Our cookies
Here is a list of cookies we use on our websites with an explanation of what they do including a link to opt out from being tracked by these cookies.
Strictly Necessary
These cookies are essential for you to move around and use the features of our websites.
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British Gas |
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| On the British Gas and Sainsbury's Energy websites we use cookies to check you have logged into your account and to record that you have asked the site to remember your login details. | If you wish to opt out of these cookies you will need to change your browser settings. |
Performance
These cookies collect information about how you use our websites.
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AdInsight |
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| AdInsight Clarity is visitor level call tracking and call analytics solution that identifies callers using the website by giving them an unique number to call which is stored in a cookie. | For opt out information contact support@adinsight.eu or visit http://www.adinsight.com |
Adobe Test and Target |
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Test and Target cookies allow British Gas to identify which online content and offers are most relevant to its visitors and which location on the page is the best place for them to sit. We sometimes show different versions of the page to different customers, so we can work out which page layout is best. This means we can show relevant material in a position that the customer is most likely to see it. |
Adobe Test and Target opt out |
eDigital Research |
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| eDigital are a digital market research company that provides an online survey service for organisations which uses cookies to store details of when and how long a survey takes to complete. | For opt out information contact privacy@edigitalresearch.com or visit http://www.edigitalresearch.com |
Google Analytics |
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| Google Analytics service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Their cookies are used to store details how long a visitor spends on a website and where they came from. | The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is available for Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera. |
Join the Dots |
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| Join the Dots is an UK online research agency hat provides a web survey service for organisations which uses cookies to store details of when and how long a survey takes to complete. | For opt out information contact info@jointhedotsmr.com or visit http://www.jointhedotsmr.com |
Sitetagger |
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| Sitetagger is a JavaScript tag management tool that allows Sainsbury's Energy to quickly and easily upload and make changes to the tags on our webpages cookies are used to capture details of which pages visitors browse. | For opt out information visit http://www2.sitetagger.co.uk |
SiteCatalyst |
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| SiteCatalyst is a web analytics tool which uses cookies to track and present information to us about how you behave on our website so we can see how to improve your website experience. | |
Webtrends |
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| Webtrends is a web analytics tool which uses cookies to track and present information to us about how you behave on our website so we can see how to improve your website experience. |
Functional
These cookies allow us to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features.
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British Gas |
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British gas and Sainsbury's Energy uses cookies to enhance the usability of site visits. These include cookies that capture your name and email address when you log in to personalise the experience. Other cookies are used to capture details when selecting products in the Energy shop allowing your choices to be captured at each stage of the process. |
If you wish to opt out of these cookies you will need to change your browser settings. |
British Gas Business |
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| British Gas Business uses cookies to capture details when you ask for gas and electricity quotes allowing your choices to be captured at each stage of the process. | If you wish to opt out of these cookies you will need to change your browser settings. |
| Twitter sets cookies on the British Gas Energy share page to better understand how you interact with their service and they use a session cookie so you don't need to enter your login details for every tweet you send. | No opt out available. For further details see Twitter privacy policy |
YouTube |
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| Sainsbury's Energy uses a YouTube embedded player for which YouTube uses cookies to collect details about video usage. | No opt out available. For further details see |
Targeting cookies
These cookies are placed by third party advertising networks and collect information about your browsing habits.
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Adconion |
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Adconion uses retargeting cookies to provide personalised adverts when a user visits other websites. They will use cookies to confirm that a sale has occurred will exclude users from further advert retargeting. |
Adconion provide opt-out technology via our ads by the placement of the AdChoices OBA icon across all creative. |
AMNET |
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AMNET uses retargeting cookies to provide you with personalised adverts when you visit other selected websites. They use web beacons to confirm that a sale has occurred and will exclude users from further advert retargeting. |
AMNET opt out |
ANY Media |
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ANY Media uses retargeting cookies to identify and provide personalised adverts when a user visits other websites. They will use cookies to confirm that a sale has occurred will exclude users from further advert retargeting. |
ANY Media opt out |
AOL |
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AOL uses retargeting cookies to identify and provide personalised adverts when a user visits other websites. They use cookies to confirm that a sale has occurred and will exclude users from further advert retargeting. |
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Crimtan |
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Crimtan uses retargeting cookies to identify and provide personalised adverts when a user visits other websites. They use tracking cookies or web beacons to identify the behavioural patterns of Sainsbury's Energy users and to build similar generic profiles that can be applied to other web users. |
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Criteo |
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Criteo uses retargeting cookies to provide you with personalised adverts when you visit other selected websites. They use web beacons to confirm that a sale has occurred and will exclude users from further advert retargeting. |
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DoubleClick |
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DoubleClick uses cookies to serve advertising online and to understand behaviour and how visitors arrive at the site and interact. There is no personal identifiable information captured in the tag. |
DoubleClick opt out |
Guardian |
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Guardian uses retargeting cookies to provide you with personalised adverts when you visit other selected websites. They use cookies to confirm that a sale has occurred and will exclude users from further advert retargeting. |
Guardian opt out |
Gumtree |
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Gumtree uses retargeting cookies to provide you with personalised adverts when you visit other selected websites. They use web beacons to confirm that a sale has occurred and will exclude users from further advert retargeting. |
Gumtree opt out |
MSN |
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MSN uses cookies to confirm that a sale has occurred and to exclude users from further retargeting activity. They also use cookies to identify behavioural patterns of Sainsbury's Energy users and to build similar generic profiles that can be applied to other web users. |
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Tribal Fusion |
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| Tribal Fusion uses cookies to identify and provide personalised adverts when a user visits other websites. Tribal Fusion uses cookies to confirm that a sale has occurred and to exclude users from further retargeting activity. | Tribal Fusion is a part of the Exponential family of online marketing brand |
Yahoo |
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Yahoo uses retargeting cookies to identify and provide personalised adverts when a user visits other websites. Yahoo uses cookies to confirm that a sale has occurred and to exclude users from further retargeting activity. They use cookies to identify behavioural patterns of Sainsbury's Energy users and to build similar generic profiles that can be applied to other web users. |
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ValueClick |
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| ValueClick uses retargeting cookies to identify and provide personalised adverts when a user visits other websites. ValueClick uses cookies to confirm that a sale has occurred and to exclude users from further retargeting activity. |
