Cookie Policy

Bauvanart believes that trust begins with clear choices. This policy explains how cookies and similar technologies may be used across our website, digital content and online shopping experience, and how you can control non-essential technologies.

1. Who we are and the scope of this policy

Bauvanart ("Bauvanart", "we", "us" and "our") is an art house based in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. Our website is available at bauvanart.com, and our online store is powered by Shopify. This Cookie Policy applies when you visit our website, its related pages and, to the extent described here, our online store and associated interfaces.

For questions about cookies, please contact us at info@bauvanart.com.

This Cookie Policy supplements our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle personal information more generally, including visitor and customer rights and international data transfers. Separate websites, platforms and providers may maintain their own privacy policies.

2. What cookies and similar technologies are

Cookies are small files stored by a website or service in your browser. Session cookies generally expire when your browsing session ends; persistent cookies remain until they expire or are removed. Cookies can help remember a cart, keep a browsing session secure, or record a choice you make.

We use "cookies and similar technologies" to include browser local storage, pixels, tags, SDKs, and other mechanisms that store or access information on a device or recognize interactions. Some are first-party technologies; others are supplied by external providers. Identifiers and associated usage information can be personal information under applicable law.

3. Categories of technologies

We categorize technology by its real purpose, not simply by its provider or technical name. The preference center will show only the optional categories actually used on our live website or store.

Any optional category will remain off unless and until activated through an appropriate choice under the global consent-first approach.

Essential

Security, fraud prevention, authentication, consent memory, navigation, cart and checkout functions genuinely required for the requested service.

Choice: Always active when strictly necessary.

Functional (if enabled)

Optional personalization, language or media experience not strictly necessary for a requested service.

Choice: Optional; off by default where applicable.

Analytics / Performance (if enabled)

Measure page use, errors and site performance, helping us improve editorial content and the shopping experience.

Choice: Optional; off by default.

Marketing / Advertising (if enabled)

Measure campaigns, support audience-related advertising or cross-site marketing activities.

Choice: Optional; off by default.

A feature such as a preferred language may be essential in a specific user-requested context or optional in another. We will classify it according to its actual function and applicable legal rules. Our classification is subject to verification of the live website and store.

4. Essential technologies

Strictly necessary technologies support the services you request and the safe functioning of the website or store. For example, they may enable secure page delivery, preserve your cart during checkout, prevent abuse, maintain a session you initiate or remember cookie preferences. We do not categorize optional advertising or analytics as essential simply because a supplier recommends their use.

Essential technologies remain available even if you reject non-essential cookies. You may block them in your browser; however, some services such as checkout or account access could cease functioning properly.

5. Optional functional technologies

If we activate optional functions that remember non-essential display, personalization or media choices, we will explain them and offer an appropriate control. A service that you actively request may require limited technical storage to deliver that service. Embedded third-party content may be unavailable until its optional technologies are permitted.

6. Analytics and performance technologies

If enabled, optional analytics tools may measure how people reach and use Bauvanart, which pages are helpful, how the site performs and where technical errors occur. Depending on the tool, data may include page views, referrals, device/browser information, generalized location and interactions. We will identify confirmed providers and cookie lifetimes in our verified cookie register.

We do not assume that any specific analytics provider is installed. We will not activate non-essential analytics before obtaining a legally valid choice under our intended global implementation.

7. Marketing and advertising technologies

If activated, optional marketing tools may help understand campaign effectiveness, provide relevant advertising on third-party services or measure customer journeys. These tools may involve pixels, device identifiers or third-party matching. The active providers, purposes and retention periods will be described in our verified register and privacy notices.

Choosing not to allow marketing cookies will not prevent you from browsing Bauvanart, requesting an Artist Book or purchasing products made available for your destination. Receiving an Artist Book, buying an artwork or consenting to cookies does not automatically subscribe you to marketing emails. Any email marketing choice is separate.

8. Embedded media, external links and social services

Our site may feature artist stories, images, video, social links and other content. A normal link to a third-party website is not, by itself, proof that the third party tracks visitors on Bauvanart. Embedded media or widgets may, however, collect data or store information when loaded. We will identify these integrations and prevent optional technologies from activating before a required choice is made.

