Cookie Policy
V-ART Virtual Gallery
Website: https://start-vart.com
Last updated: 16 October 2026
1. Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how V-ART Virtual Gallery uses cookies and similar technologies on our website, https://start-vart.com.
We use certain technologies to ensure the proper functioning and security of the website. With your consent, we may also use analytics tools and display multimedia content provided by external services.
We respect your privacy and provide you with the ability to accept, reject or change your preferences concerning optional technologies.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
2. Who Is Responsible for Cookies?
The controller responsible for the processing of personal data associated with this website is:
Artur Braun-Nowak
Individual responsible for V-ART Virtual Gallery
Email: braunnowak@gmail.com
Website: https://start-vart.com
For privacy-related questions or requests, please contact us by email.
3. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites may store on your device when you visit them.
They can help websites remember certain settings, maintain essential functionality, recognise returning browsers or collect information about website usage.
We may also use other technologies that serve similar purposes, such as local storage and technologies associated with embedded multimedia content.
Some cookies are placed directly by our website (first-party cookies), while others may be placed by external service providers (third-party cookies).
The use of such technologies is subject to applicable data protection and electronic communications legislation.
4. Categories of Cookies and Technologies
We distinguish between essential technologies and optional technologies used for statistics and external content.
4.1 Necessary and Functional Technologies
Necessary technologies are used to support the essential operation, security and functionality of V-ART Virtual Gallery.
They may include technologies required to:
- Maintain website functionality.
- Support website security.
- Remember cookie consent preferences.
- Support essential WordPress functions.
- Ensure that interactive elements operate correctly.
These technologies may be used without additional consent where permitted by applicable law.
4.2 Statistics
With your consent, we use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors interact with our website.
Statistics may help us understand:
- Which pages and exhibitions are visited.
- How visitors navigate through the website.
- General patterns of website engagement.
- Technical characteristics of devices and browsers.
- How we can improve the website’s content and usability.
Google Analytics is integrated through Site Kit by Google.
We use a consent management mechanism to communicate visitors’ preferences to Google services.
Depending on the implementation of Google Consent Mode, limited consent-related signals may be transmitted even when analytics consent has not been granted.
The data retention setting for relevant event-level and user-level data in our Google Analytics 4 property is 14 months.
Other information may be subject to different retention mechanisms under Google’s applicable policies.
More information:
4.3 External Multimedia Content
Some exhibitions and pages contain content hosted by external providers, particularly YouTube and Kuula.
These services may process technical data and use cookies or similar technologies when their content is activated.
Such processing may involve information including:
- Your IP address.
- Browser and device information.
- Information about the requested multimedia content.
- Interactions with external media players.
Where required, embedded external content remains restricted until the relevant consent has been provided.
Declining consent to external content does not prevent you from accessing other parts of V-ART Virtual Gallery that do not rely on these services.
5. Google Analytics and Google Consent Mode
V-ART Virtual Gallery uses Google Analytics 4 through Site Kit by Google.
Google Analytics helps us understand website usage and improve the experience of visitors.
We use Complianz and Google Consent Mode to manage and communicate relevant privacy preferences to Google services.
Google Consent Mode may adjust the behaviour of Google tags depending on the consent state.
Depending on the technical implementation, Google tags may operate with restricted functionality before analytics consent is granted.
For more information about Google’s privacy practices, visit:
6. YouTube
Some pages may include videos hosted by YouTube, a service provided by Google.
When you enable embedded YouTube content, your browser may establish a connection with Google’s infrastructure.
Google may process technical information and use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with its own privacy policies.
We use our consent management system to restrict the loading of embedded YouTube content until the relevant permission is given.
More information:
7. Kuula Virtual Tours
Some historical exhibitions presented by V-ART Virtual Gallery are hosted through Kuula.
Kuula is an external service used for displaying interactive panoramic presentations and virtual tours.
When Kuula content is enabled, your browser may connect to its servers, and the service may process technical information or use cookies and similar technologies.
Embedded Kuula tours are configured to remain restricted until the relevant consent is provided.
