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Last update: February 2026
- What are cookies and/or trackers ?
- HTTP cookies;
- Flash cookies;
- Unique device fingerprinting;
- Web beacons (manage our online advertising and measure its effectiveness
- Any other identifier generated by software or an operating system (MAC address, serial number, unique device identifier (IDFV), etc.).
- What types of cookies SmartRecruiters is using and why ?
- Cookies strictly necessary for the basic functioning of the website: These cookies are essential for you to browse the website or use our product and/or use each’s features and cannot be turned off.
- Preference Cookies: These cookies allow SmartRecruiters to remember your preferences after your initial visit on our website.
- Marketing Cookies: allow SmartRecruiters and our third-party partners to provide you with interest-based advertising and tailored content across your browsers and devices.
- Functionality Cookies: allow SmartRecruiters to host videos or utilize a chat bot for example.
- Analytic Cookies: provide SmartRecruiters information about how website visitors use our website.
- Session Cookies: are temporary and expire once you close your browser.
- Persistent Cookies: remain on your hard drive until you erase them, or your browser does.
- First Party Cookies: are placed on your device directly by SmartRecruiters’ through your browsing on our website.
- Third Party Cookies: are placed on your device by a third-party when you visit our website (you will find a detailed list of this type of cookie below).
- Third Party Cookies
- What data is collected via cookies ?
- Data retention periods
- How to configure your cookie settings ?
- In Google Chrome, you will find the instructions at the following address: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
- In Mozilla Firefox, you will find the procedure to follow at the following address: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox
- In Internet Explorer, you will find the procedure to follow at the following address: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc
- On Safari, you will find the instructions at the following address: https://help.apple.com/safari/mac/8.0/en.lproj/sfri11471.html
You are hereby informed that, when you visit this website, cookies and other tracking devices may be installed or used to access information stored on your terminal equipment.
The term “cookies” covers several technologies, such as:
A cookie is a small text file downloaded to your device (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit a website. There are two types of cookies: first-party cookies, which are placed by SmartRecruiters, and third-party cookies, which are placed by third-party companies.
Invisible pixels are fragments of code. They take the form of a tiny graphic image, invisible to the user, on a web page or in an email. They can recognize certain types of information, and in particular, when a pixel is used in an email, the time and date the email was viewed. When placed on a web page, it can also provide a description of the page on which it is placed.
SmartRecruiters does not use Cookies to read any other information on your computer’s hard drive. SmartRecruiters uses Cookie technology to authenticate your access to various areas of our websites, and tailor its content to your preferences. Cookies help SmartRecruiters analyze web traffic in general. Subject to the choices you have made, which you can change at any time, different types of trackers may be placed on your device:
Please note that third parties and SmartRecruiters may change or update the Cookies placed on SmartRecruiters’ website. SmartRecruiters periodically monitors which Cookies are used and updates the table below accordingly. You should check this cookie policy for updates to stay informed.
To access the complete list of cookies placed on our website (cookies placed by SmartRecruiters or by third parties), you can refer to the cookies section at the bottom of our cookie banner or directly by the link hereafter.
The information collected may include your IP address, information about the contents of your device to access certain features, unique device identification number and device type, domain, browser type and language, operating system and settings, time and time zone, previously visited sites, information and actions on our site such as click behavior, pages and sections viewed.
When applicable, we retain your choices regarding the storage of cookies for 6 months. Our cookies have a maximum lifespan of 13 months. Information collected via audience measurement cookies is retained for 25 months.
When you first visit our site or after a six-month absence, you will be asked to accept or refuse the use of certain cookies. Your settings can be changed at any time via the cookie settings tool, which is accessible on all pages of the website. You can refuse the use of cookies by third parties via the links in paragraph 3.
You can delete cookies from your computer, phone, or other device at any time by following the instructions below:
Please note, however, that if you delete your cookies, you may also delete your settings. You will then have to reconfigure them.