Cookie Management

Cookies

A "cookie" is a text file that may be saved, subject to your choices, in a dedicated space of your Terminal's hard disk, when you consult an online service on the Site.

A Cookie file enables its sender to identify the Terminal in which it is stored, for the duration of the Cookie's validity or storage.

When you consult our Site, information relating to the browsing of your Terminal (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) on our Site may be recorded in "Cookies" files installed on your Terminal, subject to the choices you have made concerning Cookies, which you may modify at any time.

 

What are the COOKIES used for on our site?

Only the sender of a cookie or tracer can read or modify the information contained in it.

The cookies or tracers we issue on this website.

When you connect to our website, we may, subject to your choices, install various cookies on your computer, enabling us to recognize your computer's browser for the duration of the cookie's validity. The cookies we issue are used for the purposes described below, subject to your choices, which result from the settings of your browser software used during your visit to our website.

• to compile statistics and volumes concerning visits to and use of the various elements making up our website (sections and content visited, routes taken), enabling us to improve the interest and ergonomics of our Services;
• adapt the presentation of our site to your computer's display preferences (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) during your visits to our website, depending on the hardware and viewing or reading software that your computer is equipped with;
• to store information relating to a form you have filled in on our website (registration or access to your account) or to products, services or information you have chosen on our website (subscribed service, contents of an order basket, etc.);
• to enable you to access reserved and personal areas of our site, such as your account, using identifiers or data that you may have previously entrusted to us;
• to implement security measures, for example when you are asked to reconnect to content or a service after a certain period of time.

 

Cookies or tracers issued on the Site by third parties:

Due to third-party applications integrated into the website, certain cookies may be issued by entities other than our website. In this case, the issue and use of these cookies are subject to the privacy protection policies of these third parties. We inform you of the purpose of the cookies we are aware of and the means available to you to make choices with regard to these cookies.

We may include third-party software applications on our website that enable you to share the content of our website (news, etc.) with other people, or to inform these other people of your consultation or opinion concerning the content of our website. This is particularly the case with "Share" and "Like" buttons from social networks such as "Facebook", "Twitter", "Google +", "Instagram", "YouTube" and so on.

The social network providing such a button is likely to identify you thanks to this button, even if you did not use this button during your consultation of our Site.

In fact, this type of button may enable the social network concerned to track your browsing on the O3 Experts website, simply because your account with the social network concerned was activated on your computer (open session) during your browsing on our website.

We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information relating to your browsing on our site and associated with the personal data they hold. We invite you to consult the privacy protection policies of these social networks in order to learn about the purposes for which they may use the browsing information they may collect via these buttons, particularly for advertising purposes.

In particular, these protection policies should enable you to exercise your choices with regard to these social networks, notably by configuring your user accounts for each of these networks.

 

Your choices concerning cookies

You have several options for managing cookies. Any changes you make may affect your browsing experience and your access to certain services requiring the use of cookies. However, you can choose at any time to express and modify your wishes with regard to cookies, by the means described below. The choices offered by your browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, etc.)

You can configure your browser so that cookies are stored on your computer or, conversely, so that they are rejected, either systematically or depending on the sender. You can also configure your browser so that you are prompted to accept or reject cookies before a cookie is stored on your computer.

For more information, see "How to exercise your choices, depending on the browser you use" below.

Agreement on cookies: The recording of a cookie on a computer is essentially subject to the user's wishes, which can be expressed and modified at any time and free of charge through the choices offered by his or her browser software.

If you have accepted the recording of cookies on your computer, the cookies integrated into the pages and content you have consulted may be stored temporarily in a dedicated space on your computer. They will only be readable by the sender.

Refusal of cookies: If you refuse to accept cookies on your computer, or if you delete the cookies stored on your computer, you will no longer be able to benefit from a certain number of functions which are nevertheless necessary for browsing certain areas of our website. This would be the case if you tried to access our content or services that require you to identify yourself.

This would also be the case if we - or our service providers - were unable to recognize, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used by your computer, its language and display settings, or the country from which your computer appears to be connected to the Internet.

Where applicable, we decline all responsibility for the consequences linked to the degraded operation of our services resulting from the impossibility for us to record or consult the cookies necessary for their operation and which you would have refused or deleted.

 

How do you exercise your choices, depending on the browser you use?

To manage cookies and your choices, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in your browser's help menu, which will tell you how to modify your cookie preferences.

• Internet Explorer™ : https://windows.microsoft.com/fr-FR/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies;
• Safari™ :https://support.apple.com/fr-fr/guide/safari/sfri11471/
• Chrome™ : https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=fr&hlrm=en&answer=95647;
• Firefox™ : https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/Activer%20et%20d%C3%A9sactiver%20les%20cookies;
• Opera™ : https://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html.

 

Disable Google Analytics cookies :

Name of cookie used :

• Functional cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly.
• Google Analytics: These cookies are used for marketing purposes.
• Facebook Pixel : These cookies are used for marketing purposes.
• YouTube videos: These cookies are used by YouTube to enable users to view multimedia content directly on the site.

