Cookies charter

Last updated in January 2023

The company LAGARDERE MEDIA NEWS, single-person simplified joint stock company with a capital stock of 2 005 000 €, registered at Paris Trade and Companies Registry under the number 834 289 373, with its headquarters located at 2 rue des Cévennes, 75015 Paris, France, is the publisher of the website « www.ellehospitality.org » hereafter the “Publisher”).

Any person having access to the web and mobile site accessible at « www.ellehospitality.org » (the “Site”), regardless of their status (private individual or professional), location, methods of connection to the Site, object and purpose of their access to the Site and/or use of the Services is a user (hereinafter “User” or “You”).

The present cookies charter (hereinafter the “Charter”) is to inform the User of the reasons and terms for processing information relative to your browsing of the Site, likely to be recorded in files called “cookies” or similar tools (hereinafter “Cookies”).

The Charter is an integral part of the Terms and Conditions of Use of the Site available by clicking here. For any information relating to Personal Data, the User is invited to consult the Personal Data Charter available by clicking here.

  • WHAT IS A “COOKIE”?

A Cookie or any similar tracker is a tracker likely to be saved to your device (computer, tablet or smartphone) and / or when you consult a service with browsing software, via the Site.

A Cookie allows its issuer, during its period of validity, to recognize the device in question each time the device accesses digital content bearing Cookies from the same issuer, and depending on the type of Cookie, to collect additional, indirectly identifying information, on your behavior within the services.

In the event that the computer is used by several individuals, for example in the same family with the same browser, the Cookie is assigned to the browsing information of all the individuals having used the device, without distinction.

There are different types of cookies:

  • session cookies that disappear as soon as you leave the Site;
  • permanent cookies that remain on your terminal until their lifetime expires or until you delete them using your browser’s functions.

You are informed that, during your visits to the Site, other types of trackers than cookies may be used such as:

  • identifiers generated by a software or an operating system or hardware identifier (mac address, unique hardware identifier, advertising identifier).
  • invisible pixels, a web beacon is a tiny graphic image, invisible to the user, on a web page or in an email.

Pixels can recognize certain types of information, such as when a pixel is used in an e-mail, the time and date of the e-mail consultation. When placed on a web page, it may also provide a description of the page on which it is placed or collect technical information about your terminal equipment.

Pixels are used to:

  • analyze the navigation on the Site
  • measure the visits of a page
  • measure the impact of an emailing campaign
  • know the behavior of users to better target them with advertising.
  • to measure the amount generated by advertisements.

All of these technologies are referred to as “cookies” in the rest of this document, except where each technique is referred to.

  • WHO USES COOKIES?

Cookies are set by us or by the Publisher or its partners.

In the case where cookies are deposited by us via the Site, these cookies are referred to as “first-party cookies”.

When cookies are deposited by third parties such as our partners from a domain other than the Site, these cookies are referred to as “third party cookies”.

  • WHY ARE COOKIES PLACED ON THE PUBLISHER’S WEBSISTES?
  1. Strictly necessary cookies

The sole purpose of these cookies is to enable or facilitate electronic communication or are strictly necessary for the provision of an online communication service at your express request. These cookies cannot be deactivated, and are not subject to the collection of your consent. They are cookies that allow:

  • to measure and analyze the audience (cookies not subject to consent)
  • view or listen to content on the Site (video, audio, interactive content …)
  • to adapt the presentation of the Site to the display preferences of your consultation terminal (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.)
  • to implement security measures.
  1. Audience and traffic analysis cookies

These cookies allow, via different tools to analyze the uses on the Site, to identify visitors, to analyze interactions on the Site and to improve the user experience as well as to optimize their ergonomics, their navigation and their contents.

  • HOW TO MANAGE THEM?

We use several cookies when using the Site. Some cookies are necessary for navigation on the Site and are deposited without your consent. You cannot set them.

Others are deposited only after having obtained your consent.

The list of the purposes of the cookies allowing you to know which ones are subject to your consent or not is specified in the information banner displayed when you first access the Site and on the parameter setting module accessible here.

  • CONSENT ON COOKIES

When you first visit our Site, you will be offered the option of accepting, refusing the cookies or set the cookies.

When you accept the deposit of cookies, a consent cookie is set.

If you do not want cookies to be installed or read on your terminal, a refusal cookie will be deposited on your equipment, so that we can record the information that you have opposed the use of cookies.

The refusal or consent to the deposit of cookies is based on the deposit of a cookie that allows us to know that you refuse or accept them. Therefore, if you delete all the cookies stored on your equipment, we will no longer know which consent or refusal you have given and it will be like resetting them.

The next time you visit or load a page of the Site you will be asked to set your cookie preferences again.

The choice you make is valid for a period of 6 months from the expression of your choice. However, if we refer to new partners, we will re-display the module for setting your choices so that you can consent or refuse the deposit of cookies by these new partners.

You can change your choices at any time by clicking here.

  • EXERCISING YOUR CHOICES

Some Cookies are issued and operated by third party partners of the Publisher for purposes that these third parties determine.

You will find more information on the purposes of the cookies deposited by third parties, by reading the privacy policies of these partners that you will find linked in the module of parameter setting of the Cookies.

  • OTHER WAYS TO EXERCISE YOUR CHOICES

VIA INTERPROFESSIONAL OPPOSITION PLATFORMS: In addition to the cookie management module on the Site here displayed when you first connect to the Site, you can manage and modify the use of cookies at any time via the inter-professional opposition platforms:

VIA GOOGLE ANALYTICS: The use of Google Analytics implies a transfer of collected Data from Google Analytics’ Cookies outside the European Union to the United States. Google is a member of the programme called Privacy Shield, which has been recognised by the European Commission as offering an adequate level of protection to data of a personal nature transferred by a European entity to businesses in the United States. You can access its cookie management tool here https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

VIA THE BROWSER SETTINGS: For Cookie preferences, the settings for each browser are different. They are described in your browser’s help menu, which will tell you how to edit your cookie preferences.

However, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that by setting your browser to refuse Cookies, certain functionalities, pages and areas of our Site, which require the use of Cookies, will not be accessible, for which we cannot be held responsible.

  • DURATION OF VALIDITY

The Cookies deposited via our Site have a validity period of 13 months from their deposit.

Your consent or refusal is valid for 6 months unless you change your mind before this term.

The statistical data resulting from the use of cookies are kept for 25 months.

  • MODIFICATION OF THE PRESENT POLICY

This Charter is regularly updated. The User is invited to refer to it regularly.

CONSENTEMENT

You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analyzing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users.