Cookie Policy
Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser and placed on your computer by a website you visit. They allow websites to operate properly and can also provide site owners data that can help enhance your experience.
We use cookies to enable certain functions of the service, to provide analytics, to store your preferences, to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioural advertising.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
Strictly Necessary
Strictly Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Performance
We use performance cookies to collect data on how users act on our website, they help to improve the website and boost its performance.
Targeting
Targeting cookies help us to evaluate or draw conclusions about your commercial interests, behaviour or circumstances. We will use this to tailor our marketing to your perceived interests.
We also use cookies to track British Airways Avios eStore transactions so that we can credit your British Airways Club account for any purchases made with our Retailers. A piece of code on our Retailers’ websites records your unique ID number and transaction, and then passes that back to us. We then use this to match it back to your details so we can allocate Avios to your British Airways Club account.
Third-party cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies which are not managed by us but by another entity, which processes the data collected through the cookies.
| Host | Cookie Name | Purpose | Party | Expiry Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ba.com | purchaseSession | Used for login session | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| shopping.ba.com | OptanonConsent | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | Strictly Necessary | 1 Year |
| shopping.ba.com | NEXT_LOCALE | This cookie can be set using a language switcher and then when a user comes back to the site it will leverage the locale specified in the cookie when redirecting from / to the correct locale location. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| www.shopping.ba.com | NEXT_LOCALE | This cookie is set by default, it's built in the nextJS mechanism for handling localisation. Based on this cookie our app will know which locale should be served to the user. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| pgt.shopping.ba.com | _dd_s | Cookie used to group all events generated from a unique user session across multiple pages. It contains the current session ID, whether the session is excluded due to sampling, and the expiration date of the session. The cookie is extended for an extra 15 minutes every time the user interacts with the website, up to the maximum user session duration (4 hours). | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| ba.com | appSession | Used for login session | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| ba.com | ak_bmsc | This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| shopping.ba.com | bm_sv | This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| shopping.ba.com | bm_mi | This cookie is associated with Akamai. It is used to analyse traffic to determine if it is automated traffic generated by bots or a human user. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| shopping.ba.com | ak_bmsc | This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| shopping.ba.com | OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. | Strictly Necessary | 1 Year |
| shopping.ba.com | NEXT_LOCALE | This cookie can be set using a language switcher and then when a user comes back to the site it will leverage the locale specified in the cookie when redirecting from / to the correct locale location. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| pgt.shopping.ba.com | dd_cookie_test_ | dd_cookie_test | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| shopping.ba.com | dd_cookie_test_ | dd_cookie_test | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| www.shopping.ba.com | NEXT_LOCALE | This cookie is set by default, it's built in the nextJS mechanism for handling localisation. Based on this cookie our app will know which locale should be served to the user. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| shopping.ba.com | ak_bmsc | This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| shopping.ba.com | appSession | Used for login session | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| www.shopping.ba.com | _dd_s | Cookie used to group all events generated from a unique user session across multiple pages. It contains the current session ID, whether the session is excluded due to sampling, and the expiration date of the session. The cookie is extended for an extra 15 minutes every time the user interacts with the website, up to the maximum user session duration (4 hours). | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| exchange.shopping.ba.com | dd_cookie_test_ | dd_cookie_test | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| ba.com | ak_bmsc | This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| exchange.shopping.ba.com | _dd_s | Cookie used to group all events generated from a unique user session across multiple pages. It contains the current session ID, whether the session is excluded due to sampling, and the expiration date of the session. The cookie is extended for an extra 15 minutes every time the user interacts with the website, up to the maximum user session duration (4 hours). | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| ba.com | bm_mi | This cookie is associated with Akamai. It is used to analyse traffic to determine if it is automated traffic generated by bots or a human user. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| www.shopping.ba.com | dd_cookie_test_ | dd_cookie_test | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| www.shopping.ba.com | appSession | Strictly Necessary | Session | |
| shopping.ba.com | _dd_s | Cookie used to group all events generated from a unique user session across multiple pages. It contains the current session ID, whether the session is excluded due to sampling, and the expiration date of the session. The cookie is extended for an extra 15 minutes every time the user interacts with the website, up to the maximum user session duration (4 hours). | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| ba.com | bm_sv | This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| ba.com | _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | Performance | 1 Year |
| shopping.ba.com | AKA_A2 | This cookie is generally provided by Akamai and is used for the Advanced Acceleration feature, which enables DNS Prefetch and HTTP2 Push. | Performance | Session |
| ba.com | _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited._gid | Performance | Session |
| ba.com | _hjSessionUser_xxxxxx | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | Performance | 1 Year |
| ba.com | _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners._ga | Performance | 1 Year |
| ba.com | _hjSession_xxxxxx | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. | Performance | Session |
| www.shopping.ba.com | _hjShownFeedbackMessage | This cookie is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if they navigate to another page where it is set to show. | Functional | Session |
| ba.com | _hjTLDTest | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. | Functional | Session |
| shopping.ba.com | _hjShownFeedbackMessage | This cookie is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if they navigate to another page where it is set to show. | Functional | Session |
| ba.com | sid | to provide ad delivery or retargeting, provide fraud prevention. | Targeting | Session |
| ba.com | _gat_UA-XXXXXX-X | Google Analytics Cookies | Targeting | Session |
You can choose whether to accept, decline or customise the cookies that are served to you on our website. You can decline to accept cookies by changing the settings of your internet browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Chrome or Firefox). Remember, if you block the use of cookies on certain areas of our website, the content may not be accessible or may not function properly.
The following links contain details on how to manage or disable cookies on each browser:
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit, www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org or for further information regarding your online choices, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu.