1. What is a cookie?
Cookies are files containing small amounts of information that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. This text file is likely to be recorded, subject to your choices, in a dedicated space on the hard disk of your terminal, when you consult an online service thanks to your navigation software.
A cookie file allows its issuer to identify the terminal in which it is stored, during its period of validity.
Cookies are kept for a period of 13 months.
2. What is the purpose of the cookies issued on our site?
Only the sender of a cookie is likely to read or modify the information contained in it.
The cookies used on our site make it possible to identify the services and sections that the user has visited and, more generally, his or her visiting behaviour.
This information is useful for :
- Facilitate and improve your navigation on our site
- Measure the audience of the site
The cookies we issue on our site:
When you connect to our site, we may, subject to your choices, install various cookies on your terminal allowing us to recognise the browser of your terminal during the period of validity of the cookie concerned.
The cookies we issue are used for the purposes described below, subject to your choices resulting from the settings of your browser software used when you visit our site.
The cookies we issue allow us to:
a. Facilitate and improve your browsing on our site:
- by adapting the presentation of our site to the display preferences of your terminal (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) during your visits to our site, according to the hardware and software used to display or read it on your terminal,
- by memorising information relating to a form that you have filled in on our site or to products, services or information that you have chosen on our site (service subscribed to, content consulted, purchase made etc.)
- by allowing you to access reserved and personal areas of our site, such as your account, thanks to identifiers or data that you may have previously given us
- by implementing security measures.
b. To improve our services:
These cookies make it possible to establish statistics and volume of visits and use of the various elements making up our site (sections and content visited, path) in order to improve the interest and ergonomics of our services.
3. Your choices concerning cookies
The deposit of cookies not strictly necessary for the provision of the Site on your terminal requires your consent, except in the case of legal exemption.
Several possibilities are offered to you to manage cookies. Any settings you may make may affect your browsing on the Internet and our site, as well as your access to certain services requiring the use of cookies. You can choose at any time to express and modify your wishes regarding cookies, by the means described below.
The configuration and recording of your choices regarding the deposit of cookies and other tracers is carried out via the CMP (Consent Management Platform) banner displayed when you first connect to the Site. The choices offered to you by your browser:
You can configure your browser software so that cookies are stored in your terminal or, on the contrary, that they are rejected, either systematically or according to their sender. You can also configure your browser software so that you are offered the option of accepting or rejecting cookies from time to time, before a cookie is likely to be stored on your terminal. For more information, see "How to exercise your choices, depending on the browser you use".
(a) The agreement on cookies
The recording of a cookie in a terminal is subject to the will of the terminal user, which he or she can express and modify at any time and free of charge through the choices offered by his or her browser software. If you have accepted in your browser software the recording of cookies in your terminal, the cookies integrated into the pages and content that you have consulted may be stored temporarily in a dedicated space in your terminal. They will only be readable by their sender.
(b) Refusing cookies
If you refuse the storage of cookies on your terminal, or if you delete those stored on it, you will still be able to browse the areas of our site, your data will not be stored.
In the following cases:
If you try to access our content or services that require you to be identified.
If we - or our service providers - are unable to recognise, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used by your terminal, its language and display settings or the country from which your terminal appears to be connected to the Internet.
Where applicable, we decline all responsibility for the consequences linked to the degraded functioning of our services resulting from the impossibility for us to record or consult the cookies necessary for their functioning and which you would have refused or deleted.
(c) How to exercise your choices, depending on the browser you use ?
For the management of cookies and your choices, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in your browser's help menu, which will tell you how to change your cookie wishes.
For Internet Explorer™
For Safari™
For Chrome™
For Firefox™
For Opera™
etc.
4. For more information on cookies
To guide you in limiting your traces on the web, if you wish, and being aware that this could degrade your navigation on our site and access to our services and/or your subscription, we invite you to consult the following page: Advice to users from the CNIL.
The CNIL (Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés) has produced a video to help you learn all about cookies: the video is available here