COOKIES POLICY

What is a "cookie"?

A cookie is a small piece of text, possibly including numbers, which a website stores on the PC or device (smartphone, tablet, etc.) you use to visit that website. Cookies are designed to speed up and customise the use of a website as you visit and re-visit that site.

For this purpose, cookies exchange information between your web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.) and the server on which the website is running, for example information about your preference as to how the website is displayed (language, font size, etc.), your navigation history, your choices from the options provided by the website or registration information.

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.

What cookies are used on the Sites?

Cookies exempt from consent

• Strictly necessary cookies
  These are cookies which are needed for our website, applications or services to function properly, for example, these cookies allow you to access secure areas of our website These cookies do not require your consent. They are always activated.

Cookies which can only be deposited with  your consent:

• Cookies for performance measurements and analyses
  These cookies are placed by our partners for the purpose of analysing your browsing on the Sites (e.g. pages visited, volume of visits) in order to measure and improve the performance of the site. If you do not authorise these cookies, we will not know when you visited our site and we will have less control over their performance.These cookies collect information about how visitors and users use our website, for instance which functionality visitors use most often, and if they get error messages from areas of the website, These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor or user. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. We only use these cookies to improve how our website.
• Functionality cookies
  These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other website.
• Targeting or advertising Cookies
  These cookies are placed by our partners in order to present you with suitable advertisements on other sites. If you do not authorise these cookies, less relevant advertisements will be suggested to you.These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operators’ permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.
• Web beacons and parameter tracking
  We also use cookies and similar software known as web beacons to count users who have visited our website after clicking through from one of our advertisements on another website or in emails and to collect details of any products or services purchased. These web beacons collect limited information which does not identify particular individuals. It is not possible to refuse the use of web beacons. However, because they are used in conjunction with cookies, you can effectively disable them by setting your browser to restrict or block cookies.
• IP Address and traffic data
  We keep a record of traffic data which is logged automatically by our servers, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, device information, the website that you visited before ours and the website you visit after leaving our site. We also collect some site, statistics such as access rates, page hits and page views. We are not able to identify any individual from traffic data or site statistics.

Who are the partners who place advertising or analysis Cookies?

These cookies are placed and processed by the following partners:

• The company GOOGLE LLC. whose privacy policy can be accessed at the following address: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB

How are cookies monitored?

You have the option of monitoring and/or deleting cookies as you see fit through your browser settings. For example, you can delete all the cookies stored on your PC, and can also set most browsers to block cookies. In that case, you may have to re-enter certain preferences each time you visit the same website, and it is possible that certain services and functionalities will not work.

How to set cookies?

It is possible to configure the preferences of your browser software to set cookies.

You can configure your browser software to accept the saving of cookies in your device or, on the contrary, not to authorize their deposit, systematically or according to their issuer (including partners).

You can also configure your browser software so that the acceptance or refusal of cookies is offered on a selective basis, prior to the deposit of a cookie in your device.

The configuration of each browser is different. It is described in the help menu of your browser.

For Chrome ™

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB&hlrm=en

For Internet Explorer ™

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/delete-and-manage-cookies-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-ede5947fc64d

For EDGE™

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/learn-about-tracking-prevention-in-microsoft-edge-5ac125e8-9b90-8d59-fa2c-7f2e9a44d869

For Firefox ™

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer

For Opéra ™

https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

For Safari ™

https://support.apple.com/en-euro/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

Social Media Features

We may include on our site third-party computer applications that enable you to share site content with other persons or advise other persons about your viewing of content on our site.

That is the case for the “Share” button, provided by social networks on the Sites. These social networks may identify you and track your browsing through this button, even if you have not used the button while viewing the Sites. We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information about your browsing on the Sites.

We invite you to consult the privacy protection policies of these social networks in order to be aware of the purposes of use, in particular advertising, of the browsing information they may collect through these application buttons.

• Twitter : https://twitter.com/en/privacy
• LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?_l=en_EN
• Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

How long is your consent retained?

Proof of consent or refusal is kept for 6 months. After this period, we will ask for your consent again.

Cookies consent

You can change, add or remove your consent by managing cookies independently or all at once.

Here are the list of cookies that you can find and accept or decline.

• Necessary
• Functional
• Performance
• Analytics
• Advertisement
• Others

For more information on cookies, please visit:

• Wikipedia
• Spamsquad
• AllAboutCookies.org