Our website uses up to five cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers. The cookies we use are ‘analytical’ cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they’re using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users are finding what they need easily.
The cookies we use are from third party services that help make your experience on our website better. Some of them allow us to identify the topics and subjects’ visitors find most interesting and useful while others enable you to easily share information on social media networks. The list of cookies used is below.
| Cookie | Name | Expiration | Purpose |
| _ga | 2 years from set/update | These cookies allow us to track website statistics, including, page views, traffic source etc. We do this to track our most popular pages and how users move around the site in order to improve our website. We use Google Analytics to do this. | |
| _gid | End of browser session | ||
| _gat | End of browser session | ||
| _collect | End of browser session | ||
| NID | 6 months | ||
| r/collect | End of browser session | ||
| UserMatchHistory | 1 month | These cookies are used by LinkedIn for advertising purposes, including recognising your locale/language, routing for any share buttons and identifying browser ID | |
| bcookie | 24 months | ||
| lang | End of browser session | ||
| li_oatml | 1 month | ||
| lidc | 1 day | ||
| lissc | 1 year | ||
| lang | End of browser session |
These cookies are essential for the use of our website and cannot be turned off in our systems.
| Cookie | Name | Expiration | Purpose |
| ASP session | ASP.NET_SessionID | End of browser session | Used for the applythis.net vacancy search |
| Cookies | cookieconsent_status | 12 months | Used to remember cookie preferences |
| CSRF token | csrftoken | 12 months | Prevention of 3rd party cross-site scripting attacks |
| CMS token | django_language | 12 months | The domain to use for the cookie language |
Disabling Cookies
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