Cookie Policy

Last Updated: July 12, 2022

Thank you for choosing to be part of our community.  We are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy rights.  This cookie policy (“Policy”) explains how personal data are collected through cookies and how cookies are used by Talent, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “Company“, “we”, “us”, or “our”) when you access or use the career.io site or related mobile application (the “Site”).

Cookies are small text files that are left on your browser when you visit our Site (“Cookies”). Your browser saves Cookies on your device’s hard drive. Some of these Cookies are necessary for the Site to function, others help us improve the Site and make it more user friendly. The information saved with the aid of Cookies can be sent back to our servers when you visit our Site again. There are:

  • First-Party Cookies: these are Cookies which we place on our Site ourselves and which are only used by us.

  • Third-Party Cookies: Cookies that are placed on our Site by third parties. Examples of third parties are advertising partners or security providers.

Certain Cookies may collect or be associated with personal data. Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. You can find more information about the purposes for which we process your personal data in our Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions or concerns about our collection or use of your information or the use of Cookies, please contact us at [email protected].

A. WHICH COOKIES DO WE USE?

We select our Cookies carefully. We work with third parties to collect data through Cookies, but we are neither responsible nor liable for the processing of personal data by these third parties, and can therefore not guarantee that these third parties will handle your personal data in a reliable and secure manner. You should always read the privacy and Cookie policies of other websites or tools before using them. If you want to know more about Cookies in general, please refer to the website all about Cookies.

In addition to Cookies, we also use tracking and other technologies that can be very similar. Our Site may contain small transparent image files or codes that record information about you. These are, for example, ‘scripts’, ‘web beacons’ or ‘tracking URLs’. These technologies are also referred to as Cookies.

Below we explain, among other things, which types of Cookies we use and for what purposes.

1. ESSENTIAL COOKIES

These Cookies are essential for our Site’s core activity and are automatically activated when you use the Site. These Cookies are for example used to remember your account details, your selected language settings and your previous searches, so that you can use our Site efficiently and effectively. These Cookies also include the enabling of essential security and accessibility features so that you can safely use our Site. We also save your permission settings in a Cookie to remember these for future visits.

We may use these essential Cookies without your consent. As these Cookies are necessary, you cannot opt out of this category. However, the Cookies will never be used for any purpose other than ensuring the functionality of our Site.

We use the following specific essential Cookies:

Cookie

Domain

Type

Expiration

Description

__cfduid

.career.io

First-party

1 month

Cookie assoiated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times. According to CloudFlare it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information.

vanity_id

.career.io

First-party

17 years

This Cookie allows to enable latest product features.

_session_id

.career.io

First-party

6 months

This Cookie creates an interim session ID used as an in-session user ID.

refferal_id

.career.io

First-party

Session

Used for affiliates.

RC Cookie

.career.io

First-party

Session

To differentiate between humans and robots, offered by Google.

tr.

.career.io

First-Party

3 months

We process your online (Cookie) identification number, IP address and the date you visited our Site. The Cookie is placed via Google Tag Manager.

2. ANALYTICAL COOKIES

These Cookies help improve the performance of the Site and provide a better user experience. This enables us to offer you a high quality experience by adapting our Site and content and identifying and resolving problems quickly. For example, we use performance Cookies to monitor which pages are most popular, which method of navigation between pages is the most effective, and to ascertain why some pages receive error notifications.

We also use Google Analytics. When enabled, Google will collect visitation information and associate it with Google information from accounts of signed-in users who have consented to this association for the purpose of analytics and personalization. This Google information may include the end user location, search history, YouTube history, and data from sites that partner with Google, and is used to provide us aggregated and anonymized insights into our users' cross device behaviors. We therefore see global statistics and anonymised data.

You can read more about Google Analytics here and also opt out of Google Analytics at any time here. Your data with Google may be accessed or deleted via My Activity. You can also refuse these Cookies by changing your browser settings. Please refer to the section “HOW CAN I CONTROL COOKIES?”. Should anything change with regard to the rules on the use of Google Analytics, we will adjust our use accordingly.

We use the following specific analytical Cookies:

Cookie

Domain

Type

Expiration

Description

_ga

.career.io

First-party

2 years

This Cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This Cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier.

_gid

.career.io

First-party

1 day

This Cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics.

_gat_UA-52581310-5

.career.io

First-party

1 minute

This Cookie is used by Google Analytics to filter requests from bots.

