cookies-policy

We use cookies and similar technologies on this website and its sub pages and on our mobile applications.

The PSA Academy knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting psa-academy.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

1. The scope of the Cookie Management Policy

This policy applies to the following websites managed by the PSA Academy and the PSA International Co. (Hereinafter "Site, Site Operator, Operator"):

2. What Personal Information About Customers Does psa-academy.org Gather?

The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your PSA Academy experience. Here are the types of information we gather.

Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way.

You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future interest or shopping for you, improving own and our regional centers, and communicating with you.

Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses psa websites or advertisements and other content served by or on behalf of psa-academy.org on other Web sites.

Mobile: When you download or use apps created by PSA Academy or our subsidiaries, we may receive information about your location and your mobile device, including a unique identifier for your device. We may use this information to provide you with location-based services, such as advertising, search results, and other personalized content. Most mobile devices allow you to turn off location services.

E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from psa-academy.org if your computer supports such capabilities. If you do not want to receive e-mail or newsleter from us, you can unsubscribe.

3. What are Cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information, which your computer or mobile device downloads when you visit a website, that contain information about browsing activity.

When you return to websites – or visit websites that use the same cookies – they recognise these cookies and therefore your browsing device.

Whenever you visit a website, the website sends a cookie to the device you’re using to access the website. Your device automatically stores the cookie in a file that’s located within your web browser.

Therefore when you revisit a site, the website will respond in a more personalized way, remembering your preferences, providing faster page load times and so forth.

4. The purpose of "cookies"

Like most company, we use cookies to do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences and generally improving your browsing experience. They can also help ensure that ads you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. We also use similar technologies such as pixel tags and JavaScript to undertake these tasks.

If you visit our website, we will deploy these technologies to provide an online service more suited to the device you connect from, as well as to prevent and detect fraud, keeping you secure.

Some of the "cookies" we use are essential for the proper functioning of the site ("Strictly necessary"), others collect information about the use of the website (statistics) to make the site more convenient and useful. Some "cookies" are only temporary and will disappear when you close your browser, while there are permanent versions that will stay on your computer for a long time.

We use cookies to:

Ensure your security and privacy when in our secure sites
Store login details for our secure sites
Improving the user experience by gathering information about how the visitor uses the website, which pages he visits or uses most often
Collecting statistics, the analysis of which helps you understand how visitors use other online services besides the website, which we can further develop
Temporarily store input information in our calculators, tools, illustrations and demonstrations
Provide you with ads that are more relevant to you and your interests, and improve our targeting and enhance your journey through our sites and partner sites
Improve our understanding of how you navigate through our sites so we can identify improvements
Evaluate our sites' advertising and promotional effectiveness (we own the anonymous data collected and don't share it with anyone); and
We use both our own (first-party) and partner companies' (third-party) cookies to support these activities

5. Cookies in emails
In addition to the cookies we use on this website, we also use cookies and similar technologies in some emails and push notifications. These help us to understand whether you have opened the email and how you have interacted with it. If you have enabled images, cookies may be set on your computer or mobile device. Cookies will also be set if you click on any link within the email. Further details of our use of cookies in emails (including how you can disable them) are set out on our Cookies and email page.

6. Cookie categories

The type of cookie used on this website can be put into 1 of 4 categories, based on the International Chamber of Commerce guide to cookie categories: Strictly Necessary, Performance, Functionality & Profile and Targeting.

The details below relate to the types of cookies used on Barclays.co.uk including its secure area.

1. Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential, as they ensure your security and privacy when you use our secure sites, as well as enabling you to move around a website and use its features.

Without these cookies, the smooth use of the website cannot be guaranteed and services you've asked for (such as access to secure areas) can't be provided.

These cookies don't gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you've been on the internet.

Their validity period extends to the duration of the visit, and "cookies" are automatically deleted at the end of the session or when the browser is closed.

This category cannot be disabled.

