1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. These files store data about your browsing activities to enhance your experience. Cookies can help websites remember your preferences, track site usage, and enable certain features.
2. Types of Cookies We Use
We use several types of cookies on our website, which can be categorized as follows:
A. Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. Without them, services like job searches, account logins, and job application submissions may not work. These cookies don’t collect personal information.
Examples:
Session Cookies: These cookies allow users to navigate the website without needing to log in repeatedly.
Authentication Cookies: These cookies allow you to stay logged in to your account while navigating through the website.
B. Performance and Analytics Cookies
These cookies collect data on how users interact with our website to help us improve functionality and performance. They may track pages visited, time spent on the site, and any errors encountered. These cookies do not collect personal information and are used for statistical purposes only.
Examples:
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our website (such as pages visited, time spent, and interactions). This helps us improve website performance and user experience.
C. Functional Cookies
These cookies allow our website to remember your preferences and choices (such as language or region) to provide a more personalized experience. They may also be used to enhance features like job recommendations or save job applications for later.
Examples:
Preference Cookies: Remembering your preferred language or region to tailor content to you.
Job Recommendation Cookies: Providing you with job suggestions based on your previous activity on the website.
D. Advertising and Targeting Cookies
We may use these cookies to track your browsing behavior and show relevant ads related to job opportunities, career tips, or employer branding. These cookies help deliver more targeted advertisements to users who have visited the website or interacted with our content.
Examples:
Retargeting Cookies: Used to serve personalized ads about job opportunities or relevant content to users who have previously visited our website.
3. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for the following purposes:
Improving user experience: Cookies allow us to remember your preferences, language settings, and region, so we can offer a personalized experience each time you visit our website.
Analyzing website traffic and performance: Performance cookies help us track how well our website is functioning, identify potential problems, and make improvements.
Advertising: Cookies help us deliver more relevant advertising content to you based on your interests and browsing behavior.
4. Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may use third-party cookies from trusted partners, such as analytics providers (Google Analytics), advertising networks, and social media platforms. These third-party cookies help us gather data to better understand your needs and deliver personalized content.
For example:
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to analyze website traffic and improve our content.
LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google Ads: These platforms may place cookies on your device to deliver targeted ads related to job openings or relevant career advice.
You can learn more about how these third-party services use cookies by visiting their respective privacy policies.
5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You can manage your cookie preferences and control the use of cookies on our website in several ways:
Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to manage cookie preferences in the settings menu. You can disable cookies or set alerts to notify you when a cookie is being placed on your device. For detailed instructions, visit your browser's help section.
Cookie Consent Tool: Upon visiting our website, you can choose your cookie preferences through the cookie consent banner that appears. You can accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or customize your preferences.
Opting Out of Advertising: You can opt out of targeted advertising through the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) websites. Keep in mind that opting out may result in seeing less relevant ads.
6. Changes to This Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or to comply with legal requirements. When we make changes, we will post the updated policy on our website with a new "Last Updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically for any updates.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies or how we handle your personal data, please feel free to contact us at:
Britannia Personnel Group
Elsie Whiteley Innovation Centre Hopwood Lane, Halifax HX1 5ER
infor@britanniapersonnelgroup.com
07988094761