1. Scope of This Policy

This Cookie Policy applies to cookies and similar technologies used in connection with our website and online services available through rauantiques.com and any related page, feature, or service that links to this Policy.

It applies whether you browse without identifying yourself, submit an inquiry, subscribe to communications, use wishlist or shopping features, complete a purchase through the standard Shopify checkout process, or otherwise interact with our website.

Our website can generally be browsed without creating or signing into a customer account. Certain technologies may nevertheless be necessary to maintain a browsing session, preserve a shopping cart or wishlist, support checkout, prevent fraud, secure the website, or remember privacy choices.

This Policy does not govern cookies or other technologies used independently by third-party websites and services, even when those services are linked from or embedded within our website. Those third parties may maintain their own privacy and cookie notices.

2. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small data files that a website may place on or access from your browser or device. They can help a website operate, remember information about a visit, maintain shopping activity, measure performance, and recognize a browser over time.

We may also use technologies that perform functions similar to cookies, including pixels, tags, local storage, software development kits, server-side tracking technologies, and related tools. References in this Policy to “cookies” or “cookies and similar technologies” include these technologies where appropriate.

Some technologies are placed or controlled directly by M.S. Rau or by service providers acting on our behalf. Others may be provided by third parties that support ecommerce, website hosting, analytics, customer engagement, embedded media, marketing, advertising, security, or related services.

3. Why We Use Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to operate our website, support its features, understand visitor activity, improve our services, and communicate with customers and prospective customers more effectively.

Website Operation and Security

Cookies help us maintain website functionality, protect against fraud and misuse, manage network traffic, preserve sessions, and support technical stability.

Preferences and Privacy Choices

Cookies may remember privacy selections, shopping activity, session information, and certain preferences so that they do not need to be entered repeatedly.

Shopping and Wishlist Features

Cookies support shopping carts, wishlists, checkout functions, transaction-related features, and continuity as visitors navigate between pages.

Website Measurement and Improvement

Cookies help us understand how visitors use the website, identify technical issues, evaluate content and features, and improve performance and usability.

Collector Interests and Client Service

Cookies may help us understand apparent interest in particular objects, artists, makers, periods, collections, categories, and services so we can improve client service and provide more relevant information.

Personalization

Where appropriate and permitted by law, cookies may help us personalize certain website content, recommendations, and communications.

Marketing and Advertising

Cookies may help us measure campaigns, attribute conversions, create or refine audiences, limit repeated advertising, and improve the relevance and effectiveness of marketing.

4. Categories of Cookies and Similar Technologies

The cookies and similar technologies used on our website generally fall into the categories described below. A particular technology may support more than one purpose, and its assigned category may depend on its primary function and configuration.

Essential Technologies

These technologies operate, secure, and administer the website and provide features requested by visitors. Examples include session management, security, shopping cart, wishlist, checkout, load balancing, fraud prevention, and consent-preference technologies.

Analytics and Performance Technologies

These technologies help us measure website use, understand navigation, identify technical issues, and improve performance, content, design, and functionality.

Customer Insights and Personalization Technologies

These technologies help us understand apparent interests and provide more relevant experiences or communications. Examples may include product views, searches, wishlist activity, browsing behavior, communication engagement, and customer-record association.

Advertising Technologies

These technologies help measure campaigns, attribute conversions, create audiences, support remarketing, limit repeated advertising, and display advertising that may be more relevant to visitor interests.

5. Essential Technologies

Essential technologies support functions necessary for our website to operate securely and provide services requested by visitors. These technologies may be used to:

• Maintain website, system, and network security;
• Detect, investigate, or prevent fraud, abuse, or malicious activity;
• Manage website traffic, load balancing, and availability;
• Maintain a browsing or checkout session;
• Preserve items placed in a shopping cart or wishlist;
• Support Shopify checkout and transaction-related functions;
• Remember information entered during a session;
• Recognize or authenticate a session where applicable;
• Record and apply privacy and cookie preferences; and
• Provide features or services specifically requested by a visitor.

Because these technologies are used to provide the website or a requested feature, they generally cannot be disabled through our cookie preference center. Preventing them from operating may cause portions of the website to function improperly.

6. Analytics and Performance Technologies

Analytics and performance technologies help us understand how visitors use our website and how the website performs. They may collect or generate information about page views, navigation paths, traffic sources, time spent on pages, website interactions, technical errors, and browser or device characteristics.

We may use this information to:

• Measure website traffic and visitor engagement;
• Understand how visitors arrive at and navigate the website;
• Identify popular pages, objects, collections, and content;
• Evaluate search, wishlist, shopping, and inquiry features;
• Diagnose technical errors and performance problems;
• Improve website speed, design, usability, and accessibility;
• Assess the effectiveness of website changes; and
• Develop aggregated reports about website use.

