What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files which, subject to your choice, are downloaded to your device (computer, smartphone, tablet) when you visit a website. The term cookie has to be interpreted in the broadest sense and covers all the tracers downloaded and/or read, for example, when you visit a website, read an email, install software or a mobile application. Cookies are managed by your web browser and only the cookie issuer can read or modify the information included in it.

What are cookies used for?

They are essential to the effective operation of our website and to make it intuitive. They concern the way the website functions and improve your browsing by memorizing the information and the data you record to facilitate your access to reserved or personal spaces. Their aim is to collect information of your web browsing and offer you adapted services and adapted publicity for you and for your device. They personalize the content of the site to offer you the best browsing experience possible when you visit our website.

Keeping your personal information safe

Our cookies do not store personal information such as your name, address, phone number or email in a format that can be read by others. The cookies we use cannot read or search your computer, smartphone or web-enabled device to obtain information about you or your family, or read any material kept on your hard drive.

Links to third party websites

If you follow a link from our website to another website, please be aware that the owner of the other website will have their own privacy and cookie policies for their site. We recommend you read up their policies as we are not responsible or liable for what happens on their website.

The types of cookies we use on this website

Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential for our online services and tools to function and to enable you use their distinct functionalities. They collect or record information that we need to make our website work. These cookies only last for a single browsing session – when you leave our website, they are removed.

Functionality cookies: These cookies allow us to provide you with enhanced features that need to remember your preferences and choices to help us offer them to you when you return and to adapt the pages’ presentation to your device’s predilection display (such as resolution, language …). They will enhance your browsing on our website.

Performance cookies: These cookies help us monitor and improve how our website works by collecting anonymous information when you visit our website (the way you arrived on the site, pages you go to most often). They also enable us monitor how our website is performing so we can keep on improving it. These cookies are stored until an expiry-date fixed by the website or your browser.

Cookies facilitating online communication: They aim to remember the data entered by you on the website to, for example, facilitate accurate quotations, online simulations and purchase of our products.

Advertising cookies: Advertising cookies: As they are aligned with your browsing habits they enable the display of adverts based on your profile, limit how often these adverts appear and measure the effectiveness of a campaign.

Cookies “social buttons”: They allow sharing of content of the website on social platforms.

How to manage and switch off the cookies? Whenever you want, you can refuse cookies by switching them off or choosing to set your computer to notify and submit for your acceptance each cookie before it is downloaded to your device. In this case, you can either refuse them one by one or systematically disallow them. We remind you that your settings may affect how you access services that require the use of cookies. If your browser is configured to reject all cookies, you cannot make purchases or take advantage of key features of our website. To manage cookies closer to your expectations, we invite you to change your browser settings taking into account the purpose of the cookies as mentioned above. Various browsers have different methods of managing cookies (including disabling options).

For more information on how to manage cookies, please refer to: https://www.aboutcookies.org

Policy Update

We reserve the right to make any changes and corrections to this policy. Please refer to this page on a regular basis to be informed about modifications that may affect you.