Cookie Policy
What are Cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of text-only data sent from a website and stored onto an individual user’s local machine while the user browses a website. Cookies are generally utilized for record purposes; they allow websites to remember certain information about a user, in addition to providing performance enhancements, tailored experiences, social media integration, and more. Cookies do not contain any harmful code that would pose a threat to your local machine.
Reasons We Use Cookies
Idealist uses cookies for different purposes:
- Analytical – Cookies allow us to track a user’s inputs and activities so that we can make improvements to the layout and content of our sites.
- Testing Performance – We continuously improve the performance and consistency of our Services provided through our Sites. We use cookies to gauge uniformity throughout the user experience, and permit us to further ensure everything is running as it should.
- User Specific Information – In order to provide you the services you seek, we gather certain information like your primary language, country, browser type, and more. This type of cookie makes your experience better, by allowing you to remain logged in to your account without having to sign out, and allowing our Sites to remember your various inputs and searches.
- Authentication – We use unique authentication tokens to map user’s requests on our back end.
- Legal Compliance – These cookies allow us to be legally compliant, and to comply with requests for information due to illegal activity and fraud by users and others.
Types of Cookies We Use
| Cookie Name | Provider | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _LOCALE_ | Idealist | 5 years | to store the user’s locale |
| abExperiments | Idealist | 5 years | to store which A/B experiments the user is part of to enable/disable different features |
| hasAcceptedCookies | Idealist | 1 year | whether to show the cookie banner (EU only) |
| session | Idealist | Immediate | Store the user session |
| third_party_auth | Idealist | 1 hour | Store the third-party auth session |
| events | Idealist | 1 year | Associate user activity before a user signs up |
| auth_token_plain | Idealist | Immediate | iOS app session token |
| userDismissedNotificationPreferencesDialog | Idealist | 30 days | to show the preferences dialog or not |
| savedListing | Idealist | Immediate | to store the saved listing during an email verification |
| subscribedSubsite | Idealist | Immediate | to store the subscription during an email verification |
| nc | Idealist | 1 year | Whether to return a cached response or not |
| flashMessages | Idealist | 2 days | To show a flash message on the next page load |
| extraParams | Idealist | 7 days | Analytics parameters to send to Google Tag Manager |
| justSignedUp | Idealist | 5 years | Whether the user just signed up |
| justSignedUpModal | Idealist | 5 years | Whether to show extra information after signing up with a third-party provider |
| justLoggedIn | Idealist | 5 years | Whether the user just logged in with a third-party provider |
| justLoggedOut | Idealist | 5 years | Whether the user just logged out with a third-party provider |
Other Technologies We Use
- Conversion Funnels – We use conversion funnels to see where friction points within our Sites arise. We do have our own internal data store where we feed some data used to create funnels for this purpose.
- Conversion Tracking – We use a third-party service to send emails to new Organization administrators as a part of the “onboarding journey,” which may also contain conversion tracking technology for purposes of identifying improvement areas within our Sites.
- Social Media Widgets – Idealist uses various widgets and plugins from social media sites in order to integrate certain functionalities such as sharing job listings with those platforms.
- Local Storage Objects – Local storage objects (which may include technologies such as flash cookies) can be used within the browser to cache data in order to increase performance, such as page load speed.
How to Remove Our Cookies from Your Browser
If you would like to disable cookies, you can set up your web browser to reject cookies. However, if you disable the cookie function, you may not be able to access or receive all the information contained on the Sites. How to alter your cookie setting will depend on the type of browser you use. We have provided examples of how to disable cookies on the most popular browsers below:
Microsoft Internet Explorer
- choose the “tools” menu then “Internet Options”;
- click on the “privacy” tab; and
- select the appropriate setting.
Mozilla Firefox
- choose the “tools” menu the “Options”;
- click on the privacy and security menu;
- find the “cookie and site data” menu and select the relevant options.
This Cookie Policy should be read in conjunction with our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy (which includes our EU GDPR Policy). Any defined terms used herein, but not defined herein, are as they are defined in the Terms of Service. Lastly, if you have any additional questions or comments, please feel free to contact us directly at: 646-786-6886 or submit a question using this Web Form.
This Cookies Policy was last updated October 28, 2024.