Cookies

Without internet cookies, surfing the net would be much more difficult. Cookies store or gather site information that helps you do things online more quickly. For example, they remember your logon details so that you don't have to re-enter them each time you revisit a site.

Cookies are very widely used and do not harm your system.

Why do we use cookies?

At Barclaycard, we use cookies to:

• Gather information about your journey across our sites
• Ensure your privacy in our secure sites
• Store login details for our secure sites
• Temporarily store details you enter into our calculators, tools, illustrations and demonstrations
• Store details of your marketing, product and business unit preferences to improve our targeting and enhance your journey through our sites
• Evaluate our sites advertising and promotional effectiveness (we own the anonymous data collected, which is not shared with anyone).

We use both our own (first party) and partner companies' (third party) cookies to support these activities.

Services requiring enabled cookies

In addition, some services such as My Account require cookies in your browser to view and use them and to protect your financial and personal information.

My Account

This website uses cookies to enable information about you and your preferences to be stored and to prevent unauthorised access to your account online. Without cookies, we cannot ensure your data is secure. So if you reject them, you will not be able to use the service.

What we don't use cookies for

You may be a little nervous at the thought of this information-gathering, but let us reassure you that:

• We don't use them to track your internet usage once you've left our sites
• We don't store personal information in them that others could read and understand
• We will not sell or distribute cookie information without your prior consent

Definitions

By "our/we/us/ours" we mean Barclays Bank Plc and its wholly and partly owned subsidiaries and any company in which it has an interest by way of shareholding or any company in a group of companies to which it may belong ('our group').

By "our sites" we mean any internet website operated by Barclays Bank Plc and any company in our group.

Want to know more?

What are cookies?
Find out what they do and how they work.

How to change your cookie settings
Find out how to reject them – or how to reactivate them again.