Essential and functional technology
The website uses limited first-party technology for functions such as remembering privacy choices, maintaining a chat session, preserving a project list, protecting form submissions and recovering an unfinished quote brief.
These functions are not used as permission to activate optional advertising or analytics.
The main first-release technologies are described below.
Privacy choice
The bc_privacy cookie is a first-party, HttpOnly preference token.
It connects your browser to the privacy choices stored by the Branding Czars consent system. The cookie itself is an opaque identifier rather than an advertising identifier.
Its maximum configured lifetime is 180 days.
If you reject optional measurement, that rejection can be remembered so we do not repeatedly ask the same question.
Project list
brandczars-project-list uses local browser storage.
It remembers the services or categories you add to your project list while exploring the site.
The project list is a planning tool, not a cart or an order.
It remains in the browser until you remove the items, clear relevant browser data or the browser removes the stored data.
Quote draft
brandczars-quote-draft uses session storage.
It allows an unfinished quote brief to be recovered in the same browser session.
The draft contains its own expiry and is configured for a maximum recovery period of eight hours.
Closing the relevant browser session can remove session-storage data sooner.
Enquiry submission state
The site may use temporary browser-session storage when an enquiry is being submitted.
This helps us distinguish a retry from a second, separate submission and reduces the chance of accidental duplicate enquiries.
This information is limited to the browser session and is not an advertising identifier.
Chat session
If you use the project assistant, the website may set the first-party bc_chat_session cookie.
It is an HttpOnly session token used to reopen and protect the conversation.
The browser session token is configured for a maximum of 24 hours.
Conversation content has a separate retention period. The chat interface tells you that period before you start a saved conversation.
Artwork upload session
If you use an artwork-upload feature, the website may set the first-party bc_artwork cookie.
It is an HttpOnly token used to associate your browser with the temporary upload session and protect access to uploaded files.
Its configured browser lifetime is up to 24 hours.
A separate short-lived replacement token may be used if the Branding Czars team asks you to replace an existing file through a controlled upload link.
Uploaded files have separate retention rules from the browser token.
Motion preference
brand-czars-motion-paused uses local storage.
It remembers whether you have chosen to pause the website's optional visual motion.
It remains until you change the preference or clear the relevant browser storage.
Live-help preference
brand-czars-live-help may use session storage to remember a temporary live-help or chat-invitation preference during the browser session.
It is not used for advertising.
Optional analytics
Analytics is optional.
If you allow analytics and an analytics service has been configured for the website, it may be used to understand things such as which pages are visited and whether visitors use important website features.
Branding Czars does not treat simply opening a page, scrolling the website or closing the privacy strip as consent.
Information from pages visited before consent is not deliberately replayed as though consent existed at the time.
You can reject analytics and still use the normal website and enquiry functions.
Optional advertising
Advertising measurement is also optional.
If advertising services are configured and you permit the relevant choices, they may help us understand whether an advertising campaign led to useful website activity.
Where a configured advertising service supports audience building or personalized advertising, those uses remain subject to the corresponding privacy setting and applicable law.
Rejecting advertising technology does not prevent you from requesting a quote.
External providers
Optional analytics or advertising tools may involve cookies or similar technology supplied by an external provider.
We will not intentionally describe a provider here as active before it has actually been connected to the production website.
When a provider is added or materially changed, this policy should be updated to describe that provider and the relevant purpose.
External websites you visit from a Branding Czars link may also set their own cookies under their own policies.
Changing your choices
You can reopen Privacy settings from the footer of the website.
From there, you can allow or reject the optional categories available on the site.
Changing a choice affects future optional measurement through the Branding Czars consent controls.
Rejecting optional choices does not disable the essential technologies required for a feature you intentionally use.
You can also remove cookies or browser storage through your browser settings.
Doing so may clear your privacy preference, project list, quote draft or active session and may cause the website to ask for a choice again.
Closing the privacy strip
Closing the privacy strip is not treated as permission to turn optional analytics or advertising on.
If you close it without granting optional measurement, the optional categories remain off.
You can change that decision later using Privacy settings.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when the website's technology changes.
The date at the top identifies the current version.
A new analytics, advertising or consent provider should not be added to production without reviewing this page and the Privacy Policy at the same time.
Contact
Questions about cookies or website privacy can be sent to contact@brandingczars.com.
You can also use the Contact page on this website.