Cookies
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used for purposes such as making a website work more effectively or providing information to a website operator about how its website is being used.
PPL is committed to first-class customer service. As part of this, we want our website to work effectively for all who visit it, and to deliver the best possible user experience. Our website therefore makes limited use of cookies, to provide us with a better picture of how it is being visited and used. This then helps us to further improve the website.
ASP.NET_SessionId
This cookie is simply used to log the fact that you have started a unique browsing session on the PPL website; this then effectively “switches on” the cookies below. However, this cookie does not identify who you are or log any other information about you. It is deleted when your browsing session on the PPL website finishes.
Google Analytics cookies:
__utma
__utmb
__utmc
__utmz
These cookies are used to collect information such as the number of unique visitors to the PPL website, how they found the website, and details of the pages they visit. This is done on an anonymous basis and our use of these cookies does not involve the collection of any personal information or the identification of anyone.
The following cookies exist on the PPL career section of the site:
Jsessionid
This cookie is used to log the fact that you have started a unique browsing session on the iCIMS Hosted PPL career page. This cookie does not identify who you are or log any other information about you. It is deleted when your browsing session on the iCIMS Hosted PPL career website finishes.
LinkedIn.com cookies:
bcookie
leo_auth_token
visit
JSESSIONID
X-LI-IDC
lang
_qca
These cookies are activated if you choose to login to the iCIMS hosted PPL career website using your existing personal LinkedIn account. This cookie pulls information from your LinkedIn account into you PPL career account at your discretion.
The following cookies exist on the PPL online licensing section of the site:
ICX
Jserv
These cookies hold the following session data in encrypted format: cookie name; domain; path; expires. No personal information is stored in them.
The following cookies exist on the myPPL section of the site:
Required cookies:
BIGipServerPOOL
_WL_AUTHCOOKIE_myPPL
JSESSIONID
Sid
sid_Client
clientSrc
lastlist
lloopch_loid
lloopch_lpid
oid
BrowserId
These cookies are necessary to allow us to operate myPPL effectively. For example, to remember log-in details and provide secure log-in.
Performance/Analytics cookies:
_gat_UA-27050991-1
_gali
_ga
We use these cookies to analyse how myPPL is accessed, used or is performing. We use this information to maintain, operate and improve myPPL.
PPL’s approach to cookies
We recognise that, even where cookies are only used for these analytical purposes, some website users may not wish them to be used when they visit our website. We, therefore, take various steps to highlight our use of cookies, and your right to choose whether they are used, especially when you first visit the PPL website. We have also published this policy, to give clear and prominent information about our use of cookies, including details of how you can delete or disable them.
How to delete or disable cookies
For details of how to delete or disable cookies, you can find general information at www.allaboutcookies.org and browser-specific information via the following links:
• Internet Explorer: How to disable Cookies
• Firefox: Enabling and disabling Cookies
• Safari: Managing Cookies
• Google Chrome: How do I turn off Cookies?
(Please note that all of these links are to third party sites for which PPL is not responsible.)
