Information on the use of cookies

Economat des Armées respects your privacy. When you visit our website, information may be stored in “cookie” files installed on your computer, tablet or mobile phone. This page explains what a cookie is, what it is used for and how it can be configured.

  1. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a text file that may be stored, subject to your choices, in a dedicated space on your terminal’s hard drive when you use your browser to consult an online service.

A cookie file enables its sender to identify the terminal in which it is stored for the duration of the cookie’s validity.

  1. What are the cookies used for on our site?

The cookies used on our site enable us to identify the services and sections that users have visited, and more generally their visiting behaviour.

This information is used to better personalise the services, content, offers and banners that appear on our site and to make it easier for you to navigate our site.
Cookies are also necessary for the proper functioning of certain services or to measure their audience.

Cookies may also be included in the advertising spaces on our site. Certain non-identifying information may be sent to third parties to enable them to adapt their content.

The cookies we issue on our site :

When you connect to our site, we may, subject to your choices, install various cookies on your terminal, enabling us to recognise your terminal’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 resulting from the settings in your browser software used when visiting our site.

Les cookies nous permettent de :

  1. Cookies allow us to :
  • by adapting the presentation of our site to the display preferences of your terminal (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) during your visits to our site, depending on the hardware and viewing or reading software that your terminal has,
  • by memorising information relating to a form you have filled in on our site (registration or access to your account) or to products, services or information you have chosen on our site (service subscribed to, content consulted, etc.).
  • by allowing 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, and
  • by implementing security measures.
  1. Improving our services:

These cookies make it possible to compile statistics and volumes of visits to and use of the various components of our site (sections and content visited, path taken, etc.) in order to improve the interest and ergonomics of our services.

  1. Cookie validity period

The cookies we issue are set to be valid for 13 (thirteen) months.

  1. Your choices concerning cookies

You have several options for managing cookies. Any settings you make may affect your browsing experience on the Internet and on our site, as well as your access to certain services requiring the use of cookies.

If you do not agree to the storage of cookies on your terminal, or if you delete the cookies stored on your terminal, you will no longer be able to benefit from a certain number of functions required to browse certain areas of our site.
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 terminal, its language and display settings, or the country from which your terminal 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.

You can choose at any time to express and modify your wishes with regard to cookies, by the means described below.

4.1. Refusing a cookie via your browser

You can configure your browser so that cookies are stored on your terminal 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 terminal.

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

For more information : http://www.cnil.fr/vos-droits/vos-traces/les-cookies/conseils-aux-internautes/

For example :

For Internet Explorer : http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-FR/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
For Firefox : https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/activer-desactiver-cookies?redirectlocale=fr&redirectslug=Activer+et+d%C3%A9sactiver+les+cookies
For Safari : https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/fr-ww/cookies/
For Google Chrome : https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=fr&hlrm=en
For Opera™ : http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html,
etc.

Les cookies “Flash”© de “Adobe Flash Player”™

“Adobe Flash Player”™ is a computer application that enables the rapid development of dynamic content using the “Flash” computer language. Flash (and similar applications) memorizes the settings, preferences and use of these contents thanks to a technology similar to cookies. However, “Adobe Flash Player”™ manages this information and your choices via an interface different from that provided by your browser software.
Insofar as your terminal is likely to view content developed with Flash language, we invite you to access your Flash cookie management tools, directly from http://www.adobe.com/fr/support/flashplayer/ts/documents/52697ee8.htm

4.2 Refusing an advertising cookie

You can manage the use and operation of these cookies by visiting the advertising cookies management platform provided by advertising professionals: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/fr/controler-ses-cookies/. Follow the instructions provided there. This will allow you to identify the companies registered on this platform, which give you the option to refuse or accept the cookies they use to tailor advertisements displayed based on your browsing information.

4.3. Refusing a cookie issued by a social network :

If you do not wish our site to store cookies issued by a social network, you can click on the following deactivation links, which will store a cookie in your browser for the sole purpose of deactivating them. Deactivating these cookies will prevent you from interacting with the social network(s) concerned:

Learn more about cookies : https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-les-outils-pour-les-maitriser