Online tracking technologies privacy notice

If you’re visiting a website operated by one of the entities that make up the Mott MacDonald Group (“Mott MacDonald”), this privacy notice will help you understand how we use cookies and other online tracking technologies on our websites, mobile applications and through our digital solutions and services.

In certain locations, there may be differences in the way that we collect and use personal information due to local legal requirements or the way that Mott MacDonald operates. If this is the case, we will notify you of this in a supplementary privacy notice.

This privacy notice is aligned with our Privacy and data protection policy and Our Code. Please see our Website privacy notice for more information on how we use and protect online visitor information.

Explanation of online tracking technologies we use

Like many companies, we use tracking technologies on our websites and through the digital solutions and services we offer, including the use of cookies, tags, device fingerprinting and web beacons. The types of tracking technologies that may be used depend on your preferences and choices (for example, whether you accept all cookies, select specific categories of cookies or reject cookies) and how you access and engage with our websites, digital solutions and services.

Cookies: cookies are small text files that are stored through the browser on your computer or mobile device. Cookies serve a variety of functions. They help you navigate between website pages efficiently and help to improve your experience of our websites. Cookies fall into two general categories: first party cookies (we set these cookies to enable essential functionality on our website) and third-party cookies (these cookies are set by third parties who we work with). When we use cookies on our websites and through the digital solutions and services we offer, we may classify them into any one of the following categories:

Strictly necessary cookies: these cookies are essential to enable you to move around our websites and use its features. They allow us to prevent website crashes, display information, fix bugs and ensure the security of our websites.
Functional cookies: these cookies allow our websites to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the country you’re in) and provide more enhanced, personal features.
Performance and analytics cookies: these cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our websites and digital solutions and services. They help us understand how visitors arrive at our websites and know which pages are viewed the most and least often. We allow third parties to use tracking technologies to understand how you interact with our websites and digital solutions and services. For example, we use Siteimprove to evaluate website traffic and usage data to help us improve our website content. We collect information using Siteimprove in a way that does not identify you.
Marketing cookies: these cookies help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns, deliver advertisements more relevant and engaging to you and your interests, and limit the number of times you see an advertisement. For example, they tell us when you’ve opened an email advertisement and whether you’ve clicked on any content within the advertisement. These cookies are usually placed on behalf of advertising networks with our permission.
Social media cookies: these cookies are set by social media and social business services, including, X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube that we have added to our websites to enable you to share our content with your friends and network. These websites set their own cookies, which we don’t control. You should carefully review those notices to ensure you’re happy with how they process your personal information.

Device fingerprinting: device fingerprinting is a process used to identify your device or the browser you use. This may involve collecting your IP address, location of your device, and other unique identifiers such as device model, screen resolution and size. For example, our third-party service provider (Candidate.ID) may use fingerprinting (with your permission) to track your IP address and the date and time you visited our career’s website. We may use device fingerprinting that is necessary to run our services and to supplement the information we collect through the use of cookies.

Other tracking technologies: our websites and digital solutions and services may contain web beacons, pixels, page tags, third party embedded scripts and other tracking technologies. These technologies consist of small transparent image files or other web programming code that record your activity and how you interact with our services. These tracking technologies count the number of individuals who visited our websites from a particular advertisement, or they may tell us when a web page is viewed. They are often used in conjunction with web browser cookies or other identifiers associated with your device.

Cross device tracking: If you use different devices (such as your home computer, laptop or mobile device), our external service providers may match your browsing activity on our websites across different devices. For example, if you browse our websites on your mobile device and move to your laptop, we may attempt to match your browsing activity across these devices.

Managing your choices

We provide you with the ability to manage online tracking technologies that are not strictly necessary on our websites, by clicking on the banner that appears when first visiting our websites. We only place functional, performance and analytics, marketing and social media cookies if you explicitly accept these cookies by clicking ‘Accept all cookies’.

If you have accepted cookies, you may change your preferences at any time. You can choose to accept some, all or reject our use of online tracking technologies and this will not affect your access to our websites or our resources. However, your experience may be different depending on the categories of online tracking technologies you accept.

You can also control the use of cookies on your device at any time by changing your preferences or options in your browser settings. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

Apple Safari
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit their opt-out page.

Contact us

If you have any questions about the content of our websites, please contact keep.connected@mottmac.com.

If you have any concerns about this privacy notice, or how we have used your personal information for our own purposes, please contact our Privacy and Data Protection Team at privacy@mottmac.com. If you’re located in Singapore, you can also contact us by calling 6293 1900. If you’re a resident of California, please contact privacyamericas@mottmac.com or dial 800.832.3272.

