cardfactory.co.uk

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cardfactory.co.uk

Welcome To cardfactory | Cards, Gifts & Party SuppliesCard Factory

Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 23:15Unclaimed

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Truth score

Truth score 90 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: mostly satisfied

90/ 100

High truth signals

Top 5% of businesses we’ve checked

Business details

Category: Greeting cards and stationery
Years in business: 28 years
Founded: 1997
Places to visit: 81 storesNewport (3), Basildon (3), Newcastle upon Tyne (2), Leeds (2), Chelmsford (2) and more
Sells: Physical goods
Sells to: The public
Kind of seller: Sells its own goods or services
Licensed trade: No licence normally needed
Domain age: 26 years
Address: Century House, Wakefield 41 Industrial Estate, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF2 0XG
Email address: customerservice@cardfactory.co.uk
Phone number: +44 1924 839150
Contact page: cardfactory.co.uk/contactus.html
Website: cardfactory.co.uk
Social media: Not found

Do the sources agree?

Address: Century House, Wakefield 41 Industrial Estate, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF2 0XG Its website agrees Companies House agrees OpenStreetMap not found Web Data Commons not found
Company name: SPORTSWIFT LIMITED Companies House agrees Its website differs
Sources give different names · Its website has Card Factory
Email address: [email protected] Its website agrees OpenStreetMap differs Web Data Commons not found
Sources give different emails · OpenStreetMap has [email protected]

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

SiteReviewsRating

Reviews.io· Read 12 November 2026· 595 reviews· 4.6 out of 5 stars

Total5954.6 out of 5 stars

Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a Trustpilot page, which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here.

Customer satisfactionMostly satisfied· Medium confidence· From 595 reviews on 1 independent review site

App experienceInsufficient evidence· No app ratings found

Summary

Is cardfactory.co.uk legit and trustworthy? Truth score 90 out of 100, high truth signals: 8 public checks clear, 1 not found, 1 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: mostly satisfied, medium confidence.

cardfactory.co.uk is run by Sportswift Limited, an active UK company registered at Companies House 28 years ago, and was founded in 1997. Its website address was registered 26 years ago. It has a review page on Trustpilot. Customers have left 595 reviews on Reviews.io, averaging 4.6 stars out of 5. The postcode on its website matches its registered office. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find social media profiles.

Positives

An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 28 years ago.
Its website address was registered 26 years ago.
It has a review page on Trustpilot.
Good independent reputation · 595 reviews on Reviews.io, rated 4.6 stars out of 5.
The postcode on its website matches its registered office at Companies House.
No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Not found

Social presence information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

What they offer

Card Factory

— Welcome To cardfactory, in their own words

Where to find them

Places: 81 stores · busiest 12 of 61 towns below · 12 with no town given

Newport3
Basildon3
Newcastle upon Tyne2
Leeds2

Chelmsford2
Stoke-on-Trent2
Thetford1
Derby1

Bury St Edmunds1
Woking1
Edinburgh1
Diss1

About them

Best for: “Perfect for when life gets busy!”

SourcesOpenStreetMap Its homepage Its about page

How to check if cardfactory.co.uk is legit

To check if cardfactory.co.uk is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about cardfactory.co.uk; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.

Who they are

Company detailsAn active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 28 years ago

Its registered office at Companies House is Century House, Wakefield 41 Industrial Estate, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF2 0XG
Its latest accounts at Companies House run to 31 January 2026
It has filed at Companies House regularly for the last five years, with no gap longer than 15 months
Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to handle personal data

Country

Where the company is based: UK
Why we believe that: it is registered at Companies House, which is a registration for UK businesses
Which countries the company serves: UK
Why we believe that: its address ends .uk, £ prices on its homepage

Registration

Companies House registration: Registered as SPORTSWIFT LIMITED
Data protection registration (ICO): Registered, number Z2121812
VAT number: GB927214432

Companies House register

Company found in official company register: Yes
Registered company name: SPORTSWIFT LIMITED
Company status: active
Company age: 28 years
Registered address: Century House, Wakefield 41 Industrial Estate, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF2 0XG
Accounts overdue: No
Confirmation statement overdue: No
Insolvency history: No
Registered office in dispute: No
Filing history consistent: Yes
ICO data-protection fee payer: Yes
Registered to do: 47190 Other retail sale in non-specialised stores
Company type: Private limited company

Size and borrowing

Accounts filed: Full accountsThe most detailed kind a company files.
Secured loans (charges): 0No secured loans outstanding at Companies House.

