Privacy and cookies notice

What’s this notice for?

When ACCA collects your information, we are required by law to be fair in notifying individuals on how their information will be managed and informing them of their rights. More than that, we want to be transparent, open and ethical in our practices. This notice provides privacy information for visitors to ACCA's websites. For more specific detail on how we use your information to provide services to you please see our customer Data protection notice.

What information do you collect on me?

We collect information about the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of all visitors to the site which helps us monitor the level of activity and the service we provide. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Internet, allowing Internet servers to locate and identify your computer.

Computing devices require IP addresses in order for users to communicate on the Internet, browse and shop, and to make sure messages get from one device to another and that the messages are understood.

What about if I fill in a web form?

To provide you with services, such as qualifications or professional membership, or answering an online query, we need to obtain and use your data.  We provide specific information and Privacy Notices for each of our services at the time you submit your information, so you always know what’s going to happen to your information, also ensuring you are in control of how it is used.

In addition to specific Privacy Notices about a particular service, we also maintain a more general Data protection notice that covers a wider view of our activities for people that want further details.  We also have the ACCA Privacy Promise, which spells out our overall commitment to privacy.

What if I use the webchat facility, call, or use social media?

If you get in touch with us using ACCA Connect or the Webchat facility on our website, or otherwise using the contact details or social media referred to on our website, we may collect and retain your contact details and the contents of your communication in order to handle your query and maintain records for training and development purposes.

Calls made to ACCA's customer call centre and other communications may also be recorded and retained for training and record-keeping purposes.

We may also retain records of interactions with you using social media sites including Facebook, ACCA on LinkedIn and ACCA on Twitter with tools that analyse your interactions with us.

While we take all reasonable precautions to make sure that other organisations who we deal with have good security practices, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other organisations whose websites may be linked to our service, or whose contact details we may provide on our website (such as joint scheme partners).

We are also not responsible for the privacy practices of social media providers with whom ACCA has pages or accounts.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Some of the cookies we use are essential for parts of the site to operate.

What cookies are set by ACCA?

ACCA sets first party cookies to manage access to our websites and personalise content. We also set first party cookies to provide analytical data on website use which enables us to understand which areas of the website are of most relevance to you.

Cookie technology also enables us to ensure that, where you have registered for any of our online services, we maintain your confidentiality and security as you move through secure or password protected areas of the website.

Access

Service

Cookie name

Cookie expires

Access management

ORA_WX_SESSION

At the end of the session

Session identifier

JSESSIONID

At the end of the session

Time zone data

oracle.uix

10 years

Business Game login

Share Object

At the end of the session

Access management

accasso

Session

Access management

access_token

2 hours

Access management

autorisedUserEmail

Session

Access management

login-token

Session

Access management

portal

Session

AWS Elastic Load Balancer

AWSELB

1 hour

Imperva Web Application Firewall

Nlbi_XXXXXX

Session

Imperva Web Application Firewall

incap_ses_XXXXX

Session

Imperva Web Application Firewall

visid_incap_XXXX

1 Year

Adobe DTM

_sdsat_lt_pages_viewed

2 Years

Adobe DTM

_sdsat_pages_viewed

1 Year

Adobe DTM

_sdsat_session_count

2 Years

Adobe DTM

_sdsat_traffic_source

Session

Adobe DTM

_sdsat_XXXXX

Session

Cookie bannercookieconsent_status10 months
AddThisuid6 months
Google__Secure-1PSIDCC1 year
Google__Secure-1PSIDTS1 year
Google__Secure-3PSIDCC1 year
Google__Secure-3PSIDTS1 year
Google__Secure-ENID1 year
GoogleSOCS13 months
Google MapsSIDCC1 year

Analytical data

Service

Cookie name

Cookie expires

Advertisement click through

OAX

2 Years

Country selection and detection

Service

Cookie name

Cookie expires

Region selection from fly-out menu

acca-regionselection

3 months

Country code based on IP location

acca-mb-region-id

1 month

Online initial registration

Service

Cookie name

Cookie expires

Registration navigation

nav

At the end of the session

We use a number of third party services to provide us with information on the use of our website, associated external resources and to provide you with relevant advertising. These services fall into 2 distinct groups: web analytics and advertising.

Web Analytics

These third party services collect aggregate data about how visitors arrive at and use our site and our content hosted on other sites.

