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A cookie is a small text file placed on your device by the websites that you visit. 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. Such information may be used to provide a more personalized and responsive service. Cookies may be either first party cookies set directly by us to your device, or third-party cookies set by a third-party provider on our behalf. Whenever you use this system, information may be collected through the use of cookies and other similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, tags, scripts, local storage). 

This Cookie Notice is a part of the Privacy Notice.  For more information about us, and how we process personal information, please see our Privacy Notice.

This system uses cookies and web beacons that are classified into the following categories: 

  • “Strictly Necessary” which are necessary for the system to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as authenticating into the system or managing your session with the requested service. 
  • “Analytics and Performance” which are necessary for our systems to measure audience and usage statistics, as well as content consumption. These enable us to obtain relevant usage information to produce internal analytics so we can monitor and improve the performance of our systems.
  • “Preference or functionality cookies” which allow websites to remember the users’ respective site preferences and choices (with the exclusion of essential functional cookies).
  • “ targeting or advertising cookies” which track the users’ respective online activity to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

To view a list of the cookies that are used by the system, click the "Update your cookie preferences" button at the top of the page.

The length of time cookies will stay on your device will depend on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie.  A persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiration date, unless deleted by you before the expiration date.  A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of your web session, when the web browser is closed.

You can manage cookies in various ways.  Please keep in mind, removing or disabling certain cookies may impact your user experience and parts of this system may no longer be fully functional. 

You can change your cookie preferences and settings for non-essential cookies at any time by clicking on the “Manage cookie preferences” option at the top of this Cookie Notice. 

You may also be able to change your browser settings to manage cookies.  You can find detailed information on how to do so at http://www.aboutcookies.org/.

A cookie is a small text file placed on your device by the websites that you visit. 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. Such information may be used to provide a more personalized and responsive service. Cookies may be either first party cookies set directly by us to your device, or third-party cookies set by a third-party provider on our behalf. Whenever you use this system, information may be collected through the use of cookies and other similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, tags, scripts, local storage). 

This Cookie Notice is a part of the Privacy Notice.  For more information about us, and how we process personal information, please see our Privacy Notice.

This system uses cookies and web beacons that are classified into the following categories: 

  • “Strictly Necessary” which are necessary for the system to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as authenticating into the system or managing your session with the requested service. 
  • “Analytics and Performance” which are necessary for our systems to measure audience and usage statistics, as well as content consumption. These enable us to obtain relevant usage information to produce internal analytics so we can monitor and improve the performance of our systems.
  • “Preference or functionality cookies” which allow websites to remember the users’ respective site preferences and choices (with the exclusion of essential functional cookies).
  • “Targeting or advertising cookies” which track the users’ respective online activity to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
  • "Social media” cookies are set by social media services (e.g., Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook) that we have added to the Website to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. These cookies are capable of tracking your browser across other websites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit.

To view a list of the cookies that are used by the Website, click on “Manage cookie preferences” at the top of this Cookie Notice. 

The length of time cookies will stay on your device will depend on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie.  A persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiration date, unless deleted by you before the expiration date.  A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of your web session, when the web browser is closed.

You can manage cookies in various ways.  Please keep in mind, removing or disabling certain cookies may impact your user experience and parts of this system may no longer be fully functional. 

Where cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our Website, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our Website. You can change your cookie preferences and settings for non-essential cookies at any time by clicking on the “Manage cookie preferences” option at the top of this Cookie Notice. 

You may also be able to change your browser settings to manage and control cookies. You can find detailed information on how to do so at  http://www.aboutcookies.org/.

Any consent to accept or to decline cookies is limited to the site for which this Cookie Notice is posted and not to other sites or any other pages, which may be hyperlinked to our Website. For more information on cookies used by those websites, please refer to the specific privacy or cookie notice on those websites.

We may also use tracking technologies to determine whether you have read, clicked on, or forwarded certain email communications we send to you so that we can make our communications more helpful and interesting. If you do not wish us to confirm whether you have opened, clicked on or forwarded our communications, you will need to unsubscribe, as it is not possible for us to send these emails without tracking enabled. Registered subscribers can update their communication preferences at any time by contacting us, or you can unsubscribe following the instructions in the individual email communications you receive from us.