You can prevent this cookie from being used and deposited on your computer by going to: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=fr.

 

Delete your cookies:

You can delete all your cookies, or just the ones you want. Deleting cookies does not prevent browsing, nor does it prevent them from being reinstalled during browsing. This allows you to control your browser's cookie library at any given time. Technical cookies, which are necessary for navigation, will be reinstalled if you return to our site.

 

Below, we'll explain how to proceed, depending on your browser.

Chrome :

• From the Chrome menu, select "Settings".
• Display the advanced settings
• Go to the "Privacy" section
• Click on "Content settings
• In the "Cookies" section (first paragraph), click on "Cookies and site data".
• Find the cookies you wish to delete and click "OK". You can also choose to delete all your cookies.

Firefox :

• In the Firefox menu, go to "Tools" and then "Options".
• On the "Privacy" tab, click on "Show Cookies".
• Find the cookies you want to delete and click on "Delete Cookies".

Internet Explorer :

• Internet explorer does not allow cookies to be managed on a case-by-case basis. To delete all your cookies :
• Click on "Tools", then on "Internet Options".
• In the "General" tab, under "Browsing history", click on "Delete".
• Check the "Cookies" box, then click on "Delete".

Safari :

• From the Safari menu, select "Preferences".
• In the window that opens, go to the "Security" tab
• Click on "Show cookies
• In the window that opens, find and select the cookies you wish to delete, and click on "Delete".

Private browsing :

The "Private Browsing" mode, now offered by all browsers, enables you to browse without keeping a history of pages visited or downloads.

As far as cookies are concerned, all those recorded during your browsing session will be deleted when you close your browser. This is not a solution for refusing cookies; however, their lifespan is limited to the duration of your browsing session.

 

Deactivation of third-party cookies :

Deactivating third-party cookies allows you to accept only the cookies deposited on our website. These are all technical cookies, necessary for navigation, with the exception of an audience cookie used for internal purposes to measure the number of visitors to our pages.

Here is the procedure to follow, depending on your browser, if you wish to refuse third-party cookies:

Audience measurement cookies :

 

What is the purpose of COOKIES accompanying third-party advertising content?

When you access a site containing advertising or promotional space broadcasting one of our advertising or promotional operations, this advert is likely to contain a cookie. Subject to your choices, this cookie may be stored on your computer and enable us to recognize your terminal's browser for the duration of the cookie's validity. Cookies embedded in our advertising or promotional material distributed by third parties are used for the purposes described below, subject to your choices, which result from the settings of your browser software used during your visit to our Site, which you can express at any time.

The Cookies that we are likely to issue allow us, if your computer has allowed their recording, according to your choices:

• to count the number of displays and activations of our advertising content on third-party sites, to identify this content and these sites, and to determine the number of users who clicked on each piece of content,
• to calculate the sums due to the players in the advertising distribution chain (advertising agency, advertising network, distribution site/media) and to draw up statistics, to adapt the presentation of the Site to which one of our advertising or promotional contents leads, according to the display preferences of your computer (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc) during your visits to our Site and according to the hardware and viewing or reading software that your computer is equipped with, according to the location data (longitude and latitude) that is transmitted to us (or to our service providers) by your computer with your prior consent, to follow the subsequent navigation carried out by your Terminal on sites or on other advertising content.

 

What's the point of seeing ads tailored to your browsing habits?

Our aim is to present you with the most relevant offers possible. To this end, cookie technology enables us to determine in real time which offer to display to a computer, based on its recent browsing within the website. You probably prefer to see product and service offers that correspond to your interests, rather than offers that are of no interest to you.

 

If you share the use of your terminal with other people

If your computer is used by several people, and if the same computer has several browsers, we cannot be certain that the services and advertisements intended for your computer correspond to your own use of this computer and not to that of another user of this computer.

If you wish to share your computer usage with others and configure your browser settings with regard to cookies, you are free to do so at your own discretion and risk.

 

Personal data and browsing information

We may adapt our offers to you on the basis of information relating to your computer's navigation on our website or on websites or services published by third parties and on which we issue cookies.

Insofar as you have provided us with personal data concerning yourself, in particular your electronic contact details, when registering or accessing one of our services, we may, subject to your choices, associate browsing information relating to your computer, processed by the cookies we issue, with your personal data in order to send you, for example, electronic prospecting or to display on your computer personalized offers that are more specifically intended for you and likely to be of greater interest to you.

You may ask us at any time to stop receiving advertising or marketing tailored to your computer's browsing information, by contacting us directly and free of charge, or by using the unsubscribe link included in any marketing we may send you by e-mail. In this case, the advertisements you may continue to receive, unless you object to them, will no longer be adapted to your computer's browsing habits.

Furthermore, in the event that we consider obtaining from a third party (targeted advertising service provider, advertising agency, etc.) browsing information from your computer that we could associate with the personal data you have provided to us, we will first seek your explicit consent before proceeding with such an association and sending you the resulting advertising or prospecting.

Your explicit consent could, for example, consist of ticking a box on our services to which you have subscribed, such as "I would like to see or receive advertising tailored to my browsing habits by partners of our website".