At HavenHands.co.uk, we are committed to providing a seamless and personalized job search UK experience through our leading employment platform. To achieve this, we use cookies and similar technologies to enhance your interaction with our website, improve functionality, and deliver tailored career opportunities. This Cookie Policy outlines how we use cookies, the types of cookies we employ, how you can manage your cookie preferences, and our commitment to protecting your privacy in compliance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).
As a platform dedicated to connecting job seekers with employers, HavenHands.co.uk strives to make your online job search efficient and user-friendly. Cookies play a vital role in ensuring our website operates smoothly, remembers your preferences, and provides relevant job recommendations. This policy is designed to be transparent, accessible, and informative, empowering you to make informed decisions about your data while exploring job seeker resources and opportunities.
Key Takeaway: Cookies help us enhance your experience on HavenHands.co.uk, ensuring a personalized and efficient job search UK while respecting your privacy and data protection rights.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, tablet, or smartphone) when you visit a website. They allow the website to recognize your device, remember your preferences, and improve your browsing experience. Cookies are widely used across employment platforms like HavenHands.co.uk to enhance functionality, analyze user behavior, and deliver personalized content, such as tailored career opportunities and job alerts.
Cookies can be temporary (session cookies) or persistent (stored for a longer period), and they serve various purposes, from ensuring website functionality to tracking user interactions for analytics. At HavenHands, we use cookies to make your online job search more efficient, helping you find jobs online that match your skills, experience, and career goals.
In addition to cookies, we may use similar technologies, such as web beacons, pixel tags, or local storage, to collect data and enhance your experience. These technologies work together to provide a seamless platform for job seekers and employers in the UK job market.
Why Does HavenHands Use Cookies?
HavenHands.co.uk uses cookies to enhance your experience, improve our services, and ensure our platform remains a leading resource for job search UK. Our use of cookies aligns with our mission to connect talented individuals with employers offering meaningful career opportunities. Below are the primary reasons we use cookies:
- Website Functionality: Cookies ensure our website operates smoothly, allowing you to navigate job listings, save searches, and access job seeker resources without interruptions.
- Personalization: Cookies remember your preferences, such as job categories, locations, or salary expectations, to deliver tailored job recommendations and alerts.
- Performance and Analytics: Cookies help us analyze how users interact with our platform, enabling us to optimize features, improve load times, and enhance the overall online job search experience.
- Advertising: Cookies allow us to display relevant job advertisements and promotions, ensuring you see opportunities that align with your career goals.
- Security: Cookies help protect your account and personal information, ensuring a safe and secure browsing experience on our employment platform.
By using cookies, we aim to make HavenHands.co.uk a user-friendly, efficient, and personalized platform for your job search UK journey.
Types of Cookies We Use
HavenHands.co.uk uses several types of cookies to support different functions on our platform. Each type serves a specific purpose, from ensuring basic functionality to enhancing your online job search experience. Below is a detailed breakdown of the cookies we use:
| Category | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Essential Cookies | These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable core features like page navigation, user authentication, and access to secure areas. | Session cookies for login, cookies for saving job applications. |
| Performance Cookies | These cookies collect anonymized data about how users interact with our website, helping us improve performance and user experience. | Google Analytics cookies to track page views and click-through rates. |
| Functional Cookies | These cookies enable personalized features, such as remembering your job search preferences or language settings. | Cookies for saving job alert preferences, language selection cookies. |
| Advertising Cookies | These cookies deliver relevant job advertisements and track the effectiveness of ad campaigns, ensuring you see career opportunities that match your interests. | Third-party cookies from ad networks like Google Ads or LinkedIn. |
Each type of cookie plays a critical role in ensuring HavenHands remains a leading employment platform, providing a seamless and tailored experience for job seekers and employers.
How We Obtain Your Consent
In compliance with the UK GDPR and PECR, HavenHands.co.uk seeks your consent for non-essential cookies (e.g., performance, functional, and advertising cookies) when you first visit our website. Upon accessing HavenHands.co.uk, you will see a cookie consent pop-up that explains our use of cookies and allows you to accept or customize your preferences.
