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Cookies can be referred to as ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they are used:
Session cookies only last for your online session and disappear from your computer or device when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies stay on your computer or device after the browser has been closed and last for the period of time specified in the cookie. These persistent cookies are activated each time you visit the site where the cookie was generated.
We also use something called 'local storage', a technology similar to cookies that performs functions such as remembering job searches when the back button is pressed. Additionally, we use 'similar technologies' to hold your personal data so you can continue to benefit from using some of the internal pages on our website when logging into jobs.ac.uk. Please note that you cannot opt out of these similar technologies being used, as they are essential to the operation of our Services.
Cookies on our website are categorised into four cookie types as follows:
The table below explains the cookies we may use and why:
| Cookie Name | Cookie Type | Description | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOBS_SESSID | Necessary | Used to give a new user session 3 hours an initial unique identifier. | 3 hours |
| searchCriteria | Necessary | The search parameters of the last search initiated by the user as a serialised array of parameters. Used to determine the component parts for an associated job alert. | Session |
| searchUri | Necessary | The GET component for the URL of the last search initiated by the user. Used to determine the search URL for an associated job alert. | Session |
| lastSavedJob | Necessary | The id of the last advert the user attempted to save. Used to save a job after user login. | Session |
| savedJobOriginPage | Necessary | The page URL where the user initiated saving a job. Used to perform a redirect back to the origin page after saving a job. | Session |
| savedJobAdvertIDs | Necessary | The ids of the saved jobs for the user as a serialised array. Used to populate the save job UI elements on websites on the jobs.ac.uk subdomain e.g. the China portal, WordPress blog and Career Advice website. | Session |
| CookieControl | Necessary | Used by the Civic Cookie Control to persist the user's cookie preferences. | 90 days |
| iePopUp | Necessary | Used to present the user with a support message for using the website with Internet Explorer. | Session |
| cookiesession1 | Necessary | Used by FortiWeb as a security measure https://docs.fortinet.com/docume nt/fortiweb/7.4.0/administration-guide/669661/https-sessions-security. | 1 year |
| RESTJOBS_SESSID | Necessary | jobs.ac.uk cookie used to get the 3 hours latest jobs for the sidebar. | 3 hours |
|
jobseeker-survey_ |
Functional | The survey id of the currently active site survey. Used to determine if the site survey pop-up should be displayed again for this visitor. | 14 days |
| SOCS | Functional | Google uses the ‘SOCS’ cookie, which lasts for 13 months, to store a user’s state regarding their cookies choices. | 13 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Functional | YouTube cookie that stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. | 6 months |
| _UserReference | Functional | This cookie is designed to save information relating to the use of the Equal Web Accessibility widget (no personal information is collected) It ensures the widget continues to run when browsing between pages. | 1 week |
| sa-user-id (x 3) | Marketing | StackAdapt sets this cookie as a Random Identifier for user identification, to display relevant advertisements. | 1 year |
| sa-user-id-v2 (x 3) | Marketing | StackAdapt sets this cookie as a Random Identifier for user identification, to display relevant advertisements. | 1 year |
| sa-user-id-v3 (x 3) | Marketing | StackAdapt sets this cookie as a Random Identifier for user identification, to display relevant advertisements. | 1 year |
| _rdt_uuid | Marketing | Reddit cookie: help build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads. The main purpose of this cookie is: Targeting/Advertising. | 1.5 years |
| wd / dpr | Marketing | This cookie stores the browser window dimensions and is used by Facebook to optimise the rendering of the page. | 7 days |
| _sfid_ae94 | Marketing | LinkedIn cookie used to target users with relevant content and advertisements. The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. | 1 year |
| _biz_flagsA | Marketing | LinkedIn cookie that stores various user information, such as form submission, cross-domain migration, view-through pixel, tracking opt-out status, etc. | 1 year |
| _biz_nA | Marketing | LinkedIn cookie shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources. | 1 year |
| _biz_pendingA | Marketing | This LinkedIn cookie shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources. | 1 year |
| _biz_uid | Marketing | LinkedIn cookie that uniquely identify a user on the current domain. | 1 year |
| ar_debug | Marketing | Google Doubleclick - Store and 1 year track conversions. | 1 year |
| _gcl_au | Marketing | This cookie is used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months |
| _evga_497c | Marketing | Used to target users with relevant content and advertisements. The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. | 1 year |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Marketing | YouTube cookie used to provide ad delivery or retargeting, store and track a visitor's identity, Store and track interaction. | 6 months |
| YSC | Marketing | YouTube cookie that registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | 6 months |
| _fbp | Marketing | Used by Facebook to store and track visits across websites. | 3 months |
| datr | Marketing | Facebook cookie used to detect browser. | 2 years |
| Usida | Marketing | Facebook cookie collects a combination of the user’s browser and unique identifier, used to tailor advertising to users. | Session |
| li_gc | Marketing | Used by Linkedin to store user consent regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes. | 2 years |
| lang | Marketing | This cookie is used by Linkedin to store user's language. | Session |
| lidc | Marketing | Facilitates the selection of the best data centre for LinkedIn. | 24 hours |
| bcookie | Marketing | A browser identification cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn and detect platform abuse. | 2 years |
| UserMatchHistory | Marketing | Linkedin cookie to provide ad delivery or retargeting. | 30 days |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Marketing | Linkedin cookie to store and track visits across websites. | 30 days |
| muc_ads | Marketing | This is a cookie that is set by twitter.com. It is used for optimizing ad relevance by collecting visitor navigation data. | 2 years |
| personalization_id | Marketing | Twitter cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | 2 years |
| NID | Marketing | The 'NID' cookie is used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users. | 6 months |
| SEARCH_SAMESITE | Analytical | This cookie is used for the correct sending of data to Google. | 1 year 2 months |
| _fs | Analytical | The _fs cookie is provided by Google Tag Manager to learn how users behave and interact on the site, to ensure a smooth experience. | 2 years |
| _ga | Analytical | This is the main cookie used by Google Analytics, enables the service to distinguish one visitor from another and lasts for 2 years. Any site that implements Google Analytics, including Google services, uses the ‘_ga’ cookie. Each ‘_ga’ cookie is unique to the specific property, so it cannot be used to track a given user or browser across unrelated websites. | 2 years |
| _gid | Analytical | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 1 day |
| _gat | Analytical | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate, which means that it limits the collection of data on high traffic sites. | 1 day |
| __utma | Analytical | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the Javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 2 years from set/update |
| __utmt | Analytical | Used to throttle request rate. | 10 minutes |
| __utmb | Analytical | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 30 mins from set/update |
| __utmc | Analytical | Stores time of visit in Google Analytics. | End of browser session |
| __utmz | Analytical | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 6 months from set/update |
| __utmv | Analytical | Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 2 years from set/update |
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