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Last updated 14/05/2025

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files placed on your computer by websites you visit. They allow websites to operate properly and can also provide site owners data that can help enhance your experience.

For example, our cookies remember your chosen language and country, meaning you don’t need to choose them again each time you visit bahighlife.com. Sometimes our cookies need to collect a small amount of essential personal information, such as the IP address of your device. We only ever collect this data when absolutely necessary.

How does bahighlife.com use cookies?

We use cookies for four key purposes.

Essential

Our website can’t operate properly without essential cookies. We only collect the minimum personal information needed to provide services on bahighlife.com. You can disable these cookies in your browser but parts of bahighlife.com may not work.

Analytics

We use analytical cookies to measure how you use our website. This helps us improve bahighlife.com. Analytical cookies don’t directly identify users.

Marketing

We use marketing cookies to display personalised messages on the British Airways website and to show you advertisements from us and selected third parties on other sites you may visit. We work with approved partners to deliver relevant content and to measure the effectiveness of these advertisements.

Functional

These cookies let us save the choices you make and some of the information you provide when browsing b bahighlife.com. They don’t track your browsing activity on other websites. Without functional cookies, bahighlife.com may not work reliably.

Can you choose what cookies bahighlife.com uses?

Yes. You can manage your cookie preferences and choose to block or allow essential, functional, marketing and analytics cookies.

Choose your cookie preferences

You can also refuse to accept cookies by changing your browser settings. Bear in mind that bahighlife.com may not function properly without the use of some cookies.

Essential

Cookie name: BRITISHAIRWAYS_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_Analytics
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: Ensighten is a cybersecurity and data privacy platform. Ensures that the cookie popup functions correctly and remembers users choices
Expiry: 1 year

Cookie name: BRITISHAIRWAYS_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_BANNER_LOADED
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: Ensighten is a cybersecurity and data privacy platform. Ensures that the cookie popup functions correctly and remembers users choices
Expiry: 1 year

Cookie name: BRITISHAIRWAYS_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_BANNER_VIEWED
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: Ensighten is a cybersecurity and data privacy platform. Ensures that the cookie popup functions correctly and remembers users choices
Expiry: 1 year

Cookie name: BRITISHAIRWAYS_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_Functional
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: Ensighten is a cybersecurity and data privacy platform. Ensures that the cookie popup functions correctly and remembers users choices
Expiry: 1 year

Cookie name: BRITISHAIRWAYS_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_Marketing
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: Ensighten is a cybersecurity and data privacy platform. Ensures that the cookie popup functions correctly and remembers users choices
Expiry: 1 year

Cookie name: BRITISHAIRWAYS_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_MODAL_LOADED
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: Ensighten is a cybersecurity and data privacy platform. Determine whether to display the cookie consent modal.
Expiry: 1 year

Cookie name: BRITISHAIRWAYS_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_MODAL_VIEWED
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: Ensighten is a cybersecurity and data privacy platform. Determine whether to display the cookie consent modal.
Expiry: 1 year

Cookie name: _ga
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: 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
Expiry: 1 year

Cookie name: _ga_*********
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: 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 by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device.
Expiry: 1 year

Cookie name: _hjSession{site id}
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: Holds the current session data. Ensures that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session
Expiry: 1 year

Cookie name: _hjSessionUser_{site id}
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: 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
Expiry: 1 year

Analytics

Marketing

Cookie name: sa-user-id
Cookie domain: srv.stackadapt.com
Purpose: This domain is associated with StackAdapt, a platform for programmatic advertising, which suggests that it is used for targeting and advertising purposes.
Expiry: 1 year

Cookie name: sa-user-id
Cookie domain: tags.srv.stackadapt.com
Purpose: This domain is associated with StackAdapt, a platform for programmatic advertising, which suggests that it is used for targeting and advertising purposes.
Expiry: 1 year

Cookie name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Cookie domain: youtube.com
Purpose: YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos.
Expiry: 5 months

