What Cookies Does Zinc Use, and How Do I Choose?

Zinc only uses **optional cookies** if you say yes. Your choice has no effect on your checks. ### Types of cookies - **Strictly necessary**: always on. These keep you signed in, keep the service secure, and save your progress. - **Functional**: remember things like messages you've dismissed, and support our optional chat and product announcements. - **Analytics**: show us which steps people get stuck on, so we can fix them. - **Advertising**: measure and target advertising, including sharing data with advertising partners. They aren't needed to run your checks. To see every cookie, what it does, and how long it lasts, open **Cookie preferences** and select **What's in this group**. ## When you'll see the cookie banner If you haven't made a choice yet, you'll see the banner: - if you're a candidate, the first time you open a check form, including before you sign in. - if you're a recruiter or customer, the first time you use the recruiter areas of the platform, such as your candidates, company, account and billing pages. ## How to choose your cookie settings Select one of these options: - **Accept optional cookies** - **Reject optional cookies** - **Choose what to allow** to pick category by category Then select **Save my choices**. ## How to change your choices later Select **Cookie preferences** at the bottom of the page, update the switches, and select **Save my choices**. Your choice is stored in your browser, so if you clear your browser data or switch devices, you'll be asked again. For more on how cookies are used, see our [Privacy Notice](https://zincwork.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice)