Cookie Policy
What are Cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of text-only data sent from a website and stored onto an individual user’s local machine while the user browses a website. Cookies are generally utilized for record purposes; they allow websites to remember certain information about a user, in addition to providing performance enhancements, tailored experiences, social media integration, and more.
We use both persistent cookies and session cookies. Persistent cookies stay on your device for a set period of time or until you delete them, while session cookies are deleted once you close your web browser. We use persistent cookies, for example, to record your choice of language and country location. The cookies placed through your use of our website are either set by us (first-party cookies) or by a third party at our request (third-party cookies).
Types of Cookies We Use
Idealist uses the following categories of cookies:
- Essential. We use essential cookies in accordance with our legitimate business interests to help make our website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but then some parts of the websites will not work.
- Functionality / performance. We use these cookies to enhance the functionality and performance of the services.
- Analytics. We use these cookies to help us understand how our services are performing and being used.
Details of Cookies We Use
| Cookie Name | Provider | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _LOCALE_ | Idealist | 5 years | to store the user’s locale |
| abExperiments | Idealist | 5 years | to store which A/B experiments the user is part of to enable/disable different features |
| hasAcceptedCookies | Idealist | 1 year | whether to show the cookie banner (EU only) |
| session | Idealist | Immediate | Store the user session |
| third_party_auth | Idealist | 1 hour | Store the third-party auth session |
| events | Idealist | 1 year | Associate user activity before a user signs up |
| auth_token_plain | Idealist | Immediate | iOS app session token |
| userDismissedNotificationPreferencesDialog | Idealist | 30 days | to show the preferences dialog or not |
| savedListing | Idealist | Immediate | to store the saved listing during an email verification |
| subscribedSubsite | Idealist | Immediate | to store the subscription during an email verification |
| nc | Idealist | 1 year | Whether to return a cached response or not |
| flashMessages | Idealist | 2 days | To show a flash message on the next page load |
| extraParams | Idealist | 7 days | Analytics parameters to send to Google Tag Manager |
| justSignedUp | Idealist | 5 years | Whether the user just signed up |
| justSignedUpModal | Idealist | 5 years | Whether to show extra information after signing up with a third-party provider |
| justLoggedIn | Idealist | 5 years | Whether the user just logged in with a third-party provider |
| justLoggedOut | Idealist | 5 years | Whether the user just logged out with a third-party provider |
Other Technologies We Use
- Conversion Funnels – We use conversion funnels to see where friction points within our Sites arise. We do have our own internal data store where we feed some data used to create funnels for this purpose.
- Conversion Tracking – We use a third-party service to send emails to new Organization administrators as a part of the “onboarding journey,” which may also contain conversion tracking technology for purposes of identifying improvement areas within our Sites.
- Social Media Widgets – Idealist uses various widgets and plugins from social media sites in order to integrate certain functionalities such as sharing job listings with those platforms.
- Local Storage Objects – Local storage objects (which may include technologies such as flash cookies) can be used within the browser to cache data in order to increase performance, such as page load speed.
- Web beacons, also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs – Used to demonstrate that a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content was viewed or clicked.
How to Remove Our Cookies from Your Browser
Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. If you would like to disable cookies, you can set up your web browser to reject cookies. How to alter your cookie setting will depend on the type of browser you use. Use the following links to learn more about how to control cookies and online tracking through your browser: Firefox; Chrome; Microsoft Edge; Safari (Mac); Safari (Mobile/iOS)
Using Privacy Plug-ins or Browsers to Block Cookies
You can block our Sites from setting cookies by using a browser with privacy features, like Brave, or installing browser plugins like Privacy Badger, Ghostery, or uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers.
Do Not Track
Some Internet browsers can be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
This Cookie Policy should be read in conjunction with our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Any defined terms used herein, but not defined herein, are as they are defined in the Terms of Service.
If you have any additional questions or comments, please feel free to contact us directly at: 646-786-6886 or submit a question using this Web Form.
This Cookie Policy was last updated December 5, 2025.