Information about the use of cookies

1. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a text file that may be stored, subject to your choices, in a dedicated space on your terminal's hard drive when you consult an online service using your browser.

A cookie file allows its issuer to identify the terminal in which it is stored, for the duration of its validity.

2. The cookies that we issue on our site are used to :

Facilitate your navigation on our site
Establish statistics of frequentation (number of visits, number of pages seen, time spent etc.), allowing us to follow and improve the quality of our services
3. Your choices concerning cookies

Several possibilities are offered to you to manage cookies. Any settings you make may affect your browsing on the Internet and our site, as well as your access to certain services that require the use of cookies. You can choose at any time to express and modify your wishes regarding cookies, by the means described below.

Choices offered to you by your browser:

You can configure your browser software so that cookies are stored in your terminal or, on the contrary, that they are rejected, either systematically or according to their sender. You can also configure your browser software so that you are offered the option of accepting or rejecting cookies from time to time, before a cookie is likely to be stored on your terminal. For more information, see "How to exercise your choices, depending on the browser you use?"

(a) The agreement on cookies

The recording of a cookie in a terminal is subject to the will of the terminal user, which he or she can express and modify at any time and free of charge through the choices offered by his or her browser software. If you have accepted in your browser software the recording of cookies in your Terminal, the cookies integrated in the pages and contents that you have consulted may be stored temporarily in a dedicated space in your Terminal. They will only be readable by their sender.

(b) Refusal of Cookies

If you refuse to accept cookies on your terminal, or if you delete the cookies stored on your terminal, you will no longer be able to benefit from a certain number of functionalities necessary to navigate in certain areas of our site. This would be the case if you tried to access our content or services that require you to be identified. This would also be the case if we - or our service providers - were unable to recognize, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used by your terminal, its language and display settings or the country from which your terminal seems to be connected to the Internet. Where applicable, we decline all responsibility for the consequences related to the degraded functioning of our services resulting from the impossibility for us to record or consult the cookies necessary for their functioning and which you would have refused or deleted.

(c) How to exercise your choices, depending on the browser you use?

For the management of cookies and your choices, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in the help menu of your browser, which will allow you to know how to modify your wishes regarding cookies.

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 Firefox™: http://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/Activer%20et%20d%C3%A9sactiver%20les%20cookies

For Safari™: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/3.0/fr/9277.html

For Opera™: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html