Extended information about cookies

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a piece of information in the form of a very small text file that is placed on an internet user's hard drive. It is generated by a web page server, which is basically the computer that operates a web site. The information the cookie contains is set by the server and it can be used by that server whenever the user visits the site. A cookie can be thought of as an internet user's identification card, which tell a web site when the user has returned.

What is the purpose of cookies?

Cookies make the interaction between users and web sites faster and easier. Without cookies, it would be very difficult for a web site to allow a visitor to fill up a shopping cart or to remember the user's preferences or registration details for a future visit. Web sites use cookies mainly because they save time and make the browsing experience more efficient and enjoyable. Web sites often use cookies for the purposes of collecting demographic information about their users. Cookies enable web sites to monitor their users' web surfing habits and profile them for marketing purposes (for example, to find out which products or services they are interested in and send them targeted advertisements).

Other types of cookies or third party tools which could use them

Some of the services hereafter listed, might collect aggregated data and could not ask for the User consent. If some of the tools hereafter listed use services managed by third parties, they could perform activities to track the User. Please directly check the privacy and cookie policies of the listed services.

Website monitoring

These services allow to monitor the usage and the functioning of the website. Treatment of personal data is depending on their characteristics and on the implementation of these services.

Matomo

Matomo is an open source project brought to you by the Matomo team members as well as many other contributors around the globe. Matthieu Aubry is the legal representative of the Matomo project. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact our privacy team at privacy@matomo.org. This site use the Matomo platform with IP addresses anonymised (2 bytes) and analytics tracking cookies disabled.

Interaction with social networks and external platforms

These services allow to interact with social networks or other external platforms, directly from the website pages. The interactions and the information acquired by this website are subject to the settings of the user with each social network. In the case of a service of interaction with social networks, it is possible that the such social networks collect traffic data even if the user is not registered to the social network.

How to disable cookies?

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see AllAboutCookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Legal references

For European users: this note has been written to comply with the EU directive 2009/136/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.