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The table below explains how we and our selected third party web partners use cookies and why:
| Category: | Vendor: | Purpose: |
Where Online: |
|---|---|---|---|
| Performance: | Coremetrics | Provides site analytics which allows us to understand how visitors are interacting with site processes, to allow us to optmise site to drive better peformance. | All pages of our 13 regional websites. |
| Google Website Optimiser | Allows us to test different concepts and page designs to our web audience, by serving different page versions at once and recording which variant drives more ahievement of a specifc goal. | Specific pages only, where tests are being carried out at that point in time. (For example, testing two versions of our homepage, at the same time). | |
| E-Digital |
To allow us to offer invitiations to site visitors to gauge site satisfaction with processes. | Our UK homepage, UK Flying Club pages, UK Book Flights pages and UK Online Check In pages. |
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| SessionCam | A reporting tool which records user journeys on our website, to help us to identify and fix website problems, as well as assist in resolving customer service queries. | UK and US homepage. | |
| Functionality: | Tagman |
Container Tag solution which allows us to manage site analytics and third party marketing tags. Also help us to monitor our statistical sales data. |
All pages of our 13 regional websites. |
| LivePerson |
Allows us to offer customers an invitation to talk with one our Customer Service agents online. |
Specific pages of our UK Book Flights pages and UK Customer Relations pages. |
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| iQuest | The website uses a number of cookies to help maintain user experience. |
All pages of our 13 regional websites. | |
| Targeting: | Affilinet, Affiliate Future, Commission Junction, Google Affiliate Network, Tradedoubler, Nonstop |
Some cookies are used by our Affiliate partners to track the referrals that they have generated and any sales resulting from these, for the sole purpose of compensating the Affiliates |
In various places across the Virgin Atlantic website. |
| Flashtalking, DART, Trading Desk, Travora, Yahoo RMX, Marinsm, Kenshoo, ValueClick, Accuen & Invite Media, Specific Media, US Travel Adnetwork, Google. | Cookies are used by these partners to track performance of marketing campaigns and recognise you on third party websites, to ensure marketing messages are as relevant as possible. |
In various places across the Virgin Atlantic website. |
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To enrich our website content, sometimes we may embed video content from other social media websites such as YouTube or Facebook. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. Virgin Atlantic has no control or liability over these cookies set, so you should check the relevant third party's cookie policy for more information.
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