Essential cookies do not require consent, as they are necessary for the website to function. However, you can opt out of non-essential cookies at any time by adjusting your settings in our cookie preference center. We are committed to transparency and ensuring you have control over your data while using our platform to explore career opportunities.
If you choose to accept cookies, you enable us to provide a personalized job search UK experience, including tailored job recommendations and relevant advertisements. If you decline non-essential cookies, you can still use our platform, but some features, such as personalized job alerts, may be limited.
Your Choice Matters: You can manage your cookie preferences at any time through our cookie settings tool, ensuring full control over your online job search experience.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
HavenHands.co.uk makes it easy for you to manage your cookie preferences, giving you control over the data we collect during your job search UK. Here’s how you can manage cookies on our platform:
- Cookie Consent Pop-Up: When you first visit HavenHands.co.uk, our cookie consent pop-up allows you to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or customize your settings.
- Cookie Preference Center: Access our cookie preference center via the footer link on any page to review and modify your cookie settings at any time.
- Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to block or delete cookies through their settings. For example:
- Google Chrome: Go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and other site data.
- Firefox: Go to Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data.
- Safari: Go to Preferences > Privacy > Cookies and website data.
- Opt-Out Tools: For advertising cookies, you can opt out of targeted ads through industry-standard tools like the Your Online Choices platform or the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page.
Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of our platform, such as personalized job recommendations or saved searches. We recommend allowing functional cookies to fully enjoy our job seeker resources and tailored career opportunities.
Third-Party Cookies and Data Sharing
HavenHands.co.uk may use third-party cookies from trusted partners, such as Google Analytics, LinkedIn, or advertising networks, to enhance our services. These cookies help us analyze website performance, deliver relevant job advertisements, and improve the user experience. For example, Google Analytics cookies track anonymized data about page views and user behavior, helping us optimize our employment platform.
We do not sell your personal data to third parties. However, third-party cookies may collect anonymized information for analytics or advertising purposes. These partners operate under their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to review:
Our commitment to transparency ensures that any data shared with third parties is anonymized and used solely to improve your online job search experience.
Data Protection and Your Privacy
At HavenHands, protecting your privacy is a top priority. Our use of cookies complies with the UK GDPR, PECR, and other relevant data protection regulations. We take the following measures to safeguard your data:
- Data Minimization: We only collect data necessary to provide a seamless job search UK experience.
- Secure Storage: Cookies and related data are stored securely using industry-standard encryption.
- Transparency: This Cookie Policy provides clear information about how we use cookies and how you can manage them.
- User Control: You have full control over non-essential cookies and can opt out at any time.
For more details on how we handle your personal data, please review our Privacy Policy.
Updates to Our Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in our services, technology, or legal requirements. Any updates will be posted on this page, and we will notify users of significant changes via email or a website notice. The last update to this policy was on June 26, 2025.
We encourage you to review this policy regularly to stay informed about how we use cookies to enhance your job search UK experience.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. What are cookies, and why does HavenHands use them?
Cookies are small files that help our website function, personalize your experience, and analyze performance. They enhance your ability to find jobs online and access tailored career opportunities.
2. Can I use HavenHands without cookies?
Yes, you can disable non-essential cookies, but this may limit features like personalized job alerts or saved searches.
3. How do I manage my cookie preferences?
Use our cookie preference center, accessible via the website footer, or adjust your browser settings to control cookies.
4. Do you share my data with third parties?
We use third-party cookies for analytics and advertising, but we do not sell your personal data. All data sharing is anonymized and complies with UK GDPR.
5. How often is this Cookie Policy updated?
We update this policy as needed to reflect changes in our services or regulations. Check this page for the latest version.
Contact Us
If you have questions about our Cookie Policy or how we use cookies to enhance your job search UK experience, please contact us at support@havenhands.co.uk or visit our Contact Page.