Cookies policy

1. Introduction

This web site may use cookies and other comparable technologies in order to ensure its proper functioning, along with a better user experience.

This document brings following informations:

• General informations about what are cookies and other comparable technologies
• Technical cookies
• Functional cookies
• Marketing cookies
• Statistics cookies
• Third-party cookies
• Gathering the user consent
• Specific informations about cookies used on this web site
• How to manage cookies
• Remove cookie from your device
• Manage cookies for some particular sites
• Block cookies
• Manage cookies installed by our web site
• Contact us

For the sake of simplicity, we are going to use following words in this document:

• « cookie » when speaking of cookies and other comparable technologies
• « device » when speaking of your computer, your mobile or your tablet.

2. General informations about what are cookies and other comparable technologies

A cookie is a small data file sent by a web server, recorded by your browser in the storage space of your device. Stored informations are to be later read back by the web server. Some sites may also transmit these informations to other third-parties, partners or service providers.

The cookies can record technical informations relating to, for example, your browser or your IP address, or personal data as your email address if you have given it to the web site. They can be used too to record your activity on the web site, or your shopping cart, or your user preferences.

The lifetime of a cookie may be as short as your navigation session on the web site, or as long as the whole lifetime of your storage space.

The cookies may be classed either by their role or by their lifetime.

Our cookies policy does prefer distinguishing them depending of their role.

2.1. Technical cookies

Technical cookies are those considered as absolutely required to ensure the proper functioning of the web site.

The lifetime of technical cookies is usually limited to the navigation session on the web site.

As these technical cookies are considered as a strict requirement for the proper functioning of the web site, user has usually no other choice than to accept them.

2.2. Functional cookies

Functional cookies are those that the web site considers as improving the user experience, most often in terms of comfort and easy of use of the web site.

By installing these functional cookies, the web site wants make the user more comfortable, and the navigation more easy, thus giving him the best possible experience. For example, the web site may keep your preferred language, or the last content of your shopping cart in a e-commerce site.

These cookies may be considered by the web site as optional, and the user may so choose to refuse them. When this happens, the web site may inform the user that some or all features may be more or less degraded, or not available at all.

2.3. Marketing cookies

Marketing cookies are used to create and manage user profiles, and thus display targeted or personalized ads, or follow the user in his navigation between several web sites, or trying to aim other similar marketing targets.

Your authorization to install such marketing cookies on your device should be required and explicit.

2.4. Statistics cookies

Statistics cookies are often used to gather informations about your navigation inside the web site, or to build statistics about the way you were arrived in the web site.

Your authorization to install such statistics cookies on your device should be required and explicit.

2.5. Third-party cookies

When a web site includes some content or a service, from or provided by another web site (for example some Youtube content), this other web site may install its own cookies on your device. The third-party site goal may be either strictly technical, as well as statistic, marketing or functional.

You should carefully read the general terms of use as well as the privacy policy and the personal data policy declaration of these third-party sites, in order to know the content of the stored informations, and the usage which is plan to be done of these. Please note that these documents may be updated on a regular basis.

3. Gathering the user consent

The European parliament, the European concile and the European commission have published on 2016 Apr. 27th a regulation related to the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing or personal data and on the free movement of such data.

Particularly, in its 6th and 7th articles, this regulation states that the user consent to the processing of his personal data must be explicitly collected, and that the user must be able to give this consent freely and in an informed manner. It also states that the service provider must be able to prove he actually has collected this consent.

In France, the CNIL confirm these dispositions in its proposal for compliance best practices (french paper) about cookies.

4. Specific informations about cookies used on this web site

This web site makes use of:

• technical cookies to ensure the proper functioning
• functional cookies to improve your user experience
• and that's all.

Full details about these cookies, their exhaustive list, their role and their lifetime, is available through the cookie manager page on this web site.

5. How to manage cookies

5.1. Remove cookie from your device

You can remove all cookies which are installed on your device by cleaning up the navigation history of your browser. All the cookies installed by the web sites you have visited will so be deleted.

You should however be conscious that you may lost some useful stored informations, as for example some login informations or your user preferences.

5.2. Manage cookies for some particular sites

In order to more finely manage the cookies installed by each and every web site, you may take a glance at the parameters of your browser related to the privacy protection and to the cookies.

5.3. Block cookies

Most of modern browsers can be configured so that they are able to block any installation of any cookies on your device. Doing so, you may have to provide your user preference each time you visit a web site, or even a page of a web site. Furthermore, some features or services may no more be available (auto login through a profile, for example).

5.4. Manage cookies installed by our web site

Full details about the cookies installed by this web site, their exhaustive list, their role and their lifetime, is available through the cookie manager page on this web site.

6. Contact us

For any question and/or any comment about our cookies policy, please use the contact form available of this web site.