Cookie management

Cookies

A “cookie” is a text file that may be stored, subject to your choices, in a dedicated space on your Terminal’s hard drive when you consult an online service on the Site.

A “Cookie” file enables its sender to identify the Terminal in which it is stored, for the duration of the Cookie’s validity or storage.

When you visit our Site, information relating to the browsing of your Terminal (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) on our Site may be recorded in ‘Cookies’ files installed on your Terminal, subject to the choices you have made concerning Cookies and which you may modify at any time.

What are the COOKIES on our site for?

Only the sender of a cookie or tracer is likely to read or modify the information contained therein.

Cookies or tracers that we issue on this website.

When you connect to our website, we may, subject to your choices, install various cookies on your computer that enable us to recognise your computer’s browser for the duration of the cookie’s validity. The cookies we issue are used for the purposes described below, subject to your choices, which result from the settings of your browser software used when you visit our website.

The cookies we use enable us to

• compile statistics and volumes of visits to and use of the various components of our website (sections and content visited, path taken), enabling us to improve the interest and ergonomics of our Services;
• to adapt the presentation of our site to the display preferences of your computer (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) during your visits to our website, depending on the hardware and viewing or reading software that your computer has;
• to memorise information relating to a form that you have filled in on our Website (registration or access to your account) or to products, services or information that you have chosen on our Website (subscribed service, contents of an order basket, etc.);
• to allow you to access reserved and personal areas of our Website, such as your account, using identifiers or data that you may have previously entrusted to us;
• to implement security measures, for example when you are asked to connect again to content or a service after a certain period of time.

Cookies or tracers sent to the Site by third parties:

Due to third-party applications integrated into the Website, certain cookies may be issued by entities other than our Website. In this case, the issue and use of these cookies are subject to the privacy protection policies of these third parties. We inform you of the purpose of the cookies we are aware of and the means available to you to make choices with regard to these cookies.

We may include computer applications from third parties on our website that enable you to share content from our website (news, etc.) with other people or to let these other people know that you have viewed or expressed an opinion about content on our website. This is particularly the case with the ‘Share’ and ‘Like’ buttons from social networks such as ‘Facebook’, ‘Twitter’, ‘Google +’, ‘Instagram’, ‘YouTube’, etc. The social network providing such a button is the same as the one providing the button.

The social network providing such a button is likely to identify you thanks to this button, even if you did not use this button when visiting our Site.

This type of button may allow the social network concerned to track your browsing on the {Site_Name} website, simply because your account with the social network concerned was activated on your computer (open session) while you were browsing on our website.

We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information relating to your browsing on our site and associated with the personal data they hold. We invite you to consult the privacy protection policies of these social networks in order to find out how they use the browsing information they may collect using these buttons, particularly for advertising purposes.

These protection policies should enable you to exercise your choices with regard to these social networks, in particular by configuring your user accounts for each of these networks.

Your choices concerning cookies

You have several options for managing cookies. Any settings you make may affect your browsing on the Internet and your conditions of access to certain services requiring the use of cookies. However, you can choose at any time to express and modify your wishes with regard to cookies, by the means described below. The choices offered by your browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, etc.)

You can configure your browser software so that cookies are stored on your computer or, conversely, so that they are rejected, either systematically or depending on who is sending them. You can also configure your browser so that you are prompted to accept or reject cookies before a cookie is stored on your computer.

For more information, see ‘How to exercise your choices, depending on the browser you are using’ below.

Agreement on cookies : The recording of a cookie on a computer workstation is essentially subject to the wishes of the user of this workstation, which the user can express and modify at any time and free of charge through the choices offered to them by their browser software.

If you have accepted the storage of cookies on your computer in your browser, the cookies integrated into the pages and content that you have consulted may be stored temporarily in a dedicated space on your computer. They will only be readable there by the sender.

Refusal of cookies : If you refuse to accept cookies on your computer, or if you delete the cookies stored on your computer, you will no longer be able to benefit from a certain number of functions which are nevertheless necessary for browsing certain areas of our website. This would be the case if you tried to access our content or services that require you to be identified.

This would also be the case if we – or our service providers – were unable to recognise, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used by your computer, its language and display settings or the country from which your computer appears to be connected to the Internet.

