1. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file issued by the server of the website you are visiting and stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device. The cookie contains a unique code that allows your browser to be recognized when you visit the website or when you return to it in the future. Cookies may be placed by the server of the website you are visiting or by partners with whom this website collaborates. A website server can only read cookies that it has placed itself; it has no access to any other information on your computer or mobile device.
The content of a cookie usually consists of the name of the server that placed the cookie, an expiration date, and a unique encrypted code.
The information collected and stored in a cookie is deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
Cookies generally ensure easier and faster interaction between visitors and websites. They remember your preferences, allowing you to speed up your subsequent visits to the site and making your visits easier.
In addition, they help you navigate between different parts of the website. Cookies can also be used to make the content of a website or the advertising on that website more relevant to the visitor and to tailor the website to the visitor's personal tastes and needs.
2. Your consent
The use of cookies requires your prior and explicit consent. You can always change your mind later and refuse these cookies and/or delete them at any time by changing your browser settings.
The warning message on the home page allows you to express your consent to our cookie policy. By refusing to give your consent, you will still be able to access the public areas of the site, but certain functions will be limited or unavailable, as indicated below.
Please also refer to our "privacy policy" in the legal notices, which defines the rules we follow when processing any personal data we may collect.
3. The different types of cookies used
3.1. Cookies strictly necessary for navigation and functionality
These cookies are essential for visiting our websites, ensuring they function properly, and facilitating their use. They do not contain any personal data other than your IP address, which is necessary for browsing the Internet.
They enable, in particular:
navigate between the different sections of the site and easily return to previous pages;
verify your identity securely before granting access to your personal information when a personal account has been created;
personalize services by remembering your preferences (language, currency, location, browsing data, etc.);
avoid having to repeat your choices every time you visit;
collect the information entered in online forms;
compile statistics (e.g., the number of unique visitors);
analyze site usage and the popularity of our pages.
You can control these cookies through your browser settings. However, refusing them may prevent certain features of the website from functioning properly or even make them completely inaccessible.
3.2. Third-party cookies
When you visit our website, socio-demographic data and profile data are collected and stored anonymously in a commercial cookie.
Commercial cookies are installed by advertisers when they display their ads. These third-party advertisers are notified of your visit to our site, but the contract concluded with them only allows them to process data anonymously.
They enable you to:
- prevent you from repeatedly being exposed to the same advertisements
- measure the effectiveness of our various marketing and advertising activities
- customize advertising on our website.
Cookies are placed via our websites by third parties: Google, Awin, and Facebook.
They enable you to:
- improve the content and functioning of the site through the use of Google Analytics.
- monitor our banners on other websites and optimize them.
4. Privacy
When connecting to a website, in addition to the data contained in cookies (see point 3), certain data is automatically transmitted to the website by the browser software used by the internet user. This data includes the TCP/IP address (a number that identifies a computer on the network), the browser and operating system brands and versions, and the last web page visited.
You can find more information about how we process your personal data in our privacy policy, which is available on our website.
5. Cookie management
Most web browsers are automatically configured to accept cookies. However, you can configure your browser to accept or block cookies.
You can delete cookies already installed on your computer or mobile device at any time. Any settings you may make may affect your Internet browsing and your access to certain services that require the use of cookies.
However, we cannot guarantee access to all services on our website if you refuse to accept cookies.
Refusing cookies from our website does not mean that you will not see any online advertising. It simply means that the services you receive on our website will not be based on your presumed interests. Furthermore, you may still receive behavioral advertising from other companies if you have not refused their cookies.
In your browser settings, you have the option to refuse the installation of cookies. How to enable or disable cookies and delete them depends on your device and web browser.
5.1. Cookie Agreement
The storage of a cookie on a device is subject to the prior consent of the device user, which they can express and modify at any time and free of charge through the choices offered by their browser software.
If you have accepted cookies in your browser software, cookies embedded in the pages and content you have viewed may be temporarily stored in a dedicated area of your device. They will only be readable by their issuer.
5.2. Refusal of Cookies
If you refuse to accept certain types of cookies on your device, or if you delete those that are stored there, you will no longer be able to benefit from a number of features that are nevertheless necessary for browsing certain areas of our site. This would be the case if you tried to access our content or services that require you to identify yourself. This would also be the case if we—or our service providers—could not recognize, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used by your device, its language and display settings, or the country from which your device appears to be connected to the Internet.
Where applicable, we accept no responsibility for the consequences of the impaired functioning of our services resulting from our inability to store or access the cookies necessary for their functioning, which you may have refused or deleted.
5.3. Do not track
You can also configure your browser to send a code indicating to websites that you do not want to be tracked. ("Do Not Track" option).