Cookie Policy
This website uses cookies to collect information about how you use our site to help enhance user experience and also to help us to improve our business and the services we provide. The cookies we use allow our website to function and help us to understand what parts of our site is most useful to visitors.
Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with this policy. If you’re not sure about any part of it policy, please contact us.
What are cookies?
Like most websites, we use cookies, and similar technologies, which are files that contain small amounts of information. These files are downloaded to any internet enabled device (such as your computer or smartphone) when you visit a website. Cookies are useful from a user and business perspective because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device and to remember your actions and preferences (such as jobs you may be interested in) and generally improving your experience.
Control of cookies
When you first enter our website you will see a cookie banner where you can express your cookie preferences. You will see an option to accept or reject the cookies within the banner. By accepting the cookie banner, or by browsing our website after you have been presented with the banner, you agree to us placing cookies on your device in accordance with the terms of this policy.
Most internet browsers are initially set up to automatically accept cookies. You have the option to change your preferences at any time through your browser. You can also withdraw your consent to cookies by deleting the cookies that have already been stored. How you do this depends on which browser you use. The most popular browsers are set out below:
| Browser | Cookie settings navigation |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Edge | Select ‘menu’ > ‘Settings’ > ‘Cookies and site permissions’ > ‘Manage and delete cookies and site data’ |
| Chrome | Select ‘menu’ > ‘Settings’ > ‘Privacy and security’ > ‘Cookies and other site data’ |
| Safari | ‘Settings’ > ‘Privacy’ > ‘Manage website data’ |
| Firefox | ‘Settings’ > ‘Privacy and security’ > ‘Enhanced Tracking Protection’ > ‘Custom’ |
If you disable the cookies that we use, this may impact your experience on our website.
What cookies do we use?
The table below explains the cookies we use and the purpose of each.
| Name of cookie | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _GRECAPTCHA | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | 5 months 27 days |
| __cf_bm | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. | 30 minutes |
| sc_anonymous_id | The cookie is set by SoundCloud to enable SoundCloud player. | never |
| cid | The cid cookie helps to identify unique visitors and understand their site behaviour at different times. | 1 year |
| _gcl_au | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | 3 months |
| _ga | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | 2 years |
| _gid | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 day |
| _gat_UA-112689107-1 | A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. | 1 minute |
| _hjFirstSeen | 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. | 30 minutes |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site’s daily session limit. | 2 minutes |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site’s pageview limit. | 2 minutes |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Hotjar sets this cookie to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.. | 30 minutes |
| CONSENT | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. | 2 years |
| YSC | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. | session |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. | 5 months 27 days |
| IDE | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads and according to the user profile. | 1 year 24 days |
| fbp | This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website. | 3 months |
| yt-remote-device-id | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. | never |
| yt.innertube::requests | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | never |
| yt.innertube::nextId | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | never |
| yt.innertube::nextId | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | never |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. | never |
| fr | Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. | 3 months |
The duration of our cookies is dependent on whether it is a session cookie or a persistent cookie:
Session cookies – these cookies are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you leave our website
Persistent cookies – these cookies remain on your device for a longer period until you either manually delete them or it reaches the lifetime of the specific cookie. Please see ‘Control of Cookies’ section for details on how to manually delete cookies.
Policy updates
We update this policy from time to time for changes to our use of cookies. Any changes will be posted here or signposted from our website.
Contact Information
If you have any queries in relation to this policy or our use of cookies, please contact us at:
Solum, 6 Cavendish Place, London, W1G 0QA