Analytics information may be collected through browser-based and server-side technologies. Where prior consent is required, our configuration is intended to prevent non-essential analytics technologies from operating until the required consent has been provided.

7. Customer Insights and Personalization Technologies

Customer insights and personalization technologies help us understand how visitors engage with our website and communications. Depending on the technology, configuration, visitor choices, and applicable law, these technologies may collect information about:

• Pages and objects viewed;
• Artists, makers, periods, categories, and collections viewed;
• Searches performed on the website;
• Wishlist and shopping cart activity;
• Browsing paths and interactions across sessions;
• Inquiry, newsletter, appointment, or other form activity;
• Email opens, link clicks, and related engagement;
• Device, browser, network, and approximate-location information; and
• Identifiers used to maintain or recognize a visitor or customer relationship.

We may use the resulting information to understand apparent visitor interests, improve recommendations, measure engagement, personalize certain content or communications, support client service, and improve our marketing and website experience.

Personalization may vary depending on whether a visitor remains unidentified or has voluntarily provided identifying information. We do not represent that every visitor will receive a personalized experience or that every interaction will be associated with a customer record.

8. Advertising Technologies

Advertising technologies help us understand whether our advertising and marketing efforts are effective. They may also support advertising personalization, remarketing, audience creation, frequency management, attribution, and campaign optimization.

These technologies may be used to:

• Measure whether an advertisement resulted in a website visit;
• Attribute purchases, inquiries, form submissions, or other actions to a campaign;
• Measure interactions with particular products, collections, or pages;
• Create or refine advertising audiences;
• Reach visitors who previously interacted with our website;
• Limit the number of times an advertisement is displayed;
• Evaluate and improve campaign performance;
• Support enhanced conversion measurement; and
• Display advertising that may be more relevant to visitor interests.

Advertising providers may receive information about a browser, device, website interaction, or conversion event. Depending on the technology and configuration, this information may include advertising identifiers, cookie identifiers, device information, page or event information, and identifiers provided in a protected or transformed form.

Where required by applicable law, advertising technologies are intended to operate only after the visitor has provided the required consent or made the applicable choice through our consent-management tools.

9. Information Collected Through These Technologies

Depending on the technology, configuration, visitor interaction, and consent choices, cookies and similar technologies may collect or generate information such as:

• IP address and network information;
• Browser type, browser settings, and operating system;
• Device type and device identifiers;
• Cookie, advertising, session, or similar identifiers;
• Approximate geographic location derived from an IP address;
• Date, time, and duration of a visit;
• Referring and exit pages;
• Pages, products, artists, makers, and collections viewed;
• Searches, clicks, scrolling, and navigation behavior;
• Wishlist, shopping cart, and checkout activity;
• Website feature interactions and technical performance information;
• Inquiry, subscription, appointment, or form-related activity;
• Email opens, link clicks, and similar communication engagement;
• Purchase or conversion events; and
• Customer, prospective-customer, or CRM identifiers where applicable.

Some of this information may constitute personal information under applicable law, particularly when it identifies, relates to, describes, or can reasonably be linked with a person, household, browser, or device.

Our broader collection and use of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy.

10. Known Visitors and Customer Records

If you choose to identify yourself—for example, by submitting an inquiry, subscribing to our communications, completing a purchase, or otherwise providing identifying information—we or our service providers may associate certain website interactions with your customer record where permitted by applicable law.

This may help us understand visitor interests, respond to requests, improve our services, personalize certain experiences where appropriate, measure engagement, and communicate more effectively.

Information associated with a customer or prospective-customer record may include product or collection views, searches, wishlist activity, shopping activity, inquiry history, communication engagement, and similar website interactions.

The particular information available to us depends on the technologies used, their configuration, and whether the visitor has identified themselves.

11. Server-Side and Related Tracking Technologies

Some analytics, customer-engagement, and advertising measurement may occur through server-side technologies or application programming interfaces. In these arrangements, certain information may be transmitted from systems operated by or for M.S. Rau to a service provider rather than being transmitted solely through a cookie placed directly in a visitor’s browser.

Server-side technologies may be used to improve measurement reliability, support security, reduce data loss caused by technical limitations, and assist with conversion attribution and customer engagement.

The use of a server-side method does not eliminate applicable privacy or consent requirements. Where required, our configuration is intended to apply visitor consent choices to relevant browser-based and server-side activities.

12. Third-Party Technologies and Service Providers

We engage service providers that support ecommerce, website hosting, content delivery, security, analytics, customer relationship management, marketing automation, landing pages, embedded video, consent management, advertising, conversion measurement, and related functions.

