Cookies Policy
Access to and use of gpowarheroes.org.uk is provided by The Postal Museum (TPM), the public identity of The Postal Heritage Trust. Provided below is our general Cookies Policy, which covers all of our websites.
Cookies are small text files sent to your browser via websites you visit. They are used widely to improve how websites work and to provide information to website owners about performance.
TPM use a number of cookies across our websites to improve user experience. This page explains:
Types of cookies used on:
Our website
Third party services
Social media and partner sites
Removing and disabling cookies from your website
Further information and contacting us
Our use of cookies
On our websites
A number of cookies are essential to normal operation of our websites. To disable or remove them please refer to Removing and Disabling Cookies.
Account and Login
If you create an account on our Shop, Online Catalogue, or Ticketing websites then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and to remember you have logged in. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out, however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
Checkout and ordering
If you order something on our Shop or Ticketing websites, cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.
Advertising and Targeting
Cookies are set through our Main and Ticketing websites by 3rd party company widgets and code embeds. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. Below is a list of tools used and how you can opt out and remove them.
Google Ads – Expires in 8 months – Opt out
Adroll – Expires in 1 day – Opt out
Rakuten Linkshare – Expires in 1 years – Rakuten’s Ad Choice Preferences
Find out more about removing ads and controlling what ads you see.
Third party services
Google Analytics
Cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site and your experience.
The information collected is anonymous and does not identify a visitor. The data includes the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come from and the pages they visited.
You can find out more about privacy at Google and opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites.
Hotjar – Analytics and Feedback
Hotjar is an analytics and feedback tool that we use to understand how our website is used and improve usability. Hotjar sets cookies to help us track behaviour across pages and to control visitor polls. The cookies carry no personally identifiable information.
Social media and partner sites
We have presence on websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tripadvisor, Vimeo and Youtube, who use their own cookies.
We also host content on other domains, including partner websites and other affiliated sites.
Social Buttons for third-party social media sites are used to enable our users to share pages. We cannot prevent these sites from collecting information about you.
We are monitoring how cookies used on these sites affect user privacy, but we recommend that you check individual websites for more information.
Removing or disabling cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. Find out how to manage and remove cookies from the below browsers:
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. Certain functions, such as registering for our newsletter or adding a product to your basket on our online shop, need cookies enabled.
Further information and contacting us
The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) provides more information on cookies, including how to see what cookies have been stored and how to manage and delete them.
To request information about yourself or to find out more about our privacy, data protection and records retention measures, please write to:
Data Protection Coordinator
The Postal Museum
15 – 20 Phoenix Place
London
WC1X 0DA
Email: dataprotection@postalmuseum.org. Specify in your communication the exact nature of the information you wish to request.
Phone: 0300 0300 700.
For further information about our website please write to Webmaster at the above postal address or email website@postalmsueum.org
How to make a complaint
If you are unsatisfied with the information we provide regarding your privacy and data protection, you can raise your concerns with the UK information rights regulator: the ICO (Information Commission’s Office).
Changes to this Policy
The Postal Museum may revise this Cookie Policy at any time. Please check here for updates.