Where applicable, we decline all responsibility for the consequences linked to the degraded operation of our services resulting from the impossibility for us to record or consult the cookies necessary for their operation and which you would have refused or deleted.

How do you exercise your choices, depending on the browser you use?

Each browser has a different configuration for managing cookies and your choices. It is described in your browser’s help menu, which will tell you how to change your cookie wishes.

• For Internet Explorer™ : https://windows.microsoft.com/fr-FR/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies;
• For Safari™ : https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=fr&hlrm=en&answer=95647;
• For Firefox™ : https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/Activer%20et%20d%C3%A9sactiver%20les%20cookies;
• For Opera™ : https://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html.

Deactivate Google Analytics cookies:

• Name of cookie used :
• Functional cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly.
• Google Analytics: These cookies are used for marketing purposes
• Facebook Pixel: These cookies are used for marketing purposes
• YouTube videos: These cookies are used by YouTube to allow users to view multimedia content directly on the site

You can prevent this cookie from being used and deposited on your computer by going to: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

Delete your cookies :

You can delete all your cookies, or just the ones you want. Deleting cookies does not prevent you from browsing or from reinstalling them during browsing. This allows you to control your browser’s cookie library at any given time. Technical cookies, which are necessary for browsing, will be reinstalled if you visit our Site.

Below, we explain the procedure to follow depending on your browser.

Chrome :

• In the Chrome menu, select ‘Settings’.
• Display the advanced settings
• Go to the ‘Confidentiality’ section
• Click on ‘Content settings’.
• In the ‘Cookies’ section (first paragraph), click on ‘Cookies and site data’.
• Find the cookies you want to delete and click OK. You can also choose to delete all your cookies.

Firefox :

• In the Firefox menu, go to ‘Tools’ and then ‘Options’.
• On the ‘Privacy’ tab, click on ‘Show cookies’.
• Find the cookies you want to delete and click on ‘Delete Cookies’.

Internet Explorer :

Internet Explorer does not allow cookies to be managed on a case-by-case basis. To delete all your cookies :

• Click on ‘Tools’ and then on ‘Internet Options’.
• In the ‘General’ tab, under ‘Browsing History’, click on ‘Delete’.
• Tick the ‘Cookies’ box and click ‘Delete’.

Safari :

• From the Safari menu, select ‘Preferences’.
• In the window that opens, go to the ‘Security’ tab
• Click on ‘Show cookies’.
• In the window that opens, find and select the cookies you want to delete, and click on ‘Delete’.

Private browsing :

The ‘Private Browsing’ mode, now offered by all browsers, allows you to browse without keeping a history of pages visited or downloads.

As far as cookies are concerned, any that have been saved during your browsing will be deleted when you close your browser. This is not a solution for refusing cookies; however, their lifespan is limited to the duration of your browsing.

Deactivation of third-party cookies:

Deactivating third-party cookies means that you can only accept cookies placed on our website. These are all technical cookies, necessary for browsing, with the exception of an audience cookie used for internal purposes to measure the number of visitors to our pages.

Here is the procedure to follow, depending on your browser, if you wish to refuse third-party cookies:

Chrome :

• In the Chrome menu, select ‘Settings’.
• Display the advanced settings
• Go to the ‘Confidentiality’ section
• Click on ‘Content settings’.
• In the ‘Cookies’ section (first paragraph), tick the ‘Block cookies and data from third-party sites’ box
• Save the changes by clicking on ‘OK’.

Firefox :

• In the Firefox menu, go to ‘Tools’ and then ‘Options’.
• On the ‘Privacy’ tab, tick the ‘Accept cookies’ box
• For the ‘Accept third-party cookies’ setting, select ‘Never’.
• Save your changes by clicking ‘OK’.

Internet Explorer :

• In the Internet Explorer menu, go to ‘Internet Options’.
• In the ‘Confidentiality’ tab, click on the ‘Advanced’ button
• Accept internal cookies, refuse third-party cookies
• Save your changes by clicking on ‘OK’.

Safari :

• From the Safari menu, select ‘Preferences’.
• In the window that opens, go to the ‘Security’ tab
• Under ‘Accept cookies’, select ‘Only from sites I visit’.

The cookies used by this site

Functional cookies :

• Purpose: Cookie generated by the Contao CMS based on the PHP language. It is a general identifier used to manage user session variables. It is a randomly generated number. Expiration: Expires at the end of the browser session.
• Purpose: Cookie used to prevent security breaches. Expiration: Expires at the end of the browser session.

