COOKIES POLICY 


Preamble

In order to improve the usability and functionality of our Site and to help us provide you with better information and services, we may collect data relating to your use of this Site via cookies.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a block of data that we use to record information about your navigation on this Site (this data is collected directly by us or through our partners). 

 

Which cookies can we use?

Several types of cookies may be present on this Site These cookies have the following purposes:

–          Cookies necessary for the operation of this Site (“Necessary Cookies”)

–          Audience measurement cookies (“analytical cookies”)

–         Social network cookies (“Functional cookies”)» ;

–         Identification cookies (“Functional cookies”) ;

–          Cookies related to targeted advertising operations (third-party cookies – “advertising cookies”)


       • Cookies necessary for the operation of this Site (« Necessary Cookies »)

These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of this Site,   for navigation on the Site and for the collection and management of your choices regarding cookie settings. These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of this Site. The use of these cookies is compulsory.


·         Audience measurement cookies (« analytical cookies »)

These cookies are used to establish statistics on the number of visitors to the Site and its various sections, and on the use of services offered on this Site.


·         Performance cookies 

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the Site’s key performance indices, enabling L’Institut Sothys to provide a better user experience.


·         Social network cookies (« Functional cookies »)

This Site offers application buttons to share certain content on this Site via social media platforms. These application buttons use cookies to track the browsing habits of Internet users. For example, these are “share” buttons from social networks.

For example, these are  “share”  buttons from social networks. When you click on one of these application buttons, the page of the social network in question is displayed. However, even if you do not click on the application buttons available on this Site, social networks that have made available these application buttons are likely to identify the connection data and navigation on this Site. Cookies are deposited directly by social networks. Thus, your choices regarding the deposit of these cookies must therefore also be done with social networks, by directly consulting the social network websites and their policies of protection of personal data.


·         Identification cookies (” Functional cookies “)

Identification cookies are used within the framework of the creation and/or the connection to the account of the user on this Site.


·         Cookies related to targeted advertising operations (third-party cookies – ” advertising cookies “)

When you access this Site, a cookie may be stored on your computer.

These cookies are intended to enable us to offer you adapted advertising content.


Cookie lifetime

The lifetime of cookies may vary depending on the type of cookie. These lifetimes are indicated in the cookie settings banner for each type of cookie.


Prior consent to the deposit of cookies

You must express your consent or refusal to the use of cookies.

To accept or refuse the deposit of cookies, during your first navigation on the Site, you must click on the “Cookie settings”  box to choose whether or not to give your consent for each category of cookie, with the exception of necessary cookies, which must be applied You also have the possibility of accepting or refusing all cookies. In case of refusal, we will not be able to implement the purposes intended by the refused cookies, but you will nevertheless be able to continue to benefit from all of the other Site’s functionalities.

In order to avoid you having to express your choice each time you visit the Site, we save it for a period of six months from the time it is first stored on your computer. Once this period has elapsed, or if you have deleted your cookies, you will be asked again to indicate your choice regarding the use of these cookies on the Site.

You can, at any time, modify your wishes concerning the deposit of cookies by the Site via the “Cookie management” module located at the bottom left of your screen.


Our partners

L’Institut Sothys shares data relating to cookies with the following  partners, for which you will find their policies on the management of the data collected below :

–          CookieYes Limited, for exercise and management of cookie consent (DATA PROCESSING AGREEMENT) ;

–          Monster Insights, for the exercise and management and analysis of data collected by Google Analytics (MonsterInsights EU Compliance Addon) ;

–          Google :Google Analytics (Data Privacy and Security ) et Google Ads (Google Ads Data Processing Terms) to collect and analyse visitor measurements and produce statistics.


The refusal of cookies

As a reminder, the setting is likely to modify your conditions of access to the services of this Site Without these cookies, you risk losing the benefit of functions that are not essential to navigation on our Site.


How to exercise your choices?

Manage cookies by manual configuration is possible directly in your browser. As such, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in the help menu and will allow you to know how to modify your wishes in terms of cookies. 

Here are the help pages for:

Internet Explorer™ : http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies 

Safari™ : https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265

Chrome™ : http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&hlrm=en&answer=95647

Firefox™ : https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/activer-desactiver-Cookies

Opera™ : https://help.opera.com/en/latest/