A cookie is a text file recorded on your hard drive or in your browser’s history by the server (website) you’re visiting.
It enables us to retrieve useful information to improve our website and identify your preferences (your account, your browsing, preferences, languages, etc).
The different types of cookies we use are listed below.
Information collected by cookies can be considered personal data which means our Charter on Protection of Personal Data applies and comes in addition to this Carter on Cookies Policy.
Essential cookies are necessary to run the website and enable you to browse and use its services and functionalities properly. Without these absolutely mandatory cookies, the website wouldn’t work as properly as we would want to; we wouldn’t be able to deliver the website or some required services and functionalities.
| Type of cookie | Description | Expiry | Purpose |
| Cto_lwid | This cookie enables local storage of information | 1 day | Browsing |
Performance cookies are analytics cookies you can deactivate that collect information on the ways to use the website and more particularly enable us to identify popular pages or number of visits. These cookies also enable us to adapt and target the website’s content, to improve our offers and our services usability. To exploit the data for statistics purposes, this website uses Google Analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics/). More information on http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html.
| Type of cookie | Description | Expiry | Purpose |
| ai_session | This cookie is used for statistics of use for Azure platform apps. It creates an anonymous and and unique user identity. | 1 day | Performance |
| ai_user | This cookie is used for statistics of use for Azure platform apps. It creates an anonymous and and unique user identity | 11 months | Performance |
| _ga | This cookie is used for Universal Analytics analysis. It enables to follow the performances of the pages viewed by the website’s users | 13 months | Performance |
| _gat | This cookie is used by Google Universal Analytics to lower requests rate in case of heavy traffic. | 10 minutes | Performance |
| _gid | This cookie is used by Google Universal Analytics to record a unique identity in order to generate statistics data on the way users use the website. | 1 day | Performance |
| ABTasty | This cookie enables to retrieve testing data (visitorID, IDs for tests and variations, timestamps) | 13 months | Performance |
| ABTastySession | This cookie enables to identify a unique session and to determine the beginning of a user’s new session. | End of session | Performance |
Preference cookies collect information on your choices and preferences and enable us to recall some local settings and to customize the website accordingly.
| Type of cookie | Description | Expiry | Purpose |
| __SH_SearchParameters_ |
This cookie enables to store users’ search preferences. |
90 days | Preference |
| Cookieconsent_dismissed | This cookie contains the user’s answer for agreement on cookies policy | 365 days | Preference |
We inform you that should cookies be deactivated or deleted, some functionalities are likely not to work properly. For example, you could be unable to visit some sections of our website or to receive customized information when you visit the website.
If you use several devices to access and view the Sites – for example your PC, smartphone, tablet etc.), you need to make sure each device’s browser is set up to match your cookies preferences.
Setting up a browser is always different. Procedure is described in your browser’s help menu – it will let you know how to change your wishes regarding cookies.
You can deactivate cookies doing the following:
1. For Internet Explorer
2. For Firefox
3. For Safari
4. For Google Chrome