Audience measurement cookies :

• Google Analytics
• _utma
  • Purpose: This cookie is used to identify unique visitors to your site. It is updated for each page viewed. Expiration: This cookie expires after 2 year
• _utmz
  • Purpose: This cookie stores all the information needed to identify a traffic source. The following information is stored in this cookie: the source of traffic, the medium of this source of traffic, the keyword typed in if the Internet user visits the site from a search engine, etc. Expiration: This cookie has a lifetime of 6 months.
• _ga
  • Purpose: This Google Analytics cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a customer identifier. It is included in every page request on a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for site analysis reports. Expiration: This cookie expires after 2 years.
• _gid
  • Purpose: Google Analytics cookie that stores and updates a unique value for each page visited. Expiration: This cookie expires after 24 hours.
• _gat_gtag_UA_XXXXXX_X
  • Purpose: Google Analytics cookie used to limit the throughput of requests, which limits the collection of data on high-traffic sites. Expiration: This cookie expires after 10 minutes.

What is the purpose of COOKIES accompanying advertising content broadcast by third parties?

When you access a site containing advertising or promotional spaces broadcasting one of our advertising or promotional operations, this advert is likely to contain a cookie. Subject to your choices, this cookie is likely to be stored on your computer and to enable us to recognise your Terminal’s browser for the duration of the cookie’s validity. Cookies incorporated into our advertising or promotional material distributed by third parties are used for the purposes described below, subject to your choices, which result from the settings of your browser software used when you visit our Site, which you may express at any time.

Cookies that we may issue enable us, if your computer has allowed them to be saved, according to your choices:

• to count the number of displays and activations of our advertising content disseminated on third party sites, to identify this content and these sites, and to determine the number of users who clicked on each piece of content,
• to calculate the sums owed to the players in the advertising distribution chain (advertising agency, advertising network, distribution site/support) and to draw up statistics, to adapt the presentation of the Site to which one of our advertising or promotional contents leads, according to the display preferences of your computer (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc) during your visits to our Site and according to the hardware and viewing or reading software that your computer is equipped with, according to the location data (longitude and latitude) that is transmitted to us (or to our service providers) by your computer with your prior consent, to monitor the subsequent browsing carried out by your Terminal on sites or on other advertising content.

What is the point of displaying ads tailored to your browsing habits?

Our aim is to present you with the most relevant offers possible. To this end, cookie technology makes it possible to determine in real time which offers to display to a computer, based on its recent browsing within the website. You probably prefer to see offers of products and services that correspond to what interests you rather than offers that are of no interest to you.

If you share the use of your terminal with other people

If your computer is used by several people and if the same computer has several browsers, we cannot be certain that the services and advertisements intended for your computer correspond to your own use of this computer and not to that of another user of this computer.

Where applicable, the sharing with other people of the use of your computer and the configuration of the parameters of your browser with regard to cookies are a matter of your free choice and responsibility.

Personal data and browsing information

We may tailor our offers to you on the basis of information relating to your computer’s browsing on our website or on websites or services published by third parties and on which we issue cookies.

Insofar as you have provided us with personal data concerning yourself, in particular your electronic contact details, when registering or accessing one of our services, we are likely, subject to your choices, to associate browsing information relating to your computer, processed by the cookies that we issue, with your personal data in order to send you, for example, electronic prospecting or to display on your computer personalised offers that are more specifically intended for you and likely to be of greater interest to you.

You may ask us at any time to stop receiving advertising or marketing tailored to the browsing information on your computer, by contacting us directly and free of charge, or by using the unsubscribe link included in any marketing that we may send you by e-mail. In this case, the advertisements that you may continue to receive, unless you object to this by contacting us, will no longer be adapted to the browsing habits of your computer.

Furthermore, in the event that we consider obtaining browsing information from your computer from a third party (targeted advertising service provider, advertising agency, etc.), which we could associate with the personal data you have provided to us, we will first seek your explicit consent before proceeding with such an association and sending you the resulting advertising or canvassing.

Your explicit consent could, where applicable, consist of ticking a box proposed on our services to which you are registered, such as ‘I would like to see or receive advertising tailored to my browsing habits by partners of our website’.