We may modify or amend this Cookie Notice from time to time at our discretion. When we make changes to this notice, we will amend the revision date at the top of this page, and such modified or amended Cookie Notice shall be effective as to you and your information as of that revision date.

We encourage you to periodically review this Cookie Notice to be informed about how we are using cookies.

This website uses cookies to improve the user experience and ensure that it is functioning effectively and on occasion to advertise online through third party vendors.

This Cookie Notice is part of our Privacy Statement. For more information about us, and how we protect your information, please see our Privacy Statement.

What is a cookie?

To provide you with a personalised and responsive service we need to use small text files called cookies to remember and store information about you and how you use this website including your preferences or your device. Cookies contain small amounts of information and are downloaded to your computer or other device by a server for this website.

Your web browser then sends these cookies back to this website on each subsequent visit so that it can recognise you and remember things like your user preferences. Cookies may be either first party cookies set directly by us to your device, or third-party cookies set by a third-party provider on our behalf. You can find more detailed information about cookies and how they work at http://www.aboutcookies.org/.

Whenever you use this website, information may be collected by cookies and other technologies (e.g., web beacons, tags, scripts, local storage). By using this website, you agree to our use of cookies and similar technologies as described in this Cookie Notice and to the use of cookies on the other country, regional or practice specific websites contained in deloitte.com that you may visit, as described in their accompanying cookie notices.

What cookies do we use and why?

This website uses cookies and other technologies in the following categories: 

  • “Strictly necessary cookies” which are necessary for the website 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 site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
  • “Functional cookies” which enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation; for example, to remember your language or region or that you have already completed a survey. This information is usually anonymised and is not used for any other purpose. These functional cookies may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all of these features or third-party services may not function properly.
  • “Analytics and performance cookies” which help us understand how effective our content is, what interests our users have, and to improve how this website works. In addition, we use web beacons or tracking pixels to count visitor numbers and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. These performance cookies help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.

How long will cookies remain on my device?

The length of time cookies will stay on your device will depend on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. A persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiration date, unless deleted by you before the expiration date. A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of your web session, when the web browser is closed.

How to manage cookies?

By using this website, you agree that we can place cookies on your computer or device as explained above. However, because we respect your right to privacy, you can choose not to allow some types of cookies. Please bear in mind that removing or blocking some types of cookies may impact your user experience of the site and the services we are able to offer, and parts of this website may no longer be fully functional.

Browser Controls

Most browsers will allow you to see what cookies you have and delete them on an individual basis or block cookies from particular or all websites. Be aware that any preference you have set will be lost if you delete all cookies, including your preference to opt-out from cookies as this itself requires an opt-out cookie to have been set. For more information on how to modify your browser settings to block or filter cookies, see http://www.aboutcookies.org/ or http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/.

Managing Analytics Cookies

You can opt-out of having your anonymised browsing activity within websites recorded by analytics cookies. We use the following service providers, and you can learn more about their privacy policies and how to opt-out of their cookies by clicking on following links:

Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html
Google Analytics: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

Social Buttons

We use ‘social buttons’ to enable our users to share or bookmark web pages. These are buttons for third party social media sites and these sites may log information about your activities on the Internet including on this Website. Please review the respective terms of use and privacy policies of these sites to understand exactly how they use your information and to find out how to opt-out, or delete, such information. 

External Web Services

We sometimes use external web services on this Website to display content within the web pages of this website, for example to display images, show videos or run polls. As with the social buttons, we cannot prevent these sites, or external domains, from collecting information on your use of this embedded content.

Email Communications

We may also use tracking technologies to determine whether you have read, clicked on, or forwarded certain email communications we send to you so that we can make our communications more helpful and interesting. If you do not wish us to confirm whether you have opened, clicked on, or forwarded our communications, you will need to unsubscribe, as it is not possible for us to send these emails without tracking enabled. Registered subscribers can update their communication preferences at any time. You can unsubscribe following the instructions in the individual email communications you receive from us.

Changes to this Cookie Notice

We may modify or amend this Cookie Notice from time to time at our discretion. When we update this Notice, we will amend the revision date at the top of this page, and such modified or amended Cookie Notice shall be effective as to you and your information as of that revision date. We encourage you to periodically review this Cookie Notice to be informed about how we are using cookies.