Cookie Policy

Cookie Name

Purpose / Description

Expiration time

cookienoticecookie

Saves information to allow the website to determine whether or not to display a visitor the cookie notice.

Contains the version of the cookie notice last displayed, the number of times it has been displayed, and whether it has been acknowledged.

180 days

ASP.NET_SessionId

Stores a unique session identifier upon accessing the first page in a session, and allows functions to access information submitted earlier in the session.

The following functions use this cookie:

Login with Facebook/Linked In - Essential to allow the site to return the user back to the correct page after returning from Facebook/Linked In’s login form.

Shortlisted jobs - Essential to keep track of which jobs a non-logged in user has shortlisted.

Job alert activity report - Essential to be able to count the # Responses (apps/clicks) originated from job alert emails.

Blog comment form - Essential to be able to display the submitted comment after the comment has been posted.

Most recent job search result page sign posting - Essential to be able to link back to the most recently view job search results page.

Poll submission form - Essential to ensure only one vote is counted per user.

When visitor closes their browser

.ASPXAUTH

Stores an encrypted identifier of the job seeker upon successful login. Essential to ensure that a job seeker only has to login once per session.

When visitor closes their browser, or when the user logs out

Google Analytics cookies

_ga

Used to distinguish users (to help count how many people visit your site by tracking if you’ve visited before)

2 years

_gid

Used to distinguish users (to help count how many people visit your site by tracking if you’ve visited before)

24 hours

_gat_customerTracker

Used to throttle request rate.

1 minute

_gat

Used to throttle request rate.

1 minute

We use Google Analytics for anonymised site usage analysis to help us improve our site, Recruiter.ie.