Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide business and marketing information to the owners of the site.
For more detailed information about cookies visit www.allaboutcookies.org
Three types of cookie may be used during your visit to ba.com:-
Whilst we do not currently do so, we reserve the right in future to match information gathered from cookies with any information you have given us about yourself for the purposes explained in our Privacy Policy.
Here is a list of all the cookies that British Airways set and how we use them:-
| Cookie name | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Session cookie | Used to maintain your transaction with British Airways (expires within a 15 minute period.) Minimises the need to transfer your information across the Internet |
| ba.com tracking cookie | Used to count anonymously the number of new and repeat visitors to the website |
| Country choice cookie | Used by BA to record your country of residence. Whilst it is not necessary for this cookie to be stored across visits to the site, it is necessary to have a cookie that tells the site which country's page to present to you. By storing this cookie across visits, it means that you don't have to tell us your country of residence at the start of each visit |
| Language choice cookie | Used by BA to record your preferred language. Whilst it is not necessary for this cookie to be stored across visits to the site, it is necessary to have a cookie that tells the site which language to present to you. By storing this cookie across visits, it means that you don't have to tell us your preferred language at the start of each visit |
| Survey control cookie (JobID) | Provided by NPD marketing for ba.com site survey purposes. Storing this cookie prevents a user being asked to complete the survey when he has already done so, or indicated that he does not wish to. |
| Enrolment application cookie | This cookie tracks the number of enrolments made by the same browser in a 24 hour period. This is used for security purposes. |
| Trade Extranet cookie (texcookie) | Used for trade extranet purposes, storing the user's IATA or ABTA number together with the user's country choice. By storing this cookie across visits, it means that you don't have to tell us your IATA number at the start of each visit |
For information on cookies that may be set by our business partners on ba.com and how to decline them, visit the following sites. These will open in a new browser window:-
| Partners | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Nielsen/Net Ratings/Visual Sciences | Our website statistics supplier, used to track page use and paths through ba.com. |
| Real Media | Our online advertising supplier, used for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on ba.com (The product we use is Open AdStream as detailed in section 2D of Real Media Privacy Policy). |
| DoubleClick | Our online advertising supplier, used for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on other sites. Some of our web pages may contain electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes known as clear gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited these pages. They may as also report back some cookie information to the technology provider that has implemented them. This data is anonymous. |
| Commission Junction | Our affiliate partner, are used to track use of our Internet banner advertisements and links from our marketing partners' websites to our website and to implement the BA affiliate programme. BA rewards its marketing partners for referring business to us. The BA affiliate programme involves Be Free setting a 30-day cookie on your browser. If you make a purchase on our site within that time, this cookie allows us to recognise which of our affiliates first referred you to ba.com. |
| addthis.com | Our bookmarking supplier, used to allow you to easily bookmark selected ba.com pages. |
You can request that we stop storing cookies on your computer, and that we don't set any more. Please be aware that if you decline the use cookies set by British Airways on ba.com you will be unable to use the site. This limitation does not apply to cookies set by our business partners.