Where feasible, an embedded service may display an explanatory placeholder until you choose to activate it. Clicking through to an external website subjects the external visit to that provider’s practices.

9. WordPress, Shopify and external service providers

The Bauvanart editorial website uses WordPress and Divi 5 with Hostinger hosting. Bauvanart’s commerce flow uses Shopify. Depending on activated features, those systems and service providers may use technologies needed to operate the site, store, cart, checkout and customer accounts.

Shopify-managed cookies, Shopify Pixels and third-party app scripts do not necessarily behave in the same way. Similarly, a WordPress cookie banner does not automatically control all Shopify trackers. We configure and test the relevant interfaces separately and connect them where supported; we do not assume that consent choices automatically transfer between domains.

Shopify describes its own consumer privacy practices at https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy/consumers. Other activated service providers may have separate notices. We will identify third-party technologies actually present on our website and store rather than listing a supplier merely because it supports shipping, printing or another back-office function.

10. Your cookie choices

Where our consent interface is shown, you can choose: "Accept All", "Reject Non-Essential" or "Manage Preferences". "Accept All" allows the optional categories described in the panel. "Reject Non-Essential" leaves optional categories off. "Manage Preferences" lets you review categories and save your individual choices. Essential technologies remain active when required for requested services.

Optional switches are not pre-selected. Continuing to browse, scrolling, silence or accepting contractual terms is not treated as consent to optional cookies. Rejecting optional cookies is designed to be as straightforward as accepting them. When consent is legally required, optional technologies are held back until an affirmative choice is received.

You can revisit, change or withdraw your preferences at any time through "Cookie Settings" in our website footer and, where needed, the corresponding settings in the Shopify storefront or checkout. A withdrawal affects future optional collection. You may also delete existing cookies using your browser; changes on one device or domain might not automatically appear on another.

11. Your browser, privacy signals and regional opt-outs

Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies, and some support privacy or tracking protection signals. Browser restrictions may affect selected site features. Where applicable law requires us to recognize a valid opt-out preference signal such as Global Privacy Control (GPC), including for certain US privacy rights, we will treat that signal according to the applicable rules.

A cookie-consent preference is not always the same as a legal opt-out from the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information or targeted advertising. Where those rights apply to Bauvanart’s actual data practices, we will provide and honor the additional mechanisms required by law, even when they differ from the cookie banner.

12. Our verified cookie register

The precise cookies and similar technologies on the live website and store may vary according to page, device, region, feature and consent choice. An up-to-date cookie register must identify each confirmed item, its provider or domain, purpose, category and approximate duration or expiration, and whether it is first- or third-party.

Detailed information about the technologies actually in use will be made available through this Cookie Policy or Cookie Settings following verification of our website and Shopify store. We do not publish guessed cookie names, providers or retention periods.

13. How long technologies remain

Some technologies exist only during a visit; others persist for a specified period. Retention depends on the purpose, provider and technical settings and is described in the verified cookie register where available. Limited storage may also be used to retain proof or memory of a privacy choice; its duration should be proportionate to that purpose and the applicable rules.

14. International visitors, service areas and data transfers

Bauvanart is intended to be accessible to an international audience. Visitors may reach the site from countries where we do not currently advertise or offer shipping. The availability of a checkout destination, currency, product, delivery method or other commercial feature depends on the store’s active market and shipping settings. Website accessibility does not guarantee the ability to complete a purchase to every country.

Personal information linked to cookies may be processed in Mexico and other countries through the systems and service providers we activate. Depending on applicable law, appropriate notices, contractual protections, transfer assessments, consent and other safeguards may be required. See our Privacy Policy for further information, and contact us if you have questions about a specific transfer or right.

We apply a global privacy-conscious baseline while also respecting additional protections that apply to particular individuals and regions. This policy does not suggest that every privacy law applies to every visit; the relevant legal test depends on the visitor, our activities, the data involved and the law’s territorial scope.

