Cookie Policy

This page lists every cookie and every piece of browser storage Fresherz actually uses, and what we count when you visit. It is a short list on purpose. We run no advertising cookies, no tracking pixels and no third-party analytics. Nothing here follows you to another website.

What a cookie is

A cookie is a small piece of text a website asks your browser to keep and send back on the next request. "Local storage" is similar, except it stays in your browser and is never sent anywhere. We use both, for the small number of things listed below.

Cookies we set

• fresherz-session — Keeps you signed in. Without it you would have to enter your password on every page. How long: 120 minutes of inactivity Type: Strictly necessary

• XSRF-TOKEN — Protects against cross-site request forgery — it proves a form was submitted from our own pages and not from a hostile site. How long: Same as the session Type: Strictly necessary

• NEXT_LOCALE — Remembers that you pressed the বাংলা or English switch, so we do not put you back in the other language next time. How long: One year Type: Preference

The session cookie cannot be read by scripts running in your browser, and it is sent only over an encrypted connection. It is set on .fresherzjob.com so that the website and our servers can recognise the same visit.

We do not guess your language. Almost every phone in Bangladesh reports Bangla whether or not its owner wants to read a job board in Bangla, so we leave you on the page you clicked and only remember a choice you made yourself.

Things we keep in your browser (not cookies)

• fresherz.session — A note of whether you are signed in, so that signing out in one tab signs you out in the others. Where: Local storage

• fresherz:last-login — Which method you used to sign in last time — password or Google — so we can put it first. Where: Local storage

• fresherz.console.toggled — Remembers your interface layout preferences. Set only for signed-in staff accounts. Where: Local storage

• Sign-up prompt counters — How many pages you have read, so we show a sign-up prompt once and not again. Where: Session storage, cleared when you close the tab

None of this is sent to us or to anybody else. It lives in your browser and clearing your browsing data removes it.

Counting visits

We count page views ourselves, and we do it without a cookie. There is no Google Analytics on Fresherz, no advertising network and no third-party measurement script. Nothing about your visit is sent to another company, and nothing is stored on your device for this.

When you open a page we record, on our own servers: the address of the page in a generalised form (a company page is recorded as /companies/:id rather than the company you looked at), the language you were reading, the country and the kind of device your browser reports, the website that linked you to us if any, and whether the page loaded successfully.

How we count people without knowing who they are. We do not store your IP address against a page view. Instead we combine your address and browser description with a secret value that we change every day, and keep only the one-way fingerprint that comes out. It cannot be turned back into your address, and because the secret changes daily, the fingerprint from today cannot be matched to the one from yesterday. This is how we can say "so many people visited" without building a record of any one person.

How long: individual page views are deleted after 90 days. Daily totals — how many views and how many people, per day — are kept after that, and they are counts with nobody inside them.

This is the only measurement on the site, it is used to decide what to build next, and it is never combined with your account, your applications or your profile.

Third parties

If you choose Sign in with Google, Google sets its own cookies on accounts.google.com during the sign-in. That is Google's page and Google's policy, not ours. If a company has embedded a video on its page, the video host may set cookies when you play it.

Controlling cookies

Your browser can block or delete cookies. Blocking the two strictly necessary ones will stop you signing in — there is no way around that, because they are the sign-in. Blocking the language cookie only means we forget your language choice.

Why there is no cookie banner

We only set cookies that are necessary to run the service and one that records a choice you made yourself, and our visit counting stores nothing on your device at all. There is nothing to consent to and nothing to opt out of, so we have not put a banner in your way. If we ever add a cookie that needs your permission, we will update this page and ask you before we set it.

Changes to this policy

We describe what Fresherz does today. If any of it changes we will update this page and change the date at the top, and where the change is significant we will tell you rather than expecting you to come back and check.

Questions

Write to support@fresherzjob.com.