INFORMATION ABOUT THE USE OF COOKIES
When you visit our website, it is likely that information will be recorded in “Cookies” installed on your device (computer, mobile phone, or tablet). This page was created to help you understand what cookies are, what they are used for, and how to change your settings.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small information files that are stored, with your consent, on your device via your browser and allow websites or applications to remember your choices, dates, and previous paths on the website, storing only information related to your preferences.
Cookies are managed by your browser; only the entity that issues a cookie can read or modify the information contained in it.
A cookie does not personally identify you; it identifies the browser on your device.
What are cookies used for?
Cookies help determine the usefulness, interest, and number of uses of our websites or applications, enabling faster and more efficient navigation by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information.
We present three types of cookies that define the purposes described above and may be installed on your device when you visit our website:
- Technical Cookies are necessary to navigate our website and access different products and services. Technical cookies allow us to recognize the user (without identifying them), indicate your visit on a particular page, and facilitate navigation — they adapt the website’s display to your viewing preferences (language and screen resolution), remember passwords and other information related to a form you filled out on our site. Technical cookies also enable the use of security measures (for example, when you’re asked to log in again to the member area after a certain period of time). These cookies cannot be disabled or reset without the risk of losing access to the site and/or its services.
- Audience Measurement Cookies are installed by us or by our technical service providers to measure the audience of the various contents of our website to enable better content evaluation or organization. These cookies also help detect browsing issues and improve the ergonomics of our services. Audience measurement cookies are used anonymously for the creation and analysis of statistics related to the use of websites or applications to improve their functionality. On our sites, we use Google Analytics as a measurement tool, and the lifespan of these cookies does not exceed 13 months.
- Social Media Cookies allow you to share content from our website with other people and let them know your opinions or views related to website content. This occurs in particular through the “share” and “like” features of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube.
We suggest that you review the privacy policies of these social networks to understand the purposes—particularly for advertising—for which the browsing information they may collect via these features is used. The lifespan of these cookies does not exceed 13 months.
Your cookie choices
By using our website, you have either consented to or declined the use of the cookies described above. If you have consented, you may choose to disable cookies at any time, except for technical cookies that are necessary for the website to function, as indicated above.
If you do not choose either option (consent or refusal) and continue to browse, the website will default to refusal mode.
REFUSING COOKIES
- Refusing a cookie using your browser software: You can disable all or part of the cookies at any time. Your browser can also be set to alert you when cookies are stored on your device and ask whether to accept them (on a case-by-case basis or altogether). However, please note that disabling all cookies will prevent you from using our site under normal conditions, except for basic functions.
Regarding the cookie manager and your choices, each browser has different settings. These are described in your browser’s help menu, which you can use to modify your cookie preferences:- Google Chrome™: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
- Microsoft Internet Explorer™: https://support.microsoft.com/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
- Mozilla Firefox™: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
- Apple Safari™: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
- Opera™: http://www.opera.com/blogs/news/2015/08/how-to-manage-cookies-in-opera/
- Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468242/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy-microsoft-privacy
- You can also configure your browser to send a “Do Not Track” signal to websites:
- Google Chrome™: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2790761
- Microsoft Internet Explorer™: https://support.microsoft.com/help/17288/windows-internet-explorer-11-use-do-not-track
- Mozilla Firefox™: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-do-i-turn-do-not-track-feature
- Apple Safari™: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri35610/mac
- Opera™: http://help.opera.com/Windows/12.10/en/notrack.html
- Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468242/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy-microsoft-privacy
- Refusing an audience measurement cookie: On our website, audience measurement cookies are installed by Google Analytics. If you do not want our site to store Google Analytics audience measurement cookies in your browser, click the “I refuse” button. Refusing will install a cookie in your browser whose only purpose is to deactivate these audience measurement cookies. Additionally, if you want to block any use of your data by Google Analytics JavaScript files, you can download the browser add-on to disable Google Analytics.
- Refusing a cookie issued by a social network: If you do not want a social network to store cookies in your browser for this purpose, you can click on the following opt-out links. These will place a cookie in your browser whose sole purpose is to disable other cookies from that same issuer. Disabling these cookies will prevent any interaction with the respective social networks:
- FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
- TWITTER: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169453
- LINKEDIN: http://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy
- INSTAGRAM: https://help.instagram.com/1896641480634370
Note: If you delete all cookies stored on your device, we will no longer know what you have previously consented to or refused. This means you will have to refuse these cookies again. If you use a different browser, you will also need to refuse these cookies again, as cookies are tied to both the browser and the device you use to access our site.