Use of Cookies

The content of this page applies to all users of our site. Its primary objective is to inform all visitors about the use of cookies that may occur on our site. It also aims to provide educational explanations regarding the purpose and uses of cookies.

When you browse our site, information related to your device’s browsing (smartphone, tablet, computer, etc.) may be stored in “Cookie” files installed on your device. To better understand the purpose and use of these cookies, please read the information below.

What is a cookie?

The National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties (CNIL) defines a cookie as information placed on a user’s hard drive by the server of the site they visit. It contains several pieces of data: the name of the server that placed it, a unique numerical identifier, and possibly an expiration date. This information is sometimes stored on the computer in a simple text file that a server accesses to read and record information.

What is the role of a cookie?

Cookies have different roles depending on their nature; their purposes can be very varied. The very nature of a cookie will determine its impact on your privacy. Two main categories of cookies can be distinguished:

• Cookies whose sole purpose is to enable or facilitate electronic communication or are strictly necessary for the provision of a communication service at your express request. These cookies can be legally placed without your consent because they do not pose a risk to your privacy. Their main purpose is to allow you to use all the features of our website.
• Other cookies whose purposes can be very varied: advertising statistics, social media sharing, etc. These cookies require your consent before being placed on your device.

Which cookies are used on our site?

Our site uses different families of cookies, the details of which are listed below. Cookies are grouped by purpose type to help you understand their roles.

1) Essential Technical Cookies

These cookies have two main purposes:

• to enable or facilitate electronic communication;
• to be necessary for the provision of an online communication service at the user’s express request.

These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of our site.

2) Functional Technical Cookies

These cookies are not essential for the proper functioning of our site’s main services. However, their main role is to provide you with enhanced services, such as the personalization of our content.

Our site uses this type of cookie to remember your browsing preference for mobile or classic sites, to remember the site language you previously selected, or to remember your visual display preferences.

3) Statistical Cookies

Our statistical cookies fulfill various roles and allow us to know the traffic on our website, the most visited pages, as well as the origin of our visitors. The main objective of these cookies is to enable us to improve our content to make it as relevant as possible for our visitors.

To obtain these statistics, visitors’ IP addresses are collected to determine the city from which visitors connect.

We currently use the Google Analytics statistics system and its associated cookies.

4) Sharing Cookies

Our sharing cookies allow you, when this feature is present on our site’s pages, to share our content on major social networks. When you use these sharing buttons, a third-party cookie is installed by the social network concerned: we invite you to consult the privacy policies specific to each of these social networks to understand their exact nature.

If you are logged into the social network while browsing our site, the sharing buttons allow the viewed content to be linked to your user account.

To control your cookie usage

You have the option to refuse the use of cookies. This refusal will result in the removal of some of the previously listed features. Below, we explain how to proceed.

1) Configuring your internet browser

You can configure your cookies directly via your internet browser. All websites you visit will be affected by these changes.

For Internet Explorer:

• open the Desktop, tap or click the Internet Explorer icon on the taskbar;
• tap or click the Tools button, then tap or click Internet Options;
• tap or click the Privacy tab, then under Settings, move the slider up to block all cookies, then tap or click OK.

More information at http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-fr/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11

For Google Chrome:

• click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar;
• select Settings;
• click Show advanced settings;
• in the “Privacy” section, click the Content settings button;
• in the “Cookies” section, you can modify your cookie settings, including blocking, deleting, etc.

More information at https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=fr&hlrm=en

For Mozilla Firefox:

• click the menu button and select Options;
• select the Privacy panel;
• check the Accept cookies box to enable cookies, or uncheck it to disable them.

More information at https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/activer-desactiver-cookies?redirectlocale=fr&redirectslug=Activer+et+d%C3%A9sactiver+les+cookies

For Opera:

• go to Preferences > Advanced > Cookies;
• cookie preferences allow you to control how Opera handles cookies. The default setting is to accept all cookies. Select one of the settings according to your choice:
  • Accept cookies: all cookies are accepted (default)
  • Accept only from visited site: third-party cookies, from a domain other than the one I am visiting, are refused
  • Never accept cookies: all cookies are refused

More information at http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html

2) Using the Youronlinechoices site

Digital advertising professionals grouped within the EDAA (European Digital Advertising Alliance) offer a website accessible to all internet users, allowing them to control targeted advertising cookies by accepting or refusing them. It is thus possible to control and define your preferences regarding advertising cookies. Hundreds of companies are partners in this initiative. The site also offers comprehensive explanations about cookies.

More information at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/fr/controler-ses-cookies/

For more information…

You can find more information about cookies on the website of the National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties (CNIL). The CNIL indeed offers educational practical guides for internet users.

More information at http://www.cnil.fr/vos-droits/vos-traces/les-cookies/