Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy applies to any person accessing the Site (hereinafter "you", "your") regardless of the terminal used (e.g. computer, phone and tablets).
It allows you to learn more about the origin, characteristics and use of information deposited, collected and processed through cookies and other tracers ("Cookies") when you visit our Site, as well as your rights.
Indeed, when consulting our Site, reading and/or writing operations of Cookies may be carried out on your terminal (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.), subject to the choices you have expressed concerning them, which you can modify at any time.
Ths Policy therefore allows you to better understand:
- How the Cookies that may be deposited work and what they are used for; and
- How to set your choices.
1. What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small file stored by a server on your terminal (computer, telephone, etc.) when you browse the Site and/or when you install or use a mobile application. These files allow the exchange of status information between the Site and your terminal. This data is likely to reveal the type of terminal used, the date and time of the visit, the IP address and the activities carried out on the Site
Cookies have multiple uses: they can be used to memorize the language in which the web page is displayed, the characteristics of a device to allow it to be displayed in a way that is adapted to it, or to trace a user's browsing for statistical or advertising purposes, etc.
Thus, when you connect to our Site, we and our partners, if any, may deposit and read Cookies on your terminal, subject to your choices.
The Cookies that we and our partners may deposit and read are used for the purposes described below.
2. Quels Cookies utilisons-nous ?
This Site uses several types of Cookies, which we have listed in the following paragraphs by purpose, along with their main characteristics.
Les Cookies strictement nécessaires au fonctionnement du Site
These Cookies are essential in order to allow you to navigate the Site in a secure manner and to use its functionalities. Without these Cookies, the operations and functionalities of the Site cannot be assured.
We use the following types of cookies:
- Cookies that retain your choice on the deposit of Cookies requiring your consent.
- Session or load-balancing cookies that allow the Site's pages to load faster and more smoothly.
- Interface personalization cookies, which allow us to remember your connection data, such as the language version you wish to use. They may also be used to provide you with an experience that is better adapted to your device (e.g., display of the Site's pages adapted to the configuration of the device you are using (tablet, computer, telephone).
- Authentication Cookies to remember your authentication credentials and allow you to remain logged in to your user account throughout your browsing.
- Cookies used to identify fraudulent or repeated login attempts in order to protect the login system from abuse.
These Cookies that we deposit do not require your consent and their deposit and reading are based on the execution of the contract.
Different retention periods apply to the different types of Cookies deposited depending on whether they are Session Cookies (i.e. a Cookie temporarily placed on your terminal which appears when you access the Site and disappears when you close your browser window) or Permanent Cookies (i.e. a Cookie which will remain on your device for a certain period of time to allow us to memorize your preferences during your next visits). In all cases, Cookies will never be kept on your device for more than 13 months, depending on the purpose of the Cookies concerned.
Cookies for audience measurement and statistical analysis
Depending on your choices, we and our partners, whose list is accessible at the bottom of the page by clicking on "Manage cookies", use audience measurement cookies which, thanks to a unique identifier, make it possible to analyze your browsing and to generate statistics of frequentation and performance useful for the improvement of the Site.
These cookies help us to understand how users interact with the Site, to know the use and performance of the various elements that make up the Site (the pages and content visited, the route taken on the Site, the time spent on certain content), the volume of traffic (the pages or sections most often consulted, the articles most frequently read).
It also allows us to know whether you left the Site immediately after arriving or whether you visited our Site repeatedly and the frequency of such visits.
The information collected in this way allows us to detect malfunctions on the Site (problems of operation, ergonomics, user path) but also to understand the content that is most suited to the interests of users who visit our Site. This allows us to improve the interest and the ergonomics of the Site, its functionalities and more generally our products and services.
By accepting the deposit of these Cookies, you help us to analyze the traffic and the navigation on our Site and thus to improve its functionalities.
If you accept the deposit of such Cookies, they will be kept, beyond the duration of your navigation on our Site, to allow us to establish relevant statistics, for a period of 6 months.
Cookies deposited by YouTube when playing videos on our site
When you start to play the videos on our Site, we use, with our partner YouTube, cookies necessary for viewing.
