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Cookie policy

Summary

  1. What is a cookie?
  2. Which cookies do we use?
  3. Hyperlinks to social networks.
  4. How to manage and/or modify your cookie preferences?
  5. Duration of storage of your cookie preferences.
  6. Your rights regarding the processing of personal data implemented through cookies.

Welcome to the website accessible from the URL address https://www.altarea.com (the “Site”) published by ALTAREA (hereinafter “we”, “our”, “us”), whose registered office is located at 87, rue de Richelieu – 75002 Paris, registered with the Paris RCS under number 335 480 877. We and our partners act as data controllers for the processing carried out through the Cookies deposited via the Site.

This Cookie Policy applies to anyone who accesses the Site (hereinafter “you”, “your”) regardless of the device used (e.g., computer, phone, and tablets).

It allows you to learn more about the origin, characteristics, and use of the information deposited, collected, and processed through cookies and other trackers (“Cookies”) during your visit to our Site, as well as your rights.

Indeed, during your visit to our Site, operations of reading and/or writing Cookies may be carried out on your device (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.), subject to the choices you have expressed regarding them, which you can modify at any time.

This Policy therefore helps to better understand:

  • How Cookies that may be deposited work and what they are used for; and
  • How to set your preferences.

1.     What is a Cookie?

A Cookie is a small file stored by a server on your device (computer, phone, 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 device. This data may reveal the type of device used, the date and time of the visit, the IP address, as well as the activities carried out on the Site.

Cookies have multiple uses: they can be used to remember the display language of the web page, the characteristics of a device to allow an adapted display, or to track a user’s navigation for statistical or advertising purposes, etc.

Thus, when you connect to our Site, we may, as well as our partners, subject to your choices, deposit and read Cookies on your device.

The Cookies that we may deposit and read, as well as those of our partners, are used for the purposes described below.

2.   Which cookies do we use ?

This Site uses several types of Cookies, which we have listed in the following paragraphs by purpose, along with their main characteristics.

Strictly necessary Cookies for the operation of the Site

These Cookies are essential to allow you to navigate the Site securely and use its features. Without these Cookies, the operations and functionalities of the Site cannot be ensured.

We use the following types of Cookies:

  • Cookies that retain your choice regarding the deposit of Cookies requiring your consent.
  • Session or load balancing Cookies that allow faster loading of Site pages and smoother navigation.
  • Interface customization Cookies, which remember your login data, such as the language version you wish to use. They can also be used to offer you an experience more suited to your device (e.g., displaying Site pages adapted to the configuration of the device you are using (tablet, computer, phone)).
  • Authentication Cookies that remember your authentication credentials and allow you to stay logged into your user account throughout your navigation.
  • Cookies used to identify fraudulent or repeated login attempts to protect the login system against misuse.

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 device that appears when you access the Site and disappears when you close your browser window) or permanent Cookies (i.e., a Cookie that will remain on your device for a certain period to allow us to remember your preferences during your future visits). In any case, Cookies will never be retained for more than 13 months on your device, depending on the purposes of the Cookies concerned.

Audience measurement and statistical analysis Cookies

Depending on your choices, we and our partners, whose list is accessible on the Cookie Management module at the bottom of all Site pages, use audience measurement Cookies that allow, through a unique identifier, to analyze your navigation and generate useful traffic and performance statistics to improve the Site.

These Cookies help us understand how users interact with the Site, know the usage and performance of the different elements of the Site (the pages and content visited, the path taken on it, the time spent on certain content), the traffic volumes (the most frequently viewed pages or sections, the most read articles).

[Optional: They also allow us to know if you left the Site immediately after arriving or if you visited our Site multiple times and the frequency of such visits.]

The information collected in this way allows us to detect Site malfunctions (operational, ergonomic, user path issues) and understand the content that is most suited to the interests of users visiting our Site. This allows us to improve the interest and ergonomics of the Site, its functionalities, and more generally our products and services.

