Cookie Policy
Please read this policy carefully as it applies to the Companjon Group’s use of cookies and other similar technologies in connection with this website and our customer self-service portal ‘MyCompanjon’.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies, pixels and similar technology (collectively "cookies" for the purpose of this Cookie Policy) are small text files that are stored on your computer, mobile device or other device when you visit a website or use an app. Some of these cookies can be recognised by websites when you visit them. Cookies can be set by the owner of the website (“first party cookies”) or in some cases by third party services (“third party cookies”) the website owner allows to track your preferences or provide other functionality such as analytics.
When you visit our website or customer self-service portal you will be asked to confirm your cookie preferences though our cookie consent management centre.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly Necessary Cookies are necessary to enable websites to function and cannot be switched off. Regulation states that such cookies can be stored on your device if they are essential for the operation of the website. You are not required to give consent for strictly necessary cookies. For all other types of cookies, consent must be obtained.
An example of strictly necessary cookies would be the Microsoft Azure cookies used on our ‘MyCompanjon’ portal to allow you to sign in via your email or social media accounts.
Functional Cookies
These cookies enable websites to provide enhanced website functionality and to store user preferences in how the site is presented. This could include choices like your preferred language.
When you interact with our careers page, we use cookies to:
• Show job advertisements and relevant career content.
• Record your contact (including applications for jobs with us)
Companjon uses an “iFrame” provided by our HR service provider Personio GmbH (“Personio”), Rundfunkplatz 4, 80335 Munich, Germany. Personio manages personal data such as job applications on our behalf on their system. You can find more information on Personio's Data Privacy Notice here.
Performance Cookies
Performance Cookies (Analytics and Tracking Cookies) are set by us or third-party analytics providers. These cookies allow us to recognise and collect the number of visitors to our website and understand how our visitors use the website. All of the information we use which is collected through these cookies is aggregated.
Our website uses Google Analytics a tool provided by Google LLC,1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California, United States (“Google”) and LinkedIn an Insight tag provided by LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, United States (“LinkedIn), we use these cookies to help us understand how visitors engage with our website.
Google Analytics, Google Ads and LinkedIn provide analytics tools that help website owners (such as us) to understand how their visitors engage with them. Google Analytics may use a set of cookies to collect information and report site usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. The main cookie used by Google Analytics is the ‘ga’ cookie.
The LinkedIn Insight Tag is a piece of lightweight JavaScript code that we have added to our website so we can see how our LinkedIn adverts are performing and track viewers of our adverts on LinkedIn to the visitors to our website. LinkedIn collects information from our website and reports site usage statistics back to us without personally identifying individual visitors. LinkedIn provides additional information on its use of the LinkedIn Insight tag here.
We also use Google Analytics tools on our ‘MyCompanjon’ portal to help us identify users and make sure that your current session persists. For more information, including details of how to block these cookies, please see Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites.
We also use Hotjar to understand how you use our website through Hotjar services such as heatmaps, page usage and session recordings. This helps us improve our website based on user needs. For more information click here to see how Hotjar uses cookies.
Targeting Cookies
These cookies are set by our third-party provider to provide behavioural advertising and re-marketing analytical data. They collect any type of browsing information necessary to create profiles and to understand user habits in order to develop an individual and specific advertising routine.
Website content loaded in iframes from third party providers, such as YouTube may set cookies. We use the Youtube video player, an application provided by YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066. We have no control over these third party cookies (other than allowing them to be served when you choose to view a video). When you watch an embedded video from our YouTube channel on our website, YouTube may store cookies for a range of purposes. For more information visit YouTube/Google Privacy information.
Managing Cookies
Where you have given your consent to the use of a cookie, you may withdraw this at any time. You can withdraw or change your consent at any time by the following methods.
Our website
Please refer to Change my Preference within the Cookie Policy to view and update your preferences when on our website (www.companjon.com)
Changing your browser settings
You can choose within the setting on your browser whether you wish to accept cookies or not. To manage website cookies effectively, you will need to refer to specific web browser information to allow, reject, disable or delete cookies.
Generally, the settings portion of the toolbar on most web browsers or the help section of your browser’s website will provide you with information to manage and disable cookies. Please be aware that if you disable cookies, it may affect other users if the device is shared.
MyCompanjon Portal
Please refer to our Privacy Management Center to view and update your preferences once logged into the MyCompanjon Portal.
Description of cookies used on the pop-up display box when visitors enter our website and when visitors enter our MyCompanjon portal.
