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The cookies set by this site: essential cookies only, plus anonymised audience measurement, and how to manage your choices.

Updated : October 28, 2026· 4 min read

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Portrait of John VIII Palaoelogus, Emperor of Constantinople, 1424-1428 (reverse), Pisanello (c. 1438–1439)
Portrait of John VIII Palaoelogus, Emperor of Constantinople, 1424-1428 (reverse), Pisanello (c. 1438–1439)

The OIMAP site sets only cookies essential to its operation and an anonymised audience measurement tool. It uses no advertising cookies or profiling trackers.

This page explains what these cookies are for, how long they are kept and how to refuse them. It supplements the page on personal data and the legal notice.

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  • Audience

Cookies in figures

2Cookie families
0Advertising cookies
13 monthsMaximum lifespan of an audience cookie (indicative)
6 monthsRenewal of the choice (indicative)

Source: OIMAP General Secretariat.

Breakdown

EssentialLanguage, session, security
Audience measurementAnonymised

Indicative breakdown of the cookies set.

Pair of Drawings: Sketch of the Labyrinth of the Villa Pisani  and Piazza San Marco with Doges' Palace, Francesco Guardi (1773–1778(?))
Pair of Drawings: Sketch of the Labyrinth of the Villa Pisani and Piazza San Marco with Doges' Palace, Francesco Guardi (1773–1778(?))
Farmhouse on the Slope of a Hill, Fra Bartolommeo (c. 1508)
Farmhouse on the Slope of a Hill, Fra Bartolommeo (c. 1508)
Egypt and Nubia, Volume I: The Great Temple of Aboo-Simble, Nubia, Louis Haghe (1846)
Egypt and Nubia, Volume I: The Great Temple of Aboo-Simble, Nubia, Louis Haghe (1846)

Essential cookies

They ensure the site works: remembering the language, maintaining the session in the member area, and protecting against cross-site request forgery attacks. They are set without consent, because the site would not function properly without them.

Their lifespan is limited to the session or, for the language, to twelve months. They serve no commercial purpose and are not shared with third parties.

Audience measurement

An anonymised measurement tool counts visits, pages viewed and the general origin of visitors. Addresses are truncated and no data makes it possible to identify an individual user. These statistics are used to improve how pages are organised.

This tool is exempt from consent when it meets the conditions set by the data protection authority. You can nevertheless object to it in one click from the banner or the preferences panel.

Managing your choices

On your first visit, a banner presents the cookies and lets you accept, refuse or customise. Refusing is as easy as accepting. Your choice is kept for six months (indicative), after which you are asked again.

To change it, open the preferences panel from the footer. You can also set your browser to block cookies, at the risk of losing certain functions such as logging in to the member area.

The site's cookies

Cookie inventory
CookiePurposeDuration (indicative)
LanguageRemember the language chosen12 months
SessionMaintain the connection to the member areaSession
SecurityProtect formsSession
AudienceMeasure traffic13 months

Milestones

  1. Statutes

    Principle of privacy protection.

  2. GDPR alignment

    First cookie policy (indicative).

  3. Banner redesign

    Refusal as easy as acceptance (indicative).

  4. Current version

    Update of the inventory.

A free choice

The Victory Banquet: from Battle Scenes of the Quelling of Rebellions in the Western Regions, with Imperial Poems (c. 1765–74; poem dated 1760)
The Victory Banquet: from Battle Scenes of the Quelling of Rebellions in the Western Regions, with Imperial Poems (c. 1765–74; poem dated 1760)
Nowshera, Kashmir (number 1000), Samuel Bourne (1864)
Nowshera, Kashmir (number 1000), Samuel Bourne (1864)
Saint Jerome and the Lion (From the former Church of St. Peter in Erfurt), Tilman Riemenschneider (c. 1495)
Saint Jerome and the Lion (From the former Church of St. Peter in Erfurt), Tilman Riemenschneider (c. 1495)

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Audience measurement enabled
  • Helps improve the site
  • Anonymised data
  • Choice can be changed

To contribute to statistics.

Coronation of the Virgin, Christoffel Jegher (1632–36)

Refuse

Essential cookies only
  • Site fully accessible
  • No tracking
  • Choice can be changed

For minimal browsing.

Changing your choice

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    The preferences panel.

  2. Choose

    Accept, refuse or customise.

  3. Validate

    The choice.

  4. Check

    In the browser if needed.

  5. Go back

    On it at any time.

Before blocking cookies

A user

The Apotheosis of Romulus: Design for a Ceiling, Domenico Maria Canuti (c. 1675–76)
« The banner is clear and refusing changes nothing about my browsing: that is what I expect from an institutional site. »
Laure Girard, site user (example)

Vocabulary

Essential cookie
Cookie indispensable to the operation of the site.
Audience measurement
Anonymised count of visits.
Consent
Free, informed and reversible consent.
Tracker
Technology that follows a user's browsing.

Third-party cookies and embedded content

The site does not embed any social network or video hosted by a third party that would set its own cookies. If such content is added, it will be preceded by a specific consent request and described on this page.

Links to external sites open pages subject to their own rules. We invite you to consult their privacy policies.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the site use targeted advertising?

No.

Can I refuse all cookies?

Yes, except the essential ones.

How do I change my choice?

From the footer.

Where can I see the data processed?

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Contacts

View of  the Château of Pierrefonds, François-Louis Français (c. 1870)
View of the Château of Pierrefonds, François-Louis Français (c. 1870)
General SecretariatParis — Headquarters+33 1 00 00 00 00secretariat@oimap.exampleMonday to Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

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