What are cookies?
Cookies are very small text files that web servers can store on your computer's hard drive when you visit a website. They allow the server to recognize you when you revisit. There are three types:
- Transient (or per-session) cookies. These only exist for the duration of your site visit and are deleted on exit. They are used for performance and determining browser compatibility and capabilities.
- Persistent (or permanent) cookies. These stay on your machine until they expire or are deleted, and are used mainly for recording user prederence
- Tracking cookies. These cookies are used solely for Google Anyalytics for technical feedback on any software issues that the website may have
What we use cookies for
Internet cookies are commonly used in all major websites and do not harm your system - they just store or gather site information. They help you do things online, like remembering login details so you don't have to re-enter them when revisiting a site.
The BDO Anywhere use cookies in order to:
- > Gather customer journey information across our sites
- > Ensure your privacy in our secure sites
- > Store login details for our secure sites
- > Temporarily store input information
- > Store details of your marketing, product and business unit preferences to improve our targeting and enhance your journey through our sites and partner sites
- > Evaluate our sites' advertising and promotional effectiveness
We use both our own (first-party) and partner companies' (third-party) cookies to support these activities.We don't use cookies to track people's Internet usage or history after leaving our sites and we don't store personal information in them that others could read and understand. We will not sell or distribute cookie information without your prior consent.
Changing your cookie settings
To enable or disable cookies, follow the instructions provided by your browser). Or, you may visit the free resource All about cookies (Link opens in a new window) providing specific information about cookies and how to manage them.
Please note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access secure areas of this website, and functionality of this website may be limited. For the full user experience and full satisfaction on use of this website, please enable cookies.
Any secure online services you subscribe to may use cookies to enable information about you and your preferences to be stored and to prevent unauthorised access to your services and information. Cookies must usually be accepted in such circumstances; without them we cannot ensure your information is secure. People who reject cookies can't use these services.