Cookies and related technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies in our careers websites.
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your personal computer, mobile or other device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user's device.
Broadly. we use technologies that allows us to:
- remember your preferences (such as language)
- monitor the general performance of our visitors’ experience when on our websites to improve the usability of our website for you and other visitors
- store essential information to allow you to register and/or login
- allow you to share any of our website’s pages with your social networks - but only if you explicitly choose to.
Cookies used on our Websites
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the careers pages and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Website. Without these cookies our website would not be able to operate properly and securely.
Name ScustomPortal-{portalId}, ScustomPortal-{portalGroupUuid}
Purpose These are used to keep the session in between page loads.
Expiry Session
Name portalLanguage-{portalId}
Purpose We use this store the current language selected by the user on our sites.
Expiry Session
Name timestamp
Purpose This cookie tells us when you arrived on our site.
Expiry Session
Name userCookieConsent-{portalId}
OptanonConsent (OneTrust) OptanonAlertBoxClosed (OneTrust) eupubconsent-v2 (OneTrust)
Purpose We use these cookies to manage our cookie consent tool, including to store the cookie types allowed / declined by users to comply with user cookie preferences when you return to our sites
Expiry portalID: 180 days
OneTrust: 2 years
Name Wistia and wistia-video-progress-{videoID}
Purpose This technology is used to enable and optimise video playback on the site. It stores information about which videos your browser has had the chance to load and are directly available for playback, as well as the estimated bandwidth. This allows us to adjust video quality for adaptive video streaming. For each video on the page, the technology remembers playback progress so that if the tab is left, playback is paused and when you return, the video resumes from where you left off.
Expiry Until deleted
Name buddy_state and i18nextLng
MyBuddy
Purpose If you choose to use Tesco’s accessibility tool, MyBuddy, this technology is necessary to provide this service. They store your preferences where you customise how you see receive information on our sites, e.g. font size, language, or enabling screen read. It also tracks how many people use the tool and what parts are used the most.
Expiry Until deleted
Name ak_bmsc and bm_sv (Akamai)
Purpose These cookies help us to improve the performance, reliability, and security of our sites.
Expiry 1 year
Name tokenField
Purpose This is only used for logged-in users to protect against security vulnerabilities (preventing cross-site request forgery attacks).
Expiry 1 hour
Analytics cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use our careers sites, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. They include cookies that allow us to test different versions of the website. These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the Website works.
Name _ga _ga_QMF0X1923Y _ga_E7WVZ3LSY5 (Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager)
Purpose These cookies help us to measure how well our recruitment campaigns perform on different platform.
They also provide us with reports about activity on our careers sites such as how frequently the same people revisit the website, how the website is found (for example, from a search engine or from a job board), and which pages are most (and least) frequently viewed.This information is combined with data from every visitor to create an overall picture of website use and is never identified individually or personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you.
Expiry 2 years
Using browser settings to manage cookies
You should have been presented with a banner which gave you choice over the non-essential cookies and similar technology we use.
You can also use your browser settings to manage cookies. The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. You can also disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on's settings or visiting the website of its manufacturer.
However, because cookies allow you to take advantage of some of our Websites’ essential features, we recommend you leave them turned on.
Other websites
The Website may contain links to other sites which are outside our control and not covered by this policy. The operators of these sites may collect information from you that will be used by them in accordance with their policy, which may differ from ours.
Accessing your information
You have the right to see the personal data we hold about you. This is called a Subject Access Request. If you would like to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you, please write to: Data Protection Officer, Group Legal Maldon Building, Falcon Way, Shire Park, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 1TW
You can also email us at subjectaccess.request@tesco.com.
Changes to our policy
This policy replaces all previous versions and is dated March 2025. We reserve the right to change the policy at any time.