COOKIE POLICY
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a text file that can be saved, subject to your choices, in a dedicated space on your terminal's hard drive, when viewing an online service using your navigation software. We explain below how we use cookies and how you can use controls on your device (e.g. your browser settings) to set your cookie preferences.
A cookie file allows its transmitter to identify the terminal in which it is registered, during the validity period. Cookies help us to provide you with a good experience when you use our website and also allows us to improve our website and services.
What are the cookies on our website for?
Only the transmitter of a cookie is likely to read or change the information contained in it. The cookies used on our site are useful for the proper functioning of our site. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website.
We use the following categories of cookies:
• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies which are needed to make the website work properly. For example, cookies enable you to log in, make a booking or buy a gift, and make secure payments.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This helps us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.
• Analytical/performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
| What cookies are used on our website? | Purposes | Preservation time | Acceptance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly Necessary Cookies / Technical and navigation cookies | These cookies allow you to connect to the site and make it easier for you to navigate. They are also necessary to allow you to benefit from certain features of the site and/or our services. If you have chosen to disable these cookies via your internet browser, then access to our services could be impaired. We therefore advise you to leave them active to take full advantage of our services and your navigation on our sites and applications. | Deleted at the end of browsing | On your first visit to the site, a banner informs you of the presence of these cookies. They are only filed if you continue browsing the site by visiting a second page of the site. | Performance cookies / Audience and navigation tracking cookies/ Analytical | They provide statistics on the use and use of various elements of the website (such as the content/pages you have visited). This data contributes to the improvement of our site. | 13 months | On your first visit to the site, a banner informs you of the presence of these cookies and invites you to indicate your choice. They are only filed if you accept them or continue browsing the site by visiting a second page of the Site. | Profile registration cookies | They allow you to register your profile or information provided to the site to avoid having to re-complete the form or give new information. | 13 months | A message or check box "remember me" allows you to voluntarily record your profile or information. | Cookies offered by third parties | The site relies on certain services offered by third-party sites. These include: Sharing buttons (twitter and facebook), Lists of tweets (Twitter), Videos broadcast on the site (youtube, dailymotion). These features use third-party cookies directly deposited by these services. | 13 months | On your first visit to the site, a banner informs you of the presence of these cookies and invites you to indicate your choice. They are only filed if you accept them or continue browsing the site by visiting a second page of the Site. | Functional cookies | These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This helps us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences. | 13 months | These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly. |
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in this list:
| Cookie / Name | Purpose | More Information / Type |
|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID / Array | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. | Sesssion cookie / Strictly necessary cookies |
| SESS_BR / PHP | This cookie is a security cookie and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. | Security cookie / Strictly necessary cookies |
| OptanonConsent / Array | This cookie is use to manage RGPD privacy and security compliance. | Third party cookie - OneTrust.com / Strictly necessary cookies |
| _ga, _gid, _gat / Google Analytics | Used as part of Google Analytics: _ga and _gid: used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as ID. _utma: records the number of visits to a website per user. _utmb and _utmc: records the amount of time a user spends on a website. _utmt: manages analytics data collected on high traffic websites. _utmz: records where a website user came from (e.g. search engine, link or via a typed in web page address) | Third party cookie - google.com / Analytical/performance cookies |
Use of cookies can change over time or when a new service or function is added to our website. To ensure that this policy remains up to date, we regularly carry out ‘cookie audits’ and update our list of cookies accordingly.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, and we have no control over this. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
We can use strictly necessary and functional cookies without consent. We gain your consent for other cookies via the banner that you see the first time you visit our website. You can choose not to consent. You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.
However, if you do not consent, or use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
Cookie management
You can at any time inform yourself and set up your cookies to accept or reject them by going to the Cookie Management page at the bottom of each page of the site. You will be able to indicate your preference either globally for the site or service by service.
You can also disable cookies by following the instructions setout by your own browser.
The Refusal of Cookies
If you refuse to register cookies in your device, or if you delete those that are registered in your device, you will no longer be able to benefit from a number of features necessary to navigate certain spaces of our site. This would be the case when we (or our service providers) could not recognize, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used by your device, its language and display settings, or the country from which your device appears to be connected to the Internet.
If so, we do not accept responsibility for the consequences of the degraded operation of our services resulting from the inability of us to register or consult the cookies necessary for their operation and which you have refused or deleted.
More information about Cookies?
On the CNIL website:
www.cnil.fr/vos-droits/vos-traces/les-cookies/
This policy was last updated on 19/05/2021.