Cookie policy

1. PURPOSE AND SCOPE

You are informed that, when you visit our website, cookies may be installed on your equipment (desktop or laptop computer, tablet or smartphone).

The purpose of this policy is to inform you of the essential elements relating to the way in which we use these cookies, the objectives pursued in the context of their use, and to inform you of your rights in this respect.

2. WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Cookies are small text files that are stored and/or read on a user’s terminal when visiting a website or mobile application, and used by the site to send information to the browser.

Throughout its period of validity, a cookie enables its sender to recognize the terminal each time it accesses content containing cookies from the same sender.

3. PURPOSE OF COOKIES USED

The cookies we use can be grouped into three categories:
– essential or technical cookies ;
– audience measurement cookies
– and advertising cookies.

1. Essential or technical cookies Essential or technical cookies are those whose sole purpose is to enable or facilitate communication by electronic means, or those strictly necessary for the provision of an online communication service at the express request of the user.
In particular, these cookies enable :
– Retain the user’s expressed choice on the deposit of tracers;
– To authenticate a service;
– adapt the presentation of the site to the terminal’s display preferences;
– To memorize information relating to the contents of a shopping cart, or to forms that the user has filled in on the site;
– provide the user with access to his/her account.

2. Audience measurement cookies Audience measurement cookies are used to obtain information about the user’s browsing habits (examples of purposes: performance measurement, detection of browsing problems, optimization of technical performance or ergonomics, estimation of server power requirements, analysis of content consulted, etc.).

3. Advertising cookies Advertising cookies are linked to targeted advertising, i.e. the observation of users’ browsing habits, making it possible to create a specific profile in order to show ads corresponding to them.

4. THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

Our website may also contain third-party cookies.

We ensure that these cookies are properly managed by third-party services, but we cannot be held responsible for them.

5. SHELF LIFE

We comply with the CNIL’s requirements regarding data retention periods.

Technical or essential cookies are kept for the time required to provide and operate the service.

Audience measurement cookies are kept for a maximum of 13 months. Information collected via these tracers is kept for 25 months.

Other cookies are kept for a period reasonably necessary for the purposes for which they are used. The validity of the consent given will not exceed 13 months.

6. CONSENT AND EXEMPTION

According to CNIL guidelines, a distinction must be made between cookies that require prior consent and those that are exempt.

The cookies that require your prior consent are advertising cookies and audience measurement cookies that are not exempt from consent.

Technical cookies and certain audience measurement cookies fall under the exemption scheme.

In the case of audience measurement cookies exempt from consent, you have the right to object.

7. CONTACT US

If you have any questions, please contact our data protection officer (see data protection policy).

For more general information on the protection of personal data, please consult the CNIL website at www.cnil.fr.

8. REVIEW

In the event of regulatory changes or recommendations from the CNIL, we reserve the right to modify this policy.