Our Privacy Policy

This website is owned and operated by Ian Barnes trading as Coast Radar. Our website address is: https://coastradar.com.

We want visitors to our website to be able to take part fully in the activities and offers we provide. We also want to make sure that when we collect information from you, we do so in a way that does not infringe your right to privacy. This privacy policy explains how we use any personal information we collect about you when you use this website and how we use cookies.

By using our website you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy.

When do we collect personal information?

We collect information about you when you register with us and edit the profile process on our site. Any profile information provided on this site may be displayed publicly.

We also collect information when you voluntarily sign up for updates, complete customer surveys, provide feedback and participate in competitions.

Website usage information is collected using cookies.

We collect information about you during the add listing process on our site. This business information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, phone number, address, and location details, including GPS coordinates and any other details that might be requested from you to add your business/event listings.

What types of personal information do we collect?

User data/profile

We hold no user profile on the website as all listings are input by our editors on your behalf.

Listings

We collect information about your business during the add listing process on our site. This information may include but is not limited to, name, email address, phone number, address, location details, including GPS coordinates and any other details that might be requested from you to add your business listings.

Handling this data also allows us to:

• Display this information publicly (such as a web page or API request) and allow website users to search and view submitted listing information.
• Provide a way for users to contact your listing via the provided contact information.
• Notify you of user interactions such as but not limited to review and contact notifications.
• Respond to your queries or complaints.
• Set up and administer your listing, provide technical and/or customer support, spam prevention, and to verify your identity. We do this based on our legitimate business interests.

Reviews

We collect information about you during the leave a review process on our site. This information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, IP address, website url, image(s), review ratings and review texts.

Handling this data also allows us to:

• Display this information publicly (such as a web page or API request).
• Notify you of interactions such as approval or rejection of your review.
• Notify you of user interactions such as reply notifications.
• Spam prevention.

Listing contact forms

We may collect information about you when you submit a contact form to a listing. This information may include but is not limited to, your name, email address, IP address and contact texts.

Handling this data also allows us to:

• Send your contact message and details to the listings contact email.
• Monitor the contact system for spam and abuse.

Marketing

You don’t register with Coast Radar all interactions are through our social media channels following the processes as described on each channel.

Payments

We don’t save any payment information on our servers, all payments and subscriptions are taken using the PayPal payment network. For information on their data collection please see the PayPal website.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Cache

This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. They cannot harm your computer and do not contain any information that enables us to identify you personally, they just enable our websites to recognise your computer and to identify certain other non-personal information such as which browser you are using. This information can be used to make the website work, to identify which parts of the site can work better or to analyse how often people visit the site and what they look at. We will not associate this data with any personally identifying information that you may choose to provide to us in other ways.

Some features used on this website may involve a cookie being sent to your computer by a third party. For example, if you view or listen to any embedded audio or video content you may be sent cookies from the site where the embedded content is hosted. Likewise, if you share any content on this website through social networks (for example by clicking a Facebook “like” button or a “Tweet” button) you may be sent cookies from these websites. We do not control the setting of these cookies so please check the websites of these third parties for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

For further information visit www.allaboutcookies.org

You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above websites tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in the case of Coast Radar many website features will not function as a result impacting your experience. For a list of the cookies, Coast Radar uses please refer to our Cookies page.

Google Ads

On some pages, we display ads from the Google network with ad personalisation turned on, this means Google will use your information to make your ads displayed on Coast Radar more useful for you. The information collected and used for this type of advertising is not personal, in that it does not identify you in the real world. No personal information, such as your name, address or email address, is used. Data about your browsing activity is collected and analysed anonymously. For example, a website that sells surfboards might use Google’s ad services. After you visit that site, you could see an ad on Coast Radar for surfboards.

Google Ads have partnerships with technology providers that may use this data, for more information on the use of data in Ads and how this can be disabled at a browser level for all sites see Google Ads Policies.

Other websites

Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.

A number of links on this site are affiliate links. If you click on these links and go visit the resulting site, a cookie will be set in your web browser that will cause us to receive a commission “IF” you purchase a product on the other end. This is a legitimate way to monetise and pay for the operation of websites and we can gladly reveal our affiliate relationships to you.

Changes to our privacy policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page.

This privacy policy was last updated on 20th October 2023.

How to contact us

Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you:

• email ([email protected])
• or by telephone: 01442 781091
• or write to us: Coast Radar, Brookside, 35 Brook End, Weston Turville, Bucks HP22 5RQ