Cookie Policy

Revised March 2023

The purpose of this "Cookie Policy" is to inform you and to comply with the requirements of the French Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation regarding the use of cookies by Europa Group.

1. WHAT IS THE COOKIES POLICY AND WHAT IS ITS SCOPE?

You are informed that, during your visits to the websites and other digital spaces managed by Europa Group, cookies may be installed on your equipment (computer, tablet, or smartphone). Similarly, we may use cookies on e-mails sent to you or when you install software or a mobile application.

This privacy policy is designed to help you understand how we use cookies and for what purpose, but it also allows us to clarify your rights.

It is applicable only by virtue of its publication on our websites. The latest online version takes precedence over all others.

2. WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Legally, we do not speak of "cookies" but of "cookies" or "any action intended to gain access, by electronic transmission, to information already stored in the user's electronic communications terminal equipment, or to write information to this equipment", but for reasons of convenience of language we use the term "cookies" understood by the greatest number of Internet users.

In practice, cookies are used in different environments: website, e-mail, downloading software or mobile applications, etc.

A cookie is a small text file (computer file) recorded and/or read by your browser on the hard disk of your terminal (fixed or portable computer, tablet but also smartphone) when you visit a website or any other digital space of Europa Group.

From a technical and functional point of view, there are four types of cookies:

On a technical level, there is a wide variety of cookies: http cookies, "flash" cookies, "fingerprinting", invisible pixels or "web bugs", without this list being exhaustive.

3. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF A COOKIE?

Cookies are mainly used to fulfil five functions:

Function 1 - The proper functioning of the service(s) (essential or technical cookies)

Essential or technical cookies are those whose sole purpose is to enable or facilitate communication by electronic means, or those strictly necessary for the provision of an online communication service at the express request of the user, notably:

Function 2 - Improving the customer experience (audience measurement cookies)

Audience measurement cookies are used to obtain information about the user's browsing experience, by:

Function 3 - Economic function (advertising cookies)

The cookies deposited enable the user to be targeted to offer him/her advertising that corresponds to him/her and that is likely to interest him/her (according to location data, if this is activated, or according to personal data that has previously been provided). They also enable statistics and studies to be carried out on the advertising offered.

Finally, cookies allow us to study and record the activity generated by this digital environment: number of daily connections, connected profiles, most frequented time slots, etc.

Function 4 - Analytical cookies, necessary for audience measurement

These are cookies that allow us to know the use, the volumes of frequentation and use as well as the performance of our site. These cookies make it possible EUROPA GROUP to improve the interest, the ergonomics and the operation of the services proposed on the site (for example, the pages most often consulted, research of the Net surfers in the engine of the site...).

Function 5 - Social network cookies and buttons

These social network cookies and buttons are intended to allow users to use the functionality of the various platforms and to share pages and content via these third-party social networks.

For more information on the use of your personal data in relation to social networks, and since social network cookies are managed by the publisher of the social network site, we invite you to consult the privacy policies of the third-party social networks concerned.

4. WHAT KIND OF DATA DO WE COLLECT?

There are many untruths about cookies.

Cookies are not "bugs" that allow us to collect bulk or critical information about your personal life or access company secrets.

For example, cookies allow us to collect:

5. WHO HAS ACCESS TO THIS DATA?

Access to data collected by the company through cookies is limited:

Internal recipients:

External recipients:

6. WHAT ARE MY RIGHTS?

Article 32 II of the French Data Protection Act of 6 January 1978 states:

Any subscriber or user of an electronic communication service shall be informed in a clear and comprehensive manner by the data controller or its representative, except if already previously informed, regarding:

Such access or recording may only be carried out provided that the subscriber or user has explicitly expressed, after receiving said information, their agreement that may result from appropriate parameter settings in their connection device or any other system under their control.

These provisions shall not apply if the access to data stored in the terminal device of the user or the recording of information in the terminal device of the user is:

In summary, you have two rights: 

7. CONSENT

In accordance with the CNIL guidelines, a distinction must be made between cookies that require prior consent and those that fall under the exemption regime.

The cookies that require your prior consent are advertising cookies.

Technical cookies and those relating to audience measurement fall under the exemption regime.

Regarding audience measurement cookies that process personal data, you can express a right of opposition.

For the collection of consent and the management of the right to object, we use a Consent Management Platform ("CMP").

Through this tool, you can easily manage the activation or deactivation of our cookies, apart from technical cookies which are and remain necessary for the proper functioning of our services.

8. HOW TO DISABLE / SET COOKIES?

> From the preference manager on the site

At any time, you can choose how we will use your data via cookies by clicking on the Cookie Management link at the bottom of our Site. You can then accept the cookies that seem relevant to you (click on "Settings" then "Save my choices"), accept all cookies or refuse all cookies not strictly necessary for the operation of the Site.

> From your browser

Most web browsers are set by default to accept cookies, which are the very essence of how the Internet works. However, they also allow you to choose or refuse all cookies or even to precisely select those that you wish to keep.

To do this, each browser has its own specificities, the settings are relatively accessible via the help menus of each of them, for example:

On Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en  ;

On Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies ;

On Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored ;

On Opera: https://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/privacy/

Nota bene: Europa Group cannot guarantee the durability of these URLs, nor the quality of the information they contain.

Regarding mobile applications, e-mails, and social networks, we invite you to refer to the "settings" data for your account, which differ according to the platforms and operators.

We draw your attention to the fact that, when you oppose the installation or use of cookies, a refusal cookie may be installed on your terminal. When this cookie is deleted, it will no longer be possible to identify you as having refused the use of cookies. Similarly, when you consent to the installation of cookies, a consent cookie is installed.

9. USE OF THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

Third-party cookies may be deposited by partners or advertising agencies to identify the interests of users through the products or services they consult on the website concerned by this policy.

They may be deposited when using the digital environment concerned or when the user clicks on the advertising spaces of the latter.

We do not control these cookies, which are deposited by companies acting on their behalf. To find out more, we invite you to read their own "cookie policy".

10. HOW LONG WILL THE DATA BE KEPT?

Europa Group complies with the requirements set by the CNIL in terms of retention and duration.

Technical or essential cookies are kept for the time necessary to provide and operate the service.

Regarding audience measurement cookies, their life span does not exceed 13 months. As for the information collected through these tracers, it is kept for 25 months.

Other cookies are kept for a period reasonably necessary for the purposes for which they are used. The validity of the consent given will not exceed 13 months.

11. EVOLUTION OF THIS POLICY

This policy may be modified or amended at any time in the event of legal or jurisprudential developments, decisions, and recommendations of the CNIL, or changes in usage.

Any new version of this policy will be made known to users online by substituting the new version of the policy for the previous version.

12. ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS POLICY?

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us: data.officer@europa-group.com

For any general information on personal data protection, you may visit the CNIL website:  www.cnil.fr . specifically https://www.cnil.fr/fr/site-web-cookies-et-autres-traceurs