1. Cookies on Jobverse
Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser. Jobverse uses a few that the site needs to work, and, only if you agree, one for analytics and Google’s for advertising. The site works the same whichever you choose.
2. Strictly necessary
These are always on: without them you couldn’t sign in, and the site couldn’t remember your cookie choices.
| Name | What it does | Lasts | Set by |
|---|---|---|---|
| jobverse_access | Keeps you signed in from page to page. | 15 minutes | Jobverse |
| jobverse_refresh | Renews your sign-in so you don't have to sign in again every 15 minutes. Replaced each time it is used. | 24 hours | Jobverse |
| jobverse_signed_in | Tells the site that you may be signed in, so it only checks when it needs to. Holds no personal data. | 24 hours | Jobverse |
| jobverse_consent | Remembers your cookie choices. | 180 days | Jobverse |
| jobverse_free_test | Set when you take a practice test without an account, so the one test you can take that way is not taken again. | 400 days | Jobverse |
3. Analytics (only with your consent)
Set only after you allow analytics. If you later turn analytics off, the cookie is deleted straight away.
| Name | What it does | Lasts | Set by |
|---|---|---|---|
| jobverse_session | A random, anonymous ID that lets us count each job view once per hour, so view counts are honest. | 180 days | Jobverse |
4. Advertising (only with your consent)
Google AdSense’s script loads only after you allow advertising cookies; until then, no ad code runs and Google sets no cookies through Jobverse. If you turn advertising off later, the page reloads without it. Cookies Google already set stay in your browser until they expire or you clear them; you can also manage them in Google’s ad settings.
| Name | What it does | Lasts | Set by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google AdSense cookies (for example __gads, __gpi, IDE) | Show ads, limit how often you see the same ad, measure them and fight ad fraud. Google may use them to personalise ads. | Up to 13 months |
5. Storage on your device
Interview practice keeps your progress in your browser’s local storage, not in a cookie. It never leaves your device unless you sign in, when it is saved to your account so it follows you.
| Name | What it does | Lasts | Set by |
|---|---|---|---|
| jobverse.prep.progress.v1 | Your interview practice progress: bookmarks, completed questions and results. | Until you clear it | Jobverse (your browser's local storage) |
| jobverse.prep.active.v1 | Practice tests you have started, so you can go back to them. | Until you clear it | Jobverse (your browser's local storage) |
6. Changing your choices
Use “Cookie settings” at the bottom of any page, or the button above. Your choices last 180 days, after which we ask again. You can also delete cookies in your browser’s settings; that signs you out. For how we use the data cookies collect, see the Privacy Policy.
7. Questions
Write to us through the contact page and choose “Privacy or data request”; it reaches the person responsible for grievances.