USE OF COOKIES

Last Updated: February 05, 2019
 

By using or accessing MENTERN.com's websites ("Site"), you are consenting to MENTERN.com's use of Cookies as outlined below. All references to Mentern Candidate and Business memebr are defined as provided for in the MENTERN.com Terms of Service Introduction.
 

For the purposes of this Cookie Policy, "MENTERN.com" or "we" means MENTERN.com, Inc.
 

1. Introduction: What is a cookie?

This Cookie policy helps to explain the occasions when and why cookies may be sent to visitors to the Site (referred to in this policy as "we", "us" or "our").

"Cookies" are text-only pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual's hard drive or other website-browsing equipment for record-keeping purposes. Cookies allow the Site to remember important information that will make your use of the site more convenient. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a randomly generated unique number or other value. Certain cookies will be used on the Site regardless of whether you are logged in to your account or not.
Session Cookies are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the Site.

Persistent Cookies remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie). When we use session cookies to track the total number of visitors to our Site, this is done on an anonymous aggregate basis (as cookies do not in themselves carry any personal data). We may also employ cookies so that we remember your computer when it is used to return to the Site to help customize your MENTERN.com web experience. We may associate personal information with a cookie file in those instances.

2. How MENTERN.com uses cookies
Like most websites, we use cookies for a variety of purposes in order to improve your online experience, for analytics and for marketing, but specifically we use Cookies on the Site for the following purposes:
 

Analytical Purposes: We use cookies to analyze user activity in order to improve the Site. For example, we can use cookies to look at aggregate patterns like the average number of job searches that users perform. We can use such analysis to gain insights about how to improve the functionality and user experience of the Site.

Your Preferences & User Experience: We use cookies to gather certain information about users, such as browser type, server, language preference, and country setting, in order to store user preferences on our Site to make your user experience more consistent and convenient. For example, we may store the recent searches you have performed in a cookie so that we can allow you to easily repeat those searches when you return to our Site, or so that we can suggest profile information when you sign up for an account and fill out an MENTERN.com Resume. In addition, we use cookies to maintain your logged in state when you visit our Site repeatedly. We may also use your IP address to determine your geographic location in order to provide you with the most relevant search results.

Marketing: We use cookies from third-party partners such as Google and Facebook for marketing purposes. These cookies allow us to display MENTERN.com promotional material to you on other sites you visit across the Internet. MENTERN.com may also share information about your behavior on the Site with third parties (including operators of third-party websites and/or social networking sites) in order to show you targeted advertisements and other content that has been customized for you. We also use cookies to facilitate the MENTERN.com Targeted Ads Program. In this Program, we use cookies to determine which ads users have seen, and how many times users have seen a particular ad.

Referral Tracking: We use cookies to associate user activity with the third party website that referred the user to our Site, or to associate user activity that MENTERN.com referred to a third party website. Some of these third party websites are partner websites that receive credit for the activity of users they refer to our Site, or give MENTERN.com credit for the activity of users referred to such third party websites. We do not share any personal information or information about individual user activities with these partner entities. However, we may share information, such as the third party website you were visiting when you clicked on an MENTERN.com link to a Job Listing or Hiring Event, with Employers. We also use cookies to associate user activity with the email campaign that referred the user to our Site.

Security Purposes:  We use cookies to limit certain types of cyber attacks.
Testing, Usability, and Performance Improvement Purposes We use cookies to ensure users receive a consistent user experience while we conduct A/B testing on certain aspects of our Site in order to improve our product offerings. We also use cookies to improve the performance and reliability of our Site.
 

Fraud/Spam prevention: We use cookies during fraud reviews and investigations. Some of our cookie/device tracking happens via 3rd party vendors like SiftScience, other times we use our own indexes to identify activity related to specific cookies.

3. Managing cookies in your browser
Use the options in your web browser if you do not wish to receive a cookie or if you wish to set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. You can easily delete and manage any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser by following the instructions provided by your particular browser manufacturer.
You may also consult your mobile device documentation for information on how to disable cookies on your mobile device. If you disable all cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of this Site. Please note that if you have not cleared your cookies or cache, the contents of which may affect autofill functions on the MENTERN.com site and you are responsible for any such actions.

In addition, MENTERN.com may also provide an employer with code for a Conversion Tracker to place on its Site that pings the Mentern Candidate web beacon and tracks whenever a Mentern Candidate has applied to a job on that employer's website. This Conversion Tracker will attribute an application to MENTERN.com any time the Mentern Candidate started their search on MENTERN.com, despite any intervening activity.

MENTERN.com does not have access to the cookies in the employer's domain. The Conversion Tracker is simply a counter that notifies MENTERN.com that a Mentern Candidate has applied. If a Mentern Candidate has disabled the web beacon, the Conversion Tracker will have no functionality. If you would like to remove yourself from MENTERN.com's Mentern Candidate web beacon, you must click here.

MENTERN.com uses the AdWords and Remarketing Lists features of Google Analytics for Display Advertisers. MENTERN.com and Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Site. This means that vendors including Google will display MENTERN.com promotional material on other sites you visit across the Internet.

You may opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertisers including AdWords and opt-out of customized Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager. To provide website visitors more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed an Opt-out Browser add-on, which is available by visiting Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, to enable you to opt-out of Google's programs.

4. Third-Party Cookies
The following cookie table lists a selection of the third party cookies used on MENTERN.com. Although we may update this list periodically, please be advised that the names of cookies, pixels and other technologies are subject to change.
Domain Cookie Name Description Expiration Opt-out

Third party optimizelyBuckets Used by Optimizely to store page variants assigned to user for A/B performance testing (ensures user gets a consistent experience) 10 years Optimizely opt-out

Third party optimizelyEndUserID Used by Optimizely for A/B performance testing; it is a unique user identifier 10 years Optimizely opt-out

Third party _gali Used by Google Analytics to record what item on the previous page the user interacted with to get to the current page immediately Google Analytics opt-out
Google Ads Settings

Third party _utmb Used by Google Analytics to record the timestamp of the moment the user enters the site 1 month Google Analytics opt-out
Google Ads Settings

Third party _utmz Used by Google Analytics to track where a visitor came from 1 year Google Analytics opt-out
Google Ads Settings

Third party UIDR Used by Scorecardresearch.com to measure user volume 2 years Scorecardresearch.com opt-out

Third party TS01d65e80 Used by f5 networks to maintain the performance, capacity, and reliability of our Website Current session f5 Networks opt-out

5. Changes To Our Cookie Policy
Please review the "Last Updated" legend at the top of the Cookie Policy to determine when it was last amended. Any changes will become effective on the "Last Updated" date indicated above. By using the Site or providing information to us following such changes, you will have accepted the amended Cookie Policy. If MENTERN.com is going to use Personal Data collected through the Site in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection, then MENTERN.com will notify users via email and/or by posting a notice on MENTERN.com's Site for 30 days prior to such use or by other means as required by law.