George Best Belfast City Airport : Belfast City Airport | Just 5 Minutes from Belfast City Centre

Cookie Policy

At George Best Belfast City Airport ("BCA", "us" or "we"), we want to ensure that your visit to our website and/or any BCA application, (together the "Digital Media") is smooth, reliable and as useful to you as possible. Subject to your consent where required by applicable law, we use cookies and similar technologies (“cookies”) to help us improve the use and functionality of the Digital Media and to better understand how visitors use the Digital Media and the tools and services offered on it.

What are cookies?

A "cookie" is a small piece of data that may be stored on your computer or mobile device. Cookies serve a number of purposes like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, interests or log in details, and generally improving your experience. We and some of our partners also use cookies on our Digital Media to measure the effectiveness of advertising on our Digital Media and how visitors use our Digital Media. The use of cookies on the Digital Media allows you to enjoy more seamless visits and more accurately measures your behaviour on the Digital Media.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually prevent accepting cookies by changing your browser settings. Cookies help us give you a better website, by letting us monitor what's working and what isn't through site traffic analysis.

Types of Cookies Used on the Digital Media

Necessary cookies: these are essential in order to enable you to move around the Digital Media and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Digital Media. Without these cookies, our Digital Media would not work properly and services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or secure customer accounts, cannot be provided.

Performance cookies: these collect information about how visitors use the Digital Media, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. We use these cookies to test different designs and features for our website and we also use them to help us monitor how our visitors reach our sites and how effective our advertising is.

Functional cookies: these allow the Digital Media to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise.

Targeting cookies: these are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. Some of our partners may also use cookies or web beacons (a single-pixel image file) so that you see more relevant advertisements when visiting other websites. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.

Social networking cookies: these are usually set by the social networking provider and enable you to share content from the Digital Media with your friends through your favourite social networks.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics cookies are used to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our website. The information collected is anonymous and includes the number of visitors to the website, what pages they visited and where they have come to the website from. More information is available on:

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

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_gat
_gid

Other

lang: Used by Twitter to store the users preferred language
test_cookie: Used by DoubleClick to serve relevant ads to potential customers and gathers information about how or if you are interacting with these ads.

Hotjar User Behaviour Testing Cookies:

Belfast City Airport has deployed Hotjar cookies to this website in an user behaviour testing information gathering exercise. These cookies are being run as a test exercise and are noted under the performance and tracking type of cookies listed above, and in the cookie agreement window.

The table below highlights these relating to both the user of the website, and the session which is acted on when the user visits the site. These Cookies are all anonymised and are not attributable to you as an individual. The information is passed through to analytics as user IDs that are not attributable to any users of the site or the testing.

Opting out of these cookies is possible and to do this is detailed below.

Relating to the User
Name	Data storage type	Description
_hjSessionUser_{site_id}	Cookie	Set when a user first lands on a page. Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site. Hotjar does not track users across different sites. Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. 365 days duration. JSON data type.
_hjid	Cookie	This is an old cookie that we do not set anymore, but if a user has it unexpired in their browser, we will reuse its value and migrate to _hjSessionUser_{site_id}. Set when a user first lands on a page. Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site. Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. 365 days duration. UUID data type.
_hjFirstSeen	Cookie	Identifies a new user’s first session. Used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. 30 minutes duration, extended on user activity. Boolean true/false data type.
_hjHasCachedUserAttributes	Cookie	Enables us to know whether the data set in _hjUserAttributes Local Storage item is up to date or not. Session duration. Boolean true/false data type.
_hjUserAttributesHash	Cookie	Enables us to know when any User Attribute has changed and needs to be updated. 2 minutes duration, extended every 30 seconds. Content hash data type.
_hjUserAttributes	Local storage item	Stores User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API. No explicit expiration. Base64 encoded JSON data type.
hjViewportId	Session storage item	Stores user viewport details such as size and dimensions. Session duration. UUID data type.

