Monster Privacy Notice - UK

Cookies and Digital Advertising

Our services include the display of personalised products, content, and advertising relating to your career experience and interests. We use data we have about you to determine whether you might be interested in the opportunities, products, or services of a particular third party. We show you targeted ads online. These ads are targeted based on information we collect about you and information about you that we acquire from third parties including public websites and data providers. Please see your account notification settings to customize the notifications you receive by signing into your account. Please review the Your Privacy Rights section of this Privacy Notice for more options, as well as clicking on the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out and/or selecting Ad Choices in the footer of www.monster.co.uk.

Cookies: Monster and its partners use cookies on the Monster sites to analyse trends, administer websites, track users' movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our users. Cookies help personalize and maximise your use of our site, including storing user preferences, improving search results and ad selection, and tracking user trends.

When you first use the Monster website or application, you must make selections in a cookie consent pop-up. Your choice will be stored on your device. Please note that if you use a different device or a different browser, you will need to make your selections again when you visit the Monster website or application. Please note: if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our website or application. You may edit your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on “Cookie Settings” in the footer.

Monster uses the following types of cookies:

  • Essential/Strictly Necessary: cookies to operate essential features of our website, including securing your access to your account. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly. You cannot opt-out of these cookies.
  • Analytics: cookies that track traffic patterns so we can identify popular content, potential problems, and perform analytics.
  • Functional: we use these cookies to enable non-essential features on our website, such as testing new features, storing your preferences, displaying job search results, and tracking jobs you search for, view, and apply to so we can show you other comparable employment opportunities.
  • Advertising: cookies that show you advertising on Monster and third-party websites.

Some cookies will remain on your computer after you have left our site. Security cookies will remain for 60 days after your last visit. Poll response cookies will remain for 90 days, and Monster cookies relating to advertisements and site notices will remain for up to two years, unless you choose to delete them.

We allow other companies to display advertisements to you while you are using our sites and applications. When this happens, these companies can view, edit, or set their own cookies just as if you had requested a web page from their site. The cookies placed by these third parties could remain on your computer after you have left our site for up to 20 years unless you choose to delete them. You can opt out of third-party cookies by setting your browser to decline cookies or using our cookie settings tool located in the footer.

Monster uses web beacons (sometimes called pixels) and JavaScript. We may receive confirmation when you open an email from Monster if your computer supports this type of program. Monster uses "Flash cookies", also known as "Local Shared Objects", to preserve video player settings and for security purposes. You can adjust your settings for your Flash cookies .

Monster’s site includes social media features and widgets, for example the “Facebook Like” button and “Share This” button. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy notice of the company providing them.

Rakuten Advertising and/or Commission Junction may collect personal data when you interact with our digital property, including IP addresses, digital identifiers, information about your web browsing and app usage, and how you interact with our properties and ads for a variety of purposes, such as personalisation of offers or advertisements, analytics about how you engage with websites or ads and other commercial purposes.

  1. To opt-out of Rakuten Advertising's collection of any personal data, you may do so here: https://rakutenadvertising.com/legal-notices/services-privacy-rights-request-form/ . For more information about Rakuten’s collection, use and sale of your personal data and your rights, please visit their privacy page https://rakutenadvertising.com/legal-notices/services-privacy-policy/.
  2. For more information about Commission Junction’s collection, use and sale of your personal data, and your rights, please visit Commission Junction’s privacy page at https://www.cj.com/legal/privacy-uk .