If you’re unhappy with how we have used your personal information, you can register a complaint with the data protection regulator in the country, state, or province where you are located.

List of the cookies and online tracking technologies we use

Tracking Technology	Name	Expires	Provider	Purpose
	CookieControl	2 months	Mott MacDonald	This cookie sets your cookie policy.
	.AspNetCore.Session	0 days	Mott MacDonald	This is required to maintain the visitors session state
	.AspNetCore.Antiforgery.*	0 days	Mott MacDonald	Protects against cross-site request forgery
	ShowCulture	3 months	Mott MacDonald	Detects current browser language, to offer the option of the most ideal regional website
	TempCookieCulture	3 months	Mott MacDonald	Registers a temporary locale, prior to visitor selection
	ats_source_tracking	7 months	Mott MacDonald	Analytics cookie used to record the source of visit and feed this into the HR system for candidate applications.
	ARRAffinity	0 days	Microsoft Azure	Used to ensure the same server is used for the duration of the session
	ARRAffinitySameSite	0 days	Microsoft Azure	Used to ensure the same server is used for the duration of the session
	.AspNetCore.Antiforgery.pUOXNTmQ6pM	0 days	Mott MacDonald	Blocks unauthorized requests via the website.
	Region	0 days	Mott MacDonald	Used to determine regional jurisdiction
	.AspNetCore.Cookies	0 days	Mott MacDonald	Sets cookie acceptance
	Culture	3 months	Mott MacDonald	Sets selected regional site.
	AWSALBCORS	6 months	Amazon Web Services	The AWSALB cookie ensures that all page views for the same visit (user session) are sent to the same endpoint. This enables us to determine the sequence of a user's page views needed for features like Behavior Tracking and Funnels.
	li_sugr	9 months	LinkedIn	LinkedIn Insight Tag, when IP address is not in a Designated Country
	AMP_TOKEN	59 hours		Tracks visits across the website's regular and accelerated mobile page variants
	_ga	7 months	Google	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
	_gid	7 months	Google	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
	_gat_UA-638626-1	7 months	Google	Analytics cookie used to record anonymous visitor statistics on our careers application portal
	garecruitment	7 months	Mott MacDonald	Used by our recruitment team. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited.
	garecruitment_gid	7 months	Mott MacDonald	Used by our recruitment team. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited
	_gat_garecruitment	7 months	Mott MacDonald	Used by our recruitment team. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited
	_ga_P1NEJS7CS9	7 months	Google	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
	_lfa	9 months	Leadfeeder	Used to track audience reach
	ln_or	4 months	LinkedIn	Used to determine if Oribi analytics can be carried out on a specific domain
	_ga_GYBM9J154T	6 months	Mott MacDonald	Google Analytics 4
	nmstat	3 months	SiteImprove	This cookie is used to help record the visitor’s use of the website. It is used to collect statistics about site usage such as when the visitor last visited the site. This information is then used to improve the user experience on the website. This Siteimprove Analytics cookie contains a randomly generated ID used to recognize the browser when a visitor reads a page. The cookie contains no personal information and is used only for web analytics. It is also used to track the sequence of pages a visitor looks at during a visit to the site. This information can be used to reduce user journeys, and enable visitors to find relevant information quicker.
	garecruitment_ga_XDPH45SQWF	6 months	Mott MacDonald	Used by our recruitment team. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited
	_pk_id.9e5e2be3-a06b-4c51-b911-8fa35b0797b3.9a5a	10 months	Matomo	Stores a user ID
	_pk_ses.9e5e2be3-a06b-4c51-b911-8fa35b0797b3.9a5a	9 months	Matomo	Stores a session ID
	lang	0 days	LinkedIn	Targeting / Advertising cookies. These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advert as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator's permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.
	lidc	23 days	LinkedIn	Targeting / Advertising cookies. These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advert as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator's permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.
	UserMatchHistory	8 months	LinkedIn	Targeting / Advertising cookies. These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advert as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator's permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.
	bcookie	24 months	LinkedIn	Targeting / Advertising cookies. These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advert as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator's permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.
	bscookie	7 months	LinkedIn	Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.
	lissc	11 months		There is no specific information about this cookie from this host provider.
	zarget_user_id	7 months	Freshmarketer	Gives a unique ID to visitors using our Careers website
	AnalyticsSyncHistory	8 months	LinkedIn	Used to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie
	li_gc	1 months	LinkedIn	Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes
	CONSENT	7 months	YouTube	Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website.
	YSC	0 days	YouTube	Used to remember user input and associate a user’s actions. This cookie lasts for as long as the user keeps their browser open.
	VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	1 months	YouTube	Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.