Cookie policy

We may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. Some of the cookies we use are essential for the site to operate. The cookies we use can be grouped into four separate categories:

• Strictly necessary

• Performance

• Functionality

• Targeting

Strictly Necessary

‘Strictly Necessary’ cookies allow you to navigate the website and use essential features like secure areas and online registration. These cookies don’t gather any information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet. Since these cookies are essential in our being able to guarantee the performance of our website, should you disable them we won’t be able to ensure your security or predict how our website will perform during your visit.

Examples of strictly necessary cookies that we use include the following:

• pl_uuid

• SESSipuser

• cx_auth_token

Performance

This type of cookie collects information about how you use our website e.g. which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors. The information collected is anonymous and is only used to help us improve how our website works, gauge what interests our users and assess the effectiveness of advertising.

Examples of performance cookies include:

• _ga

• _gat_uni

• intercom-session

• WebSite_LatestJobSearchPage

• WebSite_LatestJobSearchCount

• WebSite_LatestJobSearchItems

• Quantserve.com

• cookieConsent

• cX_P

Functionality

This type of cookie remembers your preferences for tools found on our websites, so you don’t have to re-set them each time you visit. Some of them are managed by third parties. They may for instance determine whether you see the latest or oldest comments made in relation to an article first. Examples include:

• infogr.am

• _cfduid

• _utma

Targeting

These cookies are used to analyse what advertising might be most relevant to a user of the website based on the areas of the website that the user visits. Examples include:

• cX_segmentinfo

• Avocet.io

• double-click.net

• _gads

Please note that any advertisers featured on our site may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be to access all or parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon you visit our sites. Your first visit to any of our sites will generate a pop-up header alerting you to this privacy.

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