Last updated: 12 May 2025
Rare Recruitment Ltd ("we") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy explains how we use "cookies" or similar technologies on our websites listed in our Privacy Policy (“Websites”).
When you first access our Websites from certain jurisdictions, you will receive a message advising you that cookies and similar technologies are in use. By clicking “Accept all” you signify that you understand and agree to the use of these technologies, as described in this policy. In certain jurisdictions where you do not receive a message, your use of our Websites will be deemed to be your consent to the placement of cookies on your computer or other devices.
You do not have to accept cookies and consent can be withdrawn at any time (see How to Control Cookies, below). If you prefer not to receive cookies through our Websites, you can set your browser to either reject all or some cookies. If you decide not to receive cookies through our Websites, then your use of our Websites may not be as efficient as otherwise would be the case if cookies were enabled, and some parts of our Websites may not work at all.
What are cookies
Cookies are small files containing a string of characters that we may store on your computer or mobile device when you access our Websites. When you access our Websites again, the cookies allow us to recognise your browser. Cookies may store your preferences and other information but cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.
Cookies set by a website owner (in this case, Rare Recruitment) are called “first-party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than a website owner are called “third-party cookies”. Third-party cookies enable us to provide third-party features or functionality through our Websites (e.g. social media functions or analytics).
Cookies which expire and are automatically erased when you close your browser window are called “session cookies”. We use session cookies to grant our users access to content and for security purposes. Cookies which have an expiration date in the distant future and remain in your browser until they expire, or you manually delete them are called “persistent cookies”. We may use persistent cookies to better understand usage patterns so we can improve our Websites for users.
The cookies we use
Cookies make the use of our Websites easier by, among other things, saving your preferences. Our cookies may enable us to relate your use of our Websites to personal data that you previously provided.
The information that we collect with cookies allows us to statistically analyse usage of our Websites, and to improve and customize our content and other offerings. However, we only disclose information collected with cookies to third parties on an aggregated basis without the use of any information that personally identifies you.
The specific types of first-party and third-party cookies placed by our Websites and the purposes they perform are described in the table below:
| Type of Cookies | Who serves these cookies | Expiry time and purpose |
| Strictly Necessary Cookies These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies used for authentication, security and to optimise our Websites to your device settings. | Rare Recruitment _rareWebSite-AcceptCookies | _rareWebSite-AcceptCookies (42 years): This cookie is used to remember your choice about cookies on our Websites. |
| Analytics Cookies These cookies allow us to gather analytics to improve the performance and functionality of our Websites. These analytics can include measurements on the number of users on our Websites, how long they stay on our Websites for, and what parts of our Websites they visit. We use this information in either aggregate form to help us to improve the way our Websites work, or to personalize our Websites to your interests. | Google Universal Analytics _utmt_ _utma_ _utmb_ _utmc _utmz_ _ga _gid _gat | _utmt_ (9 minutes): This cookie is used to throttle request rate. _utma_ (2 years): This cookie is used to distinguish users and sessions. _utmb_ (29 minutes): This cookie is used to determine new sessions/visits. _utmc (session): This cookie is operated in conjunction with the __utmb_ cookie to determine whether a user is in a new session/visit. _utmz_ (6 months): This cookie stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how a user reached our Website. _ga (2 years): This cookie is used to distinguish between users, so we know if you are a repeat visitor or a new visitor to our Websites. _gid (1 day): This cookie is like _ga but expires after one day. _gat (1 minute): This cookie is used to throttle request rate via task manager. More information: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout |
| Social Media Cookies These cookies allow us to integrate social media functions into our Websites and may also be used for advertising purposes. | YouTube YSC VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE GPS IDE DSID test_cookie | YSC (session): This cookie allows YouTube to gather information about a visitor’s browser needed to display content. VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE (6 months): This cookie allows YouTube to measure your bandwidth as required to display content. GPS (30 minutes): This cookie is used by YouTube to register a unique ID for tracking users based on their geographical location. IDE (1 year): This cookie is placed by Google under the domain doubleclick.net and is used to personalize advertisements shown across the internet. DSID (1 month): This cookie is used to link user activity when a user logs in to a Google account from multiple devices. test_cookie (15 minutes): This cookie is used to check if a user's browser supports cookies. More information: https://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/cookie-profiling.html Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy Opt-out of Google ad personalization: https://support.google.com/ads |
| Marketing & Advertising Cookies Google Marketing Platform advertising products (Display & Video 360, Search Ads 360, and Campaign Manager 360) and Google Ad Manager use cookies to improve advertising. Some common applications are to target advertising based on what’s relevant to a user, to improve reporting on campaign performance, and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen. | Google Campaign Manager 360 IDE | IDE (13 months EEA UK / 24 months elsewhere) This cookie is placed by Google under the domain doubleclick.net and is used to personalize advertisements shown across the internet. More information: https://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/cookie-profiling.html Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy Opt-out of Google ad personalization: https://support.google.com/ads |
How to control cookies
You do not have to accept cookies and consent can be withdrawn at any time, although you may not be able to use certain features of our Websites. You can do this by adjusting your cookie preferences by activating the settings on your browser that allows you to refuse all or some cookies.
Please follow the links below to helpful information for the most popular browsers:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/internet-explorer.aspx
- Google Chrome: https://www.google.co.uk/chrome/
- Mozilla Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/new/
- Apple Safari: https://www.apple.com/uk/safari/
In addition, you can exercise advertising cookie choices by visiting:
- http://www.aboutads.info/choices/,
- http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/; or
- http://youronlinechoices.com/.
Web beacons
As well as cookies, we use other technologies to recognize and track your use of our Websites. A web beacon (also known as a “tracking pixel” or “clear GIF”) is a clear graphic image (typically a one-pixel tag) that is delivered through a web browser or HTML e-mail, typically in conjunction with a cookie.
Web beacons allows us, for example, to monitor how users move from one page within our Websites to another, to track access to our communications, to understand whether users have come to our Websites from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to measure how ads have been viewed and to improve site performance.
Targeting advertising
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and service that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements.
Changes to this policy
Any changes we may make to this policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this policy.
How to contact us
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact our Product Helpdesk.
