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Cookie Policy

'Cookies' are small data files that are sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your device's hard drive. References in these conditions of use to ‘cookies’ also include other means of automatically accessing or storing information on your device.


When you accessed the website, you were presented with a message that notified you of the use of cookies on this website. We had to use a cookie to present you with that notice. If you continue to use this website, further cookies will be placed on your device as described in the table below. By continuing to use this website after we present that notice to you, you are agreeing to the use of the cookies described in this Cookie Policy.

We may use web beacons, which are transparent image files on web pages and are used to monitor your journey around British American Tobacco Group websites.

Otherwise, we do not ourselves use cookies on this website.

However, some of the tools and content in the ‘Media’ and ‘Investors’ sections of our website are delivered by (and in some cases also hosted by) third party content providers. When you access this content, these third party providers may set cookies on your computer or mobile device.

Cookie / technology Google Analytics
Purpose These cookies are used to collect information about how you and other visitors use our website, which we use to help improve it. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they have visited.
How to disable / enable this cookie To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, please visit: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
Name Expiry
_ga Persistent cookie: 2 years from set/update
_gat Persistent cookie: 10 minutes from set/update
_utma Persistent cookie: 2 years from set/update
_utmb Persistent cookie: 30 minutes from set/update
_utmc Session cookie: end of user browser session
_utmz Persistent cookie: 6 months from set/update

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