www.gcbrecruitment.co.uk). Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. Please read this Cookie Policy carefully for details about why we use cookies and the information they collect from and about you.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They are required to enhance usage and functionality on most modern websites.

A cookie will typically contain a record of the website which issued it, its own name, and a value which is often a randomly generated unique number. A cookie will have a ‘lifetime’, which tells your browser when to delete it.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org

TYPES OF COOKIES

Different cookies are used for different purposes. The most common ones are as follows:

Strictly Necessary cookies

These are cookies that allow you to use different parts of our site. Without them different features that you have requested cannot be provided. These are usually set in response to an action performed by the user like clicking on a job advert or failing to enter the correct password to their account.

Functional cookies

These help us to make your experience within our site more personal. For instance, knowing if you have been on the site before so that messages for new visitors are not displayed to you.

First party cookies

These are cookies that are set by our website. And only we can read them.

Session cookies

These are stored while you browse our site and then deleted once you leave.

Persistent cookies

These are saved on your computer and won’t be deleted when you close the web page. We use these to provide functionality like keeping you logged in when you come back to the site.

Performance cookies (optional if tracking codes are used)

These help us to track how people are using our site. They help us to know what pages people are using most and how users navigate around the site, we use this information to make informed decision about how we can improve the user experience of our site.

The information we get using these cookies is completely anonymous and we will make no attempt to identify you or influence your experience of our site while you are on it.

If you use the “Do Not Track” browser setting, we currently don’t respond to DNT requests.

Third party cookies (optional if tracking codes are used)

These are set by someone other than us, these can be things like Analytics and other embedded content.

Cookies we use (Non-Optional Cookies)

ASP.NET_SessionId	We use this to identify each session that is open on our site. This cookie holds no personal data. All it stores is an ID number generated by us.	First Party Cookie & Session Cookie
ffcookies-dismiss	This is used to stop the cookie policy banner popping up every time you visit our site. This cookie holds no personal data.	First Party Cookie & Persistent Cookie
ffIEWarning	We use this cookie to notify a user that they are using an outdated version of IE and that they should upgrade. This cookie holds no personal data.	First Party Cookie & Persistent Cookie
ff_secCheck	This cookie is used to keep track of when a user had made a failed login attempt. This cookie holds no personal data.	First Party Cookie & Functional Cookie
ff_AdDist	This cookie is used to identify when a user has opened the current job advert page from a link sent to them by email from us. Eg. Job Alerts or Mailshots.	First Party Cookie
.ASPXAUTH	This is a cookie we use to authenticate a logged in user on our site, effectively this is how we keep you logged into our site and able to navigate the site without needing to login every time.	First Party Cookie & Persistent Cookie

DECLINING COOKIES – YOUR CHOICE

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.