Our Policy on Cookies and Tracking Technologies:
This section is about what cookies and other tracking technologies are, how we use them and how you can manage them.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. The cookies mean that the website will remember you and how you've used the site every time you come back.
If you want to know more about cookies, head to aboutcookies.org or allaboutcookies.org (please note: these links open a new window or browser tab).
What are other similar tracking technologies?
This refers to any other method used to store information, gain access to information, or track activities on your device, such as Local Shared Objects (“flash cookies”), scripts, tracking pixels and plugins, app trackers (including SDKs) on smartphones, tablets, smart TVs or other devices.
How we use cookies/tracking technologies
We use cookies and other similar tracking technologies to do a number of things. For example, remembering your preferences, recording what you've put in your shopping basket, or counting the number of people looking at a website. We also use them to keep track of what you've bought from us, what you've done on the site, and to make online advertising more relevant to you.
Cookies usually comprise of unique alphanumeric identifier that sits on your browser. In some cases, we won’t be able to link the information we collect by using a cookie back to you. They can, however, enable us to link that information back to you and your personal information, for example, when you log in, or choose to register for a service, or newsletter. We may also use cookies in order to provide you with personalised adverts based on your browsing behaviour.
We've put our cookies into the following categories, to make it easier for you to understand why we need them:
- Strictly necessary – these are essential to make our website work efficiently and enable you to use our services and cannot be switched off.
- Performance – these are used to analyse the way our website works and how we can improve it.
- Functionality – these help to enhance your experience by doing things like remembering products you've added to your basket
- Targeting/advertising – these are used to share some information with third parties who we advertise with, so we know how you've reached our website. We can also use cookies to identify the parts of the website you’re interested in. We then use this information to show you adverts and pages we think may also be of interest to you, to tailor how we communicate with you, or to tailor the contents of the communications we send to you. If you prefer, you can opt out of these. Tailoring of content means it includes information reflecting the interest you’ve shown in the content of our web pages, or offers or promotions that we think may interest you, and to improve how we respond to your needs.
In addition to the cookies we use on our websites, we also use cookies and similar technologies in some emails and push notifications we send to mobile devices from our apps. These help us to understand whether you have opened the email and how you have interacted with it. If you have enabled images, cookies may be set on your computer or mobile device. Cookies will also be set if you click on any link within the email.
We sometimes use persistent cookies as well as 'session-based' cookies. A 'persistent' cookie will remain for a period of time set for that cookie. A 'session-based' cookie is allocated only for the duration of your visit to our website and automatically expires when you close down your browser.
Please also note that some cookies may be set by your browser, for example when you browse using Google Chrome. We don’t control the use of browser cookies, so we suggest you check the browser’s cookie policy to understand how those are used and how you can manage them.
First-party cookies
First-party cookies originate from the same domain as the website you’re currently visiting (in this case, careers.vodafone.com, opportunities.vodafone.com, vodafone.com, or jobs.vodafone.com).
See our list of first-party cookies (shown later on in this cookies policy).
Third-party cookies
Third-party cookies originate from a domain that’s different to the website being visited. For example, when you visit our website, we may link to another company's website – like our Facebook or Twitter account, or a video from our YouTube page. We don't control how they use their cookies, so we suggest you check their website to see how they're using them and how you can manage them.
Affiliates of the Vodafone Group with a different domain name may also place cookies on our website, to show you adverts or pages of other Vodafone Group companies that may be of interest to you. Details of these affiliates – and how to opt out – are included in our list of third parties (shown later on in this cookies policy) that may put cookies on our website.
