Information about the use of cookies
1. What is a cookie ?
A cookie is a text file that can be registered, subject to your choice, in a dedicated area of the hard disk of your terminal, on the occasion of the consultation of an online service through your browser software.
A cookie file allows the issuer to identify the terminal in which it is registered during the period of validity.
2. What is the function of cookies on our site?
Only the issuer of a cookie is likely to read or modify the information contained therein. The cookies used on our site identify the services and items that the user has visited, and more generally its behavior in terms of visits. These information are useful to better customize services, content and banners that appear on our site and facilitate navigation on our site. Cookies are also necessary for the operation of certain services or to measure their audience.
When you are connected to our website, we may, subject to your choice, to install various cookies in your terminal allowing us to recognize the browser on your terminal during the period of validity of the cookie concerned.
Cookies that we issue are used for the purposes described below, subject to your choices resulting settings of your browser software used during your visit to our website.
2.1. The cookies we issue allow to us :
2.1.1. Facilitate your navigation on our site
- by adapting the layout of our website to your terminal display preferences (language, screen resolution, operating system, etc.) when you visit our website, according to the hardware and visualization software or reading that your device has.
- remembering information on a form that you filled on our website (contact form) or information that you have chosen on our site (accessed content …).
- implementing security measures.
2.1.2. Improve our services
Cookies help to establish traffic volume statistics and use of the various components of this website (visited sections and content, courses) to improve the relevance and usability of our services.
2.2. Cookies issued by our site by third parties
The issue and the use of cookies by third parties are subject to the protection of privacy policies of these third parties. We inform you of the purpose of cookies that we know and means you have to make choices with respect to cookies.
Because of integrated third party applications to 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 inform these other people your inquiry or your opinion regarding content of our website. Such is the case of the buttons “Share”, “Like”, from social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Viadeo, etc.
The social network application providing such a switch is likely to identify you through this button, even if you have not used this button when you visit our site. Indeed, this type of application button can allow the social network concerned to follow your navigation on our site, just because your account social network concerned was activated on your device (open session) during your visit to our site.
We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information about your visits to our website and associated with personal data they have. We invite you to review the privacy policies of privacy of these social networks to be aware of the purpose of use, including advertising, navigation information they can gather through these application buttons. These privacy policies should enable you to exercise your choices from these social networks, particularly by setting your accounts to use each of these networks.
3. Your choices about cookies
Several options are available to manage cookies. Any settings that you can undertake is likely to modify your Internet browsing and our website as well as your terms of access to certain services that require the use of cookies. You can choose at any time to express and edit your wishes regarding cookies, by the means described below.
The choices offered to you by your web browser:
You can set your browser so that cookies are stored in your device or on the contrary, they are rejected, either systematically or according to their issuer. You can also configure your browser so that accepting or rejecting cookies you are offered punctually before a cookie is likely to be saved in your device. For more information, see (c) “How to exercise your choice, depending on the browser you use? ”
(a) The agreement of Cookies
Saving a cookie in a terminal is subordinate to the willingness of the terminal user, the latter can express and modify at any time and free of charge through the choices that are offered to him by his browser. If you accepted in your browser cookies from being saved to your device, cookies embedded in the pages and contents have been read can be stored temporarily in a dedicated area of your device. They will be readable only by their issuer.
(b) The refusal of Cookies
If you decline the recording of cookies on your device, or if you delete those registered there, you can not benefit from a number of features needed to navigate in some areas of our site. Such would be the case when we could not recognize, for purposes of technical compatibility, browser type used by your terminal, its language and display settings or the country from which your terminal seems connected to the Internet. If necessary, we assume no liability for the consequences related to impaired operation of our services due to the impossibility for us to record or view the cookies required for their operation and that you have refused or deleted.
(c) How to exercise your choice, depending on the browser you use?
For managing cookies and your choice, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in the help menu on your browser, allowing you to learn how to change your wishes regarding cookies.
For Safari™
For Chrome™
For Firefox™
For Opera™
etc