Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, improve user experience, and provide information to website owners.

Some features of our Website may not function correctly if cookies are disabled.

How we use cookies

Our cookies help us to:

• Make the Website function as you would expect
• Remember your preferences and settings
• Improve website performance and security
• Understand how visitors use our Website
• Continuously improve our content and user experience
• Enable content sharing via social media (where applicable)

Cookie categories

1. Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary cookies are essential for the operation of our Website. They enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. These cookies do not collect information for marketing purposes or track your browsing activity across other websites.

Because these cookies are essential, they are always enabled.

Examples of how we use Strictly Necessary cookies:

• Maintaining user sessions
• Enabling secure areas of the Website
• Ensuring the Website loads and functions correctly

Example cookies may include:

Host	Cookie Name	Purpose
www.biotalent.com	JSESSIONID	Maintains user session state

Note: Cookie names may vary depending on platform configuration and updates.

2. Performance & Analytics Cookies

Performance (or analytics) cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our Website by collecting information anonymously. This data allows us to monitor performance, identify issues, and improve the Website.

These cookies do not identify you personally.

Examples of how we use analytics cookies:

• Measuring page views and traffic sources
• Understanding which pages are most popular
• Monitoring errors and performance issues

Analytics tools we use:

Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

GA4 helps us understand how visitors interact with our Website, including pages visited, time spent on the site, and user journeys. All data is collected in an aggregated and anonymised form.

Example GA4 cookies may include:

Host	Cookie Name	Purpose
.biotalent.com	_ga	Distinguishes users for analytics purposes
.biotalent.com	_ga_*	Stores and counts page views and events

GA4 cookies are only set where consent has been provided via our cookie banner.

3. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies enable enhanced functionality and personalisation, such as remembering preferences or enabling embedded content. If you do not allow these cookies, some features may not work correctly.

4. Targeting / Advertising Cookies (Third Party)

Targeting cookies are set by third party services and are used to deliver content relevant to you or to measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. These cookies may track your browsing activity across other websites.

We may use third party services such as:

• LinkedIn
• Meta (Facebook)
• YouTube / Vimeo

Examples of how these cookies are used:

• Enabling social media sharing
• Displaying embedded video content
• Measuring advertising effectiveness

These cookies are only placed with your consent.

Example third party cookies may include:

Provider	Cookie Purpose
LinkedIn	Advertising & analytics
Meta (Facebook)	Social sharing & advertising
YouTube / Vimeo	Video playback & analytics

Each third party is responsible for their own cookies and privacy practices. Please refer to their individual privacy policies for more information.

5. Force24 Cookies & Tracking

Our organisation utilises Force24’s marketing automation platform.

Force24 cookies are first party cookies and are enabled at the point of cookie acceptance on this website. The cookies are named below:

• F24_autoID
• F24_personID

They allow us to understand our audience engagement, thus allowing better optimisation of marketing activity.

• f24_autoId: This is a temporary identifier on a local machine or phone browser that helps us track anonymous information to be later married up with f24_personid. If this is left anonymous it will be deleted after 6 months. Non-essential, first party, 1 year, persistent.
• f24_personId: This is an ID generated per individual contact in the Force24 system, to be able to track behaviour and form submissions into the Force24 system from outside sources per user. This is used for personalisation and the ability to segment decisions for further communications. Non-essential, first party, 1 year, persistent.

The information stored by Force24 cookies remains anonymous until:

• Our website is visited via clicking from an email or SMS message sent via the Force24 platform, and cookies are accepted on the website.
• A user of the website completes a form containing an email address, from either our website or our Force24 landing pages.

The Force24 cookies will remain on a device for 1 year unless they are deleted.

Other Tracking

We also use similar technologies including tracking pixels and link tracking to monitor your viewing activities.

Device & browser type and open statistics

All emails have a tracking pixel (a tiny invisible image) with a query string in the URL. Within the URL we have user details to identify who opened an email, for statistical purposes.

Link Tracking

All links within emails and SMS messages sent from the Force24 platform contain a unique tracking reference. This reference helps us identify who clicked an email, for statistical purposes.

Managing your cookie preferences

You can manage or withdraw your cookie consent at any time via our cookie banner or by adjusting your browser settings.

Most browsers allow you to:

• See which cookies are stored
• Delete cookies
• Block cookies from specific sites
• Block all cookies

Please note that disabling certain cookies may impact the functionality of our Website.

Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or how we operate our Website. Any updates will be posted on this page.

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