15. Regional privacy and cookie considerations

15.1 European Economic Area and United Kingdom

For visitors whose interactions fall within applicable EU/EEA or UK rules, non-essential cookies or device-access technologies normally require prior, freely given, informed and specific consent, subject to relevant exemptions. Visitors must be able to reject non-essential technologies and withdraw consent without unnecessary friction. Our Cookie Settings interface is intended to support those choices. Additional data protection rights and transfer disclosures are explained in our Privacy Policy.

15.2 United States

In the United States, privacy obligations differ by state and by the applicability of particular laws to Bauvanart. Where required, eligible visitors may have rights to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, targeted advertising or profiling; relevant laws may also require us to honor valid browser-based opt-out signals. We will provide the specific rights mechanisms applicable to our actual data practices rather than presenting cookie consent as a substitute for them.

15.3 Canada, including Québec

In Canada, meaningful information and meaningful choices are important when cookies collect or disclose personal information. Additional provincial requirements may apply, including in Québec for technologies used for identification, location or profiling. A visitor’s origin from Québec does not automatically make the visitor ineligible for our website; relevant protections must be considered regardless of our advertising plans.

15.4 Mexico, Brazil and other Latin American countries

We consider the Mexican personal-data framework and, where relevant, Brazil’s LGPD and the national rules that apply to visitors in other Latin American countries. Clear purposes, accurate notices and appropriate consent or other lawful grounds remain central. Cookie-related rights and rules may differ between jurisdictions, including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru and others.

15.5 Japan, China, Singapore and other Asian jurisdictions

In Japan, cookie identifiers and associated data may fall within rules concerning personal information or personal-related information, including relevant third-party disclosures. China’s personal-information framework may require additional notices, separate consent or cross-border transfer safeguards in particular circumstances. Singapore and other Asian jurisdictions have their own rules concerning notice, consent and data use. We will assess applicable requirements before activating new processing or targeted commercial operations in those locations.

15.6 Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East

Australia’s privacy framework and guidance address transparency, fairness, tracking pixels and overseas disclosures. New Zealand and countries in the Middle East, including the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, may impose distinct obligations according to the activity and law’s scope. Our general controls are intended as a baseline, not a substitute for any additional local notices, language, transfer or consent requirements.

15.7 Africa and other jurisdictions

In South Africa, the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) establishes conditions for lawful personal-information processing and cross-border disclosures. Other African countries and jurisdictions not listed individually here may have separate privacy, consent, language or transfer requirements. Where they apply to Bauvanart, those rules will be assessed alongside our common privacy baseline.

16. Rights over personal information

Depending on applicable law, you may be able to request access, correction, deletion or cancellation, object to or restrict some processing, withdraw consent, request portability, or opt out of certain advertising-related disclosures. These rights may have conditions or exceptions. Our Privacy Policy explains how to make a request and how we respond.

For cookie choices, use Cookie Settings. For requests concerning personal information or regional privacy rights beyond cookie settings, contact info@bauvanart.com or use the applicable rights interface linked from our Privacy Policy.

17. Children and young visitors

Bauvanart’s website and store are intended for a general audience interested in art, design and culture, rather than for young children. We do not intend to use optional marketing technologies to profile children. Where an interaction involves a child or another protected group under applicable law, additional restrictions or parental permissions may apply; we will disable or adapt any feature that cannot satisfy those requirements.

18. Accessibility and clear design

We aim to make privacy choices understandable and usable, including through visible buttons, readable text, keyboard access and mobile-friendly controls. We do not make consent a condition of viewing ordinary site content when non-essential cookies are not needed to provide it. If the preference interface is not working for you, please contact us.

19. Changes to this policy

We may revise this policy when our website, Shopify environment, vendors, cookie inventory, business activities or legal requirements change. The current version will show an updated date. Where applicable, we will provide additional notice or obtain a new choice before materially different optional tracking is activated. A broader initial policy reduces future rewriting but cannot eliminate the need to maintain accurate information.

20. Contact and connected policies

Bauvanart is based in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico.

For questions about this Cookie Policy, cookies or your privacy choices, please contact us at info@bauvanart.com.

For additional information about your personal information and the use of our services, please review our Privacy Policy, Cookie Settings and Terms & Conditions.

Where applicable, additional privacy rights and opt-out mechanisms will be made available through the relevant privacy notices or interfaces.