General Engineering - HNC

Necessary 5Show

These make the website work: signing in, the Get started questions and keeping our forms safe. They are always on, because the website cannot work without them.

Cookie	What it does	How long it lasts
__Host-mc_session	Keeps you signed in to your account.	12 hours, or 2 hours for staff
__Host-mc_handoff	Protects the sign-in step with our account service.	10 minutes
__Host-mc_wizard	Remembers your answers while you work through the Get started questions.	24 hours
mc_consent	Remembers your choice in the cookie banner and its consent ID.	12 months
__cf_bm and Turnstile cookies	Set by Cloudflare, which hosts our website, to tell people apart from automated traffic and protect our forms.	Up to 30 minutes

Marketing 2Show

Measure how well our adverts work and show them to people likely to be interested. Only with your permission. The providers may also use them as their own privacy policies describe.

Google Ads, provided by Google. How Google uses this information

Cookie	What it does	How long it lasts
_gcl_au, and Google's own cookies on google.com and doubleclick.net	Measure how many people reach us from an advert and go on to apply.	Up to 90 days (Google's own: up to 13 months)

Partner referrals, provided by MIE Connect. How MIE uses this information

Cookie	What it does	How long it lasts
mc_ref	Remembers which recruitment partner's link brought you here, so they are credited when you sign up.	30 days