Your trust, privacy and data are important to us and we are committed to being transparent about our data practices and how we use and protect your data.
This notice provides more detail about the cookies and tracking technologies we use and should be read in conjunction with the information in our cookie preference centre where you can adjust your cookie settings.
There is also information on how to contact Centrica’s privacy team.
Types of cookies and tracking technologies
Strictly necessary cookies
Who sets the cookie and what is done with the information
Centrica
We set a cookie – AspNetCore – to help protect our site against cross-site forgery attacks.
OneTrust
This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the user’s browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of six months, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.
Performance cookies
Google
We use Google to provide statistical counting of users, paths, pages visited and so on. We use information such as your IP address, browser type, and unique identifiers, stored in cookies on your device to record how you interact with our website. We do this to understand how you use our site, how we can design it to serve visitors better, and where our visitors come from.
Functional cookies
Happydance
Our system provider, Happydance, sets cookies to store the jobs that candidates save while browsing our careers site, and also to personalize content, such as recommending vacancies based on the jobs they’ve viewed.
SoundCloud
These cookies are used to record the number of people that visit our site, and track whether you’ve visited before.
Centrica’s privacy team
You can contact Centrica’s privacy team by writing to:
The Data Protection Officer, Centrica Plc,
Millstream,
Maidenhead Road,
Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 5GD.
You can also contact our data protection officer at privacy@centrica.com.