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About this policy
This Cookie Policy explains how ABS Training, part of the American Bureau of Shipping (“ABS”, “we”, “us”), uses cookies and similar technologies on abs-training.com, and how you can control them. It should be read together with the ABS Privacy Policy (opens in a new tab).
Course registration, sign-in and payment take place on the ABS Training portal at portal.abs-training.com, which is provided by our learning platform partner and uses its own cookies. This policy covers abs-training.com only.
Your cookie choices
You can accept or reject analytics and advertising cookies at any time. Changes apply right away, and rejecting deletes the cookies those services have already set on this site.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser. Similar technologies, such as your browser’s local storage, work in the same way. They let a site remember information between pages and visits. In this policy, “cookies” includes these similar technologies.
First-party cookies are set by abs-training.com. Third-party cookies are set by another company’s domain, such as google.com.
Cookies we use
We group cookies into three categories. Only strictly necessary storage is used without your choice where consent is required.
Strictly necessary
Needed for the site to work as you expect. These can’t be switched off in our cookie settings.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| abs_consent_v1 | abs-training.com (local storage) | Remembers your cookie choices so we don’t ask on every page. | Until you change your choice or clear your browser data |
Analytics
Google Analytics helps us understand how visitors use the site, such as which pages and courses are viewed and which buttons are clicked, so we can improve it. We don’t send names, email addresses or other information that identifies you to Google; email addresses in links are removed before data is sent.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics (first-party) | Distinguishes one visitor’s browser from another. | Up to 2 years |
| _ga_0LT6YRRFZH | Google Analytics (first-party) | Keeps track of the current visit. | Up to 2 years |
Some browsers limit how long cookies are kept, for example to about 13 months.
Advertising
Google Ads cookies tell us when someone who clicked one of our ads goes on to register for a course, so we can measure and improve our advertising. Google may also set its own cookies on its domains. If you send our Contact Us form, Microsoft Dynamics 365 can also set a marketing cookie, but only when advertising cookies are allowed.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Google Ads (first-party) | Measures how our ads lead to visits and registrations. | 90 days |
| _gcl_aw | Google Ads (first-party) | Stores the ad click ID when you arrive from a Google ad. | 90 days |
| _gcl_ls | Google Ads (local storage) | Stores ad click information as a backup to the cookies above. | Until removed by Google or your browser |
| GCL_AW_P and others | Google (third-party: google.com, doubleclick.net) | Set by Google to measure ad clicks and conversions. | Up to 90 days; see Google’s policies |
| msdynmkt_formsubmissionid | Microsoft Dynamics 365 (first-party) | Set only after you send the Contact Us form, and only if you allow advertising cookies. Links your browser to your inquiry in our customer system so later marketing emails and visits can be connected to it. | 1 year |
How your choices work
- When you first visit, a banner lets you accept all, reject all or customize analytics and advertising cookies.
- If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, analytics and advertising cookies stay off unless you accept them.
- If you visit from elsewhere, analytics and advertising cookies are on until you make a choice. You can reject them at any time.
- If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, advertising cookies are off by default.
- When analytics or advertising is off, Google may still receive basic information without cookies, such as that a page was viewed, so it can produce aggregated, anonymous reports. These signals don’t identify you and don’t store anything on your device.
- Rejecting a category deletes the cookies that category has set on abs-training.com.
Other services on this site
These services don’t set cookies on abs-training.com, but your browser connects to them to load parts of the page, which shares your IP address and browser details with the provider:
- Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com): text fonts and icons.
- Tailwind CSS (cdn.tailwindcss.com): page styling.
- ABS (ww2.eagle.org) and Unsplash (images.unsplash.com): images.
- ABS Training portal (portal.abs-training.com): upcoming class dates shown on course pages.
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 (mkt.dynamics.com): the Contact Us form. When the form is shown it records a visit with the page address only; what you type is sent to ABS when you submit the form.
Links to the ABS Training portal, eagle.org and LinkedIn take you to sites with their own cookie and privacy policies.
Managing cookies
- Use Cookie Settings in the footer of any page, or the button at the top of this page.
- Use your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Blocking all cookies may affect how some websites work.
- Opt out of Google Analytics on all websites with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on (opens in a new tab).
- Learn how Google uses data in How Google uses information from sites that use its services (opens in a new tab).
Changes and contact
We may update this policy when we change the cookies we use. The date at the top shows when it was last updated.
Questions about this policy? Email abstraining@eagle.org. For how ABS handles personal information and your privacy rights, see the ABS Privacy Policy (opens in a new tab).