What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are placed and stored on your terminal when you visit a website. A cookie allows its issuer to identify the terminal in which it is stored for the duration of the validity or the storage of this cookie. The term “cookies” refers to all technologies allowing to trace the user’s navigation.
The terminal refers to the hardware/material equipment (computer, tablet, smartphone…) you use to consult or view a website, an application or advertising content etc.
Why are we using cookies?
We and our partners use different types of cookies for the following purposes:
1. Cookies that do not require user’s consent
(i) These are operating cookies, that are essential for browsing our website (such as the session identifiers), allow you to use the main features of the website and to secure the connection.
For example, they allow you to access directly to reserved and personal areas thanks to identifiers or data that you have previously entrusted to us.
(ii) These are cookies that are not essential for browsing our website, but whose sole purpose is to enable or optimise its operation and to give you access to specific features.
They also allow you to adapt the presentation of the website to the display preferences of your terminal. These cookies allow you to have a fluid and customised navigation.
2. Cookies that require the user’s consent
1. Audience measurement
They allow us to better understand the use and performance of our website, to establish statistics, volumes of traffic and use of various elements of our website (visited pages, navigation path, etc.) allowing to improve the interest and ergonomics of our services (the most consulted pages and sections, the most read articles, …).
These cookies are also used to evaluate the performance of our advertising campaigns and to personalize the content of our website according to your profile and your navigation.
2. Cookies related to videos
Cookies deposited via video sharing services allow you to directly view the selected multimedia content on our site.
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• Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/intl/ALL_en/howyoutubeworks/our-commitments/protecting-user-data/