Cookie Policy

• A “cookie” is a small text file that are placed on your computer or mobile phone hard drive when you browse websites. The cookie records your navigation of that website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit.
• Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.
• Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.
• Cookies are either:-

1. Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser. They usually store an anonymous ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but hey do not collect any information from your computer; or
2. Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again.
   • Cookies can also be categorised as follows:-
3. Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when applying for a job, and therefore cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet;
4. Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular;
5. Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, font and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised;
6. Personalisation cookies: These cookies help us to advertise details of potential job opportunities that we think may be of interest. These cookies are persistent (for as long as you are registered with us) and mean that when you log in or return to the website, you may see advertising for jobs that are similar to jobs that you have previously browsed.

2.1        Our website uses cookies to help provide you with the best experience we can. Our cookies help us:

1. Make our website work as you’d expect;
2. Improve the speed/security of the site;
3. Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook;
4. Continuously improve our website for you; and
5. Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do).

2.2        We do not use cookies to:

1. Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission);
2. Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission);
3. Pass data to advertising networks;
4. Pass personally identifiable data to third parties; or
5. Pay sales commissions.

2.3        Website Function Cookies: We use cookies to make our website work.  There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

2.4        Social Website Cookies: So you can easily “Like” or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site. The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks

2.5        Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies: We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

3.1        If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this.

3.2        Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

4.1        You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our, and a large proportion of the world’s, websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.

4.2        It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software