Academy Soccer Coach Cookie Policy.
This page explains how Academy Soccer Coach uses cookies on its website, and how to choose to manage or remove them if you wish to do so.
What are cookies and how do they work?
Cookies are small data files which are sent to a user’s computer or mobile phone from a website and are stored on the hard drive of the user’s device. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain that the cookie has come from, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a randomly generated unique number or other value. Cookies perform lots of different tasks, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. A website that doesn’t use cookies will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site. When you enter your login details and then move to another page, it won’t be able to recognise you and will be unable to keep you logged,forcing you to re-enter login details each time.
How to control and delete cookies
Academy Soccer Coach does not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to block the cookies that are set by our web site, or indeed any other web site, you can do this through your browser settings. See the Help function within your browser for information on how to do this. Alternatively, visit www.aboutcookies.org , which contains comprehensive information on how to do this within a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details here on how to delete cookies. Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the site.
Like most websites, we use different categories of cookies for a variety of purposes in order to improve your online experience as follows:
1) Strictly necessary cookies
Our ‘Strictly necessary cookies’ let you move around the website and enable you to use features that you have specifically asked for, such as the Shopping Basket within our online shop. They enable the continuity of your browsing session from one page request to the next and store a uniquely generated number that does not identify you personally in any way. These cookies are used while you use our website, for one session and are expired (deleted) at the end of the session when you close your browser. These Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier, without them the features mentioned above would not function. Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent these cookies we can’t guarantee how our website will perform during your visit. Our Strictly necessary cookies can be identified as follows:
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Name of Cookie |
Expiry |
Purpose |
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PHPSESSID |
Session |
‘Strictly necessary’. Essential to managing your user experience, enabling you to be identified as a user between page loads of the ASC website. |
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__oss_auth |
Session |
Strictly necessary’. Essential for ASC members to access the secure areas of the site and Session Template software. |
2) Functionality Cookies
‘Functionality cookies’ are used to provide services or to remember your settings on the website and help to customise your Academy Soccer Coach web experience. Functionality cookies are, by their very nature, persistent cookies so that we remember your computer when you return to our website. Our Functionality Cookie is optional and can be identified as follows:
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Name of Cookie |
Expiry |
Purpose |
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OSSLogin |
360 days |
OSSLogin cookie enables us to remember your computer when you return to the website so that you can automatically sign in. This is placed on your computer by checking ‘Remember Me’ on the ASC Login Page. |
3) Performance Cookies
We use ‘Performance cookies’ to anonymously gather statistics on which pages are popular on the site, how quickly they perform and to detect any page errors so that we can continue to provide you with a better user experience. We also collect statistics on what browsers were used to access our site content and services as well as which countries the requests are coming from. These cookies don’t collect any information that could identify you. Most performance cookies tend to be session cookies, which are deleted at the end of the browser session. The Performance cookies we use are identified in the table below, together with information as to how you can opt out of receiving them. If you prevent performance cookies we cannot use information from your visit to improve your future website.
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Name of Cookie |
Expiry |
Purpose |
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_jsuid |
Session |
‘Performance Improvement’. Academy Soccer Coach’s analytics system uses cookies, log file data and embedded code to gather information regarding visitor activity on the website. The data gathered is sent to our analytics partner ‘Get Clicky’ for analysis and reporting. We use this information to help improve your user experience. |
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first_pv_40363 |
Session |
‘Performance Improvement’. This session based cookie identifies the first page view of any visit. |
4) Third Party Cookies
We do not use third party cookies.
5. Flash Cookies (Local Shared Objects)
The Adobe Flash Player, used to provide services such as the Session Template software application, is also capable of storing information on your terminal. However, currently it is not possible to manage them at the browser level in the same way, although some web browser providers are developing solutions to resolve this. If you wish to restrict or block Flash Cookies, please follow the instructions below. How to disable Flash Cookies: The Adobe website provides comprehensive information on how to delete or disable Flash cookies either for a specific domain like academysoccercoach.co.uk or for all websites. For further information please see http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/security. Please be aware that restricting the use of Flash Cookies may negatively impact the features available to you for Flash based applications.
6. Social Networking Sharing Tools
We would like to point out that the Academy Soccer Coach website now carries embedded ‘share’ buttons to enable users of our site to easily share content with their friends through a number of popular social networks such as Twitter. These sites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service. We do not control the dissemination of these cookies and recommend that you check the relevant social network’s website for more information.
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What our clients say about us...
ASC are a great partner, they have innovated the product frequently and the level of customer support is really exceptional and appreciated. In my role as Director of Coaching Education I owe a lot to ASC in making our lesson planning so easy to accomplish and importantly, to share as well.
Ian Barker
Director of Education, United Soccer Coaches (formerly NSCAA)
We use Academy Soccer Coach and the easy to use Session Template software to put together our training programmes at the West Ham United Youth Academy and would recommend it to all professional soccer associations, clubs and coaches.
Tony Carr MBE
Former Academy Director West Ham United FC
We’ve been happily working with Academy Soccer Coach for 4 seasons now. The Academy has really benefitted from the daily use of session plans & player report forms created to our exact needs by the ASC team. They have excellent insight into player development and have worked very closely with us when understanding our requirements, this has meant we’ve constantly ended up with a quality product that our coaching team are able to put to good use in developing our young talent. I’ve been quick to recommend Academy Soccer Coach to colleagues in the industry and am always impressed to learn of their new products and developments.
Jeremy Sauer
AFC Wimbledon - Academy Manager
At the IFA we find the Academy Soccer programme to be of great benefit to all our coaches. With the Women’s International squads the set pieces and team shapes and sessions are all planned using their Session Template software, Session Plans and Digital Coaching Forms.
Our coaches who enroll on our Coach Education courses are all encouraged to join Academy Soccer Coach.co.uk.
It is so easy to follow and simple to use.
We would recommend it to everyone at all levels in football.
Alfie Wylie
National Women's Coach, Irish Football Association
Academy Soccer Coach have been a great help to us at the Down's Syndrome Association with our DSActive programme. When we began devising a resource for coaching people with Down's Syndrome, we hit a brick wall due to the current software available not meeting our specific needs. Finding the ASC software was a huge relief in terms of our bespoke needs. It has simple functionality and a price tag that is, in our opinion, is unbeatable.
Scott Pollington-Wood
DS Active The Down's Syndrome Association
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