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?
Yes, ICAEW use cookies to ensure you can log in to the site, navigate efficiently and allow you to perform certain functions. ICAEW sets cookies across the domains it owns and operates.
Additionally, some third-party cookies set by advertisers might also be used.
How does ICAEW 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 ICAEWs cookies
To make cookies easier to understand ICAEW have categorised those that are present across its website and online applications. Those that are necessary for the site or online application to function are legally permissible to be dropped. You have the freedom to control other cookies across ICAEW’s sites in the list below.