Cookies | Maxi Profs

A. SUBJECT

The Company's strong commitment to the protection of the confidentiality of personal data of the Users of its Website and the controlled use of cookies, is illustrated through this "Cookie Policy", as required by the European Union Regulation No. 2016/679 ("GDPR") and related applicable legislation on the processing of personal data. This Cookie Policy, which is an integral part of our General Terms and Conditions of Use and Sale (available in the "C&T" section of the Site) has been drafted so that any User (i.e. the "Interested Party") can be usefully informed about the cookies that may be installed on his/her terminal (smartphone, tablet and computer) and the use that may be made of them, but also how they may be activated or deactivated depending on the User's choices. The cookies issued by the Company or its partners are used for the purposes described in this Cookie Policy; the User can deactivate the cookies in the table below by clicking on the links indicated or, in the case of third-party cookies, by accessing the notices and consent forms of those third parties.

1. What are "Cookies?"

When you consult the Site and our Services (which may include possible advertising content), with your Internet browsing software, information relating to the path of your terminal (smartphone, tablet and computer) may be stored in "cookies" which are then installed on your terminal and/or your Internet browser. A "cookie" is a text file that allows its issuer, during its period of validity, to recognize the relevant terminal whenever this terminal accesses a digital content of the same issuer. During your connections to the Site and our Services, cookies are installed on your terminal and/or Internet browser to ensure the proper functioning of the Site and the Services.

2. How are these cookies used?

First, it is important to point out that only the creator of the cookie can read the information it contains. External cookies may be included in the advertising spaces provided on the Site and its Services. These cookies then allow advertisements from advertisers to be displayed on your terminal. Cookies are different in nature, here are their different categories:

Browsing cookies (point 2a);
Audience measurement and behavioral analysis cookies (point 2b);
Social network cookies (point 2c);
Cookies issued by third parties through advertisements (point 2d).

2a - Technical (or navigational) cookies:

Necessary to manage normal navigation and user authentication; they allow to improve the performance of the Site and the proposed Services to offer you an improved and optimized use. No consent from the User is required for the installation of technical cookies. Functions:

Optimization of the presentation of the Site and Services for your specific needs, e.g.: language used, display resolution..;
Safeguarding the information recorded during your use of the Site and Services, e.g., your choice of language, country, etc.;
Access to the customer area of the Site and Services, e.g., your personal account area, thanks to your identifiers, which you entrusted to us previously during a previous login by checking the "Remember me" box during your connection;
Implementing security measures, for example, when you are asked to log back into the Site and Services after a specified period of inactivity.

2b - Audience measurement and behavioral analysis cookies:

They offer the possibility of establishing statistics and volumes of attendance and use of the various elements that make up the Site and Services (content visited, search and use paths, etc.), allow us to optimize and improve them, for example, by modifying the ergonomics, the content proposed or the ease of finding the information searched.

The Site and Services allow you to share content on social networks. Social network sharing cookies are managed by social network publishers. We encourage you to read the cookie management policy at the publishers concerned.

2d - Cookies issued by third parties:

The issuance and use of cookies by third parties is subject to their privacy policies. We inform you of the purpose of the cookies we are aware of and the means you have to make choices regarding these cookies. Cookies that do not fall into the category of technical cookies will be installed on Users' devices only and in accordance with the consent choices they have made.

2e - Third-party applications integrated with the Site and Services:

We may include on the Site and Services, computer applications issued by third parties, which allow you to share our content with other people or to let these other people know about your consultation or opinion regarding the content of the Site or Services. This is particularly the case with the "Share", "Like" buttons of social networks such as "Facebook", "Twitter", "LinkedIn", etc. The social network that provides such an application button is able to identify you through it, even if you have not used this button while browsing the Site and Services. In fact, this type of button may allow the social network in question to track your browsing of the Site and Services, solely because your account on this social network has been activated on your terminal (open session) during your browsing. We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information about your browsing on the Site and Services and associated with the personal data they hold. We encourage you to consult the privacy policies of these social networks to become aware of the purpose of use, including advertising, browsing information they may collect through these application buttons.

2f - Third-party content disseminated in our advertising space:

The advertising content (graphics, animations, videos, etc.) disseminated in our advertising spaces may contain cookies issued by third parties: the advertiser at the origin of the advertising content in question or a third party company to the advertiser (communication consulting company, audience measurement company, targeted advertising provider, etc.), which has associated a cookie with an advertiser's advertising content. Where applicable, the cookies issued by these third parties may allow them, during the validity period of these cookies (i) to recognize your terminal during its subsequent navigation on any other site or service on which these advertisers or third parties issue cookies, and, (ii) if necessary, to adapt these third-party sites and services or the transmitted advertisements to the navigation of your terminal that they may be aware of.

2g - How are Cookies that accompany our advertising content disseminated by third parties used?

When you access a site, service or application that contains advertising spaces displaying one of our advertisements, the latter may contain a cookie, which may, subject to your choice, be recorded in your terminal and allow us to recognize the navigator of your terminal, and this, during the validity period of the cookie in question. Cookies embedded in our advertisements disseminated by third parties are used for the purposes described below. Functions:

Counting the number of views and activations of our advertising content disseminated on third-party sites/services/applications, identifying this content and these sites/services/applications, determining the number of users who clicked on each content;
Calculation of amounts due to the actors in the advertising dissemination chain (communication agency, advertising agency, dissemination site/support) and compilation of related statistics;
Optimization of the presentation of the Site and Services to which our advertising content leads on your terminal (language used, display resolution, operating system used, type of terminal used, location data with your prior agreement) during your visits to the Site and Services.

2h - What happens in case of shared use of a terminal?

If your terminal is used by more than one person or even if the same terminal has more than one navigation software, we cannot assure you with certainty that the services and advertisements intended for your terminal correspond to your own personal use of this terminal and not to that of another user.

2i - Managing your Cookies?

Several options are available for managing your Cookies. Note that any settings you might select may change your browsing and access conditions to certain sites and services that necessarily require the use of cookies.

B - WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?

We use technical cookies for the purposes specified in 2a, in addition, with your consent, we use audience measurement and behavioral analysis cookies, also from third parties, for the purposes specified in 2b, among them Google analytics and Google adwords (retention period 24 months), Inspectlet (retention period until the User closes the session).

If you agree with the use of cookies you may: Click on the "I agree" button that appears on the information banner visible when you first access the Site and Services; You can change this setting at any time through the choices offered to you by your browsing software or through the directions contained in the cookie banner. If you have accepted in your browsing software the recording of cookies from the Site or Services in your Terminal, the cookies embedded in the pages and content you have accessed may be stored temporarily in a dedicated space of your Terminal.

D - REFUSAL OF COOKIES

If you refuse the registration of cookies in your terminal, or if you delete those that are already registered, you will no longer be able to benefit from a number of features that are nevertheless necessary to navigate certain areas of the Site and Services. For example, if you wish to access the Site or Services that require password-protected identification.

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