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Cookies policy

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INFORMATION ON COOKIES

1- What is a cookie?

A cookie is a text file that can be saved, subject to your choice, in a dedicated area of the hard drive of your device, during the consultation of an online service with your browser software.

A cookie file allows its issuer to identify the terminal in which it is registered, during the period of validity.

What are the cookies on our website used for?

Only the issuer of a cookie may read or modify the information contained therein.

The cookies used on our site allow to identify the services and headings that the user has visited, and more generally his behavior regarding visits. This information is useful to better customize the services, content, promotional offers and banners that appear on our site and facilitate your navigation on our site. Cookies are also necessary for the proper functioning of certain services or to measure their audience.

Cookies may be included in the advertising space of our site. These spaces contribute to the financing of the contents and services that we place at your disposal.

2.1. The cookies that we emit on our site:

When you connect to our site, we may, subject to your choice, install various cookies in your device allowing us to recognize the browser of your device during the validity of the cookie concerned.
The cookies we issue are used for the purposes described below, subject to your choices that result from the settings of your browser software used during your visit to our site.

The cookies we issue allow us to:

  1. Facilitate your navigation 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 of visualization or reading that your terminal has,
    • by memorizing information relating to a form that you have filled in on our site (registration or access to your account) or to products, services or information that you have chosen on our site (service subscribed, content consulted, purchase made etc ...) .
    • by giving you access to reserved and personal areas of our site, such as your account, through identifiers or data that you may have previously entrusted to us
    • by implementing security measures.

  2. Count the number of articles consulted on a part of our site:
    • Our site includes a system of "Paywall" (French toll) allowing any unregistered user to read a number of our free articles for free, then to identify himself by his name-firstname-email in order to continue consulting the articles in order to be offered a subscription offer.
  3. Improve our services:
    • These cookies make it possible to establish statistics and volume of use and use of the various elements composing our site (rubrics and content visited, routes) to improve the interest and the ergonomics of our services.

  4. Adapt the advertising proposed on our site:

    • by counting the total number of advertisements displayed by us on our advertising space, identifying these advertisements, the number of users who clicked on each advertisement and compiling statistics,
    • by adapting our advertising space to the display preferences of your terminal (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.), depending on the hardware and software viewing or reading that your terminal has,
    • by adapting the advertising content displayed on your terminal by our advertising space, depending on the navigation of your terminal on our site,
      by adapting, if necessary, the advertising content displayed on your terminal in our advertising spaces according to the location data transmitted by your terminal with your prior agreement
      by adapting the advertising content displayed on your device in our advertising space based on the personal data that you have provided to us

2.2. Cookies issued on our site by third parties

The issue and use of cookies by third parties are subject to the privacy policies of these third parties. We inform you of the purpose of the cookies of which we are aware and the means you have to make choices with regard to these cookies.

  1. Due to third-party applications integrated into our site

    We may include on our site / application third-party computer applications that allow you to share content from our site with others or to let others know about your review or opinion about content. of our site / application. This is particularly the case of buttons "Share", "Like", from social networks such as Facebook "Twitter", LinkedIn "," Viadeo ", etc.

    The social network providing such an application button is likely to identify you with this button, even if you did not use this button during your consultation of our site / application. Indeed, this type of application button can allow the social network to follow your navigation on our site, just because your social network account was activated on your device (open session) during your navigation on our site.
    We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information about your browsing on our site and associated with the personal data they have. We invite you to consult the privacy policies of these social networks to learn the purpose of use, including advertising, navigation information they can collect through these application buttons. These protection policies must enable you to exercise your choices with these social networks, in particular by setting up your usage accounts for each of these networks.

  2. Via third party content in our advertising space

    Advertising content may contain cookies issued by third parties: either the advertiser at the origin of the advertising content concerned, or a third-party company to the advertiser (communication consulting agency, audience measurement company, service provider). targeted advertising, etc.), which has associated a cookie with the advertising content of an advertiser.

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

    • to count the number of displays of the advertising contents diffused through 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 of this fact and to establish statistics,
    • to recognize your terminal during its subsequent navigation on any other site or service on which these advertisers or third parties also issue cookies and, where appropriate, to adapt these third-party sites and services or the advertisements they broadcast, to the navigation of your terminal of which they may be aware.

  3. By an external advertising agency using our advertising space

    Advertising spaces on our site may be exploited by one or more external advertising agencies and, where applicable, contain cookies issued by one of them. Where applicable, cookies issued by these external advertising agencies allow them, during the period of validity of these cookies:

    • to count the total number of advertisements posted by their care on our advertising spaces, to identify these advertisements, their number of respective 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 amounts due to the actors of the advertising broadcast chain (advertiser, communication agency, advertising network, site / broadcast medium) and to establish statistics,
    • to adapt the advertising spaces they operate to the display preferences of your terminal (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.), depending on the hardware and software viewing or reading that your terminal includes,
    • to adapt the advertising contents displayed on your terminal via our advertising spaces according to the navigation of your terminal on our site,
    • 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 relevant department also issues cookies, provided that these cookies have been registered in your terminal in accordance with the choices you have made with respect to this board,
    • 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 agreement
    • to adapt the advertising content displayed on your device in our advertising space based on the personal data that you could have provided to this advertising network.

3. Your choices regarding cookies

Several options are available to manage cookies. Any setting you may undertake may change your browsing and our website and your conditions of access to certain services requiring the use of cookies. You can make the choice at any time to express and modify your wishes in terms of cookies, by the means described below.

The choices offered to you by your browser software:

You can configure your browser software so that cookies are saved in your device or, conversely, they are rejected, either systematically or according to their issuer. You can also configure your browser so that the acceptance or rejection of cookies is offered to you punctually, before a cookie is likely to be stored in your device. For more information, see "How to exercise your choices, depending on which browser you use?"

  1. The agreement on cookies

    The registration of a cookie in a terminal is subordinate to the will of the user of the terminal, that he can express and modify at any time and free of charge through the choices offered to him by his browser software. If you have accepted the registration of cookies in your Terminal in your browser, the cookies embedded in the pages and contents that you have consulted may be stored temporarily in a dedicated area of your terminal. They will be read only by their issuer.

  2. The refusal of cookies

    If you refuse the registration of cookies in your terminal, or if you delete those registered there, you will not be able to benefit from a certain number of functionalities necessary to navigate certain spaces of our site. This would be the case if you were trying to access our content or services that require you to identify. This would also be the case when we-or our providers-could not recognize, for technical compatibility, the type of browser your device uses, its language and display settings, or the country from which your device appears to be connected. Internet. Where applicable, we accept no liability for the consequences of the poor functioning of our services resulting from the impossibility for us to record or consult the cookies necessary for their operation and that you have refused or deleted.

  3. 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 the help menu of your browser, which will allow you to know how to change your wishes for cookies. We put you below the help pages for each of the current browsers:

  4. "Flash" cookies © of "Adobe Flash Player" ™

    "Adobe Flash Player" ™ is a computer application that allows the rapid development of dynamic content using the "Flash" computer language. Flash (and similar apps) remembers the settings, preferences, and usage of this content through technology similar to cookies. However, "Adobe Flash Player" ™ manages this information and your choices via an interface different from that provided by your browser software.

    Since your device might display Flash-based content, we invite you to access your Flash cookie management tools directly from http://www.adobe.com.