Privacy Statement

This privacy statement was last updated July, 2025.

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PwC is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy statement describes why and how we collect, use and disclose personal information collected from individuals themselves or from other third parties, and provides information about individuals’ rights with respect to their personal information. We may use personal information provided to us for any of the purposes described in the relevant section of this privacy statement or as otherwise stated at the point of collection.

Our goal is to process personal information as necessary for our legitimate business purposes in a transparent manner. If you have any questions regarding our privacy practices, please contact us as set forth in the Contact Us section below.

“PwC” (and “we,” “us,” “our”) refers to such PwC member firm in the US that: (1) is involved in providing or receiving services or products; (2) sends you communications; (3) posted a position for which you are applying; or (4) you have a role or relationship with, including through the use of and access to our websites and applications. Each member firm in the PwC network is a separate legal entity — be aware that if you are in a jurisdiction outside of the US, you may or may not have a direct relationship with us, but rather with one of our member firms. For further details, please see www.pwc.com/structure.

Our processing activities

To find out more, please go to the section(s) of this statement that are relevant to you.

Business contacts

Information collection

We collect and use business contact details for individuals associated with existing and potential PwC clients to manage and maintain our relationship with those individuals. Like most businesses, we use a customer relationship management system (the “PwC CRM”) to store personal information about our business contacts.

The collection of personal information about contacts and the addition of that personal information to the PwC CRM is initiated by PwC staff and may include name, employer name, title, phone, email and other business contact details. In addition, the PwC CRM may collect data from PwC email and calendar systems concerning interactions between PwC staff and business contacts.

When we send you emails, we may use technologies to determine whether the email has been opened and whether the links contained within the message have been clicked on. We may combine information collected through these means with other information we maintain about you to measure interest in our specific offerings and email campaigns, improve our offerings to specific target audiences, and tailor our interactions with you.

Information use 

We use this information for the following business purposes:

  • Administering, managing and developing our business and services. We may process personal information to run our business, including:
    • managing our relationship and communicating with clients;
    • providing services to our clients;
    • developing our business and services, such as identifying client needs and improvements in service delivery and learning more about a client relationship opportunity we or other PwC member firms have an interest in;
    • performing internal analytics;
    • maintaining and using IT systems;
    • hosting or facilitating the hosting of events; and administering and managing our website, systems, and applications.
  • Providing information about us and our range of services. Unless we are asked not to, we use client business contact details to provide information that we think will be of interest about PwC and our services. For example, we may send you industry updates and insights, information about other services that may be relevant to you, and invitations to events.

Please review the Individual rights section below for information about how you may unsubscribe from our mailing lists and exercise other rights.

Information retention

Personal information will be retained in the PwC CRM for as long as we have, or need to keep a record of, a relationship with a business contact. Personal information may be held for longer periods where extended retention periods are required by law, regulation, or professional standards and to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.

Information disclosure

We may disclose personal information as described in the Information disclosure section below.

In addition, business contacts stored in the PwC CRM may be accessed by other PwC member firms for the purposes described above.

Your California privacy rights

If you are a California resident, please click here for additional information about our processing of personal information and your California privacy rights.

Security

PwC has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security designed to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. Only authorized PwC personnel and the third parties described in this privacy statement are provided access to personal information and these employees and third parties have agreed to maintain the confidentiality of this information. Please note that in the unlikely event that we might need to contact you about a matter involving your personal information, we may email you about the matter.

Data Privacy Framework

We are part of a global network of firms and as do other professional service providers, we use third parties located in other countries to help us run our business. As a result, personal information may be transferred outside the countries where we and our clients are located. This includes transfers to countries outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and to countries that may not have laws that provide the same degree of protection for personal information as your home country. In accordance with applicable legal requirements, we take appropriate measures to facilitate adequate protection for any information so transferred. PwC adheres to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, the UK Extension to the EU-U.S Data Privacy Framework, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce. To learn more see our Data Privacy Framework Policy.

Information disclosure

We will only disclose personal information to others for a business purpose and when we are legally permitted to do so. When we disclose information to others, we put contractual arrangements and security mechanisms in place as appropriate to protect the information and to comply with our information protection, confidentiality and security standards.

In addition to any information disclosure practices described in the relevant section under Our processing activities, we disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients:

  • Other PwC member firms
    • For details of our member firm locations, please click here.
    • We may disclose personal information to other PwC member firms for administrative purposes, to provide professional services to our clients (e.g., when providing services involving advice from PwC member firms in different territories), and to develop new PwC technologies and services across the PwC network member firms.
    • We use other PwC member firms as IT service providers for the operation, maintenance and care of the IT systems and applications used by us.
  • Third party organizations that provide applications/functionality, data processing or IT services to us
    We use third parties to support us in providing our services and to help provide, run and manage our internal IT systems — for example, providers of information technology, cloud-based software-as-a-service, identity management, website hosting and management, data analysis, data back-up, security and storage services. The servers powering and facilitating that cloud infrastructure are located in data centers around the world, and personal information may be stored in any one of them. Further details of representative providers are set forth below.

Name

Role

Address

Adobe Marketing Cloud Solutions

345 Park Avenue

San Jose, CA 95110-2704, USA

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon.com, Inc.

