Cookies are placed, if you so choose, on your computer, smartphone or tablet (hereinafter the “Device”) whenever you visit https://sofiouest.com/ (hereinafter the “Site”).

1. What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files placed on your Device, the specifics and purposes of which are detailed below.

Cookies are managed by your browser, and only the issuer of a cookie can read or modify the information it contains.

2. What types of cookies are placed and for what purposes?

 

2.1 – Cookies strictly necessary for the Site to operate

These cookies, placed only by SOFIOUEST are essential for browsing our Site, using its main features and securing your connection. Placing these cookies does not require your prior consent.

These enable you, for instance:

  • to implement certain security measures, as when you are asked to reconnect to a content or service after a certain period of time;
  • to access reserved and personal areas of our Site, such as your account, using identifiers or data you may have previously provided to us;
  • and to save information for a form you have filled out on our Site, as when registering or accessing your account.

2.2 – So-called functionality cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary for the functioning of the Site. Placing these cookies does not require your prior consent. These cookies allow us:

  • to establish statistics and volumes on the visitation and use of the various parts of our Site (sections and contents visited, sequencing), allowing us to improve the usefulness and ergonomics of our services;
  • and to match our Site to the display preferences of your Device (such as language, display resolution and operating system ) during your visits to our Site, based on the hardware and software your Device has for viewing or playing files.

2.3 – Analytics cookies

We use various tools to measure the traffic on our Site:

  • Google Analytics

These tools help identify your areas of interest and online behavior.

3. On what basis are cookies collected?

Storing a cookie on a Device is largely subject to the consent of the Device’s user, who can express or make changes to that consent at any time, at no cost, through the choices offered by their browser.

If you have allowed cookies in your browser, the cookies embedded in the pages and content you have visited can be stored temporarily in a dedicated space on your Device. They will be readable only by their issuer.

If you block cookies on your Device, or if you delete those stored on it, you will no longer have use of the functionalities of our Site. This would happen if you tried to access our content or services. This would also happen if we or our service providers were unable to recognize, for purposes of technical compatibility, the type of browser used by your Device, its language and display settings, or the country from which your Device appears to be connected to the internet.

In that event, we decline all liability for any consequences of the impaired functionality of our services resulting from our inability to store or read the cookies necessary for their functioning which you have blocked or deleted.

4. How to manage your cookies

Several options for manging cookies are available to you. Any settings you apply may affect your internet browsing and your access to certain services requiring the use of cookies.

You can choose at any time to express or modify your wishes regarding cookies, by the means described below.

4.1 By configuring your browser software

You can configure your browser software such that cookies are stored on your Device, or else blocked, either always or depending on the issuer. You can also configure your browser software to offer you the option of allowing or blocking cookies each time a cookie might be stored on your Device.

Each browser has a different configuration for managing cookies and your choices. It is described in the help menu of your browser, so you can tell how to modify your wishes regarding cookies.

 

4.2 By going onto a special platform

You can change your choices regarding the cookies managed on our Site by clicking this link: Edit my choices

4.3 By visiting the Sites of our partners

Your choices expressed online directly with our partners

  • Google Analytics