Privacy Policy

The following statement explains our policy regarding the Personal Information we collect about you.

1. Statement of Intent

From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself ( eg name and email address etc) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include memberships, chat facilities and message boards.

By entering your details in the fields requested, the Coach Tourism Council will be able to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. Our services are designed to give you the information that you want to receive. The Coach Tourism Council will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current internet best practice.

2. Information on Visitors
During the course of any visit to the Find A Coach Holiday Web Site, the pages which you see, along with something called a Cookie, are downloaded to your computer (see paragraph 3 below for more on this). Most, if not all, web sites do this, and that's because cookies allow the web site publisher to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better service and assists us to analyse the profile of our visitors. For example: if on a previous visit you went to, say, the Forum pages, then we might find this out from your cookie and highlight discussion information - which if you were the previous user you may find interesting, on a second visit.

3. What is a Cookie?

When you enter a site your computer will automatically be issued with a Cookie. Cookies are text files which identify your computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their site, in order to track traffic flows.

Cookies themselves only record which areas of the site have been visited by the computer in question, and for how long. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time, although this of course means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user.

Even assuming you have not set your computer to reject cookies, you can browse our site anonymously until such time as you register for Coach Tourism Council services.

4. Users under 18

If you are under 18, please make sure that you obtain your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to the Coach Tourism Council website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.