2. Performance Cookies

In most cases, the information these cookies collect is anonymous and is only used to improve how a website works and to help us to identify issues you may have when using our online services.

These cookies are not used to target you with online advertising. Without these cookies we can't learn how our website is performing and make relevant improvements that could better your browsing experience. - so without the information contained in "cookies" that store preferences, our website may work less smoothly.

We use the "performance cookies" to collect information about how our visitors use our website (for example, which pages were viewed by the visitor, the number of pages visited, the part of the site you clicked, the length of each session, and the error messages you received). This is done to improve our website (services, features, ...) to meet the needs of our visitors and provide them with a high quality, user-friendly experience

3. Functionality & Profile Cookies

These cookies allow a website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language or the region you're in) and tailor the website to provide enhanced features and content for you. For instance, they can be used to remember login details, changes you've made to text size, font and other parts of pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you've asked for, such as watching a video or commenting on a blog.

These cookies may be used to ensure that all our services and communications are relevant to you. The information these cookies collect cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. Without these cookies, a website cannot remember choices you've previously made or personalise your browsing experience.

4. Targeting Cookies

These cookies and similar technologies gather information about your browsing habits. They remember that you've visited a website and share this information with other organisations, such as advertisers and platforms on which we advertise. They do this in order to provide you with ads that are more relevant to you and your interests.

Without these cookies, online advertisements you encounter will be less relevant to you and your interests.

7. What About Third-Party Advertisers and Links to Other Websites?

Our site includes third-party advertising and links to other Web sites.

For performance measurement, our website uses third-party cookies for every visit. Using "cookies" we track how many people visit the website and what routes they visit. All information is stored anonymously and is used to anonymously analyze the behavior of visitors to provide a high quality experience.

Measurement & Personalisation
To analyse how our services are used, including to test different content versions. This data may also be used to enable us to personalise our services and the marketing of our services.

The website uses analytical cookies from the following provider:

Google Analytics

for detailed information on this service, please visit https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html

Online marketing
To personalise PSA adverts shown to you via PSA and on other websites based on your interactions with PSA. For example, by using data about your transactions with PSA, what you have in your basket and the pages and products you look at.

Bing
Google

Social media
We are present on more different social media platforms so on our website included these links of these social media platforms.

These companies may use your data for their own purposes, including to profile and target you with other advertising.

8. Check "cookie setup" to disable "cookies"
Modern browsers allow you to change the "cookie settings". Some browsers automatically accept cookies as a default, but this setting can also be changed to prevent the user from automatically accepting for the future. In the case of migration, the browser will always offer you the option of "setting cookies" each time.

We draw your visitors' attention to the fact that since the purpose of "cookies" is to support and facilitate the usability and processes of the website, we cannot guarantee that the visitor will be able to make full use of all the features of the website if the cookies are disabled. In this case, the webpage may work differently from the web browser.

Web browser cookies

You can use your browser settings to accept or reject new Cookies and to delete existing Cookies. You can also set your browser to notify you each time new Cookies are placed on your computer or other device. You can find more detailed information about how you can manage Cookies through your browser’s help function.

If you choose to disable some or all Cookies, you may not be able to make full use of our Websites. For example, you may not be able to add items to your shopping basket, proceed to checkout, or use any of our products and services that require you to sign in.

Learn more about "cookie settings" for the following browsers

To opt-out of participating in Google Analytics data follow the instructions: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Mobile Apps
Cookies work differently on Mobile Apps as they are coded into the App itself and will use a unique identifier created by your mobile device for use for advertising activities. You can turn off or reset this advertising identifier through your mobile device’s privacy settings.

What happens to cookies that have been downloaded in the past?

If you've disabled one or more cookie categories, we may still use information collected from existing cookies, but we'll stop using the disabled cookies to gather any further information. You can delete existing cookies from your browser.

For more information about other commonly used browsers, please refer to

http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

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