Cookie policy

This section allows you to learn more about the origin and use of Navigational Information processed in connection with your visit to our website and your rights. This Policy is therefore important to you in order to have a positive and confident experience with our services and to us in order to answer your questions about your visit to our website accurately and completely and to take into account your wishes. When you visit our website, information relating to the browsing of your Terminal (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) may be recorded in "Cookies" files installed on your Terminal, subject to the choices you have expressed concerning Cookies and which you can modify at any time.

WHAT ARE THE COOKIES USED FOR ON THIS SITE?

1. The Cookies we issue on our site

When you connect to our website, we may install various Cookies in your Terminal, subject to your choices, allowing us to recognize 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 website. Only the issuer of a Cookie is likely to read or modify the information contained therein.

The Cookies we issue allow us to:

  • to establish statistics and volumes of frequentation and use of the various elements composing our website (sections and contents visited, path), allowing us to improve the interest and the ergonomics of our services;

  • to count the total number of advertisements displayed by us on our advertising spaces, to identify these advertisements, their respective number of displays, the number of users having clicked on each advertisement and, if necessary, the subsequent actions carried out by these users on the pages to which these advertisements lead, in order to calculate the sums due to the actors of the chain of advertising distribution (communication agency, advertising agency, site/support of distribution) and to establish statistics;

  • to adapt the presentation of our website to the display preferences of your Terminal (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) during your visits to our website, according to the hardware and software for viewing or reading that your Terminal has;

  • to adapt our advertising spaces to the display preferences of your terminal (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) during your visits to our website, according to the hardware and software for displaying and reading that your terminal has;

  • to memorize information relating to a form that you have filled in on our website (registration or access to an account) or to products, services or information that you have chosen on our website (subscribed service, etc.) and to allow you to access reserved and personal areas of our website, such as your account, thanks to identifiers or data that you may have previously entrusted to us ;

  • implement security measures, for example, when you are asked to reconnect to a content or service after a certain period of time.

2. Cookies issued on our site by third parties

Cookies are likely to be included in the advertising spaces of our website. These advertising spaces display on your terminal advertising content from advertisers. These spaces contribute to the financing of the contents and services that we place at your disposal.

The issuance and use of Cookies by third parties is subject to the privacy policies of those third parties. We inform you of the purpose of the Cookies we are aware of and the means by which you can make choices with respect to Cookies.

Because of third party applications integrated into our
website

We may include on our website, computer applications from third parties, which allow you to share the content of our website with other people or to let these other people know about your consultation or your opinion concerning a content of our website. This is notably the case of the "Share" and "Like" buttons from social networks such as "Facebook", "Twitter", "LinkedIn", "Viadeo", etc.

The social network providing such an application button is likely to identify you thanks to this button, even if you did not use this button during your consultation of our website. Indeed, this type of application button can allow the social network concerned to follow your Browsing on our website, simply because your account with the social network concerned was activated on your Terminal (open session) during your Browsing on our website.

We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information about your browsing on our website and associated with the Personal Data they hold. We invite you to consult the privacy policies of these social networks in order to learn about the purposes of use, including advertising, of the Browsing information they may collect through these application buttons. These protection policies must allow you to exercise your choices with these social networks, in particular by setting up your user accounts for each of these networks.

Through third party content displayed in our advertising spaces

The advertising content (graphics, animations, videos, etc.) displayed in our advertising spaces are likely to contain Cookies issued by third parties: either the Advertiser at the origin of the advertising content concerned, or a company outside the Advertiser (communication consulting agency, audience measurement company, Targeted Advertising Service Provider, etc.) which has associated a Cookie with the advertising content of an Advertiser.

Where applicable, the Cookies issued by these third parties may allow them, during the period of validity of the Cookies :

  • to count the number of displays of the advertising contents diffused via our advertising spaces, to identify the advertisements thus displayed, the number of users having clicked on each advertisement, allowing them to calculate the sums due from this fact and to establish statistics;

  • to collect Browsing information about the terminals that visit our website;

  • to recognize your Terminal during its subsequent Navigation on any other website or service on which these Advertisers or these third parties also issue Cookies and, if necessary, to adapt these websites and third party services or the advertisements they broadcast, to the Navigation of your Terminal of which they may have knowledge.

