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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 11 July 2026

This page explains what the Coast Internet Radio website does and does not know about you. The short version: this is a small radio station website. There are no accounts, no advertising trackers and nothing here is trying to follow you around the internet.

The short version

• No Google Analytics, no ad trackers, no personalisation cookies.
• We keep simple anonymous counts, like how many people pressed Play.
• Anything personal only reaches us if you choose to send it, like a song request.
• Your settings (text size, theme and so on) stay in your own browser.

What the site collects

Coast Internet Radio is a static listening website. We don't use Google Analytics, advertising trackers, third-party analytics services or personalisation cookies, and there are no user accounts.

Like almost every website, our hosting provider (Netlify) and streaming proxy (Cloudflare) may automatically log standard server information: your IP address, the time of the request and the page or stream URL. They use this for security, abuse prevention and basic traffic monitoring, and their own privacy policies govern those logs.

Anonymous listening figures

We keep simple anonymous counts of how the website is used, for example how many people pressed Play, opened the Helper or arrived from a search engine. These counts don't include names, emails, IP addresses, exact locations or anything you typed into a form. They just help us see what's working.

We may also count broad anonymous signals such as device type, browser language, timezone region, referrer type and a rough visit-duration bucket. We don't infer or store sensitive personal characteristics, and small audience groups (fewer than three people) are never shown individually in our admin view, so nobody can be singled out.

Anonymous daily counters are kept for around 180 days. Long-term monthly and yearly counters may be kept beyond that, because they're aggregated only and don't identify anyone. A short-term technical buffer holds the most recent 200 anonymous events for debugging, and rate-limit records (hashed, never raw IPs) are deleted within 24 hours.

Counting returning listeners (your choice)

On your first visit we ask one question: may we count you as a returning visitor? Both answers are genuinely fine, and the site works exactly the same either way.

If you say "Yes, count me", a random anonymous identifier (a string like e6a3...) is stored in your browser's local storage, along with a visit count and the date of your first visit. It isn't a name, email, account, IP address or cookie. All it tells us is "this browser has been here before", so we can see how many people come back, not who they are.

If you say "Just anonymous", nothing is stored and every visit is treated as a fresh one.

Changed your mind? Clear your browser data for this site, or press "Reset to defaults" in the accessibility menu. We never share these identifiers with anyone.

Song requests and feedback

If you send a song request through the website form, the details you submit (song, artist, your name if you give one, and any message) go to the station via Netlify, our hosting provider. Netlify keeps a copy in their dashboard for spam protection, and so a request isn't lost if email misbehaves. We use it to play your song or reply to you, nothing else. The same goes for emailed requests to coastradio@hotmail.com, which are handled by the station's email provider.

Feedback sent through the Feedback link is stored separately from the anonymous counts so Jim can read it. Name and contact details are optional and only used if you'd like a reply. None of it is used for profiling or marketing.

Cookies and local storage

The site sets no cookies of its own. It uses your browser's local storage (a small in-browser store that never leaves your device) for:

• Accessibility settings, so your text size, contrast, font, theme and motion choices apply next time.
• Language banner dismissal, so we don't keep offering to translate the page.
• Your analytics choice, so we don't ask again on every visit.
• The anonymous returning-visitor identifier, only if you said "Yes, count me".

You can clear all of this at any time from your browser settings, or with "Reset to defaults" in the accessibility menu.

Third-party services you choose to open (PayPal, social links) may set their own cookies once you're on their pages.

Browser language

To offer translation in your own language, the site reads your browser's reported language preference (the standard navigator.language value). That happens entirely in your browser; it isn't sent to us or anyone else.

Donations

Donations are processed by PayPal. We never see or store your card details. PayPal's own privacy policy applies: paypal.com/uk/legalhub/privacy-full.

Links to other services

The site links out to Facebook, X, PayPal and radio directories such as TuneIn, Streema, Radio Garden and ieradio.org. Once you follow a link, their privacy policies apply, not ours.

Your rights (UK GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018)

Because we hold no personal data beyond correspondence you've sent us, your rights mainly apply to that correspondence. If you'd like anything you've sent deleted, email coastradio@hotmail.com and we'll sort it.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled something, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

If this page changes

If we change how the site works, we'll update this page and the date at the top. No silent changes.