Cookie Policy
Hewett Recruitment have invested significantly in a website platform designed by a specialist recruitment web development company Volcanic. Our website is designed to give you a better and more interactive web experience each time you visit our website. Wth the implementation of the new EU-law on personal data, The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we are making it easier for our website users to understand what information is being released, to whom, and for what purpose.
In order to ensure your website experience is the best it can be we operate certain cookies.
When visiting our website as a first time user, a pop-up cookie message will appear and prompts the user to take positive action to accept cookies. You can opt to accept or decline these cookies.
What do cookies do?
Cookies are used to customize your browsing experience, making it possible to remember your preferences from visit to visit. Thanks to the cookie, our website can present itself at its best to you as a specific user, providing suggestions and inspiration that match your interests and needs based on the preferences you may choose.
Essentially, each cookie is a small lookup table containing pairs of key data values - for example first name and last name. Once the cookie has been read by the code on the server or client computer, data can be retrieved and used to customise the web page appropriately.
If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings.
Why do we use cookies?
The purpose is for the website to be able to recognise you and retain specific information about you. This information may be your login or language preferences etc., so that you don’t have to start over on every single visit. Cookie are also used to evaluate new features, develop improvements and conduct business planning, reporting, and forecasting to ensure Hewett Recruitment provide the best possible service for you.
We use cookies to track your activity to help ensure you get the smoothest possible experience when visiting our website. We can use the information from cookies to ensure we present you with options tailored to your preferences on your next visit. We can also use cookies to analyse traffic and for marketing, promotion, and advertising purposes, including the Facebook Pixel.
What cookies are used on our website?
First party cookies, served directly by Hewett Recruitment and web provider Volcanic to your computer. These cookies are used only by the website operator to recognize your computer when it revisits that site.
The Volcanic platform uses these cookies:
volcanic_saved_jobs_id - This is used to store some jobs for users before they register on the website. These jobs can then be logged on the users account when they do register.
volcanic_rumble_uid - This cookie name is associated with Volcanics 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 Volcanics 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 users session ends. The main purpose of this cookie is: Performance
_oliver_session - This cookie name is associated with Volcanics CMS platform tracking. It is used to track the users session on the website for Analytics. By default it expires after the users session ends. The main purpose of this cookie is: Performance
Third party cookies, Third parties, including Google Analytics and Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target adverts.
We also use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website and help us create a more useful and easy to use site. This is a web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to collect information such as visitor numbers and the most popular pages
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit http://www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note that in a few cases some of our website features may not function if you remove cookies from your browser.
How to control or delete cookies
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies and we have explained how you can exercise this right in the table above. However, please note that if you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of our website.
You can block cookies by using the opt-out links provided in the table above, or by changing your browser settings so that cookies from this website cannot be placed on your computer or mobile device. In order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the “Help”, “Tools” or “Edit” facility). The below hyperlinks provide further guidance on how to disable the use of cookies on certain browsers, and/or on how to delete cookies:
Chrome; Internet Explorer; Safari and Apple support page; Mozilla Firefox; Google Privacy Policy; Chrome web store.
Please note that using a third party opt-out link to disable a cookie or category of cookie may not delete the cookie from your browser but simply disable it from future use. If you wish to delete the relevant cookie, you will need to do this yourself from within your browser.
Facebook Advertisement
We use Facebook Pixel and Facebook Custom Audiences to deliver interest-based advertisements on Facebook. These tools allow us to personalise our service experience with Hewett Recruitment.
Customer Audiences:
This feature provided by Facebook allows Hewett Recruitment to present relevant adverts to our target audience of users, based on email address provided. We do not share any of your personal information, including search history, with Facebook. The tool lets Hewett Recruitment convert your email address to a unique number that Facebook uses to match to unique numbers Facebook generates from its users.
Facebook Pixel:
Based on cookies gathered, the Conversion Tracking Pixel service of Facebook Inc, allows Hewett Recruitment to follow the actions of users after they are redirected to our website by clicking on a Facebook advertisement. We are then able to record the efficiency of adverting efforts for statistical and market research purposes. The collected data will remain anonymous. This means that we cannot see your personal data of any individual users. However, the collected data are saved and processed by Facebook . We are informing you on this matter according to our information at this time. Facebook is able to connect the data with your Facebook account and use the data for their own advertising purposes, in accordance with Facebooks Data Usage Policy found here: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy.