CUSTOMERS: You can adjust the settings for the usage of first-party cookies (and similar technologies) for marketing purposes on the App.

POST AR Design Marketplace (“POST”) provides the POST mobile device application and the website, http://www.iwepost.com, (collectively, the “App”) for services such as uploading and downloading content, including one or more photographs, illustrations, images, or other pictorial or graphic work (collectively referred to as “Work”) onto or from the App and provides further available services and products (collectively referred to as “Services”) on the App.

We would like to ensure that you understand how we and our partners use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies in connection with App, the Work, or our Services.

1. Types of Cookie Technologies

Cookies

Cookies are small data files sent from a server to your web browser. They are stored in your browser’s cache and allow a website or a third party to recognize your browser. There are different types of cookies:

• Session cookies are specific to a particular visit and carry information as you view different pages so you don’t have to re-enter information every time you change pages or attempt to checkout. Session cookies expire and delete themselves automatically in a short period of time like after you leave the App or when you close your web browser.

• Persistent cookies remember certain information about your preferences for viewing the site, and allow POST to recognize you each time you return. Persistent cookies are stored on your browser cache or mobile device until you choose to delete them, and otherwise typically delete themselves at expiration.

• First-party cookies are set by the provider whose online service you are using (e.g., the operator of the website you are visiting).

• Third-party cookies are placed by someone other than POST and may gather browsing activity across multiple websites and across multiple sessions. They are usually a type of persistent cookie and are stored until you delete them or they expire based on the time period set in each third-party cookie.

Cookies store data about your use, but they are helpful because they allow us to help POST function and customize your experience. You can configure your desktop or mobile browser’s settings to reflect your preference to accept or reject cookies, including how to handle third-party cookies (see Managing Your Cookie Technology Preferences below).

Other Technologies

In addition to cookies, there are other similar technologies used by POST and elsewhere on the web or in mobile ecosystems.

• Web beacons: These are tiny graphics (sometimes called “pixel tags,” “clear GIFs,” or “web pixels”) with a unique identifier that are used to understand browsing activity. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s hard drive, web beacons are rendered invisibly on web pages when you open a page.

• Social widgets: These are buttons or icons provided by third-party social media providers that allow you to interact with those social media services when you view a web page or a mobile app screen. These social widgets may collect browsing data, which may be received by the third party that provided the widget, and are controlled by the third parties.

• UTM codes: These are strings that can appear in a URL (the “Uniform Resource Locator,” which is typically the http or https address entered to go to a web page) when a user moves from one web page or website to another, where the string can represent information about browsing, such as which advertisement, page, or publisher sent the user to the receiving website.

• Application SDKs: These are mobile application third-party software development kits that are embedded in the Apps (and are used in many mobile applications). These app SDKs permit the collection of information about the app itself, activity in the app, and the device the application is running on.

• Local Storage Objects: These are sets of data that can be stored on your browser by a site or app. They can be used to maintain preferences, a history of usage, or even the state or settings of a site or an app.

• Internet of Things identifiers: Like mobile identifiers, internet-connected devices such as voice activated assistants or smart TVs may send identifiers and other data analogous to web browsers or mobile SDKs.

2. Why We Use These Technologies

Some of our services can only be offered using cookies, web beacons and similar technologies. In general, these technologies enable us to track your user behavior and identify you - even across devices. You can find more information about the personal data that we collect using cookies and similar technologies in our Privacy Policy.

The cookies, web beacons and similar technologies used in connection with the Work or Services serve the following functions:

Security and Authentication (Strictly Necessary)

Some cookie and similar technology functions are necessary and vital to ensuring that POST works properly for visitors and members, such as maintaining the security, safety, and integrity of the App, authentication and logging into POST (including remembering permissions and consents you have granted) and ensuring the ability to securely complete transactions.

Account and User Preferences

Some technologies are used to remember your account and preferences over time, such as keeping yourself logged in when returning to the App, maintaining your choices on POST features and how you want POST to appear (including keeping track of your preferred language and country), and customizing content based on how you use the App.

Social Networks

Some technologies help you to interact with social networks you are signed into while using the App, such as sharing content with the social network, logging in with the social network, and other features you employ with the social network, or that are allowed in the social network’s privacy policy. These may be set and controlled by the social networks, and your preferences with those social networks.
Social networks may also work with POST or with you for analytics or for marketing purposes, as discussed below. You may be able to manage your privacy preferences for these social networks and their tools and widgets via your account with the social network.

Performance and Analytics

Some technologies help provide performance data on how the Work and Services are functioning in order to improve POST and the App, including, for example, data on site and app functionality and speed to help us optimize POST, how the Services are used to help us improve your experience, and detecting and gathering reporting on bugs to help make POST and the App work better.

