What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Cookies

We use Hubspot to track our visitors and customers. Cookies are used to collect information about how you interact with our website and allow us to remember you. We use this information in order to improve and customize your browsing experience and for analytics and metrics about our visitors both on this website and other media.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

At a1planprinting.co.uk. we recognise the importance of protecting your privacy. When you contact us via this website we may need to use your personal details, for example your name and email address, to deal with your query or sales enquiry. We use your personal details gathered in this way only to send you the information you have requested from our company or to receive our email marketing. This data is only used internally and is not seen by or passed to third parties for any reason whatsoever.

Remarketing, Cookies And Third Party Advertising

A1planprinting uses remarketing from Google Adwords to advertise products to past visitors to our website. This service requires the use of ‘cookies’ which are small pieces of code stored on your computer. This system places ads on third party websites highlighting our services to previous visitors to our website. For example, a customer who has visited our page regarding plan printing may see an advert for us on a third party website reminding them of our flyer printing services. Any data collected by cookies in this manner by us or by Google is done so in accordance with our respective privacy policies.

If you wish to opt-out of this kind of advertising for this, any other site or all web pages which uses the Google Adwords service you may do so at the following link: Google Ad Preference page. Alternative you can use a browser plugin to stop future advertising. Many browsers also employ do-not-follow features to block remarketing.

Our website uses Hubspot, a third-party company, for marketing automation. Hubspot sets cookies that track a user’s interaction with our site. Hubspot also tracks browser-provided information such as inferred region, IP address, and return visits. Users remain anonymous unless the user has provided personal information through the submission of a form or clicks through to our site from a link in a Hubspot email. For more information on Hubspot cookies and what they are used for, see Hubspot’s Privacy policy here https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy

Your continued use of this site signifies your assent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not wish to receive information from Mail Boxes Etc. Colchester Limited, please contact us and request that your details are removed from our database.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Who We Are

Our website address is: http://a1planprinting.co.uk

a1planprinting.co.uk is a trading style of Mail Boxes Etc Colchester Ltd. Registered in England: 6912644. Our registered office is 9 St. Johns Street, Colchester, Essex CO2 7NN