Legal information
Cookies and storage
What bigfish.careers and the career platform store on your device. Necessary items are always on; analytics and advertising only after you allow them in the cookie banner.
How it works
Cookies and browser storage are small pieces of data a website keeps on your device. We use only what is listed below.
Your choice in the cookie banner applies to two purposes, analytics and advertising, and is shared with the career test (app.bigfish.careers): a choice made on either site applies on both.
Until you allow a purpose, its tags are not loaded and nothing is sent to Google or Meta. If you choose “Only necessary”, only the items in the first table are used.
Necessary (always on)
Needed for the site and its forms to work. They don't track you across other sites.
Because this storage is strictly necessary for the service, we do not ask for consent for it. You can clear it at any time in your browser settings; you will then need to sign in again.
- bf_consent
- Remembers your cookie choice, for example “v2.a1.m0” (analytics yes, advertising no).
- bf-cookie-consent
- A copy of your cookie choice on this site.
- bf-attribution
- Remembers which campaign or ad brought you here (utm tags, ad click identifier), so a request or a test purchase can be linked to it. Stays on your device; sent only with a form or when you open the career test. In the career platform the tags are sent only with a purchase, and the ad click references (such as “gclid” or “fbclid”) only if you allowed advertising.
- sb-…-auth-token
- Keeps you signed in to the career platform (a sign-in token from our account provider, Supabase), and our staff in the site's admin area.
- bf-…, fr3-…
- Remembers small choices in your report on this device, such as which section you had open.
- Turnstile
- Spam and bot check when you use a form, sign in or start the free test. Runs in a Cloudflare frame and may keep short-lived data there; used only for this security check, not for advertising.
- __cf_bm, _cfuvid
- May be set to protect the site from bots and spread traffic.
- Stripe
- Payments happen on Stripe's secure page, which uses its own cookies to process the payment and prevent fraud; see Stripe's privacy policy.
- bf_lang
- Remembers the language you chose in the website's language menu, so bigfish.careers opens in that language next time.
| Name | Set by | What it does | Kept for |
|---|---|---|---|
| bf_consent | Big Fish (bigfish.careers and app.bigfish.careers) | Remembers your cookie choice, for example “v2.a1.m0” (analytics yes, advertising no). | 180 days |
| bf-cookie-consent | Big Fish (browser storage) | A copy of your cookie choice on this site. | Until you clear it |
| bf-attribution | Big Fish (browser storage) | Remembers which campaign or ad brought you here (utm tags, ad click identifier), so a request or a test purchase can be linked to it. Stays on your device; sent only with a form or when you open the career test. In the career platform the tags are sent only with a purchase, and the ad click references (such as “gclid” or “fbclid”) only if you allowed advertising. | Until you clear it; used for 30 days |
| sb-…-auth-token | Big Fish (browser storage) | Keeps you signed in to the career platform (a sign-in token from our account provider, Supabase), and our staff in the site's admin area. | Until sign-out |
| bf-…, fr3-… | Big Fish (browser storage, career platform) | Remembers small choices in your report on this device, such as which section you had open. | Until you clear it |
| Turnstile | Cloudflare (challenges.cloudflare.com) | Spam and bot check when you use a form, sign in or start the free test. Runs in a Cloudflare frame and may keep short-lived data there; used only for this security check, not for advertising. | Session |
| __cf_bm, _cfuvid | Cloudflare | May be set to protect the site from bots and spread traffic. | Up to 30 minutes / session |
| Stripe | Stripe (checkout page) | Payments happen on Stripe's secure page, which uses its own cookies to process the payment and prevent fraud; see Stripe's privacy policy. | Set by Stripe |
| bf_lang | Big Fish (bigfish.careers) | Remembers the language you chose in the website's language menu, so bigfish.careers opens in that language next time. | 1 year |
Analytics (only with your consent)
Google Analytics (Google Ireland Limited) counts visits and shows which pages and steps work: which pages people open, whether they finish the free test, start a checkout or buy. IP addresses are shortened and Google signals are turned off. A visit to the main Big Fish site and to the test counts as one visitor.
The data is used to measure and improve the service and to see which of our ads lead to requests, sign-ups and purchases.
If you click "Only necessary", or do nothing, Google Analytics is not loaded and nothing is sent to Google.
- _ga
- Tells visits from the same browser apart, also between bigfish.careers and the career test.
- _ga_6CLN10L5MY
- Keeps the state of the current visit.
| Name | Set by | What it does | Kept for |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | Tells visits from the same browser apart, also between bigfish.careers and the career test. | 2 years |
| _ga_6CLN10L5MY | Google Analytics | Keeps the state of the current visit. | 2 years |
Advertising (only with your consent)
Google Ads and the Meta Pixel measure which of our ads bring visits and requests. On bigfish.careers they also let us show our ads to people who visited the site, whatever their age (the website does not ask it). Google and Meta may also set cookies on their own domains under their policies.
In the career platform they are loaded only on pages for parents and adults: the home page, the parents' pages, Discovery and the sample report. They are never loaded on the test, the snapshot, the report, the account pages or anything else young people use, and nothing is sent from those pages. We use them to measure our campaigns, not to build profiles of young people.
After a purchase by an adult who allowed advertising, our server also reports the purchase to Meta (with the email address in hashed form, the IP address and the browser type) and, if analytics was allowed, to Google Analytics. See section 8 of our privacy policy.
If you click "Only necessary", or do nothing, no advertising tags are loaded.
- _gcl_au, _gcl_aw, _gcl_gb
- Link an ad click to a later action on the site (for example a request).
- _fbp
- Recognises this browser for measuring Meta ads.
- _fbc
- Stores the identifier of the Meta ad click that brought you.
| Name | Set by | What it does | Kept for |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au, _gcl_aw, _gcl_gb | Google Ads | Link an ad click to a later action on the site (for example a request). | 90 days |
| _fbp | Meta | Recognises this browser for measuring Meta ads. | 90 days |
| _fbc | Meta | Stores the identifier of the Meta ad click that brought you. | 90 days |
Videos and other sites
Camp videos are embedded from YouTube in privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com): YouTube stores data only when you play a video. Calendly, Telegram, WhatsApp and social networks use their own cookies when you open them.
Your choices
You can change your choice at any time with “Cookie settings” at the bottom of every page or with the button below. If you withdraw consent, we stop the tags and remove their cookies (_ga, _gcl, _fbp, _fbc) from our domain. You can also delete cookies in your browser settings.
Questions: info@bigfish.careers.
Questions about these documents: info@bigfish.careers
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