Cookies are tiny data files that some websites place on your computer or other device when you visit. They're used by many website owners, including pkf.co.za. Cookies are linked to the machine you use to visit our site and not to you as an individual. Unless you provide personal data through your use of this website, no personal information is collected.

Cookies are commonly used by websites to remember some aspect of your current or previous visit. This could include things like the choices you've made or preferences you've chosen during your visit. Websites commonly do this in order to improve or tailor your current and future visits to that site or other related sites.

One example may be when you visit a site that you have been to before, that site may use a cookie to check what information you've looked at previously to get an idea of the topics that may be of interest to you.

The information stored in a cookie can only be read by the website that placed the cookie or other sites that it has agreed to share information with.

New regulations on cookies.

EU regulations that came into force in 2018 affecting the use of cookies and the Information Commissioner's Office has issued guidance on the use of cookies on UK sites. At PKF South Africa, we are committed to protecting your privacy and security and we are currently working towards ensuring that we meet the all regulations in full.

Our policy on cookies

Our policy is to use cookies only to improve the way we do business with you or when they're essential to the way the site works.

The types of activities we may use cookies for are to:

• To find out how people use our sites, such as how often they visit, which pages they go to, and which links they click on, so that we can improve our websites
• To help us to provide relevant information, such as details of services and other information that you may be interested in

We do not use any cookies to store any personal data or other data that could be used to identify you as an individual.

Whenever possible, we will list the cookies used on our websites. PKF South Africa currently uses a Session ID cookie which is purely for collecting website performance based metrics. PKF South Africa does not collect or store any personal data through our website.

How to turn off cookies

You can turn off cookies in your browser settings. If you do turn them off, it is important to remember that you may not be able to use all of the services on our websites.

You can find out more about turning off cookies at the independent website allaboutcookies.org