In addition, POST may employ transient technologies, including cookies or local stored objects, for site performance, experiments, form information, and interactions with the site, and may use temporary, short-term cookies for limited-time site events such as sales and promotions.

Advertising or Targeting-Related Technologies

We use cookies, web beacons or other similar technologies to deliver content tailored to your interests, including advertisements, in connection with the Work or Services or within third-party online services (retargeting, remarketing). This includes using technologies to determine how relevant the advertisements and contents are for you, which ads have already been shown to you, how often they have been shown, when and where they have been shown and if you have reacted by carrying out an activity – such as clicking on an ad or purchasing an item. For this purpose, data will be combined with data already collected regarding your interests.

Among other things, we collect data regarding your device (e.g. the operating system and its version) to provide a uniform service on all your devices. You can find further information on personal data that we collect by the means of cookies and similar technologies in our Privacy Policy.

Some third-party service providers may provide information like demographics, cross-device information, or interest categories from a combination of sources that, while not identifying you personally, permit us to provide you with more relevant and useful advertising. In some cases, this information may have non-marketing performance analytics uses as well.

These technologies allow a partner to recognize your computer, mobile device or network device (like an IoT device such as a voice-activated assistant or smart TV), each time you visit POST or other websites and mobile applications based on data like a cookie, your IP address, or device ID, but do not allow access to other personal information from POST. However, these technologies may allow us or a third party to recognize you, either from a single device or across devices, over time. These third parties are required to follow applicable laws, self-regulatory programs, and POST’s data protection rules where applicable. POST does not have control over these third parties, who each have their own privacy policies and privacy practices.
3. Consent, Contract, and Legitimate Interests in Processing

Certain Cookie Technologies are employed to make the App function for its intended purpose, and are provided based on contractual necessity based on your agreement with POST to perform services you have requested. These include the functions strictly necessary to the service noted above.

By choosing the App for Work or Services after having been notified of our use of Cookie Technologies in the ways described in this Policy, and, in applicable jurisdictions, through notice and unambiguous acknowledgement of your consent, you agree to such use. More information is laid out in our Privacy Policy.

4. Managing Your Cookie Technology Preferences

You have the ability to control the use of certain Cookie Technologies. You can opt out of third party marketing cookies and similar technologies via the Privacy Settings link available at the bottom of most POST app pages, or via the GDPR Preferences link for users in the European Union and EEA. You can also manage your POST marketing preferences in your account settings.

Opt-in and Opt-out for Browsers

In addition, when you use POST via a browser, you can change your web browser's settings to reflect your cookie preferences. Each browser is a little different, but usually these settings are under the “options” or “preferences” menu.

Opt-out of Third-Party Networks

If you do not wish to have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based advertisements, in addition you may decline to receive interest based ads through preferences manager. Please note this does not stop you from being served advertisements. You will continue to receive generic advertisements. If you reject or block all cookies in your browser settings, you will not be able to take advantage of Post’s App as some cookies are necessary for it to function properly.

Google Analytics and Opt-out

We use Google Analytics, an analysis tool of Google LLC and Google Ireland Ltd. (“Google”) to continuously improve our App. This makes it possible to assign data, sessions and interactions across multiple devices to a pseudonymous user ID and thus analyze a user's activities across multiple devices. Google Analytics uses cookies that are stored on your device and that enable us to analyze your use of our Services. The data collected by the cookies regarding the use of our Services (including your IP address) are usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

On our behalf, Google processes this data to evaluate the use of our App, to compile reports on usage activities and to provide us with further services associated with the use of our App. Your IP address transmitted in the context of Google Analytics will not be combined with other data from Google.

You can prevent the collection of data through the Google Analytics cookie by adjusting your browser settings accordingly. If you deactivate cookies, you may not be able to use all functions of our App to their full extent, however.

Third-Party Tools

Various third parties provide browser plug-ins and apps that can help provide you information on and limit or block third-party cookies, web beacons, and some Javascript-based technologies. POST cannot vouch for the efficacy of a particular third-party product.

5. Security Measures

We protect our cookies and similar technologies to ensure that only we or authorized service providers can evaluate them.

6. Do Not Track

The law requires us to let you know how we respond to web browser Do Not Track (DNT) signals. Because there currently isn't an industry or legal standard for recognizing or honoring DNT signals, we don't respond to them at this time. We await the result of work by the privacy community and industry to determine when such a response is appropriate and what form it should take.

7. Contact Us

If you have questions about the use of Cookie Technologies at POST, please see the “Contact” section of the Privacy Policy.