WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Cookies are small text files that are installed on your computer or on your device when you visit our websites.

THE PURPOSE OF COOKIES

We use cookies in order to make your visits and your registration on our websites more effective. Cookies also allow us to improve your browsing experience on our websites and to understand your purchasing behaviour.

OUR USE OF COOKIES

We use cookies to:

  • Store your login information.
  • Identify you when you connect to our websites.
  • Store your browsing preferences such as language, font size, page presentation or preferred colours. All this allows you to browse our site more easily and more rapidly.
  • Collect analytical information to, for example, count the number of visitors to our websites and identify the pages of our websites that you visit most often. We use the analysis data we collect for marketing purposes and to plan resources.
  • Determine whether our customers and visitors can easily adapt to the changes we make to our websites.

INFORMATION COLLECTED THROUGH THE USE OF COOKIES

Cookies help us to collect information on how you use our website, but we do not keep any information that could identify you personally in the data of our cookies that relate to you. We only store one session ID that will help us to find a user profile as well as your preferences during your next visit.

TYPES OF COOKIES

  • Session cookies – Cookies of this type are temporarily stored on your computer or device during a browsing session. They are deleted from your computer or your device at the end of the browsing session.
  • Permanent cookies  – Cookies of this type remain on your computer longer. Permanent cookies help us to recognize you when we need to know who you are for more than one browsing session.

MANAGEMENT OF COOKIES

Most browser menus include options allowing you to manage your cookies by adjusting or configuring your cookie settings. Generally, browsers offer you the possibility of:

  • displaying your cookies;
  • authorising your cookies;
  • disabling all cookies or only specific cookies;
  • disabling all cookies when you close your browser;
  • blocking cookies;
  • being notified when you receive a cookie.

Please note that if you choose to block our cookies, some of the features of our websites will be disabled (more particularly services such as online registration, and the management or customisation of the website) and your browsing may also be affected. If you configure your browser options to delete all cookies, your browsing preferences will be deleted when you close your browser. Please note that unless you have set your browser settings to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit one of our websites.