EN 1. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file containing a limited amount of information that is stored on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website. Subject to your preferences, cookies may be stored in a dedicated area of your device through your web browser when you access an online service.
Cookies enable their issuer to recognise the device on which they are stored for the duration of their validity period.
Cookies used to record your consent are retained for a period of 13 months.
2. What are cookies used for on our website?
Only the issuer of a cookie is able to read or modify the information contained in that cookie.
The cookies used on our website allow us to identify the services and sections visited by users and, more generally, to analyse browsing behaviour.
This information may be used in particular to:
- facilitate your navigation on our website;
- provide advertisements tailored to your interests;
- ensure the proper functioning of certain services; and
- measure website traffic and audience levels.
Cookies used on our website may be placed either by Les Echos or by third-party partners, such as audience measurement providers, advertising networks, or social media platforms.
2.1 Cookies placed by us
When you visit our website, we may, subject to your preferences, place various cookies on your device in order to recognise your browser for the duration of the relevant cookie’s validity period.
The cookies we place are used for the purposes described below, subject to the choices you make through your browser settings during your visit.
These cookies enable us to:
2.1.1 Facilitate and improve your navigation on our website
- adapt the presentation of our website to your device’s display preferences, including the language used, screen resolution, operating system, and other technical settings, depending on the hardware and software used by your device;
- remember information relating to forms you have completed on our website or to products, services, or information you have selected;
- enable you to access restricted and personal areas of our website, such as your account, using credentials or data you may previously have provided to us; and
- implement security measures.
2.1.2 Improve our services
These cookies enable us to compile statistics and measure traffic and usage relating to the various sections and content of our website, in order to improve the quality, relevance, and usability of our services.
2.2 Cookies placed by third parties, including audience measurement providers
The placement and use of cookies by third parties are governed by the privacy policies of those third parties. We inform you of the purposes of any such cookies of which we are aware and of the means available to you to manage your preferences in relation to them.
Advertising content displayed on our website may contain cookies placed by third parties, including the advertiser responsible for the relevant advertising content, or a third-party company acting on the advertiser’s behalf, such as a communications agency, audience measurement provider, or targeted advertising service provider.
Where applicable, cookies placed by such third parties may enable them, during their validity period, to:
- count the number of times advertising content displayed through our advertising spaces is shown, identify the advertisements displayed, and determine the number of users who clicked on each advertisement, in order to calculate the corresponding amounts due and compile statistics; and
- recognise your device when it subsequently browses any other website or service on which those advertisers or third parties also place cookies and, where applicable, tailor those third-party websites, services, or advertisements to your browsing behaviour.
3. Your choices regarding cookies
You have several options for managing cookies. Any settings you choose may affect your browsing experience on the Internet and on our website, as well as your access to certain services requiring the use of cookies.
You may express and amend your cookie preferences at any time using the methods described below.
You can configure your browser so that cookies are stored on your device or, conversely, rejected, either systematically or depending on the issuer. You can also configure your browser so that you are prompted to accept or refuse cookies before they are stored on your device.
For further information, please refer to the section entitled “How can you manage your preferences depending on the browser you use?”
3.1 Acceptance of cookies
The storage of a cookie on a device is subject to the consent of the device user. Such consent may be given, withdrawn, or amended at any time, free of charge, through the options made available by the browser software.
If you accept the storage of cookies on your device through your browser settings, cookies embedded in the pages and content you view may be temporarily stored in a dedicated area of your device. They will be readable only by their issuer.
3.2 Refusal of cookies
If you refuse the storage of cookies on your device, or if you delete cookies already stored on it, you may no longer be able to benefit from certain features necessary for browsing some areas of our website.
This may be the case, for example, if you attempt to access content or services that require you to identify yourself. It may also occur where we, or our service providers, are unable, for technical compatibility purposes, to recognise 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.
Where applicable, we disclaim any liability for any consequences resulting from the impaired operation of our services caused by our inability to store or access cookies necessary for their proper functioning where you have refused or deleted them.
3.3 How can you manage your preferences depending on the browser you use?
Each browser has its own settings for managing cookies and your preferences. These settings are generally described in the browser’s help menu, which explains how to modify your cookie preferences.
- Microsoft Edge: support.microsoft.com
- Safari™: support.apple.com
- Chrome™: support.google.com
- Firefox™: support.mozilla.org
- Opera™: help.opera.com