Cookie Notice
Introduction
To make this website work properly, and to provide the most relevant products and services to our site visitors, we place small data files called cookies on your device. This policy provides you with information about cookies and how to control them for this website.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie, to develop a record of the user’s online activity. Cookies on this site may be delivered in a first-party (set by this website) or third-party (set by another website) context and may also be set in association with e-newsletters you receive from us.
Cookies help us enhance your experience when using the website. They also help us understand how people use our site, such as which pages are most popular, so that we can better serve our site users.
Types of cookies
Functional cookies:
Functional cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes and do not remember where you have been on the internet. This category of cookies cannot be disabled.
| Cookie Name | Source | Expiry | Purpose |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | DAF website | Session | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. |
| __RequestVerificationToken | DAF website | Session | This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser. |
| daf-gdpr, daf-gdpr-consent-given | DAF website | One year | This cookie stores the user's confirmation/permission for cookie storage. |
| dafcountries_xx#lang | DAF website | Session | This cookie transfers the current language of the site to other applications. |
| ai_session | DAF website | a few seconds | This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie. |
| ai_user | DAF website | One year | This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique user identifier cookie enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time. |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | DAF website | 30 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to detect the first pageview session of a user. |
| _hjFirstSeen | DAF website | 30 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | DAF website | 30 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. |
| _hjSession_{site_id} | DAF website | 30 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to hold current session data. Ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session. |
| _hjSessionUser_{site_id} | DAF website | One year | Hotjar sets this cookie when a user first lands on a page. Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site. Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. |
| __cf_bm | hubspot.com | 30 minutes | This cookie is set by HubSpot's CDN provider and is a necessary cookie for bot protection. |
| _dc_gtm_UA-xxxxxxxx | DAF website | a few seconds | This cookie is associated with sites using Google Tag Manager to load other scripts and code into a page. Where it is used it may be regarded as Strictly Necessary as without it, other scripts may not function correctly. The end of the name is a unique number which is also an identifier for an associated Google Analytics account. |
| _ga | DAF website | 2 years | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
| _gid | DAF website | One day | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. |
| SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE | westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com | 10 years | This cookie name is associated with the Sitecore Content Management System as is used for web analytics to identify repeat visits by unique users. |
Analytics cookies:
Analytics cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
| Cookie Name | Source | Expiry | Purpose |
| _crossGa | DAF website | 2 years | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
| _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | DAF website | a few seconds | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. |
| _gclxxxx | DAF website | 3 months | Google conversion tracking cookie |
| _hjid | DAF website | One year | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
| _hjTLDTest | DAF website | Session | Hotjar cookie. |
| __hssc | DAF website | a few seconds | This cookie is associated with the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. |
| __hssrc | DAF website | Session | This cookie is associated with the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. |
| __hstc | DAF website | One year | This cookie is associated with the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. |
| _hjIncludedInSample | DAF website | Session | Hotjar cookie. This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels. |
| _hjCachedUserAttributes | DAF website | 2 hours | Hotjar cookie. |
| jnAccel | www.connexys.nl | Session | This cookie is used by Connexys, our Third Party supplier for vacancy search to identify via which load-balanced server the current visitor is accessing the website from. |
Functional social cookies:
These cookies are set by Social Media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube, when you view or use embedded media. An example would be a cookie set by YouTube to measure views of an embedded video. These cookies can sometimes track your activities and are closely related to advertising cookies. However, disabling them may result in you not being able to view the embedded content.
| Cookie Name | Source | Expiry | Purpose |
| PREF | .youtube.com | 4 years | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. This is a common Google cookie, used across several of their services. Stores user preference, can be used to personalise ads on google searches |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | .youtube.com | 6 months | YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos |
| GPS | .youtube.com | 27 minutes | YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
| YSC | .youtube.com | Session | YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
| S | .docs.google.com | One hour |
Marketing cookies:
Marketing cookies are used to target advertising to a user (behavioural targeting). They are often served by third party companies, and track a user across websites.
| Cookie Name | Source | Expiry | Purpose |
| IDE | .doubleclick.net | One year | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange |
| test_cookie | .doubleclick.net | a few seconds | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange |
| 1P_JAR | .google.com | One month | This cookie stores information about how the end user uses the site and any advertisement that the end user may have seen before visiting such a website. |
| APISID | .google.com | 2 years | This DoubleClick cookie is usually set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the interests of site visitors and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works solely by identifying your browser and device. |
| __cfduid | hs-scripts.com | One month | This cookie is associated with the HubSpot platform and ensures that all HubSpot features and functionality are added to the site correctly. |
| CONSENT | .google.com | This cookie tracks information about how the end user uses the site and any advertisement that the end user may have seen before visiting such a website. | |
| HSID | .google.com | 2 years | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to build a profile of the visitor's interests and show the relevant ads or other sites. |
| hubspotutk | Hubspot | One year | This cookie is associated with the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for user authentication. |
| NID | .google.com | 6 months | This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. |
| SAPISID | .google.com | 2 years | This DoubleClick cookie is usually set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the interests of site visitors and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works solely by identifying your browser and device. |
| SID | .google.com | One year | Google uses this cookie to help personalize ads on Google properties, such as Google Search. For example, we use such cookies to remember your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser's advertising or your search results, and your visits to an advertiser site. |
| SIDCC | .google.com | 3 months | This cookie tracks information about how the end user uses the site and any advertisement that the end user may have seen before visiting such a website. |
| SSID | .google.com | 2 years | This cookie tracks information about how the end user uses the site and any advertisement that the end user may have seen before visiting such a website. |
| fr | .facebook.com | 3 months | Contains browser and user unique ID combination, used for targeted advertising. |
| _fbp | .facebook.com | 3 months | As a third party host provider, Facebook mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the 'Like' button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services and serving up behaviourally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies. This cookie is used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory & UserMatchHistory | linkedin.com | 29 days | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. |
| lang | ads.linkedin.com | 0 days | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. This sub-domain is connected with LinkedIn's marketing services and gives insight into types of users based on LinkedIn profile data, to improve targeting. |
| li_gc | linkedin.com | 179 days | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. |
| lidc | linkedin.com | 0 days | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. |
| bcookie & bscookie | linkedin.com | 364 days | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. |
| awxxxx | DAF website | 2 years | Used to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. |
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