From Wikipedia

Industry: retail
Founded: 1997

SourcesCompanies House Wikipedia ICO register entry

Domain registrationIts website address was registered 26 years ago

Domain age: 26 years

SourcesICANN Lookup

Website detailsWe read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy

Company contact email is available

HTTPS enabled: Yes
Contact phone number found: +44 1924 839150
Contact page found: Yes
Sources agreeing on postcode: 2
Hosting company: Amazon Technologies Inc.

What its pages say

Ways to contact them: +44 1924 839150, [email protected]
Phone support: +44 1924 839150, [email protected]
In their own words: “Our website has detected that you are using an outdated browser that will prevent you from accessing certain features. At cardfactory, we believe life is for celebrating, and we’re dedicated to helping you do just that. Whether it’s a birthday party, a wedding, a new baby or simply just because, there’s always a reason to gather with loved ones and make special memories.”

SourcesHomepage Contact page About page Terms page Privacy page Privacypolicy.html

Search engines and AILets in every search engine and AI tool

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search: Allowed by defaultGooglebot
Bing: Allowed by defaultBingbot

AI training

All allowed

OpenAI: Allowed by defaultGPTBot
Anthropic: Allowed by defaultClaudeBot
Google AI: Allowed by defaultGoogle-Extended
Apple AI: Allowed by defaultApplebot-Extended
Common Crawl: Allowed by defaultCCBot
Meta: Allowed by defaultmeta-externalagent
ByteDance (TikTok): Allowed by defaultBytespider

AI answers

All allowed

ChatGPT search: Allowed by defaultOAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT: Allowed by defaultChatGPT-User
Claude search: Allowed by defaultClaude-SearchBot
Claude: Allowed by defaultClaude-User
Perplexity: Allowed by defaultPerplexityBot

Sourcesrobots.txt

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaintsIt has a review page on Trustpilot

Platform	Rating	Reviews
Trustpilot	Unknown	Unknown
Reviews.io	4.6 out of 5 stars	595
Total	4.6 out of 5 stars	595

Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months

Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 100,000 sites
First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier
Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24
Traffic pattern: sustained
Rank jump in the last 12 months: none
Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up cardfactory.co.uk, by country, over the last 2 days.

Over 50%
5 to 50%
1 to 5%
0.2 to 1%
Under 0.2%
None seen

1Germany47.0%
2Singapore16.7%
3United Kingdom9.1%
4United States7.6%
5Austria3.0%
6Colombia3.0%
7Argentina1.5%
8Brunei Darussalam1.5%
9Brazil1.5%
10Switzerland1.5%

Top 10 of 15 countries.

SourcesChrome UX Report Cloudflare Radar

Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 26 years ago

Website archive history: 26 years

SourcesFirst archived copy

Social presenceWe could not check how big its social media following is: the check ran out of time.

What data this site collects about you

What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data

May send your data to other countries.: “However, we are part of a group of companies that also operate in other countries, and some of our service providers are located outside of the UK.”
Says you can ask it to delete your data.: “Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain limited circumstances.”
Has a data protection officer you can contact.: “For further information about your data in the UK or the EU please contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected] .”dpo@cardfactory.co.uk

SourceIts privacy policy

Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Tag Manager

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Tag Manager: Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.

Uses OneTrust to ask which cookies you allow.

SourceIts homepage

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

SourcesGoogle Web Risk

Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

SourcesHave I Been Pwned

Domain and email securityIts email is only partly protected: mail forged in its name is reported but not blocked

Its email identifies its real senders, but mail forged in its name is not blocked

MX records: Yes
SPF record: Yes
DKIM key: Yes
DMARC record: Yes
DMARC policy: none

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No
Certificate issuer: DigiCert Inc
Certificate type: OV
Certificate expires: 8 Apr 2027

Hosting

Nameservers: udns1.ultradns.net
udns2.ultradns.net
Address: 18.245.187.127
18.245.187.24
18.245.187.45
18.245.187.77

SourcesIts DNS records

Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
Points: 0 of 3 added

Sourcecardfactory.co.uk's DNS records

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Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
Points: 0 of 1 added

SourceTruth Signal's own records

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Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
Points: 0 of 1 added

Sourcecardfactory.co.uk/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score0 of 5

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