Cookie Name | Purpose / Description | Expiration time |
cookienoticecookie | Saves information to allow the website to determine whether or not to display a visitor the cookie notice. Contains the version of the cookie notice last displayed, the number of times it has been displayed, and whether it has been acknowledged. | 180 days |
ASP.NET_SessionId | Stores a unique session identifier upon accessing the first page in a session, and allows functions to access information submitted earlier in the session. The following functions use this cookie: Login with Facebook/Linked In - Essential to allow the site to return the user back to the correct page after returning from Facebook/Linked In’s login form. Shortlisted jobs - Essential to keep track of which jobs a non-logged in user has shortlisted. Job alert activity report - Essential to be able to count the # Responses (apps/clicks) originated from job alert emails. Blog comment form - Essential to be able to display the submitted comment after the comment has been posted. Most recent job search result page sign posting - Essential to be able to link back to the most recently view job search results page. Poll submission form - Essential to ensure only one vote is counted per user. | When visitor closes their browser |
.ASPXAUTH | Stores an encrypted identifier of the job seeker upon successful login. Essential to ensure that a job seeker only has to login once per session. | When visitor closes their browser, or when the user logs out |
Google Analytics cookies | ||
_ga | Used to distinguish users (to help count how many people visit your site by tracking if you’ve visited before) | 2 years |
_gid | Used to distinguish users (to help count how many people visit your site by tracking if you’ve visited before) | 24 hours |
_gat_customerTracker | Used to throttle request rate. | 1 minute |
_gat | Used to throttle request rate. | 1 minute |
We use Google Analytics for anonymised site usage analysis to help us improve our site, doctorjobs.ie. |