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Cookie & Browser Storage Policy
Where things stand today: this site does not set any cookies, and does not use any analytics, advertising or tracking technology of any kind. The only browser storage it uses is strictly necessary to keep you signed in to the account you've asked to use — nothing optional runs, so there is nothing to ask your permission for today. If that ever changes, an accept/reject choice will appear here and this notice will be updated first.
1. What we actually use
| Name / key | Type | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Consent needed? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
laurusRecruitmentSession |
localStorage (not a cookie) | First party (this site) | Keeps you signed in to the Candidate Portal, Employer Portal or Staff area you explicitly signed in to — holds your session tokens and a couple of non-sensitive profile fields (name, role) used to render the page. | Until you sign out, or until the session naturally expires | No — strictly necessary to provide the account service you asked for (PECR's own "strictly necessary" exemption) |
2. Things we checked for and do not use
As of the version date above, this site has no: analytics or telemetry scripts, advertising or marketing pixels, session-replay or heatmap tools, embedded third-party media (e.g. YouTube/Vimeo), externally-loaded fonts or CDN scripts, or any device-fingerprinting technique. Every script and stylesheet this site loads is served from its own domain — see the audit document above for the full technical inventory.
Signing in with Google, where offered, sends you to Google's own sign-in page and back — Google may set its own cookies on its domain as part of that process, under Google's own privacy terms; this site does not read, set or rely on any Google cookie itself.
3. If that ever changes
If we ever add optional technology such as analytics, this policy — and a genuine accept/reject/manage-preferences control, blocking anything optional until you actively opt in — will be updated first, not after the fact. Note that since 5 February 2026, UK law (following the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025) allows a narrow, specific exemption from cookie consent for first-party analytics used solely to improve a service, provided clear information and a simple way to object are given, and the data isn't shared onward for a third party's own purposes — even if we ever used that exemption, this page would say so plainly rather than silently start tracking.
You can always find this page again from the Cookie & Browser Storage Policy link in this site's footer, on every page.
4. Managing browser storage yourself
You can clear localStorage for this site at any time from your browser's own settings (usually under Privacy / Site Data), which will sign you out. This does not delete your account or profile data held on our servers — see the Privacy Notice for how to request that.