We use cookies on our website to provide our services and help collect data. They help you get the best from the EE site, improving your user experience, and giving you more personalised features and content.
We think they're a good idea, but it's up to you whether you allow them or not. For more information about how to change your settings, read our full cookie policy.
Cookies are tiny files saved to your computer when you visit websites. They're completely safe and can't be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your device.
If you want to change your cookie settings, you can edit them here.
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website or application. Your web browser (such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox) then sends these cookies back to the website on each subsequent visit so that they can remember things like preferences.
Cookies are very useful and do lots of different jobs. For example, they enable you to move between our web pages efficiently, they remember your preferences when you visit us again and generally improve your experience when browsing with us. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
Cookies last for different lengths of time depending on the job they do. There are session cookies and persistent cookies:
We will only read or write cookies for the preference level you set when you first visit our website.
Please note that cookies set before you changed your settings will still be on your computer. You can remove them using your browser settings.
Our free online tool can help you manage the cookies we use on bt.com. To use it, your web browser needs to support JavaScript – if it doesn't you can still find out about the cookies we use here, but you'll need to manage them through your web browser settings.
We also use a cookie to remember your cookie preferences. This means:
The cookies used on our website fall into one of four categories:
Strictly necessary cookies let you move around the website and use essential features like secure areas, shopping baskets and online billing.
We use these strictly necessary cookies to:
Cookies we have defined as strictly necessary will NOT be used to:
Third Party Cookies
Performance cookies collect information about how you use our website. For example, which pages you visit and if you experience any errors. These cookies are essential to us being able to operate and maintain our website.
These cookies don't collect any information that could identify you – all the information collected is anonymous.
Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent them we cannot guarantee how our site will perform for you.
In some cases, some performance cookies are managed for us by third parties, but we don't allow the third party to use the cookies for any purpose other than those listed below.
We use performance cookies to:
Cookies we have defined as performance will NOT be used to:
Functional cookies are used to provide services or to remember settings to improve your visit.
You decide whether or not these cookies are used, but preventing them may mean we can't offer you some services, and will reduce the support we can offer you, such as ‘live chat’.
We use functional cookies to:
Cookies we have defined as functional will not be used to:
Targeting cookies are linked to services provided by our trusted partners, as listed below.
You decide whether or not these cookies are used.
We use targeting cookies to:
Third party cookies
There are ways you can control and manage cookies on your device. Please remember that any settings you change will not just affect the cookies we use. These changes will apply to all websites you visit (unless you choose to block cookies from particular sites).
You can also edit your cookie settings for this website here.
Most browsers will allow you to choose the level of privacy settings you want. You can block all cookies, or accept all cookies or pick a setting somewhere in between. This range lets you control your cookie settings, so you can:
Deleting cookies means that any preference settings you have made on a website will be lost. If you’ve set your preferences to opt out of cookies, this setting will be lost too, as that information is stored in a cookie. Blocking all cookies means functionality on our websites will be lost, as described above. We don’t recommend turning all cookies off when using our websites.
If you want to reduce your cookie settings at any time – for example, if you accept all cookies, but later decide you don’t want a certain type of cookie – you’ll need to use your browser settings to remove any third party cookies dropped on your previous visit.
Find out how to manage your cookies using the most popular browsers below.
Internet Explorer:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer?
Google Chrome:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
Safari:
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?locale=en_US
Information about cookies
You can read more about cookies at:
http://www.allaboutcookies.org
Internet Advertising Bureau
A guide to behavioural advertising and online privacy has been produced by the internet advertising industry which can be found at:
http://www.youronlinechoices.eu
International Chamber of Commerce United Kingdom
Information on the ICC (UK) UK cookie guide can be found on the ICC website section:
http://www.international-chamber.co.uk/our-expertise/digitaleconomy
There are some basic actions that require cookies, such as buying a phone online or using live chat. For example, we use cookies for the following things:
If you do decide to block cookies, you won't always be able to use all the features on our site. For example, blocking cookies will prevent you from:
If you still really, really want to block cookies, please follow the instructions above in the cookie policy, for your browser type.