Relating to the Session
Name	Data storage type	Description
_hjSession_{site_id}	Cookie	Holds current session data. Ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session. 30 minutes duration, extended on user activity. JSON data type.
_hjSessionTooLarge	Cookie	Causes Hotjar to stop collecting data if a session becomes too large. Determined automatically by a signal from the server if the session size exceeds the limit. Session duration. Boolean true/false data type.
_hjSessionResumed	Cookie	Set when a session/recording is reconnected to Hotjar servers after a break in connection. Session duration. Boolean true/false data type.
_hjCookieTest	Cookie	Checks to see if the Hotjar Tracking Code can use cookies. If it can, a value of 1 is set. Deleted almost immediately after it is created. Under 100ms duration, cookie expiration time set to session duration. Boolean true/false data type.
_hjLocalStorageTest	Cookie	Checks if the Hotjar Tracking Code can use Local Storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set. Data stored in _hjLocalStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted almost immediately after it is created. Under 100ms duration. Boolean true/false data type.
_hjSessionStorageTest	Cookie	Checks if the Hotjar Tracking Code can use Session Storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set. Data stored in _hjSessionStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted almost immediately after it is created. Under 100ms duration. Boolean true/false data type.
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample	Cookie	Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. 2 minutes duration, extended every 30 seconds. Boolean true/false data type.
_hjIncludedInSessionSample_{site_id}	Cookie	Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. 2 minutes duration, extended every 30 seconds. Boolean true/false data type.
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress	Cookie	Used to detect the first pageview session of a user. 30 minutes duration, extended on user activity. Boolean true/false data type.
_hjTLDTest	Cookie	We try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. Enables us to try to determine the most generic cookie path to use, instead of page hostname. It means that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). After this check, the cookie is removed. Session duration. Boolean true/false data type.

The Hotjar user behaviour testing also requires ‘optimize’ types of cookies, as described in the outline of cookies above. All of the cookies below are used to select and serve a user with the relevant experiment and is there to provide a user with a consistent experience. Again, be opted out below.

Relating to the User
Name	Data storage type	Description
_gaexp	Typically 90 days.	Used to determine a user's inclusion in an experiment and the expiry of experiments a user has been included in.
_opt_awcid	24 hours	Used for campaigns mapped to Google Ads Customer IDs.
_opt_awmid	24 hours	Used for campaigns mapped to Google Ads Campaign IDs.
_opt_awgid	24 hours	Used for campaigns mapped to Google Ads Ad Group IDs
_opt_awkid	24 hours	Used for campaigns mapped to Google Ads Criterion IDs
_opt_utmc	24 hours	Stores the last utm_campaign query parameter.
_opt_expid	10 seconds	This cookie is created when running a redirect experiment. It stores the experiment ID, the variant ID and the referrer to the page that's being redirected.

How to Manage and Disable Cookies

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent cookies being stored. Please note, if you do turn cookies off this will limit the service that we are able to provide to you and may affect your visitor experience. You can instruct your browser, by changing its options to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the website you visit. Our system will automatically issue cookies when you log in to the Digital Media unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies. www.allaboutcookies.org provides good simple instructions on how to manage cookies on the different types of web browsers.

By using the Digital Media, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

If you do not want these cookies on your device, you can change your cookie settings at any time through your web browser settings. Here are the locations of the cookie settings for all major web browsers:

Internet Explorer - Tools > Internet Options > Privacy tab.
Mozilla Firefox - Tools > Options > Privacy menu.
Safari Users - Edit > Preferences > Privacy menu.
Chrome Users - Settings > Content Settings > Privacy > Cookies.
Edge Users - Settings > Cookies and site permissions > Cookies and site data.

To block Google Analytics cookies specifically, you can install the “Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on” provided by Google.

Changes to this Cookie Policy

We can change this Cookie Policy at any time. If we make material changes to the Cookie Policy, we will let you know either by posting the changed Cookie Policy on the Site or by sending you an email.

It’s important that you review the changed Cookie Policy. If you do not wish to agree to the changed Cookie Policy, then we cannot continue to provide the Digital Media to you, and your only option is to stop accessing the Digital Media.

Contact Us

Questions, comments and requests regarding this Cookie Policy are welcomed using the "Contact Us" section of the website.