Cookie Policy
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The policy relating to cookies and other tracking technologies was updated on 01/04/2021.
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BrowLab places particular importance on respecting the privacy of users of its site and complying with the legal provisions in force.
When you visit our BrowLab.fr website, cookies or other tracking technologies (“cookies”) may be read and/or stored on your device (computer, mobile phone, tablet, etc.).
This page helps you better understand how cookies work and how to manage your preferences.
1 - What is a “cookie”?
A “cookie” is a text file that may, depending on your choices, be stored in a dedicated area of your device’s hard drive when you visit our site using your browser. A cookie enables its issuer to identify the device on which it is stored for the duration of the cookie’s validity or storage period. Only the issuer of a cookie is able to read or modify the information contained in it.
2 - What are the cookies issued on BrowLab.fr used for?
Cookies issued by us on our site
When you connect to our site, we may, subject to your prior consent, install various cookies on your device that allow us to recognise your browser for the duration of the relevant cookie’s validity.
The cookies we issue are used for browsing, optimisation and personalisation of our services on the site, in particular for the following purposes:
- authentication on our site, in particular to allow you to access reserved and personal areas such as your account, using identifiers or data that you may previously have provided to us;
- implementation of security measures, for example when you are asked to sign in again to content or a service after a certain period of time;
- adapting the presentation of our site to your device’s display preferences (language used, screen resolution, operating system used, etc.) during your visits, depending on the hardware and viewing or reading software installed on your device;
- storing information relating to an action you have carried out (closing a window, etc.), a form you have completed on our site (registration or account access, etc.), or products, services or information you have selected on our site (contents of a shopping cart, etc.);
Cookies issued on our site by third parties:
The issuing and use of cookies by third parties are subject to those third parties’ privacy policies. We inform you of the purpose of the cookies we are aware of and the means available to you to make choices regarding these cookies.
- Audience measurement cookies
Our site may contain cookies issued by audience measurement companies. During their period of validity, these cookies make it possible to compile statistics and volumes relating to visits and use of the various elements that make up our site (sections and content viewed, browsing paths, etc.) and thereby improve the relevance and usability of our services.
In particular, we use Google Analytics services. For information on how Google uses the data collected through these cookies, you can consult Google’s privacy policy and terms of use.
- Advertising cookies
Our site may contain cookies issued by advertising technology providers that enable them, during the period of validity of these cookies:
- to determine advertising content likely to match your interests based on your browsing, interests, preferences, etc.;
- to control the number of times advertisements are displayed;
- to identify the third-party website from which you were redirected to our website;
We mainly work with the following advertising technology providers: Google, Criteo, Facebook, Flashtalking, Numberly, Oath, Publicis Media, Quantcast, Rakuten Marketing, Teads, Awin, BounceX, Addition Technologies AG, Captify, Intelligent Reach, Lengow, Mediaplus & Media 2 GmbH & Co. KG, Microsoft, Movable Ink, Notify, Outbrain Inc., Plan.Net Performance, Yieldify and Medoa Go.
- Cookies issued by third parties through third-party applications integrated into our site
We may include third-party applications on our site that allow you to share content from our site with other people or to let those people know that you have viewed or expressed an opinion about content on our site. This applies in particular to “Share” and “Like” buttons from social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.
The social network providing such an application button may identify you through that button, even if you did not use it while visiting our site. This type of application button may allow the relevant social network to track your browsing on our site simply because your account with that social network was active on your device (signed-in session) while you were browsing our site.
We have no control over the process used by these third parties to collect information about your browsing on our site and associate it with personal data they hold. We invite you to consult the privacy policies of these social networks to learn about the purposes, particularly advertising purposes, for which they may use browsing information collected through these application buttons. These privacy policies should in particular allow you to exercise your choices with these social networks, notably by configuring your user accounts on each of them.
3 - How can you exercise your choices regarding cookies issued on the BrowLab.fr website?
You can choose at any time to express and change your preferences regarding cookies using the methods described below.
Please note that any settings you choose may affect your browsing experience on the Internet and your conditions of access to certain services that require the use of cookies.
Where applicable, we accept no responsibility for the consequences of degraded operation of our services resulting from our inability to store or access cookies required for their operation and which you have refused or deleted.
Choices available through your browser software
Cookie management and preference settings differ from one browser to another. They are described in your browser’s help menu, which explains how to change your cookie preferences.
Choices expressed online through industry platforms
You can visit the Youronlinechoices website, provided by digital advertising professionals grouped within the European association EDAA (European Digital Advertising Alliance) and managed in France by the Interactive Advertising Bureau France.
You can then see which companies are registered on this platform and which offer you the option of refusing or accepting the cookies they use to adapt advertisements displayed on your device to your browsing information: www.youronlinechoices.com
This European platform is shared by hundreds of online advertising professionals and provides a centralised interface allowing you to refuse or accept cookies that may be used to adapt advertising displayed on your device to your browsing. Please note that this procedure will not prevent advertisements from being displayed on the websites you visit. It will only block technologies that allow advertisements to be tailored to your interests.
4 – More information about cookies
For more information about cookies and their use, you can visit the website of the French Data Protection Authority (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés – CNIL) at the following address: www.cnil.fr
