Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Postorie (“we”, “us”, or “our”) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit our global publishing network at postorie.com. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

1. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

2. How and Why We Use Cookies

We use first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes on Postorie:

• Essential Authentication Cookies: These are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website (such as maintaining your active login session when you sign in via Google OAuth or email).
• Preference & Security Cookies: These remember your UI preferences, region settings, and protect against automated bot spam or Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF).
• Analytics & Performance Cookies: These collect information about how visitors use Postorie, helping us analyze traffic flow and optimize our global server performance.
• Advertising & Monetization Cookies: Used by advertising networks (such as Google AdSense) to serve relevant ads based on your visits to this and other websites across the internet.

3. Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the service, deliver advertisements on and through the platform, and integrate social login functionalities (such as Google Sign-In). These third parties are governed by their own respective privacy policies.

4. How Can You Control Cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to certain functionality and areas of our platform (such as member publishing or comments) may be restricted.

5. Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies.