Cookie statement
This cookie statement explains how cookies and similar technologies are used by www.appliedartforms.com (the “Applied Art Forms Website”). It also provides background information on cookies and how to manage your cookie settings. For more information on how Applied Art Forms handles your personal data and your privacy rights, please refer to our Privacy Statement.
Group eStore Inc, including affiliates, ("Applied Art Forms", "we", "us" or "our") is responsible for processing your personal data via cookies and similar technologies on the Applied Art Forms Website.
Cookies and similar technologies
A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in your web browser on your computer, mobile or other handheld device, while you are browsing a website. Cookies may be used to store your passwords and user ID’s, preferences of start pages, ordering status on a website, personalisation or website tracking (eg targeted marketing). The information stored in a cookie may later be read from your browser in order to –among other functions- deliver a page tailored to you or to automatically log in.
- HTML5 Local Storage of local share objects are used in the same manner as cookies.
- Web beacons (also known as “pixels,” “pixel tags,” or “clear GIFs”), which are small invisible images on a web page or in an email, help deliver cookies, count visits, and understand usage and campaign effectiveness.
When referring to “cookies” in this Cookie Statement, we also refer to such similar technologies except as otherwise indicated.
Use of cookies
Cookies enable you to take full advantage of the online shopping features and personalised functions on the Applied Art Forms Website. We can also offer you the best shopping experience because we collect information that is used to improve the usability and performance of the Applied Art Forms Website. In addition, we use tracking pixels in our email newsletters so that we can track how often people click through to our Applied Art Forms Website.
Applied Art Forms uses cookies for the following main purposes:
- for technical purposes essential to the operation of the Applied Art Forms Website, such as keeping track of your current shopping session and enabling you to proceed to checkout and pay for products;
- to distinguish you from other users of the Applied Art Forms Website, so that we can personalise your shopping experience by making the Applied Art Forms Website, and the advertisements displayed on them, more relevant to your interests and so that we can remember your selections (such as your username, language or the country you are in) when you return to visit the Applied Art Forms Website;
- to collect statistical information about the number of visitors using the Applied Art Forms Website via the link in our email newsletters, and to measure the success of our newsletters;
- to collect statistical information about how visitors use the Applied Art Forms Website, so that we can improve the way the Applied Art Forms Website works and measure the success of competitions and campaigns;
- to enable us to fulfil our contractual obligations to third parties, for example to pay an advertising partner if you have made a purchase on the Applied Art Forms Website by following a link from their website; and
- to provide you with relevant offers outside the Applied Art Forms Website, such as displaying advertisements on third-party websites or social networks, linking cookie information to customer profiles for direct marketing purposes, or sending messages via SMS, WhatsApp or similar technologies.
How to change your cookie settings and withdraw your consent
On your first visit to the Applied Art Forms Website, you can accept or decline the use of cookies. If you reject cookies, we will not place marketing or tracking cookies. If you do not give consent, we will only place cookies that are strictly necessary for the working of the Applied Art Forms Website.
For more information about which cookies we place with or without consent, see our detailed cookie overview, click here.
You can withdraw your consent at any time by deleting the cookies. You can read how to do that below. You can set most web browsers to automatically accept or reject cookies. If you do not agree to certain cookies being placed, you can always delete existing cookies from your browser and prevent new cookies from being placed by adjusting your browser settings. How this works depends on the browser you are using. You can find this information on the following browsers here:
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Explorer
- Microsoft Edge
- Mozilla Firefox
- Apple Safari Mac
- Apple Safari iPhone, iPod & iPad
If you reject cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of all the features of the Applied Art Forms Website. When you use our website, you can also set your browser to notify you when a cookie is placed on your computer. Please note that our Applied Art Forms Website requires certain cookies to run. Deleting or rejecting cookies also does not necessarily mean that you will no longer see ads. It only ensures that the ads are no longer tailored to your interests.
Cookies used on the Applied Art Forms Website
Cookies with and without consent
If you do not give consent for the placement of all cookies, we will only place cookies, which are necessary for the functioning of the Applied Art Forms Website (functional cookies). In addition, we may also use cookies that provide us with information on the quality and/or effectiveness of a service provided, insofar as they have only a minor impact on your personal privacy. These may include analytical and affiliate cookies, for example. We use analytical cookies to analyse the use and performance of our Applied Art Forms Website so that we can improve our Applied Art Forms Website where necessary. Affiliate cookies may be used to keep track of which ad leads to the purchase of a particular product, so that the party that displayed this ad can receive compensation for it from the advertiser.
