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Our privacy statement applies to our use of cookies.
How we use cookies on jobs.kent.gov.uk
Analytics cookies
We use Google Analytics and Hotjar to understand how you use our website and to gather feedback, so we can improve it.
If you've accepted analytics cookies on other websites under the kent.gov.uk domain, such as www.kent.gov.uk or webapps.kent.gov.uk, you may notice that some of the following cookies are already in place. However, we will not use them on news.kent.gov.uk unless you have accepted analytics cookies on this website.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how you use this website. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting your needs and to make improvements based on our findings.
Google Analytics stores information about:
- the pages you visit on our website
- the time you spend on each page
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site.
Google may retain user and event data for up to 14 months. We don’t collect or store your personal information (for example your name or address) so we can’t identify who you are. We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data and find out how you can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites.
Google Analytics uses the following cookies on our website:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | 2 years |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate. | 1 minute |
| AMP_TOKEN | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. | 30 seconds to 1 year |
| _gac_<property-id> | Contains campaign related information for the user. | 90 days |
| _ga_<container-id> | Used to persist session state. | 90 days |
| _gac_gb_<container-id> | Contains campaign related information. | 90 days |
Microsoft Clarity
We use Microsoft Clarity to help us understand how users interact with the website. We do this using behavioural metrics, heatmaps, and session replays provided by Microsoft Clarity to help us improve our website.
In order to do this, Microsoft Clarity uses cookies and related technologies to collect information about the user and their visit to our website.
You can find out more about the cookies Microsoft Clarity uses on their website.
Microsoft collects or receives personal data from you to provide Microsoft Advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
You can control Microsoft’s use of your data for personalised advertising from Microsoft by visiting their opt-out page.
You can access and clear some of your data through the Microsoft privacy dashboard.
Functional cookies
We use functional cookies so you can watch embedded videos on our website.
YouTube
We embed YouTube videos so that you can watch them on our website. We use YouTube’s Privacy Enhanced Mode which means that YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information when you watch their videos on our web pages.
YouTube uses the following cookies on our website:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| PREF* | Stores information such as a user’s preferred page configuration and playback preferences like autoplay, shuffle content, and player size. | After 8 months |
| YSC | Used by YouTube to remember user input and associate a user’s actions. | Session |
| VISITOR INFO1 LIVE | Used to remember your preferences and is also used to detect and resolve problems with the service. | After 8 months |
For more information visit the YouTube Privacy and Safety Centre.
Vimeo
We use Vimeo’s embeddable video player to show video content on some pages of our website. This player uses cookies that Vimeo consider to be essential to the video player experience.
We have enabled the DNT (do not track) parameter on all embedded Vimeo videos on our website, which stops the player from tracking any session data, including all cookies and analytics. This has the same effect as enabling a Do Not Track setting in your browser.
For more information read the Vimeo cookie policy.
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are needed to make our website work.
Our cookie management solution
You may see a modal window when you visit our website, to let you know that we would like to use cookies and to ask for your consent. We call this our 'cookie management solution'.
We use the following cookies on our website:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| cookie-management-preferences-set | Lets us know that you have saved your cookie preferences. | 90 days |
| cookie-management-status | Saves your cookie preferences. | 90 days |
| cookie-management-version | Allows us to reconfirm your cookie preferences whenever we change our cookie usage. | 90 days |
Squiz Matrix
We use Squiz Matrix to manage the content on our website.
We use the following cookies on our website:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _cf_bm | This allows us to protect the site from malicious traffic. | 1 hour |
| dxp-sessionid | This helps us remember you as you navigate the site. | 1 hour |
| SQ_SYSTEM_SESSION | This allows the site to differentiate between user visits to make the website work. | Session |
| SimpleSAMLAuthToken | This cookie is used to remember your logged in status. | Session |
| SimpleSAMLSessionID | This cookie is used to remember your logged in status. | Session |
| SSOredirect | Allows us to redirect you to the page you were on before logging in. | Session |
| AWSALB | Used for load balancing. | 1 week |
| AWSALBCORS | Used for load balancing. | 1 week |
Changing your cookie settings
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