Cookies and how they benefit you
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies allow us to personalise your web experience within our online portal.
Cookies enable us to:
- make our website work as you’d expect;
- improve the speed/security of the site;
- personalise our site to you to help you get what you need faster; and
- continuously improve our website for you.
Cookies help to make your online account work by:
- determining if you are logged in or not; and
- tailoring content to your needs.
Granting permission to use cookies
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 granting permission to use cookies. 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.
What cookies does this site use?
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | More information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Key | ASP.NET_SessionId | This cookie is required to enable our online portal to recognise you and correctly load your employment information. | Cookies collected by Key to personalise our website experience to you. |
| Google Analytics | _utma _utmb _utmc _utmz |
These cookies are used to anonymously collect information about how visitors use the site. We use the information to help us improve the site for you. These cookies collect information including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come from and the pages they visited, all anonymously. | Anonymous visitor statistics cookies (you can find out more about these below). |
Information we collect when you use our site
We collect two different types of data:
- Data about you, which you submit
If you, for example, fill out and submit our ‘Registration Form’ or ‘Refer a Candidate’ forms, we may use the information to add to a database so that we can identify you and personalise the information and communications you receive, especially within your online account, where personalised information is vital to your user experience.
- Anonymous visitor statistics cookies
We use cookies to compile anonymous visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (as this helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long visitors spend on our site and what pages are viewed. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These statistics also tell us if how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to learn what content is most useful to you and allowing us to improve our site to better your experience whilst on our site.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites to store information, in most cases anonymous information, specific to that visitor.
Cookies allow visitors to login on one page and move around other pages whilst remaining logged in. They allow preferences to be set by the visitor and for those preferences to be remembered by the site the next time the visitor logs in.
Cookies can also be used to anonymously view the way visitors navigate our site, how visitors find our site and how long they spend on our site.
Turning cookies off
You can switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. However, doing so will likely limit the functionality of our website.
It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. This website does not use 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.
Privacy policy
You can find out more about what information we collect and how we use and store information by viewing our privacy policy.