We request your consent for all other cookies, such as marketing or tracking cookies. .
Cookie categories used on the Applied Art Forms Website
Functional cookies
These cookies are essential for the operation of the Applied Art Forms Website and are used by Applied Art Forms for technical purposes, for example to keep track of your current shopping session and to enable you to complete and pay for an order. These are session cookies, which typically store information in the form of a session and are stored in the temporary memory of your browser and are deleted when you close the web browser. These cookies also allow a website to store information that has previously been provided (such as usernames, language choices and your location) so that you can be offered better and more personalised features. They are used by Applied Art Forms to distinguish you from other users of our Applied Art Forms Website, so that Applied Art Forms can personalise your shopping experience by making our Applied Art Forms Website and the ads displayed on it more relevant to your interests, and so that the choices you make are remembered (such as your username, language or country of residence) when you return to our Applied Art Forms Website. Functional cookies remain on your device until they expire or you delete them.
Analytical cookies
These cookies collect information about how the Applied Art Forms Website is used. They are used by Applied Art Forms to collect statistical information about the number of visitors who come to our Applied Art Forms Website through a link in an email newsletter, in order to measure the success of newsletters; to collect statistical information about how visitors use our Applied Art Forms Website, in order to improve the operation of our Applied Art Forms Website; and to measure the success of competitions and campaigns. These cookies are only used to improve the performance of our Applied Art Forms Website and thus the user experience. These analytical cookies remain on your device until they expire or you delete them. We do not require consent for analytical cookies if the cookies have no or only minor impact on your privacy.
Marketing and retargeting cookies
These cookies are used to make advertisements and other information more relevant to you and your interests. They are used by Applied Art Forms to show you relevant offers outside the Applied Art Forms Website. Applied Art Forms also uses cookies to fulfil contractual obligations to third parties, for example to pay a partner if you make a purchase on our Applied Art Forms Website through a link from the partner's website. Marketing and retargeting cookies remain on your hard drive until they expire or you delete them. We request your consent to use marketing and retargeting cookies.
Applied Art Forms may from time to time use affiliate cookies. If you came to our Applied Art Forms Website through one of our partners, the partner may receive compensation from us. Affiliate cookies allow us to determine which affiliate led you to our Applied Art Forms Website. We do not request consent for affiliate cookies if they have limited privacy impact.
First- and third-party cookies
Applied Art Forms and external parties (third parties) use session cookies and persistent cookies on the Applied Art Forms Website. Cookies placed by Applied Art Forms are called first-party cookies and are used for various purposes, for example to remember your username and the products in your shopping cart. Cookies placed by a party other than Applied Art Forms are called third-party cookies. These cookies can 'recognise' you across different websites for longer periods of time. The external parties placing these cookies may include suppliers working with us to provide the website, companies working with us in joint marketing programmes and other parties.
Cookies placed by Applied Art Forms are stored for as long as stated in our detailed cookie overview or until you delete them.
The use of cookies by other companies is subject to the privacy and cookie policies of those other companies.
Social media plugins
Social media plugins are plugins that allow you to share content with friends on social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter or similar service providers. We have no control over the settings of these plugins. If you want to know more about what data may be collected through such plug-ins and how the data may be used by the respective service providers, please refer to the privacy policies of the service providers:
To better protect your data when you visit the Applied Art Forms Website, social media plugins have been integrated into our Art Forms Website using the so-called 'double-click method'. This method ensures that when you visit a website or app with social media plugins, no connection is established with the servers of the social media providers. No connection will be established until you activate the social media plugin and consent to the transfer of the data. The content of the social media plugin is transferred directly to your browser and embedded in our Applied Art Forms Website. By enabling the social media plugin, social media providers receive information about which website you have visited, even if you do not have a profile with the social media provider or are not logged in. This information is transferred directly to the servers of the social media providers and stored there. If you use the social media plugins, e.g. by clicking on the like button, the respective information is transmitted directly to the server of the social media provider and stored there. The information is also displayed on social media or to your contacts, depending on your social media settings.
Last updated: 07-01-2025