Cookies

About cookies on our website

We use various cookies on the website in order to:

  • Allow the website to work in the way intended,
  • Measure its audience, and
  • Integrate services that make it more user-friendly.

Some cookies require prior consent from you and some do not. More information is provided below.

 

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a file, generally small and identified by a name, placed in your browser by a website that you visit. Your browser will store the cookie until the end of its validity or retention period, and will send it back to the web server every time that you visit the website. Cookies allow us to collect information about your browsing and provide services appropriate to your device (PC, mobile or tablet). We do not use cookies capable of identifying your personally.

 

Technical cookies

We inform you about the use of technical cookies that allow the website’s main services to work optimally.

Depending on your browser’s settings, you can block these cookies. However, blocking them may adversely affect your experience on the website.

Name of cookie Purpose Retention period
Cookie consent
CookieLawInfoConsent
Records whether the user has consented to or refused the use of cookies. 6 months
GDPR Cookie Consent: cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary Used by the “GDPR Cookie Consent” module, this cookie is used to store the user’s consent to cookies in “Non-necessary” categories (Audience measurement – Social media). 6 months
GDPR Cookie Consent: cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary Used by the “GDPR Cookie Consent” module, this cookie is used to store the user’s consent to cookies in the “Technical” category. 6 months
GDPR Cookie Consent: viewed_cookie_policy Used by the “GDPR Cookie Consent” module, this cookie is used to store whether or not the user has consented to the use of cookies. 6 months
Pll_language Management of the website’s multilingual features 12 months
wp-settings-# WordPress uses this cookie to personalise your view of the administration interface and possibly also the website’s main interface. 12 months
cli_user_preference

 

Stores the user’s cookie consent status. 6 months

 

 

Analytics cookies

These cookies aim to measure the audience of our website’s content and sections in order to assess them and organise them better. They also allow us to detect browsing problems and therefore make our services more user-friendly.

Depending on your browser’s settings, you can block these cookies. However, blocking them may adversely affect your experience on the website.

 

The lifetime of these cookies does not exceed 13 months.

Matomo. We use Matomo audience measurement cookies, the sole purposes of which are those listed above, for our sole benefit.

These cookies only produce anonymous statistics and website traffic figures, and do not produce any individual information.

 

Name of cookie Purpose Retention period
_pk_id Used to store some user details such as the visitor’s unique ID 13 months
_pk_ref Used to store the attribution information, the referrer initially used to visit the website 6 months
_pk_ses
_pk_cvar
Cookies with a short life, used to store data temporarily for the user’s visit 30 minutes
_pk_testcookie Used to check whether the visitor’s browser supports cookies session

 

Google Analytics. We request your consent before using, in addition, Google Analytics audience measurement cookies. By default, refusal is assumed and these cookies are not placed in your browser nor activated.

As well as the purposes for our benefit listed above, the browsing data collected may be used by Google Analytics on its own account to offer targeted advertisements and content based on your browsing history. The purposes and conditions of that use are described in greater detail here.

You can withdraw your consent at any time.

 

Name of cookie Purpose Retention period
_Utmz This cookie stores all information that is relevant to identifying a source of traffic. 6 months
_Utmc This cookie complements the _utmb cookie to determine whether there is a new visit by the current unique visitor. Session
_Utmb This cookie is used to monitor the user’s session. The cookie expires if the user remains inactive on the website for more than 30 minutes. Use of this cookie together with the _utmc cookie allows sessions to be monitored on a given website. 30 minutes
_Utma    
_ga This cookie saves a unique ID that is used to generate statistics about how the user uses the website. 13 months
_gat This cookie saves a unique ID that is used to generate statistics about how the user uses the website. 1 minute
_gid This cookie saves a unique ID that is used to generate statistics about how the user uses the website.

 

24 hours

 

 

Cookies related to social media and third-party services

Purpose. We request your consent before using cookies related to social media and third-party services, intended to facilitate the sharing of content and make the website more user-friendly. By default, refusal is assumed and these cookies are not placed in your browser or activated.

The browsing data collected may be used by third parties operating these social media and third-party services on their own account, to offer targeted advertisements and content based on your browsing history. For more information, we encourage you to look at their privacy policies and cookie information pages, listed below.

You can withdraw your consent at any time.

 

Third-party services Privacy policies and additional information about cookies used by third parties

 

Facebook Facebook privacy policy

 

Information about cookies used by Facebook

Twitter Twitter privacy policy

 

Information about cookies used by Twitter

YouTube (Google) Google privacy policy
LinkedIn LinkedIn privacy policy

 

Information about cookies used by LinkedIn

Instagram Instagram privacy policy

 

 

More information about cookies

CNIL – Tools for managing cookies (in French)