Cookie Policy
Last updated: 13 August 2026
1. About this Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Lifecycle Recruitment Ltd uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.
We are committed to being transparent about how our website operates and how information about website visitors may be collected and used.
This Cookie Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy and Website Terms & Conditions.
2. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies allow a website to recognise your device and can be used for a number of purposes, including helping a website function correctly, remembering preferences, understanding how visitors use a website, improving website performance and functionality, and measuring the effectiveness of website content and marketing.
Cookies can be either first-party cookies, which are placed by the website you are visiting, or third-party cookies, which are placed by another organisation whose services are being used on the website.
Cookies may also be either session cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
The rules relating to cookies also apply to certain similar technologies that store information on, or access information from, your device, including tracking pixels, web storage, scripts and tags.
3. How we use cookies
Lifecycle Recruitment Ltd operates a specialist recruitment website designed to provide information about our recruitment services, areas of expertise, vacancies and the markets in which we operate.
We may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- ensure that the website operates correctly;
- maintain website security;
- remember relevant website preferences;
- understand how visitors navigate and interact with our website;
- analyse website performance and visitor numbers;
- identify which pages and content are most useful to visitors;
- improve the functionality, content and user experience of our website; and
- where applicable, understand the effectiveness of our digital marketing activity.
We do not use our website to maintain candidate or client records through cookies.
We also do not currently use our website to store email addresses, CVs or application information.
If you contact us directly by email, the information contained within your email will be handled separately from the operation of our website and in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
4. Types of cookies and similar technologies we may use
4.1 Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies and technologies are necessary for the website to operate correctly, securely and as intended.
They may include technologies used for website security, preventing malicious or automated activity, maintaining website functionality, remembering essential website settings and managing cookie consent preferences.
Where a technology is strictly necessary to provide a service that you have requested, consent may not be required under applicable legislation.
We will seek to limit the use of strictly necessary cookies and technologies to those genuinely required for the operation and security of the website.
The Information Commissioner's Office recognises an exemption for technologies that are strictly necessary for the provision of an online service requested by the user.
4.2 Analytics cookies – Google Analytics
We may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website.
Google Analytics may collect information about pages visited, how visitors navigate around the website, approximate location, device and browser information, traffic sources, session information and interactions with website content.
We use this information to monitor website performance, understand visitor behaviour and improve our website and content.
Google Analytics is not necessary for the basic operation of our website.
Analytics cookies and associated technologies will therefore only be activated where the appropriate consent has been provided.
4.3 Google Tag Manager
We use Google Tag Manager to manage certain website tags and scripts.
Google Tag Manager is primarily a tag-management system that allows us to manage technologies such as analytics and marketing tags without making changes directly to the website's underlying code.
The tags deployed through Google Tag Manager may include technologies that require user consent.
We configure Google Tag Manager and associated tags so that non-essential technologies are controlled according to the visitor's consent preferences.
Where Google Tag Manager is used to deploy analytics or marketing technologies, those technologies will not be activated without the appropriate consent.
4.4 Security and reCAPTCHA
We may use Google reCAPTCHA or similar security technologies to help protect our website from spam, abuse and automated activity.
reCAPTCHA may collect technical information about your device, browser and interaction with the website for security and fraud-prevention purposes.
Depending on how reCAPTCHA is implemented on our website, certain information may be stored or accessed on your device.
Where applicable, we will configure reCAPTCHA in accordance with applicable cookie and privacy requirements and provide appropriate information about its use.
4.5 Marketing cookies – LinkedIn
We may use the LinkedIn Insight Tag or similar LinkedIn technologies in the future to understand the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising activity.
If implemented, LinkedIn may use cookies or similar technologies to measure visits and conversions, understand how visitors interact with our website, measure advertising performance and support targeted or personalised advertising.
These technologies are not necessary for the operation of our website and will only be activated where the appropriate consent has been provided.
4.6 Behavioural analytics – Hotjar
We may use Hotjar or a similar behavioural analytics service in the future to better understand how visitors interact with our website.
