How cookies work on our website
When you visit our website, and subject to the choices you have made in the browser settings you use during your visit, we may place cookies on your device. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser for as long as the cookie remains valid.
The cookies we issue allow us to:
- Adapt the presentation of our website to your device's display preferences (screen resolution, operating system) during your visits.
- Measure how our website is used, and share that information with our social media, advertising and analytics partners so that we can serve you relevant advertising content.
Cookies issued and used by third parties are governed by those third parties' own privacy policies. For that reason, we set out below the purpose of the cookies we are aware of, and the means available to you to make choices about them.
1 - Cookies placed on our website by third-party applications embedded in our pages.
We may include third-party applications on our website that let you share our content with other people, or share your visit or your opinion about our content. This is the case, for example, with the « Like », « Share » and « Post » buttons provided by social networks such as Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) or LinkedIn.
The social network that provides such a button may be able to identify you through it, even if you did not click the button while browsing our website. This kind of button can allow the social network concerned to follow your browsing on our website — for example if your account with that network was active on your device (session open) while you were browsing our site.
We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information about your browsing on our website and to associate it with the data they already hold. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of those social networks in order to understand the purposes — in particular advertising purposes — for which they may use the browsing information collected through these buttons. Those policies should also allow you to exercise your choices with the social networks, in particular through the account settings of each of these third-party sites.
2 - Cookies placed by third-party content displayed in our advertising slots
Advertising content (images, animations, videos) displayed in our advertising slots may contain cookies issued by third parties: either the advertiser behind the advertising content, or a third-party company that has associated a cookie with an advertiser's content.
Where that is the case, the cookies placed by those third parties may allow them, for as long as those cookies remain valid:
- To count the number of times advertising content is displayed through our advertising slots, to identify the ads displayed and the number of users who clicked on each ad, allowing them to calculate the amounts due and to produce accurate statistics.
- To recognize your device on later visits to the sites or services where those advertisers or third parties place cookies, and to adapt those third-party sites and services, or the advertising they display, to the browsing behavior of your device that they are aware of.
3 - Audience measurement
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website. Google Analytics places cookies that generate statistics about visits and how the site is used. You can find more information, and opt out of Google Analytics across all websites, using the browser add-on provided by Google.
Several options are available to you for managing cookies. Any setting you change may affect how you browse our website and the Internet in general, and your ability to access certain services on our website may depend on cookies being accepted. You can express and change your cookie preferences at any time, using the means described below.
You can configure your browser so that cookies are stored on your device or, on the contrary, so that they are rejected — either systematically, or depending on who issues them. You can also configure your browser so that you are asked to accept or refuse cookies on a case-by-case basis, before a cookie is stored on your device.
1 - Accepting cookies
Whether a cookie is stored on a device depends primarily on the wishes of the person using that device, which can be expressed and changed at any time, free of charge, through the options offered by the browser.
If you have allowed cookies to be stored on your device in your browser settings, the cookies embedded in the pages and content you have viewed will be stored temporarily in a dedicated area on your device. They will be readable there only by whoever issued them.
2 - Refusing cookies
If you refuse to have cookies stored on your device, or if you delete the ones already stored, you will no longer be able to use certain features that are needed to browse some areas of our website. The same applies where we, or our service providers, are unable to recognize — for technical compatibility purposes — the type of browser used by your device, its language and display settings, or the country from which your device is connected to the Internet.
Where that is the case, we disclaim any liability for the consequences of our services working in a degraded manner because we were unable to store or read the cookies they need in order to work properly, and which you have refused or deleted.
3 - How to exercise your choices, depending on your browser
Cookie settings and choices work differently in each browser. You can find out how to change your cookie preferences in your browser's help menu.
The cookies we issue allow us to:
- Adapt the presentation of our website to your device's display preferences (screen resolution, operating system) during your visits.
- Measure how our website is used, and share that information with our social media, advertising and analytics partners so that we can serve you relevant advertising content.
What do third parties use cookies for?
Cookies issued and used by third parties are governed by those third parties' own privacy policies. For that reason, we set out below the purpose of the cookies we are aware of, and the means available to you to make choices about them.
1 - Cookies placed on our website by third-party applications embedded in our pages.
We may include third-party applications on our website that let you share our content with other people, or share your visit or your opinion about our content. This is the case, for example, with the « Like », « Share » and « Post » buttons provided by social networks such as Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) or LinkedIn.
The social network that provides such a button may be able to identify you through it, even if you did not click the button while browsing our website. This kind of button can allow the social network concerned to follow your browsing on our website — for example if your account with that network was active on your device (session open) while you were browsing our site.
We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information about your browsing on our website and to associate it with the data they already hold. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of those social networks in order to understand the purposes — in particular advertising purposes — for which they may use the browsing information collected through these buttons. Those policies should also allow you to exercise your choices with the social networks, in particular through the account settings of each of these third-party sites.
2 - Cookies placed by third-party content displayed in our advertising slots
Advertising content (images, animations, videos) displayed in our advertising slots may contain cookies issued by third parties: either the advertiser behind the advertising content, or a third-party company that has associated a cookie with an advertiser's content.
Where that is the case, the cookies placed by those third parties may allow them, for as long as those cookies remain valid:
- To count the number of times advertising content is displayed through our advertising slots, to identify the ads displayed and the number of users who clicked on each ad, allowing them to calculate the amounts due and to produce accurate statistics.
- To recognize your device on later visits to the sites or services where those advertisers or third parties place cookies, and to adapt those third-party sites and services, or the advertising they display, to the browsing behavior of your device that they are aware of.
3 - Audience measurement
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website. Google Analytics places cookies that generate statistics about visits and how the site is used. You can find more information, and opt out of Google Analytics across all websites, using the browser add-on provided by Google.
Your choices about cookies
Several options are available to you for managing cookies. Any setting you change may affect how you browse our website and the Internet in general, and your ability to access certain services on our website may depend on cookies being accepted. You can express and change your cookie preferences at any time, using the means described below.
You can configure your browser so that cookies are stored on your device or, on the contrary, so that they are rejected — either systematically, or depending on who issues them. You can also configure your browser so that you are asked to accept or refuse cookies on a case-by-case basis, before a cookie is stored on your device.
1 - Accepting cookies
Whether a cookie is stored on a device depends primarily on the wishes of the person using that device, which can be expressed and changed at any time, free of charge, through the options offered by the browser.
If you have allowed cookies to be stored on your device in your browser settings, the cookies embedded in the pages and content you have viewed will be stored temporarily in a dedicated area on your device. They will be readable there only by whoever issued them.
2 - Refusing cookies
If you refuse to have cookies stored on your device, or if you delete the ones already stored, you will no longer be able to use certain features that are needed to browse some areas of our website. The same applies where we, or our service providers, are unable to recognize — for technical compatibility purposes — the type of browser used by your device, its language and display settings, or the country from which your device is connected to the Internet.
Where that is the case, we disclaim any liability for the consequences of our services working in a degraded manner because we were unable to store or read the cookies they need in order to work properly, and which you have refused or deleted.
3 - How to exercise your choices, depending on your browser
Cookie settings and choices work differently in each browser. You can find out how to change your cookie preferences in your browser's help menu.
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