These providers may place or access cookies and similar technologies on our behalf or receive information generated through those technologies. Depending on the service and applicable law, a provider may process information:

• On our behalf as a service provider or processor;
• For purposes determined jointly with us;
• To provide, secure, measure, or improve its services; or
• As otherwise described in its own privacy documentation.

The specific providers and technologies used on our website may change as we modify our operations, vendors, website features, and marketing practices.

Embedded third-party content, including video content, may allow the provider of that content to collect information about your device or interaction when the content loads or is played. Where required, our configuration is intended to prevent non-essential embedded technologies from operating before consent is provided.

13. Session Cookies and Persistent Cookies

Session Cookies

Session cookies generally remain active only during a browser session and are deleted or become inactive after the browser is closed. They may maintain navigation, preserve cart activity, support checkout, or enable other short-term functions.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies remain on a browser or device for a defined period or until they are deleted. They may remember preferences, recognize a returning browser, measure activity over time, maintain consent choices, or support analytics, personalization, and advertising.

Cookie duration varies based on the technology, provider, purpose, and configuration. A duration listed in our cookie inventory represents the expected or configured duration and may be affected by browser behavior, device settings, provider changes, or deletion by the visitor.

14. Your Cookie Choices

When our cookie banner is presented, you may be able to:

• Accept available categories of non-essential cookies;
• Reject available categories of non-essential cookies;
• Review cookie categories before making a choice; or
• Customize which available categories may operate.

You may review or update your choices at any time by selecting Cookie Preferences in the footer of our website.

Withdrawing consent or changing a preference applies prospectively. It does not necessarily delete information previously collected or invalidate processing that occurred before the choice was changed.

After preferences are updated, certain technologies may require a page refresh or a new browser session before the updated choice is fully reflected.

Essential technologies generally remain active because they support website operation, security, consent management, shopping, checkout, or another service requested by the visitor.

15. Consent Management Through Consentmo

We use Consentmo as our cookie consent-management platform. Consentmo helps us:

• Present available choices regarding non-essential technologies;
• Organize technologies into consent categories;
• Record visitor preferences;
• Apply those preferences through our website;
• Provide a method for reviewing or updating preferences; and
• Maintain or display information about detected cookies and providers.

The availability and appearance of consent choices may vary depending on location, applicable legal requirements, browser configuration, and changes to our website or consent platform.

For visitors in the United Kingdom and other locations where prior consent is required, our consent configuration is intended to prevent non-essential analytics, customer-insight, personalization, and advertising technologies from operating until the required consent has been obtained.

16. Current Cookie Inventory

Because cookies, providers, names, purposes, durations, and technical configurations may change, we maintain cookie-specific information through our consent-management platform rather than placing a fixed inventory directly in this Policy.

The cookie declaration or inventory available through Consentmo may identify:

• The cookie or technology name;
• The provider or domain;
• The assigned category;
• The stated purpose;
• Whether the technology is session-based or persistent; and
• The expected duration.

To review the current inventory, select Cookie Preferences in the website footer and review the information available for each category.

17. Location-Specific Requirements

Cookie and privacy requirements differ by jurisdiction. Our consent experience, available choices, and the timing at which certain technologies operate may therefore vary based on a visitor’s location and applicable law.

United Kingdom and Other Prior-Consent Jurisdictions

Where applicable law requires prior consent, we intend to request consent before activating non-essential analytics, customer-insight, personalization, or advertising technologies.

Essential technologies may operate without consent where permitted because they support requested services, security, website operation, shopping functions, or privacy choices.

Visitors may reject non-essential categories without losing general access to the website, although certain personalized, embedded, or measurement-dependent features may be limited.

United States

Certain U.S. state privacy laws may provide eligible residents with rights concerning targeted advertising, the sale or sharing of personal information, profiling, or other uses of information collected through online technologies.

Where applicable, relevant choices may be provided through our cookie banner, Cookie Preferences tool, Privacy Policy, or another privacy-request mechanism.

Describing a technology as “advertising” does not by itself determine whether a particular disclosure constitutes a “sale,” “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or similar regulated activity under any specific law. Those classifications depend on the applicable law, contractual terms, provider role, information involved, and technical configuration.

18. International Processing

Some providers that support our website and related services may process information in countries other than the country in which you are located, including the United States.

For additional information about international processing and data transfers, please review our Privacy Policy.

19. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in our technologies, providers, website features, business practices, or legal obligations.

When we update this Policy, we may revise the applicable effective or last-updated date displayed with the Policy. We may also provide additional notice where required by law or where changes are material.

The cookie inventory available through our consent-management platform may be updated more frequently as cookies and providers are detected, added, removed, reclassified, or reconfigured.

20. Contact Us

For questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies and similar technologies, contact: