Visa Cookie Notice

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A Guide to Cookies and Other Technologies

  • Cookies

Cookies are small text files that websites send to your computer or other Internet-connected devices to uniquely identify your browser or to store information or settings in your browser. Cookies allow us to recognize you when you return. They also help us provide a customised experience and can enable us to detect certain kinds of fraud.

First-party cookies are those set by Visa or generated by the domain you are directly visiting, such as a social media platform. These cookies are used by Visa and include all strictly necessary cookies that support the core functions of our websites and apps.

Third-party cookies are set by another company, including service providers, social media platforms and third-party advertising companies. Cookies set by third parties may be accessed by those third parties when you visit other websites within the same advertising network. This allows them to build a profile of your online behaviour and deliver targeted advertisements on behalf of their clients.

Some of our sites may use Google reCAPTCHA, a security service provided by Google, to protect our website and verify that actions (such as form submissions) are made by humans and not bots. reCAPTCHA uses essential security cookies for this purpose. For more information about reCAPTCHA, please visit Google's Privacy Policy.

  • Pixel Tags and Web Beacons

Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are tiny graphic images and small blocks of code placed on website pages, adverts or in emails that allow us to determine whether you have performed a specific action. When you access the pages or open an email, the tag lets us know you have accessed the web page or opened the email. These tools allow us to measure the response to our communications and to improve our webpages and promotions.

  • Server Logs

Server logs record activities on our websites. Other types of logs collect similar information from our apps. These logs record information about the device you use to access our website, your operating system type, browser type, domain and other system settings as well as the language your system uses and the country and time zone in which your device is located. Our logs also record the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet. An IP address is a unique identifier that devices require to identify and communicate with each other on the Internet. We may also collect information about the website you were visiting before you came to Visa and the website you visit after you leave our site.