1. Cookies
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are.
A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly and are used by most major websites. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. Click here to find out more about cookies.
2. How we use cookies on our website and what information we collect
Two types of cookies are used on this Website:
(a) Session cookies
Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the Website. We use session cookies:
(i) to help us to authenticate you as a registered user, giving you access to your user profile and certain otherwise inaccessible areas of the Website;
(ii) to track the number of visits to the Website;
(iii) to track which advertising banners are seen on the Website;
(iv) to compile anonymous statistics that allow us to understand how users use our Website such as details of the pages visited per session on the Website and the number of return visits to the Website (we cannot identify you personally in this way); and
(v) to enable basic personalisation of the Website.
(b) Persistent cookies
Persistent cookies remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer than session cookies (how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie but could be up to 2 years). We use persistent cookies:
(i) to enable the Website to remember who you are and authenticate you automatically if you did not log out at the end of your previous session. Some areas of the Website do not accept this level of security and you will need to enter your username and password again;
(ii) to allow the collection of certain anonymous statistics about how our registered users use the Website, for example, statistics on how many registered users have logged in to the Website, the number of return visits to the Website etc;
(iii) to keep track of your current shopping session to personalise your experience and so that you may retrieve your shopping basket at any time; and
(iv) to enable advanced personalisation of the Website.
(c) Third-party cookies
Third-party organisations that are related to PPL use cookies via this Website, but only for the purposes of helping us to authenticate you as a registered user, giving you access to certain third party websites.
3. Disabling/enabling cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, if cookies are disabled you will not be able to use the job ads feature of the Website, may not be able to use all the interactive features of the Website and the look and feel of the Website may change. Please click here to find out how to disable/enable cookies.
PPL cookie policy
April 2008