Service

Cookie name

Cookie expires

Google Analytics

__utma

2 years

Google Analytics

__utmb

30 minutes

Google Analytics

__utmc

At the end of the session

Google Analytics

__utmz

6 months

Google Analytics

__utmt

10 minutes

Google Analytics

__utmv

2 years

Google Analytics

_ga

2 years

Google Analytics

_gat

1 minute

Google Analytics

_gid

1 day

Google Analytics_gcl.au2 months
Google AnalyticsAID13 months
Google AnalyticsOTZ1 month

Google Maps

NID

6 months

Webvideocore

PHPSESSID

At the end of the session

Youtube visitor tracking

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

9 months

Bizo

_bizo_bzid

1 day

Bizo

_bizo_cksm

1 day

Bizo

_bizo_np_stats

1 day

Site Improve

siteimproveses

At the end of the session

Site ImproveAWSALBCORS1 week

Mouse Stat

nmstat

21/04/2020

Yandex Metrica

_ym_d

1 Year

Yandex Metrica

_ym_isad

2 days

Yandex Metrica

_ym_uid

1 year

Madgex Job board

_MadgexTracking

2 Years

Madgex Job board

_gat_MadgexTracking

1 minute

Madgex Job board

_MadgextTracking_gid

1 day

Adobe Analytics

S_sq

Session

Adobe Analytics

s_cc

Session

Adobe Analytics

s_fid

2 years

Adobe Analytics

S_vi

2 Years

Adobe AnalyticsAMCV_B2DBFF2554F5FFC40A4C98C6%40AdobeOrg1 year
Adobe AnalyticsAMCVS_B2DBFF2554F5FFC40A4C98C6%40AdobeOrgSession

Job Session Counting

JSMRI

5 Years

Real User monitoring

SCOGID

2 Years

Real User monitoring

SCOSID

Session

Real User monitoring

SCOSN

Session

ShareThis

___atssc

1 Year + 1 month

ShareThis

___atuvc

1 Year + 2 months

ShareThis

__atuvs

30 minutes

Visual Website optimiser_vwo_uuid_v21 year
Yandex_ym_isad1 year

Advertising

We also use third party advertising companies to serve advertisements when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

We use Google Signals, which are session data from sites and apps that Google associates with users who have signed in to their Google accounts, and who have turned on Ads Personalization, to enable audience targeting, cross-device tracking and remarketing. See Google’s privacy policy.

Service

Cookie name

Cookie expires

Addthis

_atuvc, bh, di, psc,  uit, uvc,

2 years

Addthis

dt

30 days

DoubleClick

id

2 years

Yieldmanager

uuid2

30 days

Yieldmanager

sess

1 day

Educate advert

NSC_pbt.fvd1ef_p_wtfswfs_iuuq

1 day

Educate advert

NSC_pbt.fvd1ef_wtfswfs_iuuq

1 day

Educate advert

anj

1 day

Facebook Advertising

_fbp

3 months

Google Advertising

1P_JAR

1 month

Google Adsense

_gcl.au

3 months

Linked in

Lidc

1 Day

Linked in

bcookie

1 Year

Linked in

bscookie

1 Year

Linked in

L1c

Session

Linked in

BizoID

6 Months

Linked in

BizoData

6 Months

Linked in

BizoUserMatchHistory

6 Months

.eskimi.com__eConsent1 month
.eskimi.com__eDId1 month
.eskimi.com__eP2 weeks
AdButleradButlerCIS389773[594216]1 day
Doubleclickar_debugpersistent
DoubleclickDSID2 weeks
DoubleclickIDE1 year
Facebookdatr1 year
Facebookoo1 year
Facebooksb1 year
LinkedInli_gc4 months
LinkedInli_sugr1 month
LinkedInlidc1 day
LinkedInln_or1 day
sc-static.net_scid_r13 months
Snapchat_scid1 year
Snapchatsc_at1 year
SnapchatX-AB1 day
TikTok_tt_enable_cookie13 months
TikTok_ttp13 months

What if I don’t want cookies?

You're not obliged to accept a cookie that we (or any other web server) send to you. Most browsers accept cookies automatically but you can modify the settings in your browser to turn off this feature.

However, cookies are integral to some areas of our website and to certain online services offered by ACCA, so if you choose not to accept cookies from us, you may not be able to use some areas of our website and we may not be able to provide certain online services to you.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics Advertising Features in several ways, including through Google’s Ads Settings, Ad Settings for mobile apps, or other means (for example, the NAI's consumer opt-out). You can also download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics.

How do I modify my browser to turn off cookies?

Where can I find further information on cookies?

For further information on cookies, please visit All About Cookies.org

Where can I find additional information?

The Data protection notice on our website and this Privacy Notice are a good starting point.  However, if you have a more detailed query or want to exercise your rights, please contact privacy@accaglobal.com

Will ACCA's position change?

From time to time we will review this document, when we make substantial changes to our processes or procedures and systems, or if laws and regulations change. We will update the notice here, and make reasonable efforts to contact and update those affected if the changes are substantial in nature.

Date of last revision - September 2023.