Last updated: April 18, 2025
What is a cookie ?
A cookie is a text file that may be stored, subject to your choices, in a dedicated space on the hard drive of your device (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when accessing an online service using your browser software.
When you connect to our website, we may, subject to your choices, install various cookies on your device, allowing us to recognize your browser during the validity period of the relevant cookie.
The cookies we issue are used for the purposes described below, subject to your choices resulting from the settings of the browser software used during your visit to our site.
Only the issuer of a cookie can read or modify the information it contains.
What are the cookies issued on our site used for ?
The cookies we issue allow us to :
- Establish statistics and volumes of traffic and usage of various elements on our website (sections and content visited, paths followed) to improve the interest and usability of our services;
- Adapt the presentation of our site to your device’s display preferences (language, resolution, operating system, etc.) when you visit our site, depending on the hardware and software used by your device;
- Remember information about a form you filled out on our site (registration for reserved areas, event registration, etc.) or services or information you selected on our site;
- Allow you to access reserved and personal areas of our site using identifiers or data you may have previously provided;
- Implement security measures, for example, when you are asked to log in again to access content or services after a certain period of time.
In accordance with the law, site traffic data and cookies that track users and IP addresses are not stored beyond 13 months from the first visit.
The site uses so-called “necessary” cookies (e.g., “session identifiers,” authentication cookies, etc.) that are essential for the proper functioning of the site. This category of cookies only includes those that ensure basic functionalities and security features of the site. These cookies do not store personal data and therefore do not require user consent.
These include the following statistical cookies: UTMA – UTMB – UTMC – UMT – GA – GID.
The site also uses “non-necessary” cookies (e.g., analyzing behavior, interests) that are not particularly necessary for the site’s operation and are specifically used to collect personal data from users. For these cookies, obtaining user consent before executing them on the site is mandatory.
These include the following statistical cookie: UTMZ, which aims to identify the visitor’s entry point to suggest advertisements.
What are your choices regarding cookies ?
Several options are available to you to manage cookies. Any settings you make may change your browsing experience on the internet and your access to certain services that require the use of cookies.
You can choose at any time to express or modify your preferences regarding cookies, using the methods described below.
Choices available through your browser software
You can configure your browser software to allow cookies to be saved on your device or, conversely, to reject them, either systematically or based on their issuer.
You can also configure your browser to offer you the option to accept or reject cookies before they are stored on your device.
Cookie consent
The storage of a cookie on a device is primarily subject to the user’s consent, which can be expressed and modified at any time and free of charge through the choices offered by the browser software.
If you have accepted the storage of cookies in your browser software, the cookies embedded in the pages and content you have viewed may be temporarily stored in a dedicated space on your device. They will be readable only by their issuer.
Refusing cookies
If you refuse the storage of cookies on your device, or if you delete those already stored, you may no longer be able to use certain features that are essential for navigating certain areas of our site. This would be the case if you attempt to access content or services requiring identification. It would also be the case when we – or our service providers – cannot recognize, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used by your device, its language and display settings, or the country where your device appears to be connected to the internet.
In such cases, we disclaim any responsibility for the consequences resulting from the degraded functioning of our services due to our inability to store or access the necessary cookies for their operation, which you may have rejected or deleted.
In accordance with CNIL recommendations, you can delete the cookies on your computer at any time by going through your browser settings:
Safari 8+
- Open the Safari menu and click “Clear History.”
- Select all history and click “Clear History.”
- Restart your browser.
Safari 7
- Open the Safari menu and click “Reset Safari.”
- Make sure to check the box “Delete all website data” and click “Reset.”
- Restart your browser.
Internet Explorer
- Click on the gear icon at the top right of the browser window, hover over “Safety,” and select “Delete browsing history.”
- Uncheck “Preserve favorites website data” at the top of the menu.
- Ensure that “Temporary Internet files” and “Cookies” are checked, then click “Delete.”
- Click “OK” to close the menu, then close and reopen your browser.
Edge
- Click on “…” at the top right of your browser.
- In Settings, scroll down to “Clear browsing data” and click “Choose what to clear.”
- Uncheck “Form data” and “Passwords,” then ensure that “Cached data and files” and “Cookies” are checked.
- Click the “Clear” button.
- Click “…” again to close the menu, then close and reopen your browser.
Google Chrome
- Click the menu at the top right.
- Hover over “More tools” then click on “Clear browsing data.”
- For “Clear the following items,” select everything.
- Ensure “Cached images and files” and “Cookies and other site data” are checked, then click “Clear browsing data.”
- Restart your browser.
Firefox
- Click the menu at the top right (≡) and click “History,” “Clear Recent History,” then check the “Cookies” box.
- Under “Time range to clear,” select “Everything.”
- Ensure the “Cache” box is checked in the “Details” section, then click “Clear Now.”
- Restart your browser.
Cookies issued by third parties on our site
The issuance and use of cookies by third parties are subject to the privacy protection policies of these third parties. We inform you of the purpose of the cookies we are aware of and the means available to you to make choices regarding these cookies.
We may include on our site computer applications from third parties that allow you to share content from our site with others or to inform others of your visit or opinion regarding content on our site. This is particularly the case with the “Share” and “Like” buttons from social networks like Twitter®, LinkedIn®, etc.
The social network providing such a button may be able to identify you through this button, even if you have not used it during your visit to our site. Indeed, this type of button may allow the concerned social network to track your navigation on our site, simply because your account with that network is active on your device (session open) during your navigation on our site.
We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information regarding your navigation on our site and associated with personal data they have. We invite you to consult the privacy protection policies of these social networks to learn about the purposes, especially advertising, for which they may use the browsing information collected through these application buttons. These privacy policies should allow you to make choices with these social networks, particularly by adjusting your accounts on each of these networks.