Type: | What it’s called: | What it’s used for: | Duration: | Host: |
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1 - Strictly Necessary Cookies | _vscid | As our app is continuously growing and handles multiple clients we want to better balance the load from different group ids and hence group based on the load that they are sending. This cookie helps us identify load and group based on the load [to enable the website to function correctly | 1 Year | Careers.vodafone.com |
1 - Strictly Necessary Cookies | JSESSIONID | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. | Browser Session | Careers.vodafone.com & Opportunities.vodafone.com |
1 - Strictly Necessary Cookies | ppms_privacy_xxxxxx | The "ppms_privacy_xxxxxx" cookie appears to be related to privacy settings or preferences on the Career site. The "xxxxxx" part indicates a unique identifier or token associated with the specific privacy settings or consent preferences. | 1 Year | jobs.vodafone.com |
1 - Strictly Necessary Cookies | stg_last_interaction | This cookie likely tracks the timestamp or details of the user's last interaction or activity on the Career site. | 1 Year | jobs.vodafone.com |
1 - Strictly Necessary Cookies | stg_returning_visitor | This cookie may indicate whether the user is a returning visitor to the Career site. | 1 Year | jobs.vodafone.com |
1 - Strictly Necessary Cookies | __cf_bm | The "__cf_bm" cookie is part of Cloudflare's Bot Management feature, which helps identify and mitigate potentially harmful bot traffic on websites. It distinguishes between human users and automated bot traffic. | 0 Days | Jobs.vodafone.com |
1 - Strictly Necessary Cookies | OptanonConsent | It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | 365 Days | Jobs.vodafone.com & Opportunities.vodafone.com |
1 - Strictly Necessary Cookies | OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. | 365 Days | Jobs.vodafone.com & Opportunities.vodafone.com |
1 - Strictly Necessary Cookies | rmk0 | These cookies are used by the SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Marketing (RMK) module to track user interactions, preferences, and sessions related to the career site and recruitment activities. The user's encrypted e-mail address, if known | Session Cookie | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
1 - Strictly Necessary Cookies | rmk1 | These cookies are used by the SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Marketing (RMK) module to track user interactions, preferences, and sessions related to the career site and recruitment activities. The encrypted ID of the user if one exists. | Session Cookie | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
1 - Strictly Necessary Cookies | rmk12 | These cookies are used by the SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Marketing (RMK) module to track user interactions, preferences, and sessions related to the career site and recruitment activities. A number that indicates if the user has acknowledged the cookies policy banner. If the cookie is not set, then the banner may be presented. If they cookie is set and its value is 1, the banner may be suppressed. | Persistent Cookie, that doesn't expire. | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
1 - Strictly Necessary Cookies | rmk4 | These cookies are used by the SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Marketing (RMK) module to track user interactions, preferences, and sessions related to the career site and recruitment activities. Whether or not to pre- fill the Subscribe box with the user's e-mail address, in order to avoid the user having to re-enter their e-mail address. | Persistent Cookie, that doesn't expire. | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
1 - Strictly Necessary Cookies | LoadBalancer Cookie Documented: RMK | Cookie for session stickiness so a user. This cookie is related to load balancing functionality documented for the RMK (Recruiting Marketing) module. | Session Cookie | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
2 - Performance Cookies | _pk_id.{id} | The "_pk_id.{id}" cookie is related to Matomo (formerly Piwik), an open-source web analytics platform. It stores a unique visitor ID to track user behavior and interactions on the Career site. | 1 Year | jobs.vodafone.com |
2 - Performance Cookies | _pk_ses.{id} | The "_pk_ses.{id}" cookie is also related to Matomo (Piwik) and is used to track the duration of a user's visit or session on the Career site. | 0 Days | jobs.vodafone.com |
2 - Performance Cookies | stg_debug | This cookie is likely used for debugging or troubleshooting purposes within the SiteTagger (STG) platform or related services. | 0 Days | jobs.vodafone.com |
2 - Performance Cookies | stg_traffic_source_priority | This cookie might prioritize or categorize traffic sources based on predefined rules or settings. | 0 Days | jobs.vodafone.com |
2 - Performance Cookies | _gclxxxx | The "_gclxxxx" cookie is associated with Google Ads and is used to track conversions and campaign performance for Google Ads users who have linked their Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts. | 3 Months | Jobs.vodafone.com & Opportunities.vodafone.com |
2 - Performance Cookies | _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. | Persistent 2 years | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
2 - Performance Cookies | _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | This cookie is associated with Google Analytics, which is a widely used web analytics service. It is used to collect information about how visitors interact with the website, such as the number of visitors, pages visited, and other analytical data. This cookie is typically classified as a Performance or Analytics cookie since its purpose is to track and analyse website performance and user behavior. | 1 Year | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
2 - Performance Cookies | _gat | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes. | 10 Minutes | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
2 - Performance Cookies | _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. | 1 Day | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
3 - Funtional Cookies | _VS | Session management for the user, also acknowledges whether user is a new/old visitor | 1 Year | Careers.vodafone.com |