PLAY_SESSION

help.career.io

First-party

1 year

This Cookie creates an interim session ID used as an in-session user ID for a help center.

headway_session

updates.career.io

First-party

Session

This Cookie creates an interim session ID used as an in-session user ID for a changelog page.

persist:hs-beacon-*

.career.io

First-party

Session

These Helpscout Cookies improve the support system by seeing what questions you have already viewed.

3. MARKETING AND TRACKING COOKIES

We collaborate with third parties to display advertisements on our Site or to manage advertisements on other sites. Those third parties can use technologies such as Cookies to collect information about your activities on this Site and other sites in order to offer you advertising based on your browsing activities and interests. You can refuse these Cookies by changing your browser settings. We refer to the section “HOW CAN I CONTROL COOKIES?”.

For example, Google may not share your information with other advertisers. If required, they may share this information to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal process or governmental requests.

We use the following specific marketing and tracking Cookies:

Cookie

Domain

Type

Expiration

Description

_gcl_au

.career.io

First-party

3 months

Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services, to show relevant advertisements, to convert visitors to customers, and to measure the efficiency of advertisements on websites. Google Ads enhanced conversions allow us to measure online conversions driven by Google ads using the first-party data (e.g. purchase, lead).  With these enhanced conversions, your email address is shared with Google, which is your unique advertisement ID. With this unique ID, Google is given the possibility to recognise you as a user and therefore to show you more or fewer ads. The email address is stored at Google in hashed form. We only see your unique advertisement ID that Google uses to show you relevant advertisements

_lfa

.career.io

First-party

2 years

This Cookie is used to store and track audience reach by Leadfeeder.

IDE

.doubleclick.net

Third-party

1 year

This Cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the Platform and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. Also to measure the efficiency of our advertisements. We only see your unique advertisement ID that Google uses to show you relevant advertisements.

test_cookie

.career.io

First-party

1  day

The ‘test_cookie’ Cookie is used to see whether your browser supports Cookies.

MUID

.bing.com

Third-party

1 year

This Cookie is widely used my Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded Microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking. We only see your unique advertisement ID that Microsoft uses to track you.

_uetsid

.career.io

First-party

1 day

This Cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site.

_uetvid

.career.io

First-party

2 weeks

This is a Cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking Cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our Site.

NID

.google.com

Third-party

6 months

This Cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to help build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites, to show relevant advertisements and measure the efficiency of our advertisements. We only see your unique advertisement ID that Google uses to show you relevant advertisement: ads/ga-audiences and pagead/1p-user-list/# are also the tracking pixels.

_fbp

.career.io

First-party

3 months

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

fr

.facebook.com

Third-party

3 months

Contains browser and user unique ID combinaton, used for targeted advertising.

B. SOCIAL MEDIA BUTTONS

Our Site may contain buttons, widgets, tools or content that link to services from other companies (for example, Facebook ‘like’ or ‘share’ buttons). We may collect information about your use of these functions. In addition, when you see or use these buttons, tools or content, or if you view a web page that contains these, certain information from your browser can be sent to the other company automatically. Read that company’s privacy policy for more information.

C. HOW CAN I CONTROL COOKIES? 

If you want to accept or decline certain categories of Cookies, you can do that via our Cookie banner on our Site. This tool is automatically loaded when you visit the Site for the first time. We give you the option of accepting or declining certain Cookies, with the exception of the essential Cookies. 

In addition, you can also change your web browser settings to decline Cookies. In that case, our Site may no longer function properly. More information on how to enable, disable and delete Cookies can be found in the instructions for your internet browser. We always recommend that you check whether your internet browser is up to date. For this purpose, you can use the help and support button of your internet browser. The following links explain how to access the Cookie settings in different browsers:

If we process personal data through our Cookies, we can also delete or anonymise your personal data on request, unless we are subject to a statutory retention obligation. For more information on your rights in respect of your personal data and how to exercise these rights, on the security measures we have taken and on any potential data transfers, please refer to our Privacy Policy. 

You can submit requests for the exercise of your rights to us at [email protected]. If any personal data are linked to a Cookie, you must also send a copy of the Cookie in question. You can find this in your browser settings.

D. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?

We may update this Policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by the “Last Updated” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. We encourage you to review the posted Policy frequently to stay informed about how your information is being used.

E. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?

If you have questions or comments about this Policy, you may contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) by email at [email protected].

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