Cookie Policy

Understanding how and why we use cookies

We use cookies on our website (bt-store.com) to create the most effective website possible for our users. Among other things, the cookies we use allow us to improve your experience when using our website and to ensure the website performs as you expect it to.

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them on bt-store.com and what benefits they bring.
As you may be aware, recent EU legislation requires websites to gain visitors' consent to use certain cookies.

Do cookies mean I could get cold calls or junk mail?

We never use the data gathered through cookies on this site to contact you via post, email or phone.

We may use cookies to show you subtly tailored content of things we think you might be interested in, such as certain flight, hotel or car offers that may best fit your recent searches.

Can cookies pass on my personal information to others?

We will not share any personal information gathered through cookies on this site with third parties.

We do use 'analytics' cookies on this site to help us make our website better for those who visit it regularly and in doing so we do share certain limited information with our third party 'analytics' providers but none of that information can be traced to an individual.

Do cookies compromise my security when I'm logged on to bt-store.com?

Cookies do not compromise your security in any way. To the contrary, they are often required to provide important security features such as protecting your data and your accounts via a secure persistent session with our servers. Without cookies you could not login to your profile and manage it, since there would be no way for us to track your login session.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are sent to and stored on your computer, smartphone or other device for accessing the internet, whenever you visit a website. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user's device. On this site, the cookies we use include 'analytics' cookies, to analyze how users use this site to help us make our website better for those who visit it regularly, and 'load-balancer' cookies, which are essential to ensure performance of the site.

We may also use cookies for a variety of other reasons including to determine preferences, let users navigate between pages efficiently, verify the user and carry out other essential security checks.

Some of the functions that cookies perform can also be achieved using similar technologies. This policy refers to 'cookies' throughout, however is to include these alternate mechanisms.

More information about cookies can be found on allaboutcookies.org

How cookies make our websites safer and easier to use

Cookies are used for a variety of reasons, such as to improve the functionality and performance of this site. They can allow you to use functions such as being able to find and compare flights and make secure online purchases. If you leave a secure session window open when logged in to your user profile, cookies will enhance your security by prompting you to end, and/or automatically ending, your secure session.

We use 'analytics' cookies on this site to help us make the site better for those who visit it regularly. They help us work out what users like and don't like and how we can improve things for you.
When we include links to other websites, please bear in mind they will have their own privacy and cookie policies that will govern the use of any information you submit. We recommend you read their policies as Best Travel Store is not responsible or liable for their privacy practices.

How we work with third parties

We will not share any personal information gathered through cookies on this site with third parties.

How you can manage your cookies

The browsers of most computers, smartphones and other web-enabled devices are typically set up to accept cookies. If you wish to amend your cookie preferences for this site, any local sites or any other websites, you can do this through your browser settings. Your browser's 'help' function will tell you how to do this.

However, please remember that cookies are often used to enable and improve certain functions on our site. If you choose to switch certain cookies off, it is likely to affect how our site works, most typically preventing you from being able to use this site to make reservations.

For more information about how to disable cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org .

More about your privacy

To find out more about how bt-store.com protects your privacy when using our website, see our website Privacy Policy.