Our Cookie Policy

By using this site you are agreeing to our terms and conditions (including using cookies to collect anonymous usage statistics). If you do not agree you may either stop cookies in your browser settings or stop browsing the site.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website and services in order to tailor them to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website and service, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the website. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Cookie	Name	Purpose	More information
Google Analytics	__utma __utmb __utmc __utmz	These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where vistors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.	Google privacy overview »
Site cookie acceptance		This cookie is used to record if a user has accepted the use of cookies on our website.
Web Tracking Cookie	com.silverpop.iMAWebCookie	The Unique Identifier for the visitor. Used to pass individual identity to Engage along with specific actions.
Web Tracking Cookie	com.silverpop.iMA.page_visit	One "per session" cookie created for each page visited in the session. Used to distinguish the first visit to a webpage by an individual from subsequent visits.
Web Tracking Cookie	com.silverpop.iMA.session	The Unique Identifier for the current browsing session. Used to associate a series of individual events to a single functional browsing session.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

How does CoastAMS use cookies?

Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience.

Does CoastAMS track the opening of HTML emails?

We use page tracking in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by the recipients. By opting in to our newsletters you are consenting to being tracked.

Cookies set by Third Party sites

To support our website, we sometimes embed photos and video content from websites such as YouTube. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. CoastAMS does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.

CoastAMS Sharing Tools

We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the CoastAMS website now carries embedded ‘share’ buttons to enable users of the site to easily share articles with their friends through a number of popular social networks. These sites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service. The CoastAMS does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.

Other Third Party IP Address processing activities

CoastAMS web products or phone apps sometimes offer features that allow users to share links with social networks and the CoastAMS shortens that URL using the bit.ly service Bit.ly provides CoastAMS with anonymised, aggregated statistics relating to use of the shortened CoastAMS URL, for example by telling us how many times it has been clicked on. CoastAMS does not have access to the IP address of your computer collected by bit.ly when you use its service or any other identifiable information about you. Nor does Bit.ly have any access to data collected on a CoastAMS website. For more information on bit.ly's privacy policy, please see http://bit.ly/pages/privacy.