Cookie Policy

What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small text file which is stored on your computer or other device, such as mobile phones or tablets, by a website. Cookies allow a website to remember your preferences whilst visiting the site in order to provide you with a more personalised experience. They help to make websites work efficiently and can allow site owners to track how a site is used to provide useful data for making improvements.

Cookies are categorised into four cookie types as follows:

Strictly necessary Cookies

These cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect information about:
- How you got to this website
- The pages you visit and how long you spend on each page.
- What you click on while you're visiting this site

Preference Cookies

These cookies do things like remember your preferences and the choices you make, to personalise your experience of using the site.

Communication and marketing Cookies

Some pages on this site may contain content from other sites, like YouTube, which may set their own cookies. These sites are often referred to as ‘third party’ services. These cookies help us to understand how many people are seeing the content and whether it’s useful.
In addition, if you share a link to a Graduate Talent website page, the service you share it on e.g. Facebook, may set a cookie. We have no control over cookies set on other websites - you can turn them off, but only through your browser settings.

Use of Cookies by the Graduate Talent Website

The table below explains the cookies we use and why:

Table of cookies used by the Graduate Talent website, and why they are used
Cookie Name	Cookie Type	Description	Expires
CookieControl	Necessary	This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on the Graduate Talent website. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.	90 days
account.graduatetalent.com	Necessary	This cookie is used for authentication purposes. It is used by the system to verify whether the user has signed into their user account	Session
_ga	Analytics	These cookies allow Google Analytics to count how many people visit the website by tracking if you’ve visited before. These cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone. Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data	2 years
_ga_G4VN2QK8DQ	Analytics	Used by Google Analytics to find and track an individual session with your device. These cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone. Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data	2 years

How can I manage my Cookies?

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the C icon to open the cookie control panel. You can then adjust the available sliders to On or Off, then clicking Save and close. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.

The majority of web browsers allow you to control the way you wish to use cookies. If you’d prefer not to allow cookies to be used when browsing our website, you can turn cookies off in your browser’s settings. For more information on controlling, disabling and deleting cookies, go to www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on commonly used browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.

Google provide a tool that allows you to opt out from your visits being tracked by Google Analytics. You can obtain the Google Analytics opt-out tool here.