Cookie Policy

Last update:  November 15, 2023

ABOUT OUR COOKIE POLICY

This Cookie Policy describes how Talent.com Inc. (“Talent.com,” “we,” “our” or “us”) and our affiliates use cookies, web beacons, pixels, server logs and other similar technologies when you visit our websites, use our mobile applications (together, our "Website" or "Services) or visit other websites employing our cookies.

1. What are cookies, pixels, web beacons and other similar technologies?

A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that your browser will store on your computer or mobile device, when you visit a website, in order to remember information about you.

A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a randomly generated unique number or other value. Certain cookies will be used on the Website regardless of whether you are logged in to your account or not.

Cookies are either “session cookies” or “persistent cookies.” Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the Website. Persistent cookies remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).

Cookies are either first-party cookies or third-party cookies. First-party cookies are placed on our Website by Talent.com. In general, these cookies allow Talent.com to remember your preference settings and perform other useful functions that provide a good user experience when you visit our Website.

Third-party cookies are set on our Website by a domain other than Talent.com. They are placed on our Website by our third-party partners, for various purposes including to perform analytics, detect or prevent fraud or collect information about your activities on our Website and serve you better targeted advertising.

We may also use other forms of tracking technologies similar to a cookie, such as pixels, web beacons and clear gifs. A “pixel” or “pixel tag” is a small piece of code that can be embedded on websites and emails. They are used to learn how you interact with our web pages and emails. “Web beacons” or “clear gifs” help deliver cookies and gather usage and performance data. We and/or our third-party providers may employ web beacons to help us better manage content on our Website by informing us of what content is effective. In addition, we may also use clear gifs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.

We may also use mobile analytics software to allow us to better understand the functionality of our mobile software on your phone. This software may record information such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded from.

In this Cookie Policy, we use the term “cookies” to include cookies, web beacons, pixels, server logs and other similar technologies.

2. How do we use cookies

We use cookies for the following purposes:

Purpose

Description                             

Your preferences & user experience

We use cookies to gather certain information about users, such as browser type, server, language preference, and country setting, in order to store user preferences on our Website to make your user experience more consistent and convenient. For example, we may store the recent searches you have performed in a cookie so that we can allow you to easily repeat those searches when you return to our Website. In addition, we use cookies to maintain your logged in state when you visit our Website repeatedly.

Security and performance

We use cookies for security reasons, to prevent fraud and spamming and for compliance purposes, to ensure that we respond to your cookie preference settings. We also use cookies to ensure users receive a consistent user experience while we conduct A/B testing on certain aspects of our Website in order to improve our product offerings. We also use cookies to improve the performance and reliability of our Website.

Referral and conversion tracking

We use cookies to measure the performance of job postings we publish as part of our Services. We use these tracking technologies on our Website and on third-party websites, including websites of our clients and partners. These cookies allow us to know what to charge our clients for the Services we render, based on the clicks to their job postings and what to pay our partners for the users they refer to our Website. We also use cookies and pixels to track when a user interested in a job posting applies to such job, on our clients' websites.

We do not share any personal information about our users with these partners or with our clients unless we receive express consent from our users to do so. Also, our partners and clients agree not to use the information collected using our cookies for any purpose other than for measuring the performance of the job postings we publish.

Analytical purposes

We may use cookies to analyse user activity in order to improve the functionality and user experience of our Website. For example, we can use cookies to look at aggregate patterns like the average number of job searches that users perform. We can use such analysis to gain insights about how to improve the functionality and user experience of our Website.

Marketing

We use cookies from third-party partners for measurement services, better targeting advertisements, and for marketing purposes. Our third-party advertising partners may use these technologies to identify your browsing interests over time and across different websites to deliver targeted advertisements and other content that has been customized for you.

We may also share information about your behaviour on our Website with third parties in order to show you targeted advertisements and other content that has been customized for you. We also use cookies to determine which advertisements users have seen, how many times users have seen a particular advertisement, and on which sites a particular advertisement appeared.

 

3. What cookies do we use

You will find in this table a list of cookies that we use on our Website. The list includes first-party cookies and third-party cookies. The list is not exhaustive and may be updated from time to time. For more information about the third-party providers of these third-party cookies, please visit their websites for more information on their privacy practices.

4. Your control over our use of cookies

Depending on the applicable laws in the country from where you access our Website, we may need your consent in order to use certain cookies on the Website, which will be obtained through the use of a cookie consent manager on such Website. In such a case, you can activate or deactivate cookies we use on our Website, except for strictly necessary cookies, through the “Cookie Settings” presented by the cookie consent manager.

Other controls available to our users include:

– Browser and device specific controls

Your browser may provide you the option of blocking cookies, such as third-party cookies. Some browsers also give you the ability to review and manage cookies individually. We encourage you to review your browser’s settings and documentation for additional information on any controls your browser may offer and how they work. Please note, if you delete from your device or browser any cookie Talent.com uses on our Website, but do not set your browser or device to block third-party cookies, we may install the same cookie during a later visit. Some third-party cookies are also integral to the services we provide on our Website. By blocking third-party cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all the features we offer.

– Targeted advertising opt-outs

You can also opt out of targeted advertising that we do through our third-party advertising partners, such as Google and Facebook, by visiting resources they provide (such as Google’s How Google Uses Information from Sites or Apps that Use Our Services), or by interacting with them through digital advertising self-regulatory initiatives available in the European Union (Your Online Choices), United States (Your Ad Choices), and Canada (Your Ad Choices). We may update this list from time to time as similar initiatives become available in other markets. We encourage you to visit all these sites for additional information about each organization’s approach to targeted advertising, lists of participating companies, and the options available to web users. Please note, any third-party opt-outs may require use of a third-party cookie to reflect your choice and clearing third-party cookies from your browser or device may affect or remove your choice.

5. Modifications

Talent.com may modify this Cookie Policy at any time. If we do so, we will post the revised Cookie Policy and update the “Last Updated” date at the top. In case of material changes, we will also provide you with notice of the modifications, before the effective date, via email, messaging service or notification on our Website and/or ask you to explicitly accept the revised Cookie Policy before your next visit on our Website or mobile application. If you disagree with the revised Cookie Policy, you should not use our Services and you should cancel your account. Your continued use of our Services after the effective date of the proposed changes will constitute acceptance of the revised Cookie Policy.

6. Questions about our Cookie Policy

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, contact us here