Host Name | Name of cookie | Issued by | Purpose | Storage period | Category |
Gatsby GDPR Google Analytics | Companjon | Cookie records if you have enabled or disabled Google Analytics cookies | 6 months | Strictly Necessary | |
_ga | Google Analytics | Google Analytics is Google’s analytics tool that helps website owners to understand how their visitors engage with them. Google Analytics may use a set of cookies to collect information and report site usage statistics about our website. According to Google, both cookies are used to distinguish users. For more detailed information, see here. | 2 years | Performance | |
_gid | Google Analytics | 24 hours | Performance | ||
li_fat_id | Used for tracking visitors to our website from Companjon adverts on LinkedIn. Analytics are reported from LinkedIn back to Companjon and data provided to us is aggregated and anonymised. | 30 days | Performance | ||
lidc | This cookie is used for routing from share buttons and advertising tags. | 24 hours | Performance | ||
bcookie | Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform. | 2 years | Performance | ||
ln_or | This cookie is used to determine if Oribi analytics can be carried out on a specific domain. | 1 day | Performance | ||
lang | Used to remember a user's language setting to ensure LinkedIn.com displays in the language selected by the user in their settings. | Until session ends | Performance | ||
| companjon.com | UserMatchHistory | Used for id sync process. It stores the last sync time to avoid repeating the syncing process in a frequent manner. | 30 days | Performance | |
| companjon.com | li_sugr | Used to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity outside the Designated Countries | 90 days | Targeting | |
| companjon.com | AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie. | 30 days | Performance | |
personio_session | Personio | Store the user session. | Until sessions ends | Functional | |
personio_channel | Personio | Used to track the channel from which applicant landed on the career page. | 30 days | Functional | |
gohiring_psting | Personio | Used to track the gohiring channel from which the applicant landed on the career page. | 30 days | Functional | |
locale | Personio | Keeps track of the user selected language. | Until session ends | Functional | |
_hjSessionUser_{site_id} | Hotjar | Set when a user first lands on a page. Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. | 365 days | Performance | |
_hjFirstSeen | Hotjar | This is set by Hotjar to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. | 30 minutes duration | Performance | |
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Hotjar | Set by Hotjar for website performance purposes when a user visits. | 30 minutes duration | Performance | |
_hjIncludedInSessionSample | Hotjar | Set by Hotjar for website performance purposes when a user visits. | 30 minutes duration | Performance | |
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Hotjar | Used to detect the first pageview session of a user. | 30 minutes duration | Performance | |
_hjSession_{site_id} | Hotjar | Holds current session data and ensures that subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session. | 30 minutes duration | Performance | |
_hjTLDTest | Hotjar | To determine the most generic cookie path that has to be used instead of the page hostname, Hotjar sets the _hjTLDTest cookie to store different URL substring alternatives until it fails. | Session duration | Performance | |
_hjSession_3070246 | Hotjar | Holds current session data and ensures that subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session. | 30 minutes duration | Performance | |
CONSENT | Youtube | This cookie holds information about | 2 years | Targeting | |
| companjon.com | YSC | Youtube | YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | Session duration | Targeting |
| companjon.com | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Youtube | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos. | 180 days | Performance |
CRAFT_CSRF_TOKEN | Craft | This cookie is created by the Content Management System (CMS) and used as protection against Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks (CSRF), where form submissions can be hijacked. Craft has built-in protection against Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks (CSRF) that’s enabled by default in Craft 3’s enableCsrfProtection config setting. | Session duration | Strictly Necessary | |
CraftSessionId | Craft | Craft relies on PHP sessions to maintain sessions across web requests. That is done via the PHP session cookie. Craft names that cookie “CraftSessionId” by default. This cookie will expire as soon as the session expires. | Session duration | Strictly Necessary | |
OptanonConsent | One Trust | This cookie stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables us to prevent cookies from being set in the user's browser, when consent is not given | 6 months | Strictly Necessary | |
OptanonAlertBoxClosed | One Trust | This cookie sets after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the site to not to show the message more than once to a user. | 6 months | Strictly Necessary | |
JSESSIONID | One Trust | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server | Session | Strictly Necessary | |
x-ms-cpim-trans | Microsoft | Used for tracking the number of login authentication requests | End of browser session | Strictly Necessary | |
x-ms-cpim-cache | Microsoft | Used for maintaining the request state | End of browser session, successful authentication | Strictly Necessary | |
x-ms-cpim-csrf | Microsoft | Cross-Site Request Forgery token used for CRSF protection | End of browser session | Strictly Necessary | |
x-ms-cpim-sso: companjonprodcssp.onmicrosoft.com_0 | Microsoft | Used for maintaining the sign on session. This cookie is set as persistent, when Keep Me Signed In is enabled | End of browser session / Persistent | Strictly Necessary | |
cssp_session | Priverion | Used for keeping the log of user’s visit to MyCompanjon | End of browser session | Strictly Necessary | |
XSRF-TOKEN | ActionPoint | Prevents malicious attacks by confirming that the user making requests via the website is the authenticated one | End of browser session | Strictly Necessary | |
graphene_cssp | Priverion | Used to keep the encrypted insurance platform ID for sign ups | 24 hours | Strictly Necessary | |
current_locale | ActionPoint | Saves the language preferences | 1 year | Strictly Necessary | |
mongodb | MongoDB | Used to deploy credentials stored in MongoDB to Azure for log in purposes | Session | Strictly Necessary | |
dtCookie | Dynatrace | This cookie name is associated with, software from Dynatrace, an application performance management (APM) software company. Their software manages the availability and performance of software applications and the impact on user experience in the form of deep transaction tracing, synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring, and network monitoring. | Session | Performance |
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this cookie policy or our use of cookies, please contact us at info@companjon.com
Updated: November 2023. This Cookie Policy may be modified and updated. Please check back regularly to keep informed of updates.