More information about the provider:
8. V-ART Virtual Tours and Artwork Galleries
V-ART Virtual Gallery provides its own interactive virtual tours, panoramic images, artwork galleries and artist profiles.
These features may use scripts and technical resources necessary to:
- Display panoramic images.
- Enable navigation between scenes.
- Show interactive information points.
- Open artwork descriptions and images.
- Provide access to artist and curator profiles.
Our own virtual tour functionality does not inherently require advertising cookies or behavioural profiling.
Where these features operate using necessary technologies only, they can remain available independently of consent to optional analytics and external multimedia services.
If a virtual tour includes third-party content, the relevant third-party provisions of this policy apply.
9. WordPress and Complianz
Our website operates using WordPress.
We use Complianz to manage cookie preferences and consent.
Complianz may use cookies or local storage to:
- Remember whether you have made a consent choice.
- Store your selected preferences.
- Determine which optional services may be activated.
- Support the presentation and operation of the cookie consent interface.
These technologies support consent management and may be classified as necessary or functional where legally permitted.
10. Google Search Console
We use Google Search Console to understand our website’s visibility and performance in Google Search.
Google Search Console does not, merely by being connected to V-ART Virtual Gallery, install tracking cookies in visitors’ browsers.
11. Social Media Links
Our website provides links to our official social media profiles:
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/vartvirtualgallery/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/virtualgalleryvart/
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@v-artvirtualgallery6540
These are external links to independently operated platforms.
Clicking such links may redirect you to services that use their own cookies and other technologies.
Their use of personal data is governed by their respective privacy policies.
Ordinary external links do not, by themselves, place social media tracking cookies on your device through our website.
12. List of Cookies Used on This Website
The following list is generated and maintained through our consent management system.
It provides information about identified cookies and services, including their purposes and, where available, retention periods.
The list may change when website functionality or third-party services are updated.
Current cookie declaration:
13. Managing Your Consent
When you first visit V-ART Virtual Gallery, you may be presented with a cookie consent banner.
Depending on the available choices, you can:
- Accept optional technologies.
- Reject optional technologies.
- Customise your preferences.
Your choices are recorded through our consent management system.
You can withdraw or change your consent at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before its withdrawal.
You can manage your preferences below:
You may also access your browser’s settings to manage, block or delete stored cookies.
Disabling necessary browser storage may affect the functionality of some website features.
14. Cookie Retention
The retention periods of individual cookies depend on their purpose and the relevant service provider’s configuration.
Some cookies may be session-based and expire when the browsing session ends.
Others may remain stored for a specified period or until they are deleted, expire or are replaced.
Available retention information for identified cookies is provided in the cookie declaration in Section 12.
The 14-month data retention setting in Google Analytics relates to the relevant analytics data covered by that setting and should not be interpreted as the lifetime of every Google Analytics cookie.
15. Third-Party Services and International Data Transfers
Some external services used by our website may process personal data outside the European Economic Area.
This may include services provided by Google or external multimedia providers.
Where international transfers take place, they must be supported by an appropriate mechanism under applicable data protection law, such as an applicable adequacy decision or other appropriate safeguards.
For more information about particular services, please consult the privacy documentation of their respective providers.
16. Your Data Protection Rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and subject to its applicable conditions, you may have the right to:
- Access your personal data.
- Request correction of inaccurate information.
- Request erasure of personal data.
- Request restriction of processing.
- Object to processing based on legitimate interests.
- Request data portability where applicable.
- Withdraw consent at any time.
- Lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority.
To exercise your rights, contact:
Artur Braun-Nowak
Email: braunnowak@gmail.com
You may also lodge a complaint with the Polish data protection supervisory authority:
President of the Personal Data Protection Office
(Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Danych Osobowych)
17. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in website functionality, services, cookies, technical configurations or applicable legal requirements.
The current version will be published on this page with an updated revision date.
Where required, additional information or renewed consent will be requested.
18. Contact
For questions concerning this Cookie Policy, cookie preferences or personal data processing, please contact:
Artur Braun-Nowak
Email: braunnowak@gmail.com
Website: https://start-vart.com
For additional information about personal data processing, please read our Privacy Policy.