This may include technologies that help us understand which areas of a page visitors interact with, how visitors navigate through the website, which content receives the most engagement and how we can improve website usability.
Hotjar technologies are not necessary for the basic operation of our website and will only be activated where the appropriate consent has been provided.
5. Third-party cookies and technologies
Some technologies used on our website may be provided by third parties.
These may include, depending on the services we use:
- Google;
- LinkedIn;
- Hotjar; and
- other technology, security, analytics or marketing providers.
Third-party providers may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies and terms.
Where third-party technologies require consent, we will seek your consent before they are activated.
Where we use third-party storage and access technologies, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that the relevant third parties and purposes are clearly explained to website users.
6. Cookie consent
Where cookies or similar technologies require consent, we will ask for your consent before placing or accessing those technologies on your device.
Our cookie consent mechanism will allow you to:
- accept non-essential cookies;
- reject non-essential cookies; and
- where applicable, select individual categories of cookies.
You do not have to consent to non-essential cookies in order to use our website.
Refusing non-essential cookies should not prevent you from accessing the core content and functionality of our website.
Consent will be recorded so that we can respect your preferences.
You may withdraw or change your cookie preferences at any time using the cookie settings available on our website.
Consent must involve a clear affirmative action and cannot be inferred simply from continuing to browse or use the website. Non-essential cookies and similar technologies should not be activated before the required consent has been obtained.
We will make the ability to refuse non-essential cookies as straightforward as the ability to accept them.
7. Managing cookies through your browser
You can also control or delete cookies through your web browser.
Most browsers allow you to view cookies stored on your device, delete existing cookies, block cookies, block third-party cookies and configure your browser to delete cookies when you close it.
Please be aware that disabling strictly necessary cookies may affect the functionality of some websites.
Information about managing cookies is available through the help section of your chosen web browser.
8. What information may be collected?
Depending on the technologies used and your consent choices, information may include:
- IP address or an approximation of your location;
- browser type and version;
- device type;
- operating system;
- pages visited;
- links clicked;
- referring website;
- approximate time spent on pages;
- date and time of visits; and
- information about how you interact with our website.
We do not use cookies for the purpose of collecting sensitive personal information.
Where cookies or similar technologies involve the processing of personal data, the relevant processing will also be subject to applicable data protection legislation, including GDPR.
9. How long do cookies remain on your device?
The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on whether it is a session cookie or persistent cookie.
Session cookies are normally deleted when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.
The duration of individual cookies may vary depending on the technology and third-party service involved.
We seek to ensure that cookie durations are appropriate for the purposes for which they are used.
10. Changes to our use of cookies
We may update or change the cookies and similar technologies used by our website from time to time.
For example, we may introduce new analytics, marketing, security or website functionality.
Where changes affect the use of non-essential cookies or similar technologies, we will update this Cookie Policy and, where required, request consent before introducing them.
We may also need to request fresh consent where there are material changes to the purposes for which cookies or similar technologies are used.
We recommend checking this page periodically to ensure you are aware of any changes.
11. Your privacy
Cookies and similar technologies may involve the processing of personal information in certain circumstances.
Where this occurs, processing will also be subject to applicable data protection legislation, including the UK GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR).
Our Privacy Policy explains how Lifecycle Recruitment Ltd handles personal information, including information provided to us outside of this website.
12. Your rights
Depending on the circumstances, you may have rights under applicable data protection legislation, including rights relating to access to personal information, correction of inaccurate information, deletion of personal information, restriction of processing, objection to certain processing and data portability.
13. Contact us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies and similar technologies, please contact us using the details below:
Lifecycle Recruitment Ltd
Correspondence / Business Address: 53 King Street, Manchester, M2 4LQ
Email: info@lifecyclerecruitment.com
14. Further information
For further information about cookies and similar technologies in the UK, you can visit the website of the Information Commissioner's Office.
The ICO's current guidance confirms that PECR applies not only to traditional cookies but also to technologies including tracking pixels, web storage, fingerprinting, scripts and tags. It also confirms that organisations must provide clear information about these technologies and obtain prior consent where required, unless an applicable exemption applies.
Last updated: 13 August 2026