Cookies
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Use of cookies by British Airways
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 on cookies visit www.allaboutcookies.org. This link will take you to another site and will open in a new window. British Airways is not responsible for the content of other websites.
Three types of cookie may be used during your visit to ba-sbc.com: - British Airways session cookies that are deleted after each visit.
- British Airways persistent cookies are valid across visits and, for example, are used to avoid the need to tell us your country of residence at the start of each visit.
Some of the cookies are essential in order for you to use ba-sbc.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:
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Session cookie |
Used to maintain your stay on Speedbird Club site (expires within a 15 minute period.) Minimises the need to transfer your information across the Internet |
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ba-sbc.com tracking cookie |
Used to count anonymously the number of new and repeat visitors to the website |
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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 |
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Trade Extranet cookie |
Used for trade extranet purposes, storing the user's login details together with the user's country choice. By storing this cookie across visits, it means that you don't have to tell us your login name and password at the start of each visit |
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-sbc.com you will be unable to use the site.
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