By an external advertising agency using our advertising space

The advertising spaces on our website may be operated by one or more external advertising agencies and, where applicable, may contain Cookies issued by one of them. Where applicable, the Cookies issued by these external Advertising Agencies allow them, during the period of validity of the Cookies:
to count the total number of advertisements displayed by them on our advertising spaces, to identify these advertisements, their respective number of displays, the number of users having clicked on each advertisement and, where applicable, the subsequent actions carried out by these users on the pages to which these advertisements lead, in order to calculate the sums owed to the players in the advertising distribution chain (advertising agency, Advertising Agency, website/broadcasting medium) and to draw up statistics ;

  • to adapt the advertising spaces they operate to the display preferences of your Terminal (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) according to the hardware and software for viewing and reading that your Terminal has;

  • to adapt the advertising content displayed on your Terminal via our advertising spaces according to the Navigation of your Terminal on our website;

  • to adapt the advertising content displayed on your Terminal via our advertising spaces according to the previous or subsequent browsing of your Terminal on third party websites in which the advertising company concerned also issues Cookies, provided that these Cookies have been stored in your Terminal in accordance with the choices you have made with regard to this advertising company;

  • to adapt the advertising content displayed on your Terminal via our advertising spaces according to the location data (longitude and latitude) transmitted by your Terminal with your prior consent;

  • to adapt the advertising content displayed on your Terminal in our advertising spaces according to the Personal Data that you may have provided to this Advertising Agency.

YOUR CHOICES REGARDING COOKIES

Several possibilities are offered to you to manage the Cookies. Any settings you make may affect your Internet browsing and your access to certain services that require the use of cookies.

You can choose at any time to express and modify your wishes regarding Cookies, by the means described below.

1. The choices offered to you by your
browser

You can configure your browser so that Cookies are saved in your terminal or, on the contrary, that they are rejected, either systematically or according to their sender. You can also configure your browser so that you are offered the option of accepting or rejecting Cookies from time to time, before a Cookie is likely to be recorded in your Terminal.

The Cookie Agreement

The recording of a Cookie in a Terminal is essentially subject to the will of the user of the Terminal, which the latter can express and modify at any time and free of charge through the choices offered to him by his navigation software.

If you have accepted in your browser software the recording of Cookies in your Terminal, the Cookies integrated in the pages and contents that you have consulted may be stored temporarily in a dedicated space of your Terminal. They will be readable only by their issuer.

Refusal of Cookies

If you refuse to accept cookies on your terminal, or if you delete the cookies stored on your terminal, you will no longer be able to benefit from a certain number of functionalities that are nevertheless necessary to navigate in 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 Terminal, its language and display settings or the country from which your Terminal appears to be connected to the Internet.

If necessary, we decline any responsibility for the consequences related to the degraded functioning of our services resulting from the impossibility for us to record or consult the Cookies necessary to their functioning and which you would have refused or removed.

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 the help menu of your browser, which will allow you to know how to modify your wishes regarding cookies.
For Internet ExplorerTM: http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-FR/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
For SafariTM: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/3.0/fr/9277.html
For ChromeTM: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=fr&hlrm=en&answer=95647
For FirefoxTM: http://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/Activer%20et%20d%C3%A9sactiver%20les%20cookies
For OperaTM: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html

2. Flash" Cookies from "Adobe Flash PlayerTM

"Adobe Flash PlayerTM is a computer application that allows for the rapid development of dynamic content using the "Flash" computer language. Flash (and applications of the same type) memorizes the settings, preferences and use of these contents thanks to a technology similar to Cookies. However, Adobe Flash PlayerTM manages this information and your choices through an interface different from that provided by your browser.
Insofar as your Terminal is likely to view content developed with the Flash language, we invite you to access your Flash cookie management tools from the website http://www.adobe.com/fr.

3. Your choices expressed online to interprofessional platforms

You can connect to the site http://www.youronlinechoices.com, proposed by digital advertising professionals grouped together within the European Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) and managed in France by the Interactive Advertising Bureau France.
You will be able to find out which companies are registered with this platform and which offer
you the possibility of refusing or accepting the cookies used by these companies to adapt the advertisements likely to be displayed on your terminal to your browsing information: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/fr/controler-ses-cookies/.
This European platform is shared by hundreds of Internet advertising professionals and constitutes a centralized interface allowing you to express your refusal or acceptance of the Cookies that may be used to adapt the advertisements that may be displayed on your Terminal to your Browsing information. Note that this procedure will not prevent the display of advertisements on the websites you visit. It will only block the technologies that allow to adapt advertisements to your centers of interest.

WHAT IS THE POINT OF SEEING ADS ADAPTED TO YOUR NAVIGATION ?

The objective is to present you with the most relevant advertising possible. To this end, cookie technology makes it possible to determine in real time which advertisement to display on a Terminal, depending on its recent browsing on one or more websites.
Your interest in the advertising content that is displayed on your Terminal when you visit a website often determines the advertising resources of the website that enable it to operate its services, often provided to users free of charge. You may prefer to see advertisements that are relevant to your interests rather than advertisements that are of no interest to you. Similarly, Advertisers who want to see their ads displayed are interested in displaying their offers to users who are likely to be most interested in them.

