1. DEFINITIONS
Cookies and similar tracers such as « local shared objects » Flash cookies, « local storage », etc. (“cookies”) are containers stored on a user's device when they are using an app or visiting a website. They are used to store information on the user's terminal that can be accessed via the app or the browser and sometimes by the publisher of the app/website (e.g. a session identifier or the choice of a language).
Some cookies are only stored for the time you are active on the app or website, (such as "session cookies" which disappear as soon as you leave the related website), while some others are “permanent” and remain on your device until the expiry of their duration or until you delete them using your browser's features.
You are informed that during your visits to this website (the “Website”), cookies may be installed on your device if you consent to it.
2. PURPOSES OF THE COOKIES USED
The following cookies used by Ardian France and deposited thereby of by its partners are necessary to the functioning of the Website (for instance cookies set to remember whether you have opposed to the use of cookies):
| No. | NAME | Deposited by | LIFETIME |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | SSESSxxxxxxx | Ardian | 23 days |
| 2. | cookie-agreed | Ardian | 100 days |
| 3. | __atuvs | Ardian | 30 min |
| 4. | __atuvc | Ardian | 1 year and 1 month |
| 5. | loc | AddThis | 1 year and 1 month |
| 6. | uvc | AddThis | 1 year and 1 month |
| 7. | sc_anonymous_id | SoundCloud | 10 years |
| 8. | GPS | YouTube | 30 min |
| 9. | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube | 180 days |
| 10. | YSC | YouTube | Session |
If you use your browser functionalities top prevent the deposit of such cookies, you might not be able to benefit from all the features of the Website and notably we might not be able to remember your choices and references.
3. CONSENT AND COOKIES MANAGEMENT
During your first visit to our sites, you are invited to accept or refuse the use of the above-mentioned cookies for the related purpose.
If you do not want cookies to be installed or read on your device, as mentioned above, a refusal cookie will be stored on your equipment, so that Ardian France records the information that you have objected to the use of cookies. If you delete this refusal cookie, it will no longer be possible to identify you as having refused the use of cookies. Equally, when you accept the use of cookies, a consent cookie is installed. The consent or refusal cookies must remain on your device.
4. OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION
Below are some other useful information allowing your to further manage cookies deposited on your terminal.
A. BROWSER SETTINGS
In most browsers, you have the option, if you wish, to choose to accept all cookies, to reject cookies systematically or to choose those that you accept according to their sender. You can also regularly delete cookies from your device via your browser.
The settings of each browser are different. They are described in the help menu of your browser, which will enable you to know how to change your cookie preferences. For example:
- for Microsoft Edge: support.microsoft.com/fr-fr/help/4468242/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy-microsoft-privacy
- for Safari: support.apple.com/fr-fr/safari
- for Chrome: support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=fr&hlrm=en&answer=95647
- for Firefox: support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/Activer%20et%20d%C3%A9sactiver%20les%20cookies
- for Opera: help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html
We draw your attention to the fact that, as mentioned above, setting your browser to refuse all cookies might prevent you from using certain limited features of the Website, which we cannot be responsible for.
B. PUBLISHERS OPPOSITION MODULE AND OPPOSITION PLATFORMS
You may disable certain third-party cookies by going directly to the sender's page. So, to disable Google Analytics cookies, go to tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=fr.
Several platforms of advertising professionals also offer you the possibility to refuse or accept cookies used by companies that are members. These centralised mechanisms do not block the display of advertisements but only prevent the installation of cookies to adapt the advertisements to your interests.
For example, you can go to www.youronlinechoices.com in order to stop the installation of these cookies on your device. This site is offered by digital advertising professionals grouped within the EDAA (European Digital Advertising Alliance) and managed in France by the Interactive Advertising Bureau France.
You will be able to know the companies registered on this platform and which offer you the possibility of refusing or accepting the cookies used by these companies to adapt to your browsing information the advertisements that may be displayed on your device: www.youronlinechoices.com/fr/controler-ses-cookies/.
This European platform is shared by hundreds of advertising professionals on the internet and is a centralised interface enabling you to express your refusal or your acceptance of cookies that may be used in order to adapt to the browsing of your device advertisements likely to be displayed there.
5. PERSONAL DATA
Where cookies are used to collect personal data about you, such data will be processed and kept in accordance with Ardian France Users Data Privacy Notice.
6. CONTACT
Ardian France is available at this address: dataprivacyofficer@ardian.com.