Cookie Notice

Our Site and Platforms use cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site and Platforms and also allows us to improve our offerings.

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.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site and Platforms. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site and Platform when they are using them. This helps us to improve the way our offerings work, for example, by ensuring that Users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functional cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our Site or Platforms. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Name Description Type (expiration) GDPR Classification Personal data stored within the cookie
_clinch_session This functionality is used by the Clinch platform to maintain a candidate’s session integrity, whilst they are accessing the system. It is not stored beyond the session’s duration and does not store personal data. Session Strictly Necessary No
aws-waf-token This cookie is used by the AWS Web Application Firewall to ensure the security of the platform. Persistent (4 days) Strictly Necessary No
chatbot_launcher_state Remembers whether the chatbot window is currently open or closed. Session Functional No
clinch_implied_consent_footer_hidden Indicates whether the visitor has dismissed the “Implied Consent” banner. Persistent (configurable) Functional No
ctc_rejected This cookie is used to record that Clinch performance cookies have not been accepted, and to stop the Cookie Consent box from appearing. It is local to a candidate device – there is no PII and there is no record on the back end to match this candidate. Persistent (configurable) Functional No
ctc A cookie that identifies the candidate if they had agreed to the cookie policy. Each time a user takes an action on the career site, we examine the identifier in the cookie and look up the candidate. Persistent (configurable) Performance No
ctc_session A cookie that ties together all the activity (page views, forms, etc) and interactions of a visitor (identified by the “ctc” cookie above) in one session or visit to the site. Persistent (15 minutes after the completion of the browsing session) Performance No