Cookies and storage
What bigfish.careers stores on your device. Necessary items are always on; analytics and advertising only after you allow them in the cookie banner.
Updated: 26 October 2026
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 (careertest.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.
- bf_consent
- Big Fish (bigfish.careers and careertest.bigfish.careers) · 180 days
- Remembers your cookie choice, for example “v2.a1.m0” (analytics yes, advertising no).
- bf-cookie-consent
- Big Fish (browser storage) · Until you clear it
- A copy of your cookie choice on this site.
- bf-attribution
- Big Fish (browser storage) · Until you clear it; used for 30 days
- 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.
- Turnstile
- Cloudflare (challenges.cloudflare.com) · Session
- Spam check when you use a form. Runs in a Cloudflare frame and may keep short-lived data there.
- __cf_bm, _cfuvid
- Cloudflare · Up to 30 minutes / session
- May be set to protect the site from bots and spread traffic.
- sb-…-auth-token
- Big Fish (browser storage) · Until sign-out
- Only for our staff signing in to the site's admin area.
| Name | Set by | What it does | Kept for |
|---|---|---|---|
| bf_consent | Big Fish (bigfish.careers and careertest.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. | Until you clear it; used for 30 days |
| Turnstile | Cloudflare (challenges.cloudflare.com) | Spam check when you use a form. Runs in a Cloudflare frame and may keep short-lived data there. | Session |
| __cf_bm, _cfuvid | Cloudflare | May be set to protect the site from bots and spread traffic. | Up to 30 minutes / session |
| sb-…-auth-token | Big Fish (browser storage) | Only for our staff signing in to the site's admin area. | Until sign-out |
Analytics (only with your consent)
Google Analytics (Google Ireland Limited) counts visits and shows which pages and steps work. IP addresses are shortened.
- _ga
- Google Analytics · 2 years
- Tells visits from the same browser apart, also between bigfish.careers and the career test.
- _ga_6CLN10L5MY
- Google Analytics · 2 years
- 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, and let us show our ads to people who visited the site. Google and Meta may also set cookies on their own domains under their policies.
- _gcl_au, _gcl_aw, _gcl_gb
- Google Ads · 90 days
- Link an ad click to a later action on the site (for example a request).
- _fbp
- Meta · 90 days
- Recognises this browser for measuring Meta ads.
- _fbc
- Meta · 90 days
- 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.
You can change your cookie choice at any time: