Cookie Policy
Our aim is to continually improve the experience you have when you visit our website. As part of this process, we use cookies. Cookies are small text files containing information about your browsing session (e.g. which pages you visited), which are located in your browser directory.
We use different types of cookies and each one has a specific function. Some cookies are essential to the working of the website and allow you to navigate easily from page to page and perform certain functions (e.g. making a purchase). Other cookies allow us to analyse how you use our site, which enables us to make decisions about how best to improve the website design and functionality to fit your future needs.
In some cases, we use cookies to remember a selection you have made (e.g. your location), which saves you having to make that selection again if you return to the site. Other cookies allow our partners to see how many visitors click from their website to our website, and subsequently allow us to select the best partners to work with.
megabus will not store personally identifiable information such as credit card or address details in the cookies we create. All data collected using a cookie will be anonymous and will not hold specific knowledge of who a visitor is. Cookie data will be used for marketing and remarketing purposes. These are the cookies we use on uk.megabus.com:
- _dc_gtm_UA-93249331-1 – cookies that measure website use
- _fbp – cookies that remember a user’s settings
- _ga – cookies that measures website use
- _gcl_au – cookies that measures website use
- _gid – cookies that measures website use
- _hjid – cookies that helps with our communications and marketing
- incap_ - cookies which is necessary for website use
- nlbi_ - cookies which is necessary for website use
- visid - cookies which is necessary for website use
- _gat – cookies that measures website use
- __ - cookies which is necessary for website use
- _y2 – cookies that help with our communications and marketing
- _yi - cookies that help with our communications and marketing
- AWSALB - cookies which is necessary for website use
- Search – cookies that remember a user’s settings
- Basket - cookies which is necessary for website use
- Bid - cookies which is necessary for website use
- country-iso-code – cookies that remember a user’s settings
In addition to our own cookies we may also use various third-party cookies, for example from Google, Facebook and Twitter, to report usage statistics of our service and deliver advertisements:
- DoubleClick – we use Google Analytics remarketing codes to log when users view specific pages or take specific actions on our website. This allows us to provide targeted advertising in the future. If you do not wish to receive this type of advertising from us in the future, you can opt out of the DoubleClick cookie
- ga, _gat, _gid, _gali – these cookies are used for Google Analytics tracking, which helps us to better understand how people are using our website
- fr - this cookie is used for Facebook advertisement tracking
- guest_id, personalization_id, lang - this cookie is used for Twitter advertisement tracking
Usually, web browsers are set to accept cookies. If you have visited this site, however, and did not want cookies to be used, please exit the site and use your browser tools settings to delete the cookies. If you do this and revisit this site, cookies will again be set unless you change your browser settings to reject cookies.
megabus is committed to comply with the legislation for storing information on a user’s computer or mobile device which are detailed on the ICO website. We aim to be honest and clear about your privacy when using our website.
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.
You can find out more about managing and deleting cookies from www.aboutcookies.org