PCF Bank Cookie Policy
Cookies
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your device (e.g. computer, mobile or tablet). Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the site. This helps us to provide you with a better experience when you browse the site and also allows us to improve the website. Cookies also help us to keep you safe by detecting and preventing fraud and other security threats.
We use the following types of cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies: these are essential cookies that are required for the operation of the site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log in to secure areas of the site (if applicable). These cookies cannot be disabled.
Analytical/performance cookies: these allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies: these recognise you when you return to the site. This enables us to personalise content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies: these record your visit to the site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below.
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Cookie Type
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Cookie Name
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Purpose
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Expires
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Strictly necessary
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Cloudflare (_cfduid)
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This cookie allows us to protect you by identifying any malicious activity on our website and applying appropriate security settings when you visit our site.
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1 month
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Analytics/Performance
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Google Analytics (_ga)
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This cookie enables us to estimate our audience size and how our site is used. We use this information to compile reports and improve visitor experience.
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2 years
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Analytics/Performance
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Google Analytics (_gid)
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This cookie registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
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24 hours
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Analytics/Performance
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Google Analytics (_gat_UA-26377939-1)
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This cookie is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics. It is a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.
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24 hours
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Analytics/Performance
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Vimeo (vuid)
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This cookie collects data on the user’s visits to the website such as which pages have been read.
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2 years
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Preferences
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Feefo (feefo.transactions)
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This cookie is used in relation to the language setting on the website. It facilitates the translation of text into the preferred language of the visitor.
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Persistent until deleted
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Preferences
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Feefo (feefo.translationsUpdatedAt)
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The cookie determines the preferred language and country-setting of the visitor – This allows the website to show content most relevant to that region and language.
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Persistent until deleted
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Functionality
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Autoconvert (LandingPage)
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This cookie relates to Autoconvert car loan application, and is used for usability and flow of the application form in remembering position. The cookie is non-intrusive.
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Session
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Functionality
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Autoconvert (visitorReference)
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This cookie relates to Autoconvert car loan application, and is used for usability and flow of the application form in remembering position. The cookie is non-intrusive.
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10 years
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Targeting
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Feefo (feefoUserId)
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This cookie relates to a Feefoo widget, used for Return on Investment tracking. It helps see the impact Feefo is having on PCF conversion rates. Statistics can be found on a Feefo dashboard.
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Persistent until deleted
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Targeting
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Facebook (fr)
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This cookie is used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
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3 months
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Targeting
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Google AdWords (ads/ga-audiences)
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This cookie is used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites.
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Session
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Please note our third party partners (including, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies on this website. This may be, for example, to help us assess how visitors are using our website, or to deliver better and more relevant advertising to you while you are using this website. The third parties whose cookies are used on this site are specified in the table above.
Managing your cookie preferences
When you visit our website, you will be shown a cookie banner that informs you about the use of cookies on our website. These cookies include both strictly necessary cookies that are needed for our website to function, and optional cookies that we use to improve our website and enhance your user experience (i.e. analytical/performance cookies, functionality cookies, and targeting cookies). On the cookie banner, you will also be given a choice to either allow all cookies that are used by us (which you can do by clicking "I agree"), or to allow only selected optional cookies which you are happy for us to use (which you can do by clicking "Change my preferences"). If you choose to change your cookie preferences, you the Cookies Preferences Centre will display, in which you can toggle specific optional cookies on or off.
You can manage your cookie preferences at any time by clicking here. Clicking this link will display the Cookies Preferences Centre in which you can select the specific optional cookies that you would like to allow (or disable), as explained above.
In addition, you can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of optional cookies (i.e. analytical/performance cookies, functionality cookies, and targeting cookies). However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our website. If you would like more information about cookies, we can recommend www.aboutcookies.org and www.allaboutcookies.org as helpful resources. Both websites also provide instructions on how to reject cookies if you would like to do so
Cookies in emails
We do not make use of cookies in general to monitor how individuals interact with emails they’ve received. The exception to this is requesting Read and Delivery reports on sent emails but this is dependent on the receiving server being able to accept and respond to Exchange requests. We do not track how users interact with emails once they’ve been delivered or read.
If we are sharing personal information or sensitive information, we send such emails via a secure platform so that they can be sent encrypted and only viewed by the recipient via a personal login. We have the ability to revoke access to such emails via the secure platform. However, no modification is made on content downloaded to the user’s local workstation.
