Cookies and Trackers
Policy

AU Group's https://www.au-group.com website (hereinafter the "Website") uses cookies, other trackers or similar technologies (hereinafter the "Cookies ") to optimize your use of the Website and improve your user experience.

The Cookies and Other Tracers Policy (hereinafter the "Policy ") describes how the Cookies that may be deposited on your equipment as you browse our Website work and how you can set your choices.

The Policy applies whenever you consult resources available on the Website.

1. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that does not allow identification of the Internet user, but records information relating to the navigation of an equipment (computer or mobile equipment) on a website. This small file is stored in a dedicated area of your equipment and Internet browser when you visit the Website.

This automatically collected information includes:

• Information relating to your use of the Website such as the pages viewed, the duration and time of connection, your IP address and your connection mode, such as the type and version of your internet browser;
• Information relating to your equipment such as your operating system, the OS of your mobile or tablet, as well as the unique device identifier ("UDID") and other technical identifiers.

2. What Cookies do we use and for what purposes?

The Site uses different types of Cookies:

2.1 Strictly necessary cookies

a) Functional technical Cookies

These are mainly Session Cookies enabling your access to secure areas of the Website as well as the memorization of browsing elements during a session. These Cookies are essential for navigation and accessibility to the Website. 

You are thus recognized as a unique Internet user so that any changes or selections you may make on a page are kept in memory from one page to another.This allows you, for example, to display the page previously consulted by clicking on the "back" or previous page button, or to avoid having to completely fill in a form again if you reload the page or make a mistake.

They can be removed or blocked using your browser settings. However, in such an event, certain features of the Website may not function as intended and the user experience may be degraded.

b) Personalization Cookies

Other Cookies enabling the recording of preferences and chosen settings are also installed during browsing of the Website.

The activation of these Cookies enables improved browsing performance.

These Cookies are used with the main aim of improving the personalized service rendered to you. The data thus obtained is intended to facilitate subsequent navigation on the Website.

2.2 Cookies that are not strictly necessary

These Cookies are only deposited if you have given us your consent. 

The period of validity of your consent to the use of these Cookies will not exceed six (6) months where applicable.

Statistics and audience measurement cookies

In order to adapt the Site, its content and its services to your expectations, AU Group uses the "Google Analytics" audience measurement service. The cookies used within the framework of this service make it possible to analyze the behavior of Internet users and in particular the number of visits, the number of pages viewed as well as activity on the site and the frequency of return.

The data generated by the cookies concerning the use of the site (including the IP address) will be transmitted and stored by Google on servers that may be located in the United States under the responsibility of Google.

Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You may refuse the use of Google Analytics by clicking on the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=fr.

3. Which Cookies can be deposited by third parties?

Cookies are considered third-party or proprietary depending on whether or not they are associated with the site domain.

When you access the Website, one or more Cookies from third-party companies may be placed on your computer, including in particular Cookies from Google and LinkedIn. The purpose of these third-party cookies is to identify your centers of interest through the products consulted on our Website and to collect browsing data in order to personalize the advertising offer sent to you outside the Website.

We inform you that we have no access to and cannot exercise any control over third-party Cookies.

We inform you that you may refuse third-party Cookies.

Concerning social networks specifically, we draw your attention to the fact that the presence of the sharing buttons of these social networks on our Website implies that certain data, of which we have no control are collected and transmitted to the social networks concerned and this, even if you do not click on these buttons and do not have an account on these social networks.

In any case, to find out more about how to oppose Cookies and manage to refuse and block the Cookies of the main advertisers, we invite you to consult the site of the European Alliance for Ethics in Digital Advertising (European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance) at the address: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/fr/controler-ses-cookies/.

4. Data transfers outside the EU

Data collected through Google Analytics is transferred to the United States. This transfer is governed by standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.

We remind you that as long as you do not accept Cookies for audience measurement purposes, your personal data is not collected and transferred to the United States.

5. How to delete and/or refuse Cookies

You can express your choices at any time from any page of the Site by clicking on the "Cookies" link located at the bottom right.

With regard to third-party cookies, their publishers offer dedicated opposition modules. It is therefore recommended that users familiarize themselves with the publishers' information pages in order to identify these modules where appropriate.

In addition, several platforms of advertising professionals also offer users the possibility of refusing or accepting cookies used by the companies that are members of them, as indicated at the end of paragraph 3. These centralized mechanisms do not block the display of ads, but they do prevent the installation of cookies enabling ads to be tailored to the user's centers of interest.

6. How can I get more information?

If you would like more information about cookie management and your rights, you can contact us at the email address: info@au-group.com.