Cookie Policy 

Last Updated: 15th November 2023

We may set and access Cookies on your computer. Cookies may be placed on your computer when you visit certain parts of the Website. We use these to identify and track visitors, their usage of the Website, their access preferences and for advertising.

If you want to learn more about the general use of cookies, please visit Cookiepedia.

Essential Cookies

Strictly Necessary cookies

These are cookies that allow you to use different parts of our site. Without them different features that you have requested cannot be provided. These are usually set in response to an action performed by the user like clicking on a job advert or failing to enter the correct password to their account.

Functional cookies

These help us to make your experience within our site more personal. For instance, knowing if you have been on the site before so that messages for new visitors are not displayed to you.

First party cookies

These are cookies that are set by our website. And only we can read them.

Session cookies

These are stored while you browse our site and then deleted once you leave.

Persistent cookies

These are saved on your computer and won’t be deleted when you close the web page. We use these to provide functionality like keeping you logged in when you come back to the site.

 

Performance cookies (optional if tracking codes are used)

These help us to track how people are using our site. They help us to know what pages people are using most and how users navigate around the site, we use this information to make informed decision about how we can improve the user experience of our site.

The information we get using these cookies is completely anonymous and we will make no attempt to identify you or influence your experience of our site while you are on it.

If you use the “Do Not Track” browser setting, we currently don’t respond to DNT requests.

Third party cookies (optional if tracking codes are used)

These are set by someone other than us, these can be things like Analytics and other embedded content.

 

First Party Cookies we use (Essential Cookies)

ASP.NET_SessionId

We use this to identify each session that is open on our site. This cookie holds no personal data. All it stores is an ID number generated by us.

First Party Cookie & Session Cookie

ffcookies-dismiss

This is used to stop the cookie policy banner popping up every time you visit our site. This cookie holds no personal data.

First Party Cookie & Persistent Cookie

ffIEWarning

We use this cookie to notify a user that they are using an outdated version of IE and that they should upgrade. This cookie holds no personal data.

First Party Cookie & Persistent Cookie

ff_secCheck

This cookie is used to keep track of when a user had made a failed login attempt. This cookie holds no personal data.

First Party Cookie & Functional Cookie

ff_AdDist

This cookie is used to identify when a user has opened the current job advert page from a link sent to them by email from us. Eg. Job Alerts or Mailshots.

First Party Cookie

.ASPXAUTH

This is a cookie we use to authenticate a logged in user on our site, effectively this is how we keep you logged into our site and able to navigate the site without needing to login every time.

First Party Cookie & Persistent Cookie

AngularAntiXsrfToken This cookie is used to ensure the person performing an action is currently browsing our website preventing cross site request forgery attacks. This cookie holds no personal data and only stores a random ID.  
AntiXsrfToken This is an additional cookie that is used to prevent cross site request forgery attacks. This cookie holds no personal data and only stores a random ID.  

 

Third Party Cookies

These are cookies that are set by other websites through embedded content.

Intercom

Intercom is used for customer support and notification. For detailed cookie information see: https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/2361922-intercom-messenger-cookies

Functional cookies

AddThis

AddThis sets up sharing options to allow visitors to share pages with other websites such as social media. For detailed cookie information see: https://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy

Functional cookies

LinkedIn

These are used to allow visitors to post links directly into LinkedIn when visiting the site and are set after interacting with the sharing functionality. For detailed cookie information see: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table#thirdparty

Functional cookies

Meta

These are used to allow visitors to post links directly into Facebook when visiting the site and are set after interacting with the sharing functionality. For more information on how Meta use cookies see: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies

Functional cookies

Twitter

These are used to allow visitors to post links directly into Twitter when visiting the site and are set after interacting with the sharing functionality. For more information on how Twitter use cookies see: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies

Functional cookies

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use our website. For detailed cookie information see: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/

Performance cookies