Cookie name: V ISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA
Cookie domain: youtube.com
Purpose: YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
Expiry: 5 months

Cookie name: YSC
Cookie domain: youtube.com
Purpose: YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
Expiry: Session

Cookie name: NID
Cookie domain: google.com
Purpose: This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear.
Expiry: 6 months

Cookie name: Exitbee_vid
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: ExitBee is an advertising platform to detect or predict the moments when users are disengaging or leaving the site. This cookie is used as a randomly generated unique identifier to recognize a visitor across multiple sessions.
Expiry: 5 months

Cookie name: Exitbee_source
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: ExitBee is an advertising platform to detect or predict the moments when users are disengaging or leaving the site. This cookie is used as a counter to track the number of pages visited on this domain during a given session.
Expiry: 5 months

Cookie name: Exitbee_sessionCampaigns
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: ExitBee is an advertising platform to detect or predict the moments when users are disengaging or leaving the site. This cookie is used as a counter to track the number of pages visited on this domain during a given session.
Expiry: 5 months

Cookie name: Exitbee_viewedOnCampaigns
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: ExitBee is an advertising platform to detect or predict the moments when users are disengaging or leaving the site. This cookie is used to store the IDs and timestamps of the ads the visitor has viewed. It helps enforce frequency capping by ensuring ads are not shown too frequently within a specified period.
Expiry: 5 months

Cookie name: Exitbee_nrPagesVisited
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: ExitBee is an advertising platform to detect or predict the moments when users are disengaging or leaving the site. This cookie is used as a counter to track the number of pages visited on this domain during a given session.
Expiry: 5 months

Cookie name: Exitbee_dailyCampaigns
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: ExitBee is an advertising platform to detect or predict the moments when users are disengaging or leaving the site. This cookie is used to store the IDs of the ads viewed by the visitor within a day. It helps maintain frequency capping and is automatically deleted after 24 hours.
Expiry: 24 hours

Cookie name: Exitbee_lifetimeCampaigns
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: ExitBee is an advertising platform to detect or predict the moments when users are disengaging or leaving the site. This cookie has been replaced by Exitbee_viewedCampaigns, which provides a more structured way to track ad interactions.
Expiry: 5 months

Cookie name: Exitbee_convertedCampaigns
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: ExitBee is an advertising platform to detect or predict the moments when users are disengaging or leaving the site. This cookie is used to store the IDs of campaigns the visitor has clicked on. It helps prevent displaying ads that the user has already engaged with.
Expiry: 5 months

Cookie name: Exitbee_visit_id
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: ExitBee is an advertising platform to detect or predict the moments when users are disengaging or leaving the site. This identifier is stored in session storage and is a randomly generated unique ID for the current session.
Expiry: Session

Functional

Cookie name: __cf_bm
Cookie domain: vimeo.com
Purpose: This domain is owned by Vimeo a video hosting/sharing business. This cookie helps manage incoming traffic to Vimeo that matches criteria associated with bots. This cookie is set by Cloudflare, a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and security partner and owned by CloudFoundry.
Expiry: a few seconds

Cookie name: _cfuvid
Cookie domain: vimeo.com
Purpose: This domain is owned by Vimeo a video hosting/sharing business. This cookie is used to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address when using Vimeo protects against malicius traffic. This cookie is set by Cloudflare, a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and security partner and owned by CloudFoundry.
Expiry: session

Cookie name: sp_landing
Cookie domain: spotify.com
Purpose: This domain is owned by Spotify, a USA based music streaming service. Spotify provides a number of tools to embed into websites, which enable the tracking of users and non-users across domains.
Expiry: a few seconds

Cookie name: sp_t
Cookie domain: spotify.com
Purpose: This domain is owned by Spotify, a USA based music streaming service. Spotify provides a number of tools to embed into websites, which enable the tracking of users and non-users across domains.
Expiry: 1 Year