Cookie Policy

If you are uncertain about what a cookie is please read our simple guide below to find out how we use them on our website.  When you first visit our website a pop-up cookie message will appear.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently remembering your preferences, and generally improve your website experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. We can split cookies into 4 main categories:

• Category 1: Strictly necessary cookies

• Category 2: Performance cookies

• Category 3: Functionality cookies

• Category 4: Targeting cookies or advertising cookies

Category 1 - Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like registering for job alerts, cannot be provided.

· Please be aware our site uses this type of cookie

Category 2 - Performance cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.

· By using our website and online services, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

Category 3 - Functionality cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name and password) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

· By using our website and online services, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

Category 4 - Targeting cookies or advertising cookies

These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisations.

• We do have links to other web sites and once you access another site through a link that we have provided it is the responsibility of that site to provide information as to how they use cookies on the respective site.  We use the following social media channels that may put category 4 cookies on your device:

• LinkedIn

The Volcanic Platform, which runs our website, uses the following cookies:

• volcanic_saved_jobs_id - This is used to store some jobs for user’s before they register on the website. These jobs can then be logged on the user’s account when they do register.

• volcanic_rumble_uid - This cookie name is associated with Volcanic’s CMS platform tracking. It is used to track and record the unique actions of each user on the website. By default, it has no expiry date. The main purpose of this cookie is: Performance

• _user_logged_in - This cookie name is associated with Volcanic’s CMS platform tracking. It is used to keep the user logged in if they leave the website and return. By default, it expires after the user’s session ends. The main purpose of this cookie is: Performance

• _oliver_session - This cookie name is associated with Volcanic’s CMS platform tracking. It is used to track the user’s session on the website for Analytics. By default, it expires after the user’s session ends. The main purpose of this cookie is: Performance

You can find more information about cookies by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Google also have a brief video which explains the use of cookies.