Is Cartel Armor for the character that purchased it or is it account wide and all my characters can have it.

Is Cartel Armor for the character that purchased it or is it account wide and all my characters can have it.

Yes. It is, indeed, for the character or for the whole account. Read on:

• The character that *equips* the whole set of armour (or the individual piece for isolated pieces like the Eradicator's Mask) unlocks the set/item in Collections for *himself* (or herself) only.
  
• For sets with two items in the same slot (e.g Resort Swimwear which has two chest pieces, one with minicape, one without; or Darth Malgus Reborn, which has two different helmets), you must equip both of the those pieces (so eight in total).
  
• You don't have to have it all equipped at once, so long as you have equipped all the pieces on the same character.
  
• The character that equips it does not have to be the character that bought it. There's a bind timer that runs for 36 hours if you are a subscriber, or 72 hours if you are not, during which it is bound to the purchaser, but after that you can transfer it to a different character.
  
• In the Collections interface (Ctrl+C), you can pay a relatively small amount to unlock the item across your whole account, including on other servers.
  
• Once the set/item is unlocked, any character who has it unlocked can claim unlimited bound-to-character copies from the Collections interface.
  
• All of the above applies to armour, weapons, colour crystals, toys and weapon tunings.
  
• Pets, vehicle and animal mounts, and emotes cannot be claimed in unlimited quantities because they are unlocks, not usable items.
  
• Dyes, XP/Renown boosts, and so on cannot be unlocked.
  

Thanks Steve The Cynic. That was very helpful. :)