Coastal Curiosities Cookie Policy

Welcome to the Cookie Policy of Coastal Curiosities, a coastal exploration and artifact discovery platform based in Charleston, South Carolina. At Coastal Curiosities, located at 12 Seafarer Lane, Charleston, SC 29401, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring a transparent experience on our website. This policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies to collect and use information when you visit our site. If you have any questions, please contact us at privacy@coastalcuriosities.com or call us at (843) 555-2874.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies enable the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size, and other display preferences) over a period, so you don't have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

How We Use Cookies

At Coastal Curiosities, we use cookies for several purposes to enhance your experience on our website:

Types of Cookies We Use

We use both first-party and third-party cookies on our website:

First-Party Cookies

These are cookies that are set by Coastal Curiosities. We use first-party cookies to:

Third-Party Cookies

These are cookies that are set by a domain other than our website. We use third-party cookies for:

Here's a detailed breakdown of the specific types of cookies we use:

  1. Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart, or make use of e-billing services.
  2. Analytical/Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. Examples include Google Analytics cookies.
  3. Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  4. Targeting Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Third-Party Cookies

As mentioned above, we use third-party services that may set cookies on your device. These services include:

How to Control Cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site, and some services and functionalities may not work.

Here are links to instructions on how to control cookies in popular browsers:

You can also opt-out of targeted advertising from many ad networks. For more information about targeted advertising and how to opt-out, you can visit the following resources:

By using the Coastal Curiosities website, you consent to the use of cookies as described in this policy. We reserve the right to modify this Cookie Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

For more information about our privacy practices, please visit our Privacy Policy.

Effective Date: October 26, 2023

Coastal Curiosities is managed by Professor Eleanor Ainsworth, a renowned marine archaeologist and folklore expert, and supported by a team of dedicated researchers and conservationists, including Dr. Samuel Pendergast, our lead historian. Our commitment is to preserving the unique artifacts and stories of the South Carolina coast.