3 - Funtional Cookies | pll_language | The "pll_language" cookie is typically associated with the Polylang plugin for WordPress websites. It stores the language preferences of the user, allowing the website to display content in the user's preferred language. | 1 Year | jobs.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | _tt_enable_cookie | These cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools. | 1 Year | Jobs.vodafone.com & Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | 3 Months | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | _gat_UA-XXXXXX-X | Google Analytics Cookies | A Few Seconds | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services | 2 Months | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
Third Party Cookies: | ||||
3 - Funtional Cookies | stg_externalReferrer | This cookie may store information about the external referrer or source that directed the user to the Career site. | 0 Days | jobs.vodafone.com |
3 - Funtional Cookies | Lang | The "lang" cookie stores the language preferences of the user. For details see: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie_policy | Persistent Cookie, that can last beyond session time | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | CONSENT | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | 6205 Days | Careers.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. Youtube uses this cookie as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos. | 6 Months | Careers.vodafone.com, Jobs.vodafone.com & Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | YSC | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | Browser session | Careers.vodafone.com, Jobs.vodafone.com & Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | test_cookie | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange | 1 Year | Jobs.vodafone.com & Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | _ttp | These cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools. | 1 Year | Jobs.vodafone.com & Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | 5 Months | Jobs.vodafone.com & Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | AnalyticsSyncHistory | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 1 month | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | bcookie | This cookie is set by Linkedin and enables us to measure effectiveness of advertising on the LinkedIn advertising platform and allows us to deliver relevant Vodafone advertising on the LinkedIn platform. | 1 Year | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | bscookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 1 Year | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | cc_ut | Appcast is a developer of programmatic job advertising technology for the global recruitment industry used to created targeted job advertisements. | 1 year | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | fbsr_[id] datr locale c_user fr xs csm s lu wd | The below cookies are dropped by third- party applications and will only be present if the third-party applications are configured. For details see: https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies/ | Non-persistant | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | IDE | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange. | 1 Year | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | li_gc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 1 Year | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | li_sugr | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 2 Months | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | lidc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 1 Day | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | linkedin_oauth_[id] | LinkedIn OAuth token. Initially created whenever a new user visits an RMK site page that uses the LinkedIn JS API. Updated by LinkedIn throughout the user's session. | Session Cookie | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | RT | The "RT" cookie is typically associated with real-time data collection or analytics. For details see: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie_policy | Persistent Cookie, that can last beyond session time | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | li_at | The "li_at" cookie is an authentication token used by LinkedIn to authenticate a user's identity. For details see: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie_policy | Persistent Cookie, that can last beyond session time | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | mst | The "mst" cookie is associated with LinkedIn and may be used for various purposes such as analytics or tracking. For details see: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie_policy | Persistent Cookie, that can last beyond session time | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | IN_HAND | The "IN_HASH" cookie is used by LinkedIn for various purposes, such as ad targeting or analytics. For details see: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie_policy | Persistent Cookie, that can last beyond session time | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | visit | The "visit" cookie is used for tracking user visits or sessions on the website. For details see: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie_policy | Persistent Cookie, that can last beyond session time | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
4 - Targeting / Advertising Cookies | UserMatchHistory | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 1 Month | Opportunities.vodafone.com |
Controlling your cookies
You can manage your cookie preferences, including to opt-out of each cookie category (except strictly necessary cookies) by accessing the preference center here:
Consent Preferences
Please note that where we have visibility of your other devices through authentication / login, the most recent consent preferences provided by you, whether through the browser or device settings, will be reflected across your devices.
You can also control how you use cookies in your browser or your device settings.
Information on controlling and deleting cookies is also available at http://allaboutcookies.org