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Looking around without an account sets no Job Elf sign-in cookies. That includes the homepage, candidate search and profiles, job listings, and pages like this one. Google Analytics sets the two cookies below to count visits.

• _ga

  Set by Google Analytics when you aren't signed in. Holds a random ID, so we can tell new visitors from returning ones. Not used for advertising.

  Lasts: 400 days after your last visit

• _ga_QP3BG6FGLD

  Set by Google Analytics alongside _ga, to group the pages you view into visits.

  Lasts: 400 days after your last visit

When you sign in or sign up

These cookies are set the first time you open a page that needs them, like Sign In, Sign Up or View Résumé. After that, the rest of the site uses them too, so you stay signed in. They're only ever sent to Job Elf, their contents are encrypted, and they're never used for advertising.

• job-elf-session

  Keeps you signed in as you move between pages, and remembers where you were, for example partway through signing up. It holds a random ID; the details stay on our servers.

  Lasts: 2 hours after your last visit

• XSRF-TOKEN

  Protects your forms, so another website can't submit them in your name.

  Lasts: 2 hours after your last visit

• remember_web_…

  Keeps you signed in on this browser. Set only when you tick "Keep me signed in", or when you continue with Google or Facebook.

  Lasts: 400 days, or until you sign out

• jobelf_device

  Remembers that you entered a sign-in code on this browser, so we don't ask again for a while. Set only when you tick "Remember this device".

  Lasts: 30 days

Other browser storage

Job Elf's pages don't keep anything in your browser's local storage, with three exceptions:

• Display preferences. If you choose a bigger text size, higher contrast or another option in our display preferences, your browser remembers it under jobelf.a11y. It never leaves your device, and choosing "Reset to standard" removes it.
• Intro video uploads. When a candidate uploads an intro, the uploader saves a small note so an interrupted upload can pick up where it left off. The note holds the upload's web address and the file's name, size and type, not the video. It's deleted as soon as the upload finishes; if an upload never finishes, it stays until you clear your browser's data for Job Elf.
• The admin area. For Job Elf staff only, it remembers display settings like dark mode and which menu sections are open.

Recording an intro uses your camera and microphone only after you choose Record Video and your browser asks for permission. The recording stays in your browser until you choose Use Video.

The search box may start with your area ("Near Tampa, FL"), worked out from the rough location your internet connection suggests, the way any website can. Your device's precise location is used only after you choose Use my location and your browser asks for permission; we turn it into the nearest city and keep neither the position nor the city. You can change or clear the place at any time, and nothing about it is stored in your browser.

How we measure use

We count things like searches, intro plays and profile views, to learn what's working. These events go to Job Elf's own database and don't use cookies. We don't use advertising or social media trackers.

• If you're browsing with no cookies, an event records only what happened and when, like which profile was opened. It isn't linked to you.
• Once you have a session (you're signed in, or partway through signing up), events also carry a scrambled (hashed) form of the session's ID, and your account if you're signed in.
• To count each profile view only once a day, we keep a one-way hash made from your IP address (or your account, if you're signed in) and your browser type. We keep the hash, not the IP address.

To count visits, pages you view while you aren't signed in are also reported to Google Analytics. It uses the two cookies listed above, so it can tell new visits from return visits. Google's advertising features and Google signals are turned off, so it isn't linked to your Google account or used for advertising. It doesn't run once you're signed in, or on pages whose address holds a private code, like password reset or share links. Our Privacy Policy lists what it receives.

Like any website, our servers see your IP address and browser type with each request. We use them to keep the site secure, for example to limit how fast one visitor can search.

Services we rely on

• Our pages come straight from our own server; no content delivery network sits in front of Job Elf today. If we add one, we'll update this page, because a network like that can set a security cookie of its own.
• Photos come from Job Elf's own server. Intro and company videos come from Bunny, our video host, and play in your browser's own video player, not an embedded outside one. Bunny receives your IP address and browser details when a video loads, and sets no cookies.
• GeoJS receives your IP address from our server (not from your browser) to estimate the city in the search box. It sets no cookies on your device.
• Google Analytics loads a script from Google when you aren't signed in, and receives the page you viewed (with private parts of the address removed), the site you came from, your browser details and IP address, and sets the two cookies listed above.
• Google and Facebook are only involved if you choose to continue with them. You sign in on their site, and their own cookie policies apply there.

Our fonts and scripts load from Job Elf itself, apart from Google Analytics. Our Privacy Policy lists every service that helps us run Job Elf.

Your choices

You can delete Job Elf's cookies and stored data in your browser's settings at any time. You'll be signed out, and nothing else changes. If you block cookies, you can still browse, search candidates and read job postings, but you won't be able to sign in.

To keep Google Analytics from counting your visits, block or delete its cookies, or install Google's Google Analytics opt-out add-on. Job Elf works the same either way.

Questions? Send us a message from our contact page.