEW use cookies on its subdomains?
Yes, ICAEW’s third party websites use cookies to ensure you can log in, navigate efficiently and to allow you to perform certain functions. These cookies are set across our subdomains and many of them are set by the third-party website software owners in order to optimise how the website works.
Additionally, some third-party cookies set by advertisers might also be used.
How do these subdomains use cookies?
There are some cookies that are used to allow the site and online applications to function normally, some of which are tied to your personal account with ICAEW or provide the information to serve you the right content at the right time. Further cookies allow you to personalise and customise the website or online application for your benefit.
Understanding and setting cookies
To make cookies easier to understand, the software providers we work with have categorised those that are present across their sites. Those that are necessary for the site to function are legally permissible to be dropped. You have the freedom to control other cookies across our third-party sites in the list below.