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Privacy and Cookies Policy

The Heathrow Airwatch website takes your privacy very seriously. Because of this we want to provide you with explicit information on how we collect, gather, and identify information during your visit to our site. This information may be expanded or be updated as we change or develop the website. For this reason, we recommend that you review this policy from time-to-time to see if anything has changed.

 

Personal Visitor Information

If you request to have data emailed to your email address, the email address you enter is recorded and stored by the Heathrow Airwatch website in order to process your data request.

 

Your email address that is recorded is not used for any other purpose, and is never disclosed to third parties.

Strictly necessary cookies

These essential cookies do things like remember your cookies choices

They always need to be on.

Cookies that measure website use

We use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website and your web performance experience while visiting so we can improve it based on user needs. We do not allow Google to use or share the data about how you use this site.

Google Analytics sets cookies that store anonymised information about:

  • how you got to the site
  • the pages you visit on heathrowairwatch.org.uk and how long you spend on each page
  • what you click on while you are visiting the site

The following cookies are set by Google Analytics:

Name Expires Typical Content
_ga 1 years Used to distinguish users
_gid 24 hours Used to distinguish users
_ga <container-id< 1 year

Used to persist session state
_gat 1 minute Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>.
AMP_TOKEN 30 seconds to 1 year  Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service.
_gac_<property-id> 90 days Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. Learn more.