Cookie Policy
Updated on May 15, 2024
Smart Privacy Consulting is particularly attentive to Your expectations, and We wish to preserve Your trust.
Cookies are considered Personal Data in most cases. Through this Cookie Policy, we inform You in a transparent manner about the deposit and use of cookies from the Site to Your connection terminal: connected object (refrigerator, TV, etc.), computer, tablet, smartphone.
1. What is a cookie?
Cookies refer to small text files or trackers that are likely to be deposited, read and stored when You visit Our Site, on Your fixed or mobile device (computer, tablet, smartphone, television, connected object).
They have a unique identifier assigned to Your device and allow the Site to remember Your actions and preferences (such as location, preferred language, preferred font size, and other display preferences) for a specified legal period. Thus, you do not need to provide certain information each time You access the Site or when You browse from page to page.
Cookies can also help Us personalize Your browsing experience. These cookies allow Us to get to know You better, to personalize Your user experience, to provide You with offers and products in line with your interests and to facilitate Your navigation in the Site.
1. The different types of cookies
There are two main categories of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies.
Session cookies allow the Site to track Your browsing from one page to another so that You are not asked for the same information previously communicated to the Site. These cookies allow You to browse many pages of the Site quickly and easily. They remain on your device until your browser is closed, which results in the automatic disappearance of said cookies.
Persistent cookies help the Site remember Your information and settings when You visit it in the future. This results in a faster and more convenient access for You.
At Your first visit, the Site is presented in a default mode. During Your first visit, you select Your preferences, which are remembered for Your next visit to the Site using Persistent Cookies.
Persistent cookies are divided into two categories:
- Our Cookies
- Third-Party Cookies
a) Our Cookies
The cookies placed by us are used for the purposes described below, subject to Your choices resulting from your personalized settings in the Consent Management Platform (“CMP”), accessible in Our Site at the bottom of the page, which allows You to refuse or accept all cookies in bulk or to set your preferences, by clicking on the “Cookie Settings” button.
(1) Technical cookies, known as Essential cookies
These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of the Site and for Your navigation. Without them, you would not be able to browse the Site or use some of its features. As these cookies are essential, they cannot be deactivated. These cookies do not store any personal data. This is why their status appears as “Always On”.
These are essential cookies necessary for the security of the Site and are among those exempted from consent by CNIL because they are intended for authentication with a service, including those aimed at ensuring the security of the authentication mechanism, for example by limiting robotic or unexpected attempts or allowing the load balancing of equipment contributing to a communication service.
Essential cookies are also those that retain Your choice when they are deposited on Your connection terminal, because these cookies will allow us to send You the history of Your consents if You make a request for access to Your data, for example.
(2) Audience Measurement Cookies :
CNIL has exempted certain audience measurement trackers from consent on the condition that their purpose is strictly limited to the sole measurement of the site’s audience on behalf of the Site publisher, which is the case with Smart Privacy Consulting.
Smart Privacy Consulting has chosen the editor Matomo in Cloud version, which has committed to the CNIL to comply with the applicable regulations.
On behalf of Smart Privacy Consulting, Matomo only allows analytics measurement, detection of browsing problems, optimization of technical performance or ergonomics, estimation of the power of the servers required and analysis of the content consulted.
In short, these Cookies allow Us to analyze Your browsing on Our Site, to perform statistics and to improve Your User experience. The analyses are carried out on anonymized Aggregated Data. Anonymous data is not personal data!
(3) Functionality Cookies (Functional Cookies)
These Cookies are also exempt from consent by the CNIL because they are trackers for personalizing the user interface, such as the choice of language or the display of a service, when such personalization is an intrinsic and expected part of the service. This is the case with Smart Privacy Consulting, which offers services to companies located in the European Union.
These Cookies allow You to select the language in which the Site is displayed and to remember this Selection. This way, you won’t have to select the same settings every time you log in. These cookies collect:
- Your hashed IP address, which does not allow us to know the exact location from which You are connecting.
- The browser used and the settings of it.
- The system of the connection terminal You are using, iOS, Windows, Android.
- Technical data from the connection terminal that can help Us assist You in the event of a technical problem.
(4) Third-Party Cookies
Since Smart Privacy Consulting does not manage the cookies placed by Social Media sites, we are not responsible for the use they make of Your Data. We invite You to read the privacy and cookie policies to understand the use that is made of Your Data. You can also learn how to disable them by following their instructions.
(a) Social Media Cookies: LinkedIn
These cookies that come from third-party applications allow You to follow Us on Our official page in social media. To be able to connect to our official page, you will need to have an account on the social network LinkedIn.
This means that You have already accepted their privacy policy, their rules to respect your privacy, the security of Your data and whether You have provided them with your consent to the deposit of Cookies in your terminal.
Please be aware that LinkedIn may deposit cookies to send you personalized advertising. From the moment You switch to our official LinkedIn page and leave our Site, LinkedIn becomes an Independent Controller.
We have no control over the data processing done by LinkedIn when they associate your browsing in Our site and the personal data they hold from you. We invite You to carefully read their privacy and cookie policies to understand their data processing and how you can exercise your rights with them: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
We remind You that, from the moment You are in Our LinkedIn page, the professional social network becomes the data controller of Your Data.
2. Cookie settings
1. Through Our Consent Platform – CMP (recommended)
Our Site allows you to configure the cookies you consent to place in your terminal by clicking on “Cookie Settings” at the bottom of the page. You can change your mind at any time by clicking on the fingerprint icon following Your navigation from page to page.
2. By configuring Your internet browser
Some web browsers allow You to set cookies and trackers on a purpose-by-purpose basis, both on Your fixed devices and on Your mobile devices.
On each browser, the configuration may be different as well as the vocabulary used.
Depending on the browser You are using, you will need to go to “Options”, “Preferences” or “Advanced Settings” to be able to configure your “Privacy and Security”, “Privacy” or “Privacy and Security”.
Then, you will be able to select, purpose by purpose, the Cookies that You agree to deposit in Your device as well as the Permissions You give to the Sites (location, images, microphone, virtual reality, etc.).
Example:
Firefox:
You can also decide to keep or delete cookies when you exit the browser.
If You like to get more information about the best configuration of Your “Privacy and Security” for each one of the main browsers, We invite You to read the CNIL recommendations accessible at : https://www.cnil.fr/fr/les-conseils-de-la-cnil-pour-maitriser-votre-navigateur
Smart Privacy Consulting may not be held liable for the privacy or cookie policies of the web browsers you use and cannot be held responsible for any non-compliance concerning them. We recommend You read their Cookie Policy and/or Privacy Policy.
Smart Privacy Consulting warns You that the “DoNotTrack” setting proposed by certain versions of browsers is not always interpreted as an opposition to tracking by advertising networks and is therefore not sufficient to indicate Your choice.
3. Retention of Cookies
If You consent to the deposit of Cookies in Your device, they will be kept for a maximum period of six (6) months. When this period ends, or if You have manually deleted Your cookies, we will ask you again for your Consent and you will need to set them up again with our CMP. If You refuse the deposit of Cookies, we will not ask You for Your Consent again for a period of six (6) months.
