Cookie Policy

Last updated: September 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how patrickvandecasteele.com uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit the website.
It should be read together with the website’s Privacy Policy.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small files or pieces of information stored on your device when you visit a website.

They may be used to ensure that a website functions correctly, remember certain choices, understand how visitors interact with the website or, with your consent, measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

Similar technologies, such as pixels and tags, may also be used for comparable purposes.

How We Use Cookies

Cookies and similar technologies used on patrickvandecasteele.com may fall into the following categories:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the website and online store to function correctly. They may be used for purposes such as:

  • maintaining the WooCommerce shopping cart;
  • processing the checkout;
  • securing transactions;
  • remembering cookie preferences;
  • ensuring the technical operation and security of the website.

Because these cookies are necessary to provide services requested by the user, they do not require prior consent. The CNIL specifically recognises, among others, cookies used to remember the contents of a shopping cart or enable billing as potentially strictly necessary. CNIL

Analytics Cookies

Analytics technologies may be used to understand how visitors interact with the website, for example:

  • which pages are visited;
  • how visitors arrive on the website;
  • how visitors navigate between artworks and collections;
  • website performance;
  • technical problems;
  • aggregated visitor statistics.

Where these technologies require consent, they will only be activated after consent has been given. Certain audience-measurement solutions can be exempt from consent, but only under restrictive conditions — notably when used exclusively for the website publisher’s own audience measurement, producing anonymous statistics and without cross-site tracking or reuse of non-anonymous data by third parties. CNIL

Advertising and Marketing Cookies

With your consent, advertising technologies may be used in connection with campaigns on platforms such as:

Meta / Instagram
Pinterest
Google / YouTube

These technologies may help to:

  • measure the performance of advertising campaigns;
  • determine whether an advertisement resulted in a visit or purchase;
  • understand interactions with the website following an advertisement;
  • create advertising audiences;
  • display relevant advertising to people who have previously visited the website.

These technologies are not activated before consent where consent is legally required. Advertising and social-network tracking are among the uses for which prior consent is generally required. CNIL

Functional Cookies

Some cookies may be used to remember choices made by visitors, such as interface preferences or other features intended to improve the browsing experience. Depending on their purpose and whether they are strictly necessary to provide a requested service, these cookies may require consent.

Third-Party Services

Some cookies and similar technologies may be provided by third-party services used by the website. Depending on the final configuration of patrickvandecasteele.com, these may include services such as:

Stripe – secure payment processing
Google Analytics – audience measurement
Meta – advertising measurement
Pinterest – advertising measurement
Google / YouTube – video content and advertising measurement
Mailjet – newsletter subscription and related services

These third parties may process information according to their own privacy policies. The exact services used on the website may evolve over time, and this Cookie Policy will be updated accordingly.

Your Consent

When you first visit the website, you may be presented with a cookie consent banner allowing you to:

Accept All
Reject All
Manage Preferences

Cookies and trackers requiring consent will not be activated unless you choose to accept them. You may accept or refuse individual categories of optional cookies through the preference settings. Refusing optional cookies will not prevent you from browsing the website or purchasing an artwork.

French data-protection guidance requires refusing optional trackers to be as easy as accepting them. In particular, the CNIL considers an equally accessible Reject All button alongside Accept All to be a clear way of meeting this requirement. CNIL

Changing Your Preferences

You may change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time.

A Cookie Settings link should remain accessible from the footer of the website, allowing you to reopen the preference panel and modify your choices.
Withdrawing consent must be as simple as giving it. CNIL

Duration of Your Cookie Choices

Your cookie preferences may be stored so that you are not asked to make the same choice every time you visit the website. The CNIL currently recommends that both consent and refusal generally be remembered for approximately six months before asking the visitor again. CNIL Individual cookies may have different lifetimes depending on their purpose and provider.

Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

You may also configure your web browser to block, delete or restrict cookies. Please note that blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect certain website functions, particularly the shopping cart and checkout process. Browser settings operate independently from the consent preferences offered directly on this website.

Updates to This Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated to reflect changes to the website, technologies used, service providers or applicable legal requirements. The date of the latest update will be indicated at the top of this page.

Contact

For any question regarding the use of cookies or similar technologies on this website, please contact:

Patrick Vandecasteele
7 villa du Chemin de Fer – 92240 – France
contact@patrickvandecasteele.com