Cookies Policy

1. Foreword

1. We want to inform you in a clear and transparent manner about how we use cookies when you visit our site. This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

2. Preamble

2. To enable you to benefit from the services offered by our site (g., browse it, enhance your user experience on it), our site uses cookies.

3. When you visit our site, cookies will be placed in accordance with the choices you have made or may make at any time under this policy.

4. This policy is established in application of the following laws and regulations:

• Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act;
• the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) No. 2016/679 and in particular its Article 7 on the methods of collecting consent;
• the CNIL guidelines of 17 September 2020;
• the CNIL recommendations of 17 September 2020.

3. Definitions

5. When you visit our site, information on how your terminal (e.g., computer, tablet, smartphone) browses our site may be recorded in text files called “cookies”, set on your browser. A cookie will be used to recognise your browser for as long as the cookie is valid. A cookie is a file that is activated in write or read mode. On telephone devices, these trackers are device identifiers and advertising identifiers.

6. There are different types of cookies, such as:

• technical cookies, which are essential for the site to operate properly;
• functional cookies, which allow you, for example, to manage the language or the duration of your consent.

7. You are informed that when you visit our site cookies may be placed on your terminal by Alain Bensoussan Selas and a third party.

4. Purposes

4.1. Introduction

8. The purposes of cookies are determined by the nature of the cookies.

9. Some cookies, for which your consent is not required, are essential to the proper operation of the site. These are technical cookies used to:

• manage the display of the banner informing you of the placing of technical cookies;
• test the activation of cookies in the browser.

4.2. Technical cookies

10. These cookies, which are not subject to prior consent, are used to:

• manage the information banner display;
• record the opening of the cookies policy;
• record the absence of the banner display;
• test whether cookies are enabled in the browser.

5. The cookies used by our site

11. Our cookies are detailed in the table below:

12. The social media buttons on our site such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and RSS Square buttons do not generate any cookies; they are simply a link that refers the user to such media when the user clicks on these buttons.

6. Consent

13. When you first visit our site, you will be asked to accept or refuse the use of cookies which are subject to your consent.

14. When you refuse cookies because you do not want cookies to be set or read on your terminal, a refusal cookie will be set on your terminal equipment, so that Alain Bensoussan Selas can record the information that you have objected to the use of cookies.

15. Similarly, when you accept cookies, a consent cookie will be set on your terminal equipment.

16. Your refusal to install a cookie is taken into account by the placing of a cookie. Consequently, if you deactivate all cookies on your terminal or if you change terminal, we will no longer know that you have chosen this option.

17. You can manage your preferences at any time, free of charge, by clicking on “Manage Cookies” at the bottom of any page on the site.

18. If your terminal is used by more than one person, and where the same terminal has several browsers, we cannot be certain that the service intended for your terminal equipment corresponds to your own use of this terminal equipment and not to that of another user of this terminal equipment.

19. You are free to choose whether or not to share the use of your terminal equipment with others, and you are responsible for configuring your browser’s settings with regard to cookies and other tracers.

7. Cookie management

20. You have several options for deleting and managing cookies.

7.1. Cookie management panel

21. This panel allows you to accept or refuse the placing of cookies that are subject to consent on our site.

22. You can access the panel and modify your preferences at any time by clicking on the [Settings]

7.2. Browser settings

23. You can adjust the settings of your browser so that it systematically accepts or rejects all cookies or only cookies from certain issuers.

24. You can also regularly delete cookies from your terminal using your browser.

25. Remember to adjust the browser settings on each of your terminal.

26. Each browser has its own way of managing cookies and cookies settings. Go to the “Help” menu of each browser to know how to change cookie settings. For example:

• for Safari™: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac;
• for Chrome™: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&hlrm=en;
• for Firefox™: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences;
• for Opera™: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies;
• for Internet Explorer™: https://support.microsoft.com/fr-fr/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies;
• for Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09.

27. Please note, however, that setting your browser to disable cookies may restrict you from accessing certain features, pages, or areas of our site that require the use of cookies and that we will not accept any liability in such case.

28. To find out more about how to configure your browser, please visit the website of the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés: https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-les-outils-pour-les-maitriser.

8. Personal data protection

29. When using cookies as described in this document, our company may process personal data concerning you, in its capacity as a controller.

30. The data collected are essential to achieve the objectives pursued by each cookie and are processed for these purposes only.

31. The legal basis of their processing is legitimate interest.

32. They are only used by authorized departments of our company.

33. Personal data collected via cookies will never be stored longer than necessary to achieve the purpose of the cookie, and in no case longer than 13 months.

34. Pursuant to the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU 679/2016) and the French Data Protection Act of 6 January 1978, as amended, you have the right of access to your personal data, the right to request rectification or erasure of your personal data or restriction of processing of your personal data, and the right to give instructions on how your data should be handled after your death, which you can exercise at any time by sending a request, together with a document proving your identity by any means, by email to dpo@alain-bensoussan.com or by post to Alain Bensoussan Selas, 58 boulevard Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, 75017 Paris, France.

35. You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (CNIL).

36. To find out more, please read out Privacy Policy.

9. Effective date

37. This policy is effective as of the date it is posted online. The same applies to its modifications.