Http cookies are small pieces of data sent from a website and stored on your web browser. These pieces of data are stored in a cookie, so when the user returns to this site previous browsing activity can be retrieved, such as a record of past pages visited.
At Postmark Online we recommend that our customers allow the use of cookies in order to get the best out of our site. Cookies, won't harm your computer and it won't allow us to store any payment details. What they do allow us to do is to remember items in your shopping basket that you put there on your last visit or show you a list of products you previously looked at.
However if you wish to delete or disallow cookies, this can be easily done by clicking on these links provided:
Internet Explorer - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
Firefox - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Enabling+and+disabling+cookies
Chrome - https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB&p=cpn_cookies
Safari - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Cookies used by Postmark
At Postmark we use remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.
Google AdWordsGoogle AdWords remarketing service is provided by Google Inc.You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page:
Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Ads Privacy page.
Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc through the Facebook Pixel. This service can see your name, email and items you may have bought from our shop. This information is used to then target you with ads campaigns we set up and run about our online shop which may be of interest to you.
We used the Enhanced pacakage at Postmark. This uses Advanced Matching, which tracks personal information about our customers, including name, location, email, and phone number. This pixel also tracks customer browsing behavior on our online store. Browser-based ad blockers can prevent the pixel from tracking data.
If any of this personal information matches users in the Facebook's database, then ads can be targeted towards those users, or that information can be used for marketing attribution to determine when a campaign should take credit for a sale.
You can opt-out of targeted ads served by specific third-party vendors by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Opt-Out page or the Network Advertising Initiative’s Opt-Out page.
You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page:
To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads follow these instructions from Facebook:
Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance.
You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe or opt-out using your mobile device settings.
For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook’s Data Policy:
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