Cookie Policy
Cookies and Your Experience
Cerulean uses very few cookies. Those that keep the platform working are always present. We measure how the sites are used ourselves, with nothing that identifies you, and you can stop that measurement at any time. We use no advertising cookies and no one else’s measurement, and we do not sell what we learn.
This policy covers every Cerulean site: ceruleanjobs.com and our country sites for France, Switzerland, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy. It explains what these technologies are, which of them we use, and how you can exercise control over them.
What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are not programmes and cannot carry viruses or malware. They allow the website to recognise your device across sessions and remember certain information about your preferences or behaviour. Browsers offer similar places to keep information — local storage and session storage — which we use for the same purposes and describe here in the same way.
The Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary
These are required for the platform to function, or remember a choice you have made. They do not require your consent under applicable law.
| Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
access_token, id_token, refresh_token, user_id | Keep you signed in to your account. Set only when you sign in | 400 days |
oauth_state, oauth_code_verifier | Security — protect the sign-in process against forgery | 5 minutes |
login_entry, login_redirect, intended_redirect, login_locale, login_provider | Carry one sign-in through to its end: whether it began at Sign in or at Apply, the page or job to return you to, the site it began on and the sign-in service you chose. Set only on api.ceruleanjobs.com when a sign-in begins, and removed when it ends | 30 minutes |
cloudfront-viewer-location | Your approximate location — country, region and city — as inferred by our content delivery network, with nothing that identifies you. It lets us offer you your country’s Cerulean site and begin your search close to home | 24 hours |
cerulean-measure (local storage) | Remembers your choice about our measurement, made under Cookies at the foot of any page | Until you clear it |
cerulean-stayed (local storage) | Remembers that you chose to remain on a site when we offered you another | Until you clear it |
sso_checked, cv_upload_start (session storage) | Carry your session between our sites, and track a CV upload you have started | Until you close the tab |
Signing in is provided by Kinde. When you choose to sign in, Kinde’s own pages set the cookies they need to complete it.
Measurement
Our own measurement counts visits, searches, and the jobs shown and clicked. Your browser reports them to our servers in requests that carry no cookie and no identifier; from those reports we keep totals that name no one, and the words and places typed into a search, exactly as typed; we delete the server logs after 90 days. No one else receives them.
Two things go further, and our Privacy Policy explains both. The sites remember the source of your current visit — a search engine, an email, another website — and the page it brought you to; if on that visit you create an account, apply for a job or upload a CV, that source is stored with it. And if you are signed in, the jobs you view and click and the searches you make go to your account, where they shape your recommendations.
| Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
cerulean-visit (local storage) | The source of your current visit and the page it brought you to, with no identifier. A link you follow to another Cerulean site carries it there | Used for 30 minutes after the last page you view; kept until a later visit replaces it, or until you clear it |
sso_referrer (session storage) | On our country sites, the page that brought you, kept while the site checks whether you are signed in | Until it is read, at most until you close the tab |
login_touch | On api.ceruleanjobs.com, the source of your visit, carried through a sign-in so that it can be stored with the account or application it leads to. Set only while our measurement is on, and removed when the sign-in ends | 30 minutes |
cerulean-activity (local storage) | If you are signed in, the jobs you have just viewed or clicked and the searches you have just made, waiting to be sent to your account. If you stop our measurement before the site can tell your account, your choice is kept here, on its own, until it is sent | Until sent, usually within seconds. Anything not sent within a day is never sent, and stays until you clear it |
cerulean-withdrawal (local storage) | If you turn our measurement back on while you are signed out, a note of the day you did so, and nothing else, kept so that the first page you load while signed in can tell your account, once, after which the note is deleted | Until that page, or until you stop our measurement or clear it |
Measurement is on in every country until you stop it.
Advertising Cookies
We do not use any.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
On any Cerulean site, select Cookies at the foot of any page and choose to stop measuring your visits. It takes effect at once: your browser stops reporting your visits and deletes the source of your current visit and any activity waiting to be sent; no source is stored with an account, application or CV; and, if you are signed in, the jobs you view and the searches you make no longer shape your recommendations. Our servers still keep their ordinary logs of the pages you request. Because each of our sites has its own address, each keeps its own record of your choice in your browser. If you are signed in, we also record your choice on your account. For as long as it stands, we stop recording the jobs you view and click, the searches you make, and what the Recommendations tab shows you, on whichever device you sign in. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as the same choice.
In your browser, you can also view, delete or block cookies entirely. Please note that blocking all cookies will prevent you from signing in.
Contact
For questions about our use of cookies, please write to luxury@ceruleanjobs.com.