Legal notice

When visiting our website, information relating to your device’s browsing history (PC, tablet, smartphone, etc.) on our website is likely to be saved in files called “cookies” that are subsequently stored on your device, subject to the settings that you may have defined regarding the use of cookies. Such settings can be modified at any time. A cookie is a small text file that is stored in a specific area of your device’s hard drive when you view an online service with your browser. A cookie enables the sender to identify the device on which it has been stored until the cookie expires or is deleted.

Only the person sending a cookie is likely to read or amend the information contained in the cookie. The cookies that our website places on your device are used for the purposes described hereinafter, subject to the settings that you have defined in the browser that you used to visit our website and which you can modify at any time.

We use cookies to:

• Produce statistics and measure how many people are visiting and using the various elements on our website (visited sections and content, journey, etc.), so that we can improve the value, look and feel of our services. Adapt our website’s presentation to your device’s display settings (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) when visiting our website, depending on the hardware and software that your device uses to view or read content.
• Remember the information that you entered in a form on our website (registration, access to your account or authentication to access one of our group’s services) or data relating to any products, services or information that you selected on our website (subscribed service, basket contents, etc.).
• Allow you to access restricted and personal areas on our website, including your account, using any login details or data that you may have previously provided.
• Implement security measures, such as when you are prompted to log into content or a service again after a certain period of time.

The storage and use of third-party cookies are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties. When we are aware of the presence of any third-party cookies, we will inform you of their purpose and the ways in which you can define your settings for those cookies.

We are likely to include third-party computer applications in our website, which you can use to share our website’s content with other people or show other people your visit or your opinion regarding our website’s content. This especially applies to the “Share” and “Like” buttons from such social networking sites as Facebook and Twitter. The social networking site providing this type of application button is likely to identify you with this button, even if you did not use the button when browsing our website. This type of application button can be used by the social networking site to monitor your browsing history on our website, simply due to the fact that your social network account was activated on your device (open session) while browsing our website. We have no control over the process that social networking sites use to collect information relating to your browsing history on our website and associated with the personal information in their possession. We would invite you to refer to the privacy policies of those social networking sites to determine the purposes, particularly advertising purposes, for which they might use the browsing information collected via such application buttons. The said privacy policies must enable you to define your permissions for those social networking sites, especially by configuring your account settings for each site.

Several possibilities are available for managing cookies. Any changes to your settings may modify your browsing on the Internet and your terms for accessing certain services that require the use of cookies. You can define or modify your cookie settings at any time using the methods described below. The settings available depend on your browser. You can configure your browser so that cookies are stored on your device or alternatively blocked, either systematically or according to the sender. You can also configure your browser to prompt you to accept or block a cookie before it is likely to be stored on your device.

For further information, refer to the section entitled “How do you manage cookies according to your browser?”

• Accepting cookies: whether or not a cookie is placed on a device mainly depends on the user’s settings, which can be freely defined and modified at any time via the settings available in the browser. If you have configured your browser to accept cookies on your device, the cookies built into the pages and content that you have viewed may be temporarily placed in a specific area of your device. The information contained in the cookie can only be read by the sender.
• Blocking cookies: if you prevent cookies from being stored on your device or if you delete any cookies already in the device’s memory, you will no longer be able to access certain features that are nevertheless required to browse certain parts of our website. Such would be the case if you attempted to access content or services for which you must be signed in. Such would also be the case if either we or our providers, for the purposes of technical compatibility, were unable to recognise the type of browser used by your device, the language and display settings, or the country from which your device appeared to be accessing the Internet. If applicable, we disclaim all liability for any consequences arising from the reduced performance of our services caused by our inability to store or read the cookies required for the operation of such services and which you have blocked or deleted.
• How do you manage cookies according to your browser? To manage cookies and your settings, the configuration for each browser is different. The configuration is described in your browser’s help menu, which will show you how to amend your cookie settings as required.
  • For Chrome™: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=fr&hlrm=en&answer=95647
  • for internet explorer™: http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies
  • for safari™: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=safari/3.0/fr/9277.html
  • for firefox™: http://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/activer-desactiver-cookies-preferences
  • for opera™: http://help.opera.com/windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html,
  • and so on

Adobe Flash Player™ is a computer application that allows for the fast development of dynamic content using the Flash programming language. Flash (and applications of the same type) memorises the settings, preferences and use of such content using a similar technology to cookies. However, Adobe Flash Player™ manages such information and your settings with a different interface to the one provided by your browser. If you are likely to use your device to view content developed with the Flash programming language, we would invite you to access your Flash cookie management tools directly at the http://www.adobe.com/fr/ website.Depending on your settings and whether your device has been configured to accept cookies, we use cookies to:

• Produce statistics.
• Adapt the presentation of the website to which one of our advertising contents leads.
• According to your device’s display settings (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) when visiting our website, depending on the hardware and software that your device uses to view or read content.
• According to the location data (longitude and latitude) that we (or our providers) received from your device with your prior authorisation.
• Monitor your device’s subsequent browsing on websites / applications.

If your device is used by several people and if many browsers are installed on the same device, we cannot guarantee that the services and advertisements intended for your device will suit how you specifically use the device and not how another person uses the device. If applicable, sharing the use of your device with other people and the configuration of your browser’s cookie settings are of your free choosing and your responsibility.