Privacy Policy

Precision Card Services® takes your privacy seriously.  This privacy policy describes what personal information we collect and how we use it.

Cookies

Where necessary, Precision Card Services® uses cookies to store information about a visitor’s preferences and history in order to better serve the visitor and/or present the visitor with customised content.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

Advertising partners and other third parties also use cookies, scripts and/or web beacons to track visitors to our site in order to display advertisements and other useful information.  Such tracking is done directly by the third parties through their own servers and is subject to their own privacy policies.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise 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.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • 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. These cookies use data collection in order to personalise Ads to you.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Domain Type Description Duration
bscookie .www.linkedin.com Advertisement This cookie is a browser ID cookie set by Linked share Buttons and ad tags. 2 years
_hjid .plasticcardservices.co.uk Analytics This is a Hotjar cookie that is set when the customer first lands on a page using the Hotjar script. 1 year
_hjFirstSeen .plasticcardservices.co.uk Analytics Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. 30 minutes
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample plasticcardservices.co.uk Analytics Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site’s pageview limit. 2 minutes
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress .plasticcardservices.co.uk Analytics Hotjar sets this cookie to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. 30 minutes
lang .ads.linkedin.com Functional This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website. session
bcookie .linkedin.com Functional LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser ID. 2 years
lidc .linkedin.com Functional LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. 1 day
lang .linkedin.com Functional This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website. session
_GRECAPTCHA www.google.com Necessary This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. 5 months 27 days
UserMatchHistory .linkedin.com Other Linkedin – Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences. 1 month
AnalyticsSyncHistory .linkedin.com Other No description 1 month
li_gc .linkedin.com Other No description 2 years

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

Routine Information Collection

All web servers track basic information about their visitors.  This information includes, but is not limited to, IP addresses, browser details, timestamps and referring pages.  None of this information can personally identify specific visitors to this site.  The information is tracked for routine administration and maintenance purposes.

This website uses Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Plastic Card Services® website. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

We may use Google Analytics for the following purposes where data will be retained for 50 months before being automatically deleted by Google:

Remarketing (showing our ads on third party websites). Plastic Card Services® and third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to inform, optimise and serve ads based on someone’s past visits to our website. Google Display Network Impression Reporting. Plastic Card Services® and third-party vendors, use cookies to report how our ad impressions, other uses of ad services and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our site. Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Plastic Card Services® use data from Google’s Interest-based advertising or 3rd-party audience data (such as age, gender and interests) with Google Analytics to inform our marketing strategy.

Use of personally identifiable information

Occasionally we would like to let you know about offers, ideas, products and services available from Plastic Card Services that we think you might be interested in. Where you have consented to us doing so, we may do this through the post, by email or phone.

We won’t send you marketing messages if you tell us not to, but we will still need to send you occasional service-related messages. If you wish to amend your marketing preferences, you can do so either by contacting your account manager, unsubscribing from our mailing list or emailing talk@precisioncardservices.com

Controlling Your Privacy

Note that you can change your browser settings to disable cookies if you have privacy concerns.  Disabling cookies for all sites is not recommended as it may interfere with your use of some sites. The best option is to disable or enable cookies on a per-site basis.

You can see how Google will use your personal data when you give consent by visiting Google’s Privacy and Terms site.

Visitors can opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customise Google Display Network ads using Google’s Ad Settings page.

Concerns or questions about this privacy policy can be directed to talk@precisioncardservices.com.