Cookies are small data files that a web site you visit may save on your hard drive. Cookies are used to store and receive identifiers and other information on computers, mobile phones and other devices. While the cookies we use may change from time to time as we update and improve our services, they generally fall into the same categories of use as the previous ones. A cookie cannot in any case retrieve any other data from your hard drive or pass on computer viruses.

Like most websites, if you have a ShipSearch account or use the ShipSearch services (whether or not you are registered or logged in), we use cookies and web log files on our website, in our emails, within our apps and through third party apps that use our API to provide you with a range of products and services. We use cookies to verify your account, to help us keep your account, data and ShipSearch services safe and secure, to track site usage and trends in order to better understand how people and companies use ShipSearch services so that we can improve the quality of our services, to customize your experience on ShipSearch, as well as to deliver ShipSearch and third-party advertising to Users, who may be interested in the products or services we or they provide.

One type of cookie, known as a “persistent” cookie, is set once you’ve logged in to your ShipSearch account. The next time you visit the ShipSearch website, the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing User so you will not need to log in before using the Services, to display the Live Map as you last configured it etc.

We might also use third-party cookies, in order to enhance your experience or improve our understanding of the use of our products.

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how users use our services. Google Analytics cookies do not provide ShipSearch with any personally identifiable information. They can tell us things like how you arrived at the ShipSearch site, if you have visited the site before, how long you stay on the site, and which pages on the site you visited. They can also provide us with general information about where in the world a user may be located. This information helps us understand how people use our site and our products, and it gives us information about the kind of experience people have on our site and with our products, all of which helps us learn how to make the ShipSearch experience even better.

Click here to learn more about Google Analytics and your privacy. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics when using our web-based products, click here.

You can at any time remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but in some cases doing so may prevent ShipSearch from fully functioning. Unless you remove or block cookies, as mentioned above, we will retain the information we receive for as long as your account is active or you make use of our services.