YouTube may also use these cookies for its own purposes, namely to analyze your browsing, in order to display advertising and personalized content, such as videos, based on your browsing and your profile. YouTube does this based on your profile and personal interests, which are derived from your browsing and behavior on our site and/or on third-party websites that you visited before and after your visit to our site (i.e., the type of website you visited, the content you viewed, the advertisements you interacted with).
Thus, if you accept the deposit of such Cookies, when you launch the playback of our videos, data will be transferred directly to YouTube without us having any control over the process used to collect information relating to your navigation on our Site and third party sites, and their possible association with the personal data they have about you. We invite you to consult its confidentiality policy in order to know how these cookies work: https://www.youtube.com/intl/ALL_fr/howyoutubeworks/our-commitments/protecting-user-data.
If you refuse to accept their deposit, you will not be able to view the videos broadcast on our Site.
If you accept the deposit of such Cookies, they will be kept, beyond the duration of your navigation on our Site, for a period of 6 months.
Social network sharing buttons and plugins
We and our partners use various social network sharing buttons and plugins provided by the major social networks (e.g., facebook.com; twitter.com) to allow you to share content on those social networks.
If you accept the deposit of such Cookies, when you use the sharing features to these networks present on our Site, data is transferred directly to the social networks concerned in order to allow the sharing of content. If you are connected to the social network at the time of your navigation on our Site, the sharing functionalities allow you to link the content directly to your user account. Otherwise, you will be asked to authenticate yourself.
Moreover, if you accept the deposit of such Cookies, the social network providing such sharing buttons is also likely to identify you, even if you have not used such buttons while browsing our Site. Indeed, this type of button may allow the social network concerned to track your browsing on our Site. We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information about your browsing on our Site and their possible association with the personal data they have about you. Please consult the privacy policy of each of these social networks to learn how these Cookies work.
By refusing the deposit of these Cookies, you will not be able to share content on the social networks directly from our Site.
If you accept the deposit of such Cookies, they will be kept, beyond the duration of your navigation on our Site, for a period of 6 months.
3. Hyperlinks to social networks
Our Site has integrated hyperlinks to our company pages on the most important social networks (e.g. twitter.com; linkedin.com; youtube.com).
These hyperlinks take the form of the icons of these social networks. However, they do not deposit cookies when you browse our Site.
On the other hand, when you click on the hypertext links in question and you are redirected to the pages of the social networks, Cookies issued from and due to the navigation on these sites may be deposited on your terminal. The deposit of these Cookies is not under our control and we invite you to consult the confidentiality policy of each of these social networks in order to know the use that is made of these Cookies and to possibly oppose their deposit directly by means of the functionalities offered on these sites.
4. How do you manage and/or change your cookie choices?
Your prior consent is required before the deposit and reading of Cookies other than those necessary for the operation of the Site.
In accordance with the guidelines and recommendation of the CNIL on the subject, your consent is collected by means of an accessible platform when you first connect to our Site.
You can also withdraw your consent to the deposit of all or part of the Cookies at any time through a hyperlink entitled "Manage Cookies" appearing at the bottom left on all pages of the Site, and also accessible by clicking here.
This platform allows you :
- to directly accept the deposit of all types of Cookies for which consent is mandatory; or
- to directly refuse the deposit of all types of Cookies for which consent is mandatory; or
- to choose in a granular way the purposes of the Cookies for which you wish to give your consent or to refuse it; and/or
- and, if applicable, to choose precisely each of the partners who may use the Cookies and the purposes for which they wish to use them.
5. How long we keep your cookie choices
Your choice (acceptance or refusal) concerning the deposit of Cookies will be valid for a period of six (6) months. At the end of this period, we will ask you again to make your choice under the same conditions as when you first connected to the Site.
The duration of the retention of Cookies is referred to in each of the sections above.
6. Your rights regarding the processing of personal data by means of cookies
Personal data may be processed using information collected through Cookies read and deposited via our Site.
With regard to this processing of personal data, you have a right of access, rectification, portability, deletion of your personal data, a right to limit the processing, as well as a right to oppose or withdraw consent to the processing of your data. You also have the right to send us special instructions on what to do with your personal data in the event of your death, and to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
To find out more about your rights, please see also our data protection policy.
To exercise all of these rights, and generally if you have any questions about the use of Cookies, you can send us a request to the following address: dpo@altarea.com.