A cookie or ‘hyperlink’ is a small file that can be placed on your terminal by a website or application and is activated by your browsing logic. A cookie file allows its issuer to identify the terminal on which it is registered during the period of validity or registration of said cookie.
Some cookies are indispensable for using the Site, while others make it possible to optimise and personalise content.
There are essentially four types of cookies:
- Functionality cookie: this cookie ensures the proper functioning of the Site, remembers your choices and also provides improved and more personalised functionalities.
- Identification and personalisation cookie: this cookie allows us to get to know you better and to identify you whenever you access our site.
- Analysis and performance cookie: this cookie allows us to carry out various procedures: number of visitors, pages visited,
- Advertising or targeting cookie: this cookie records data that allows us to control advertising content in relation to this or that internet user.
From a technical point of view, there is a wide variety of cookies. http cookies, flash cookies, fingerprinting, invisible pixels and web bugs, but this is not an exhaustive list.