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Last updated 14/05/2025
Choosing your cookies on bahighlife.com
To manage or change your cookie preferences, click on the Manage cookie preferences button. Otherwise, read on to understand how we use cookies and similar technologies.
What are cookies?
When you travel with us on our website we want your experience to be smooth, secure and tailored to you. To help us do this, we use cookies and similar technologies. These include:
- Small data files stored on your device (cookies)
- Tiny images or code snippets (pixels and tags)
- Tools or code that sit inside apps (software development kits or SDKs)
- Server-side technologies, such as scripts or event-handling services that support analytics, security and the delivery of advertising or measurement signals
These technologies work together to help us understand how our website is used, keep them secure and display content that’s relevant to you. When we refer to ‘cookies’ in this policy, we mean all of these technologies.
This policy explains how we use them, what choices you have and how you can control technologies that aren’t essential for our services to run.
Why we use cookies and similar technologies
They help us to:
- Keep our site safe, secure and working properly
- Understand how people use our website so that we can improve it
- Show content and advertising that are more relevant to you
Controlling your cookies
When you first visit one of our sites or apps, you’ll see a notice explaining the types of cookies we use. Through our Manage cookie preferences button, you can accept or decline categories of cookies (apart from those essential for our services to run)and change your mind at any time.
View our cookie listing for more detailed information about each cookie.
How long cookies last
Cookies and similar technologies last for different periods of time:
- Session cookies expire when you close your browser
- Persistent cookies remain for a set period or until you delete them
You can find out how long each cookie lasts in our cookie listing.
Responsibility for cookies
Cedar Communications Ltd, an Omnicom company, operates this site where cookies are used and are responsible for the cookies placed on this website.
How do I refuse cookies?
In addition to choosing which category of optional cookies to accept in our Manage cookie preferences button, you can refuse to have some, or all cookies placed on your device. You can do this by altering the settings on your internet browser (including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox and others). How you do this will depend on the internet browser you use. You can find out how to switch off your cookies either by consulting the online ‘Help’ or ‘Preferences’ menu for your browser.
If you change your browser settings to refuse all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to continue to use all or parts of our services. For example, deleting cookies may require you to reconfirm preferences (like your language and region) and may cause some pages or features to stop working.
More information
We use cookies and similar technologies to keep our website secure, reliable and enjoyable. You’re always in control, and you can adjust your settings you like via the Manage cookie preferences button.
More for information on how we use your personal data, please see our privacy policy.
Cookie list
Essential (always on)
These cookies and technologies allow our website to function. Essential technologies cannot be switched off. You can disable or block them in your browser, however parts of bahighlife.com may not work properly as a result.
Performance and Analytics
These cookies and technologies measure how you use our website. This helps us improve bahighlife.com for example:
- Which pages and content are most popular
- How people navigate through our site
- Whether particular features are working as expected
- How we can improve the stability and performance of our site
We use this information to improve the way our site works, help us identify technical issues and understand what our user find useful. Where possible, we can use analytics tools in a way that aggregates or anonymises data, so individual users cannot be directly identified.
You can control analytics technologies depending on the laws of the country you’re in when using bahighlife.com:
- In some countries, analytics tools may require your opt-in consent before they can be used
- In other countries, certain analytics tools may operate on an opt-out basis, meaning they can be used unless you chose to disable them.
Change your mind at any time by customising your cookie preferences.
Functionality and personalisation
These cookies and similar technologies remember choices or preferences you make when browsing bahighlife.com. If you decline these cookies, some personalised features may not work as intended, but the core site will continue to function.
Advertising and targeting
These cookies and similar technologies allow us to show advertising that’s more relevant to you. They identify your browser or device across the site. When you allow these technologies, we and our trusted advertising partners may:
- Understand how you browse and interact with our advertising and measure the effectiveness of these advertisements.
- Match this information with identifies you such as your geo-location or device ID (where available and permitted)
- Build audiences or interest profiles so that we can show you more relevant adverts on social media platforms and on other websites.
- Measure the performance of our advertising, for example by understanding whether user clicked on a ad banner or specific link within an advertorial.
- Help companies in the wider British Airways and IAG Group (including British Airways Holidays and IAG Loyalty/Avios) show you relevant offers and services.
If you do not allow these technologies, you’ll still see advertising – it just may be less relevant to you, and we will not be able to show you personalised advertising or offers based on your interests. Your interactions with our advertising and content will also not be used to building audiences.
Social media features
Our site does allow social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube), to collect information about your visit. The information they process is governed by the privacy policies of those platforms. We will only enable social media technologies that require consent where permitted by your settings.
Choose your cookie preferences
Cookies used by Highlife
Essential (always on)
Cookie name: _ga
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: This cookie name is associated with Google Analytics 4. 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 Analytics 4. 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
Performance and Analytics
Cookie name: _ga
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: Associated with Google Analytics 4. Used to distinguish unique users. 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: Associated with Google Analytics 4. This cookie is used by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device.