Cloud Services

410 Terry Avenue N, Seattle, WA 98109, USA

 

Data centers located in a number of locations around the world (see AWS website)

Google LLC

Cloud Services

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

 

Data centers located in a number of locations around the world (see Google website)

Infosys

IT Services

Electronic City, Bangalore, India

Iron Mountain Inc.

Media/Hardware/Document Storage and Secure Disposal Services

One Federal Street Boston, MA 02110, USA

Microsoft Corporation

Cloud Services

One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA

 

Data centers located in a number of locations around the world (see Microsoft website)

Micro Focus International plc

Backup Services

3000 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA

Oracle Corporation

Cloud Services

500 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores, CA 94065, USA

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Cloud Network/Infrastructure Services

3000 Tannery Way, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA

QTS Realty Trust, Inc.

Data Center Services

12851 Foster St. Overland Park, KS 66213, USA

Salesforce.com, Inc

Customer Relationship Management

415 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

IT Services

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Auditors, professional advisors and insurers
    We engage auditors and other professional advisors, for example, law firms, as necessary to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights and obtain advice in connection with the running of our business. Personal information may be disclosed to these auditors and other advisors as necessary or relevant in connection with the products and services they have been engaged to provide. We also have a number of business insurance policies in place and we may need to disclose personal information to the insurer, for example, in the event of a claim.
  • Law enforcement or other government and regulatory agencies or other third parties as permitted by applicable law or regulation
    Occasionally, we may receive requests from third parties with authority to obtain disclosure of personal information, such as to check that we are complying with applicable law and regulation, to investigate an alleged crime, to establish, exercise or defend legal rights. We will only fulfill requests for personal information where we are permitted to do so in accordance with applicable law or regulation.
  • Third party organizations in connection with a corporate transaction
    We may disclose personal information to a third party as necessary or relevant in connection with a corporate reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or capital.

Individual rights

Unsubscribe

Should you wish to unsubscribe from our mailing list or any registrations, we will provide instructions in the appropriate area of the Site or in communications to you.

Users of our websites and applications

Please see the Users of our websites and applications section of this privacy statement for additional information about your choices in relation to personal information we collect through the Site.

Individual privacy rights

To the extent provided for by applicable law, you have the following rights in relation to the personal information we collect:

Right to access

Under certain circumstances in accordance with applicable law, you have the right to request specific details about your personal information and/or a copy of your personal information (including in a portable, machine-readable format if so requested). These details include:

  • The categories of personal information we have collected about you;
  • The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;
  • The business or commercial purpose(s) for collecting, selling or sharing personal information;
  • The categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information; and
  • If requested, the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
Right to correct

Under certain circumstances and in accordance with applicable law, you have the right to request that we correct inaccuracies in your personal information.

Right to delete

Under certain circumstances in accordance with applicable law, you have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected and retained, subject to certain exceptions.

Submitting a request to access, correct, or delete

To exercise the rights described above, please submit a verifiable request to us by either:

You must initially provide us with the following information: (1) first and last name; (2) email address; and (3) zip code. We will take steps to verify your request by matching the information provided by you with the information we have in our records. In some cases, we may request additional information in order to verify your request or, where necessary, to process your request. If we are unable to adequately verify a request, we will notify the requestor.

Once we receive your request, we will acknowledge it and either respond in accordance with law, ask for additional information to verify your identity, clarify the nature of your request, let you know if we need more time, let you know if we need to charge a fee (such as if requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of their repetitive character, taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or communication or taking the action requested), or we will inform you if we cannot fulfill any part of your request due to an exception under the law. You may appeal a denial of your request by responding to the last communication you received from us with the reason(s) for your appeal.

If we know that your request relates to information we process as a service provider to one of our corporate clients, we will forward your request to the relevant business and cooperate with them as needed to address your request and/or inform you that your request should be submitted directly to the business on whose behalf we process the information.

Right to opt out of the sale of personal information and targeted advertising

To exercise your right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information for targeted advertising in connection with third party tools used on this Site, you may disable all optional cookies within Cookie Settings or follow additional instructions provided in our Cookie Information page. You may also use an opt-out preference signal, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC), to opt out of the sale and sharing of your personal information for targeted advertising at the device and browser level. If we detect that you have enabled the GPC signal in your browser, we will automatically disable marketing cookies. However, if you choose to enable marketing cookies on this Site, you will override the opt-out preference signal. Learn more about GPC at https://globalprivacycontrol.org/.

For additional information about our practices and how you can exercise opt-out rights under applicable law, please see our Notice of Right to Opt Out of Sale/Sharing.

Non-Discrimination

In accordance with applicable law, we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights.

Authorized Agent

You may designate someone as an authorized agent to submit requests and act on your behalf. The authorized agent must provide us with proof that it has your signed permission to act on your behalf.

We hope that you won’t ever need to, but if you do want to complain about our use of personal information, please send us a message with the details of your complaint by completing our general contact form. Applicable laws may also give you the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your country.

California privacy rights

If you are a California resident, please click here for information about your California privacy rights.

Changes to this privacy statement

PwC may update this privacy statement at any time by publishing an updated version here. You can access the most current version of this privacy statement at any time on this site.

Contact us

If you have questions about this privacy statement or about our privacy practices, please contact us by completing our general contact form.

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