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Cookies

Published Wednesday 14 May 2025
Updated Wednesday 6 August 2025

We use cookies to store information about how you use the careerswales.gov.wales website, such as the pages you visit. These cookies are not used to identify you personally.

Cookies are saved on to your phone, tablet or computer when you visit a website.

We use 1 type of cookie, and you can choose whether to allow us to use it on your device or not. You can manage this by clicking the cookie icon in the bottom left corner of your screen when you visit any page on this site.

Cookies that measure website use

We use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on our user needs. Google Analytics sets cookies that store anonymised information about:

  • How you got to the site
  • The pages you visit on our site and how long you spend on each page
  • What you click while you are visiting the site

This is a non-essential cookie and you can choose whether to let it run or not.

What do I do if I don’t want you to use cookies at all?

By setting the cookie preferences using the cookie icon in the bottom left of your screen, you can decide which non-essential cookies you are happy for us to use.

You can clear and manage cookies in your browser settings.

We also use essential cookies on our site. By switching these off you may prevent certain sections of our site from working correctly.

How to turn cookies off

Our cookie policy above tells you what sort of cookies we use on our site and why we use them, but if you still don’t feel comfortable with allowing them on your computer you can follow these simple steps to disable them.

Edge

  • Click Settings in the menu that appears
  • Under settings select ‘Privacy and Security’ 
  • Under cookies in the drop down select ‘Block all cookies’ 

Google Chrome

  • Click on the spanner icon in the browser’s toolbar
  • Choose Settings
  • Click ‘Show advanced settings’
  • In the ‘Privacy’ section, click ‘Content settings’
  • To disable cookies, in the ‘Cookies’ section, pick ‘Block sites from setting any data’

Internet Explorer

  • Click ‘Tools’ and choose ‘Internet Options’ from the menu that appears
  • In the pop-up screen click on the ‘Privacy’ tab
  • In the settings section click on the ‘Advanced’ button
  • In the Advanced Privacy Settings pop-up click on the checkbox for ‘Override automatic cookie handling’
  • Select the block option for both first-party and third-party cookies and click ‘OK’

Mozilla Firefox

  • Click on ‘Tools’ at the browser menu and choose ‘Options’
  • Choose the Privacy panel
  • To disable cookies: Uncheck ‘Accept cookies for sites’ 

Opera

  • Click on ‘Setting’ at the browser menu and choose ‘Settings’
  • Choose ‘Quick Preferences’
  • To disable cookies: uncheck ‘Enable Cookies’

Safari

  • Click on ‘Safari’  at the menu bar and select the ‘Preferences’ option
  • Click on ‘Security’
  • To disable cookies, in the ‘Accept cookies’ section choose ‘Never’

All other browsers 

Please use the inbuilt ‘Help’ function for your chosen browser to find out how to disable cookies.

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