By accepting the deposit of these Cookies, you help us analyze traffic and navigation on our Site and thus improve its functionalities.

If you accept the deposit of such Cookies, they will be retained, 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 playing 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 analyzing your navigation to display advertising and personalized content, such as videos, based on your navigation and profile. For this, YouTube relies on your profile and personal interests deduced from your navigation and behavior on our site and/or third-party websites you visited before and after your visit to our site (i.e., the type of website you visited, the content you viewed, the ads you interacted with).

Thus, if you accept the deposit of such Cookies, when you start playing our videos, data will be transferred directly to YouTube without us having control over the process used to collect information about your navigation on our Site and third-party sites, and their possible association with the personal data it holds about you. We invite you to consult its privacy policy to understand how these Cookies work: https://www.youtube.com/intl/ALL_fr/howyoutubeworks/our-commitments/protecting-user-data/.

By refusing 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 retained, beyond the duration of your navigation on our Site, for a period of 6 months.

Social Media Sharing Buttons and Plugins

We and our partners use various social media sharing buttons and plugins provided by major social networks (e.g., facebook.com; twitter.com) to allow you to share content on these social networks.

If you accept the placement of such Cookies, when you use the sharing features to these networks present on our Site, data is transferred directly to the relevant social networks to enable content sharing. If you are logged into the social network at the time of your browsing on our Site, the sharing features allow the content to be directly linked to your user account. Otherwise, you will be asked to authenticate.

Furthermore, if you accept the placement of such Cookies, the social network providing such sharing buttons may also identify you, even if you have not used such buttons while browsing our Site. Indeed, this type of button can allow the relevant social network to track your browsing on our Site. We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information related to your browsing on our Site and their possible association with personal data they hold about you. Please consult the privacy policy of each of these social networks to understand how these Cookies work.

By refusing the placement of these Cookies, you will not be able to share content on social networks directly from our Site.

If you accept the placement of such Cookies, they will be retained beyond the duration of your browsing 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., x.com; linkedin.com; youtube.com).

These hyperlinks take the form of the icons of these social networks. However, they do not place Cookies during navigation on our Site.

On the other hand, when you click on the hyperlinks in question and are redirected to the social network pages, Cookies issued from and due to navigation on these sites may be placed on your device. The placement of these Cookies is not under our control, and we invite you to consult the privacy policy of each of these social networks to understand the use of these Cookies and possibly oppose their placement directly through the features offered on these sites.

4.   How to manage and/or modify your cookie preferences?

Your prior consent is required before the placement 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 this matter, your consent is collected through a platform accessible during your first connection to our Site.

You can also withdraw your consent to the placement of all or part of the Cookies at any time using a button/hyperlink titled “Manage cookies” / “Cookie management module” located at the bottom left of all pages of the Site, and also accessible by clicking here.

This platform allows you to:

  • Directly accept the placement of all types of Cookies for which consent is mandatory; or
  • Directly refuse the placement of all types of Cookies for which consent is mandatory; or
  • Granularly choose the purposes of Cookies for which you wish to give your consent or refuse it; and/or
  • If applicable, precisely choose each of the partners who may use the Cookies with the purposes for which they wish to use them.

5.     Duration of storage of your cookie preferences.

Your choice (acceptance or refusal) regarding the placement of Cookies will be valid for a period of six (6) months. At the end of this period, we will ask for your choice again under the same conditions as during your first connection to the Site.

The retention period of the Cookies is specified in each of the sections above.

6.     Your rights regarding the processing of personal data implemented through cookies.

Personal data processing may be carried out using the information collected through the Cookies read and placed via our Site.

Regarding this personal data processing, you have the right to access, rectify, port, erase your personal data, the right to limit processing, as well as the right to object or withdraw consent to the processing of your data. You also have the right to send us special instructions regarding the fate of your personal data in the event of death, and to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

To learn more about your rights, we also invite you to consult 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 at the following address: dpo@altarea.com.