Cookies & Internet Advertising
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small amount of data sent to your computer or mobile phone from a website. In some cases this means the website can recognise your device (your computer or mobile phone) if you return to the same site.
Cookies make your experience of using websites faster and easier. They allow websites to create a customised view of pages to which you navigate.
Cookies and how we use them
We use cookies to:
- Store information that you have entered into the NRE website when using the journey planner, cheapest fare finder or live departures and arrivals applications, to better facilitate your use of the site
- Identifying you when you sign-in to our site. This allows us to display personalised content such as your home, work or favourite stations, preferred class of travel
- Delivering content, including advertisements, relevant to your interests on the NRE site
- Conducting research in the form of analytics and surveys to improve NRE's content, products and services
Cookies on NRE
Here are a list of cookies that the NRE website drops on our users:
.nationalrail.co.uk |
OJP_RememberMe |
Remembers site login |
365 days |
Ojp.nationalrail.co.uk |
JSESSIONID |
Facilitates use of the website |
10 minutes |
Ojp.nationalrail.co.uk |
OJP_S_RMC |
Remembers site login |
365 days |
.nationalrail.co.uk |
ForeSee |
Control CSAT survey frequency |
180 days |
Surveys
For more information on Foresee practices, please see Foresee privacy policy here: http://www.foreseeresults.com/privacy-policy.shtml
Cookies and Internet Advertising
Whilst the ads are personalised we are not collecting any personal data on you unless you choose to register on the site which is optional.
Like other online ad networks, we use cookies, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies (collectively, "cookies"). Cookies enable us to learn about what ads you see, what ads you click, and other actions you take on our sites and other sites. This allows us to provide you with more useful and relevant ads. For example, if we know what ads you are shown we can be careful not to show you the same ones repeatedly.
Advertisers or ad companies working on their behalf sometimes use technology to serve the ads that appear on our sites directly to your browser. They may also use cookies and beacons to measure the effectiveness of their ads, measure reach and to personalise ad content. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that advertisers and third party sites may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third party websites are not covered by our Privacy Notice or this Cookies & Internet Advertising page.
Please see below links to for more information on our third party relationships and their privacy practices.
General third party opt-outs
You can learn about and opt out of a number of commercial third party cookies at www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp Some of the opt-outs used by our commercial service providers require a cookie to be placed on your PC which is only used to tell the relevant cookie servers not to send you any further cookies.
Additional information regarding cookies and opting-out is available at www.youronlinechoices.com/uk
Behavioural Advertising
AudienceScience Inc. uses cookies to discover general information about the pages on our site that you visit and it also processes IP addresses to collect other non-personally identifiable information in order to place you in a "market segment". This includes data about the country, city or region where you are located and your domain name (e.g. what ISP you use). It then places advertisements onto our site, which it believes people in your market segment will find relevant.
If you would like more information about the cookies used by AudienceScience and how to opt out, please see their privacy policy at: http://audiencescience.com/privacy.asp
Cookies set on our sites by our commercial service providers
We use a range of third party services on our sites, from statistics packages to load testing. Some of these services require the use of cookies to work properly. These services include:
Statistics
We use Google Analytics tracking cookies to collect anonymous traffic data about your use of this website.
Google Analytics collects information such as pages you visit on this site, the browser and operating system you use and time spent viewing pages. The purpose of this information is to help us improve the site for future visitors.
This information is stored by Google and subject to their privacy policy, which can be viewed here: http://www.google.com/privacy.html.
How to manage or delete cookies
The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether.
You can learn about and opt out of a number of commercial third party cookies at www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp Some of the opt-outs used by our commercial service providers require a cookie to be placed on your PC which is only used to tell the relevant cookie servers not to send you any further cookies.
Additional information regarding cookies and opting-out is available at www.youronlinechoices.co.uk
You can find up-to-date information clearly explaining how to control or delete cookies on your Windows PC or Apple Mac at www.aboutcookies.org
To control or delete cookies on your mobile phone, please refer to your handset manufacturer's help manual.
Changes to Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time.
Our Privacy Policy was last updated on 30 April 2019. The Privacy Policy was changed to present the information in a more user friendly way and promote cookie transparency.
- Avanti West Coast,
- c2c,
- Chiltern Railways,
- CrossCountry,
- East Midlands Railway,
- Eurostar,
- Gatwick Express,
- Grand Central,
- Great Western Railway,
- Greater Anglia,
- Heathrow Connect,
- Heathrow Express,
- Hull Trains,
- Island Line,
- London North Eastern Railway,
- London Overground,
- Merseyrail,
- National Rail,
- Northern,
- Rail Delivery Group,
- ScotRail,
- South Western Railway,
- Southeastern,
- Southern,
- Stansted Express,
- TfL Rail,
- TransPennine Express,
- Transport for Wales,
- West Midlands Trains
Last updated: 29 October 2019