Expiry: 1 year
Functionality and personalisation
Cookie name: __cf_bm
Cookie domain: vimeo.com
Purpose: Owned by Vimeo; helps manage incoming traffic to Vimeo that matches criteria associated with bots. Set by Cloudflare.
Expiry: a few seconds
Cookie name: _cfuvid
Cookie domain: vimeo.com
Purpose: Owned by Vimeo; used to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address to protect against malicious traffic. Set by Cloudflare.
Expiry: session
Cookie name: sp_landing
Cookie domain: spotify.com
Purpose: Owned by Spotify; enable the tracking of users and non-users across domains via embedded tools.
Expiry: a few seconds
Cookie name: sp_t
Cookie domain: spotify.com
Purpose: Owned by Spotify; enable the tracking of users and non-users across domains via embedded tools.
Expiry: 1 Year
Cookie name: VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA
Cookie domain: youtube.com
Purpose: YouTube collects user data through embedded videos, aggregated with profile data from other Google services to display targeted advertising.
Expiry: 5 months
Cookie name: YSC
Cookie domain: youtube.com
Purpose: YouTube collects user data through embedded videos, aggregated with profile data from other Google services to display targeted advertising.
Expiry: Session
Advertising and targeting
Cookie name: Exitbee_vid
Cookie domains: cdn.exitbee.com, s.exitbee.com, t.exitbee.com
Purpose: Randomly generated unique identifier to recognize a visitor across multiple sessions.
Expiry: 5 months
Cookie name: Exitbee_source
Cookie domains: cdn.exitbee.com, s.exitbee.com, t.exitbee.com
Purpose: Counter to track the number of pages visited on this domain during a given session.
Expiry: 5 months
Cookie name: Exitbee_sessionCampaigns
Cookie domains: cdn.exitbee.com, s.exitbee.com, t.exitbee.com
Purpose: Counter to track the number of pages visited on this domain during a given session.
Expiry: 5 months
Cookie name: Exitbee_viewedOnCampaigns
Cookie domains: cdn.exitbee.com, s.exitbee.com, t.exitbee.com
Purpose: Stores IDs and timestamps of ads viewed; helps enforce frequency capping.
Expiry: 5 months
Cookie name: Exitbee_nrPagesVisited
Cookie domains: cdn.exitbee.com, s.exitbee.com, t.exitbee.com
Purpose: Counter to track the number of pages visited on this domain during a given session.
Expiry: 5 months
Cookie name: Exitbee_dailyCampaigns
Cookie domains: cdn.exitbee.com, s.exitbee.com, t.exitbee.com
Purpose: Stores IDs of ads viewed within a day to maintain frequency capping.
Expiry: 24 hours
Cookie name: Exitbee_lifetimeCampaigns
Cookie domains: cdn.exitbee.com, s.exitbee.com, t.exitbee.com
Purpose: Replaced by Exitbee_viewedCampaigns; tracks ad interactions in a structured way.
Expiry: 5 months
Cookie name: Exitbee_convertedCampaigns
Cookie domains: cdn.exitbee.com, s.exitbee.com, t.exitbee.com
Purpose: Stores IDs of campaigns clicked to prevent showing ads already engaged with.
Expiry: 5 months
Cookie name: Exitbee_visit_id
Cookie domains: cdn.exitbee.com, s.exitbee.com, t.exitbee.com
Purpose: Randomly generated unique ID for the current session stored in session storage.
Expiry: Session
Cookie name: _fbp
Cookie domain: bahighlife.com
Purpose: Identifies a browser session for Meta to track behaviour and deliver advertising via Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger.
Expiry: 180 days
Cookie name: __gads
Cookie domain: google.com
Purpose: Owned by Google; uses limited data to select advertising and measures performance through statistics.
Expiry: 13 months
Cookie name: __gcl_dc
Cookie domain: google.com
Purpose: Owned by Google; creates audience profiles for personalised advertising performance.
Expiry: 3 months
Cookie name: IDE
Cookie domain: google.com
Purpose: Owned by Google; creates audience profiles for personalised advertising performance.
Expiry: 13 months
Cookie name: NID
Cookie domain: google.com
Purpose: Owned by Google; measures advertising performance and understands audiences through statistics.
Expiry: 6 months
Cookie name: sa-user-id
Cookie domain: srv.stackadapt.com
Purpose: Associated with StackAdapt; used for programmatic targeting and advertising purposes.
Expiry: 1 year
Cookie name: sa-user-id
Cookie domain: tags.srv.stackadapt.com
Purpose: Associated with StackAdapt; used for programmatic targeting and advertising purposes.
Expiry: 1 year
Cookie name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Cookie domain: youtube.com
Purpose: Unique identifier used to track viewing of videos hosted on YouTube.
Expiry: 5 months
More information
We use cookies and similar technologies to keep our website secure, reliable and enjoyable. You’re always in control, and you can adjust your settings you like via the Manage cookie preferences button.
More for information on how we use your personal data, please see our privacy policy.