CareerCompass Australia - Cookies Policy
This Cookies Policy explains how CareerCompass Australia uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website, located at careercompass.com.au. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device even when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies for several purposes, including:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
- Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, for example, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies help us to improve the performance of our website. We use Google Analytics for this purpose.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make when you use our website, such as remembering your language preferences, login details, and personal settings. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit our website.
- Advertising and Targeting Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers.
Specific Cookies We Use
Here is a detailed list of the cookies we currently use on CareerCompass Australia:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Provider | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | Google Analytics | 2 years | Performance and Analytics |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | Google Analytics | 24 hours | Performance and Analytics |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate. | Google Analytics | 1 minute | Performance and Analytics |
| cc_cookie_consent | Remembers user's cookie consent preference. | CareerCompass Australia | 1 year | Essential |
| PHPSESSID | Identifies user session on the server. | CareerCompass Australia | End of session | Essential |
| MarketingCookie | Used for targeted advertising based on user behavior. | AdRoll | 30 days | Advertising and Targeting |
How to control cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by using the cookie consent tool provided on our website when you first visit. You can also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted.
As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
The following links provide information on how to control cookies in popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
You can also opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites by visiting Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
More Information
For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.com.
Updates to this Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookies Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookies Policy indicates when it was last updated.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookies Policy, please contact us at:
CareerCompass Australia
Level 10, 500 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Phone: (03) 9021 0000
Email: support@careercompass.com.au
This policy was last updated on October 26, 2023.