SHARING THE USE OF YOUR DEVICE WITH OTHERS

If your Terminal is used by several people and when the same Terminal has several browsers, we cannot be sure that the services and advertisements intended for your Terminal correspond to your own use of this Terminal and not to that of another user of this Terminal.
Where applicable, the sharing with other people of the use of your Terminal and the configuration of the parameters of your browser with regard to Cookies, is your free choice and your responsibility.

GLOSSARY

"Cookie(s)": refers to a text file that may be saved, subject to your choices, in a dedicated space on the hard disk of your Terminal, when you consult an online service thanks to your browser software. A Cookie file allows its issuer to identify the Terminal in which it is saved, for the duration of the validity or saving of the Cookie.

"Browsing Information" means information that relates to a Terminal's connection to an electronic communication service at a given time. We may process Browsing Information as described herein, even though we do not necessarily know which Terminal you are using or who you are at any given time. This browsing information includes, but is not limited to:

  • IP (Internet Protocol) address of the Terminal connected to the Internet ;

  • the date and time of connection of a Terminal to an electronic communication service;

  • the Internet address of the Internet page of origin ("referer") of the Terminal accessing an electronic communication service;

  • the type of operating system used by the Terminal (Windows, MacOs, Linux, Unix, BeOS. etc.);

  • the type and version of the browser software used by a Terminal (Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc.);

  • the language of use of the browser software used by the Terminal, the identifier and content of a Cookie file stored by us in the Terminal.

"Personal Data": means data that relates to you alone at a given time, regardless of the Terminal you are using.

"Terminal" means the hardware equipment (computer, tablet, smartphone, phone, etc.) that you use to view or view a website, application, advertising content, etc.

"Advertiser": generally refers to any company or organization that uses various communication techniques to promote its reputation, its image, its products or its services.

"Advertising network": means the entity or company in charge of marketing advertising space on behalf of one or more Broadcasters: publishers of websites, mobile applications, etc.

The Régies may be required to :

  • to design advertising offers that are profitable for the Broadcaster and for themselves and more effective for the Advertiser;

  • implement technological solutions and partnerships that enable them to collect information relating to the Browsing and/or location of a single Terminal (computer, smartphone) on one or several thousand advertising distribution media (websites, mobile service platforms, mobile applications) for which they are the direct or indirect intermediaries.

"Broadcaster": refers to the content publishing medium (website, mobile website or mobile application), which has advertising space that it seeks to remunerate in the best possible conditions - both financial and ergonomic - through the insertion of advertising content, in order to finance its activities, in particular the publishing of services and content or information (e.g. online press).
In order to promote its advertising spaces and obtain better remuneration for them, the Broadcaster must be able to justify an audience in order to supply its spaces with advertising content adapted to this audience. The Broadcaster may call upon one or more Advertising Agencies to promote its spaces. Where applicable, these Advertising Agencies are required to implement in the advertising spaces they market to Advertisers, counting devices and, when they have them, devices for adapting the advertising content that they will display or broadcast on the Broadcaster's site.

"Targeted Advertising Service Provider": means a company that uses technologies - in particular Cookies and/or algorithms for calculating probability or appetence - that enable it to assist an Advertising Agency, an Advertiser or a communications consultancy in determining the advertising that appears to be the most appropriate to the Browsing information relating to a Terminal or to the Personal Data relating to a user, according to the information that it processes or that is made available to it by one of these actors.

"Targeted Advertising" means the ability to tailor advertising content to Browser information or Personal Data.

"Behavioral Advertising": refers to advertising that consists of deducing the supposed centers of interest of users from information relating to the Browsing of their Terminal on one or more services, in order to be able to display specifically adapted advertisements, supposed to interest them more than other advertisements.
The implementation of this type of advertising depends, on the one hand, on the technologies used and the actors who implement them, and on the other hand, on the availability or not of a "cookie" of a Terminal (a "Cookie" file, for example) and on the ability or not to share such a "cookie" with third parties.

"Personalized Advertising": refers to advertising chosen according to the characteristics known to the Internet user (age, gender, contact information, etc.) and that he or she has provided, for example by registering for a service.
The implementation of this form of targeted advertising can result either from declarative information provided by a user but insufficient to identify him (age, gender, tastes, interests), or from a processing of Personal Data. In the latter case, it must be apprehended with regard to the regulations relating to the protection of Personal Data, by informing Internet users, when they provide Personal Data concerning them, of the purposes of their processing, in particular the adaptation of advertising content likely to be displayed to them.