What is a cookie?
Cookies are files containing small amounts of information that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. This text file may be saved, subject to your choices, in a dedicated space on your terminal’s hard drive when you consult an online service through your browser software.
A cookie file allows its issuer to identify the terminal in which it is stored, during the validity period.
Cookies are kept for a period of 13 months.
What are the cookies used on our site for?
Only the issuer of a cookie is likely to read or modify the information contained therein.
The cookies used on our site allow us to identify the services and sections that the user has visited, and more generally, their behavior regarding visits.
This information is useful for:
- Facilitating and improving your navigation on our site
- Offering functionalities related to social networks and media
- Ensuring the proper functioning of certain services
- Measuring the audiences of certain services.
Cookies are also included in the sharing buttons on social networks.
The cookies used on our website can be implemented by the OpinionWay Group or managed by partners (audience measurement solution publishers and social networks, for example).
1. The cookies we issue on our site:
When you connect to our site, we may, subject to your choices, install various cookies in your terminal allowing us to recognize the browser of your terminal during the validity period of the cookie concerned.
The cookies we issue are used for the purposes described below, subject to your choices resulting from the settings of your browser software used during your visit to our site.
The cookies we issue allow us to:
- Facilitate and improve your navigation on our site:
- by adapting the presentation of our site to the display preferences of your terminal (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) during your visits to our site, according to the hardware and software for viewing or reading that your terminal contains,
- by remembering information related to a form you have filled out on our site or to information you have chosen on our site (content viewed, etc.),
- by implementing security measures.
- Improve our services: These cookies allow us to establish statistics and traffic volumes and use of the various elements composing our site (sections and content visited, paths) to improve the interest and ergonomics of our services.
2. Cookies issued on our site by third parties
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 at your disposal to make choices regarding these cookies.
As a result of third-party applications integrated into our site, we may include on our site, computer applications from third parties, which allow you to share content from our site with other people or to let these other people know your consultation or your opinion regarding content on our site/application. This is particularly the case with the “Share”, “Like” buttons from social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.
The social network providing such an application button may identify you with this button, even if you did not use this button during your consultation of our site. Indeed, this type of application button can allow the social network concerned to track your navigation on our site, simply because your account on the social network concerned was activated on your terminal (open session) during your navigation on our site.
We have no control over the process employed by social networks to collect information related to your navigation on our site and associated with the personal data they have. We invite you to consult the privacy protection policies of these social networks to understand the purposes of use, especially advertising, of the navigation information they can collect through these application buttons. These protection policies should allow you to exercise your choices and rights with these social networks, including by setting up your usage accounts for each of these networks.
Your choices regarding cookies
The placement of cookies not strictly necessary for the provision of the Site on your terminal requires the collection of your consent, except in cases of legal exemption.
Several options are available to you to manage cookies. Any settings you may undertake will likely modify your navigation on the Internet and our site, as well as your conditions of access to certain services requiring the use of cookies. You can choose at any time to express and modify your wishes regarding cookies, by the means described below.
The configuration and recording of your choices regarding the placement of cookies and other trackers is carried out through the CMP (Consent Management Platform) banner displayed during your first connection to the Site. The console allowing you to modify your initial choices, by purposes and/or by Partners, is available at any time within the “Manage my consents” module at the top of the present Cookie Policy.
The choices offered to you by your browser software:
You can configure your browser software so that cookies are stored in your terminal or, on the contrary, that they are rejected, either systematically or according to their issuer. You can also configure your browser software so that the acceptance or refusal of cookies is offered to you punctually, before a cookie is likely to be stored in your terminal. For more information, consult the section.
- Consent to Cookies
The storage of a cookie in a terminal is subject to the will of the terminal user, which they can express and modify at any time and free of charge through the choices offered by their browser software. If you have accepted in your browser software the storage of cookies in your Terminal, the cookies integrated into the pages and content you have consulted may be stored temporarily in a dedicated space of your terminal. They will only be readable by their issuer.
- Refusal of Cookies
If you refuse the storage of cookies in your terminal, or if you delete those that are stored there, you will no longer be able to benefit from a certain number of functionalities necessary to navigate in certain spaces of our site. This would be the case if you tried to access our content or services that require you to identify yourself. This would also be the case when we – or our service providers – could not recognize, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used by your terminal, its language and display settings, or the country from which your terminal appears to be connected to the Internet. If applicable, we decline all responsibility for the consequences related to the degraded functioning of our services resulting from the impossibility for us to store or consult the cookies necessary for their operation and that you would have refused or deleted.
- How to exercise your choices, depending on the browser you use?
For the management of cookies and your choices, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in the help menu of your browser, which will allow you to know how to modify your wishes regarding cookies.
- Refusing a Video Cookie:
Our site uses Video cookies to display videos on our site. This service places cookies within the users’ computers for the purpose of:
– Optimizing the use of the video service by its users;
– Personalizing the advertising displayed before or after the video;
– Storing the data necessary for playing audio-video content, such as image quality, buffering settings, and network connection speed.
You can also click on the following links to learn more about their practices and exercise your choice for YouTube.
- Refusing an Audience Measurement or Segmentation Cookie:
Audience measurement and segmentation cookies are placed by the company AT Internet.
If you do not want our site to store cookies in your browser for segmentation purposes, you can refer to paragraph 4. For audience measurement cookies, you can click on the following deactivation link, which will store in your browser a cookie whose sole purpose is to disable them.
- Refusing a Cookie issued by a social network:
If you do not want our site to store cookies in your browser for this purpose, you can click on the following deactivation links, which will store in your browser a cookie whose sole purpose is to neutralize the use of other cookies from the same issuer.
Disabling these Cookies will therefore prevent any interaction with the concerned social networks:
**Attention**, taking into account your different wishes relies on a specific Cookie or several specific Cookies. If you delete all the Cookies stored in your terminal concerning our site, we will no longer know what consent or refusal you have given. This will therefore reset your consent, and you will have to refuse the Cookies you do not wish to keep again. Similarly, if you use another Internet browser, you will have to refuse these Cookies again, as your choices, like the cookies they relate to, depend on the browser and terminal (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) you use to consult our site.
For more information on cookies
To guide you in the process of limiting your traces on the web, if you wish, and being aware that this may degrade your navigation on our site and access to our services and/or your subscription, we invite you to consult the following page: Advice to users from the CNIL.
The CNIL (Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés) has made a video to learn everything about cookies: the video is accessible here.