What is a cookie?

Cookies are small files that websites place on your computer hard drive or on your mobile phone browser. Cookies are extensively used to operate websites, to improve the user experience and to provide website owners with certain information. Our cookies can store information on your on-line preferences and enable us to adapt our website accordingly.

How can you accept or refuse the use of cookies?

It is always possible for users to adapt their computer configuration so as to systematically accept cookies, to refuse them or to be notified whenever a cookie is used. Refusing cookies can result in preventing certain personalised services from being proposed to the user, hence precluding full use of all the functionalities of our website (hereafter referred to as the "Site").

If you wish to refuse the use of all or part of our cookies, you must set the parameters of your browser accordingly. Since each browser is different, we recommend you consult the "Help" menu on your own in order to find out how to modify your cookie preferences.

Independently of the use of cookies, when you visit our Site, the simple connection established between your mobile and the Site enables us to collect personal information including your operating system, your browser version, domain name and IP address, the last web page visited and the Site pages you consult. We can use this information for marketing, advertising, profile composition or for other promotional purposes.

How do we use cookies?

Information collected via cookies can help us to analyse the use of the Site and enable us to offer users an improved Site experience. Information collected via cookies can be used to identify you. However, we do not use cookies for targeted and personalised advertising to children.

What cookies do we use and what for?

Technically necessary cookies

Some of our cookies are absolutely necessary for using the Site and for certain Site functionalities. These functional cookies cannot be refused when using the Site. This category includes, among others, cookies that detect whether a user has accepted the use of cookies on the Site or not.

Session cookies and preference cookies

We can use cookies to facilitate use of the Site; as, for example, the possibility for users to browse different Site pages. These cookies cease to operate at the end of the session (for example, when the user closes the browser page). We can also use cookies to memorise your Site preferences and choices for a longer period of time. In general, these cookies are no longer active after a period of two years.

Analysis cookies

We can use analysis cookies to improve the Site's performance, marketing strategy and personalisation, by collecting information on the number of visitors, how they come to consult the Site and how they use it (for example, the most frequently consulted pages). For these reasons, we can currently or may in the future be brought to use analysis cookies and related cookies associated with ADOBE (Adobe Analytics – click here to consult the Adobe confidentiality policy) and with Google (Google Analytics – click here to consult the Google confidentiality policy), which will cease to operate after a period of two years.

"Social network" cookies

On our Site, we can choose to implement the functionalities of third-party Websites and, more specifically, those of social networks. These functionalities include scripts or other features capable of reading or placing social network cookies on your own device. These cookies enable advertising to be personalised. We can neither access nor control these cookies or the data they collect, for our role is limited to Site administration; however, we wish to inform you and obtain your consent with regard to this type of cookie.