What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.

Your web browser will store it for a regulatory period of up to 13 months and send it back to the web server each time you visit the site again.

What are cookies used for?

Cookies are used to improve the services offered to you. In general, cookies are used to record information relating to your computer’s browsing activity on our Website (country, language selected, date, etc.). This information will be read during your subsequent visits in order to facilitate your browsing on the Website and to respond to your request in a targeted and precise manner. Cookies also enable Des Enjeux et des Hommes to compile statistics on website traffic. Only the issuer of a cookie can read or modify the information contained therein. Some cookies are strictly necessary for the functioning of the Website, while others serve to improve its performance and your user experience.

 

What cookies are used on this site?

Different types of cookies are stored on the Site:

  • Cookies essential for the site to function: ‘session cookies’ contain the current browsing language and information about the logged-in administrator. These cookies are purely technical and are only stored for the duration of the session.
  • Browsing analysis and audience measurement cookies: Matomo cookies are strictly reserved for the production of anonymous statistics relating to the use of our site. These cookies enable us to identify: whether our site is functioning properly, the relevance of the content published and the performance of our site structure in order to offer you the best service. These cookies do not collect any personal data. However, you can object to the storage of these cookies (see below).
  • Cookies associated with the functioning of WordPress: WordPress cookies are used to customise the website interface for WordPress administrators. They are only applicable to users who are administrators of the website’s CMS database.

 

How to configure cookies?

You can change your cookie preferences at any time or delete them either in your browser settings as described below or by clicking on the button provided for this purpose for the Matomo cookie.

The configuration of each browser is different and is described in the browser’s help menu, which will allow you to find out how to change your cookie preferences:

  • For Internet Explorer™: open the Tools menu, then select Internet Options; click on the Privacy tab and choose the desired level.
  • For Firefox™: open the Tools menu, then select Options; click on the Privacy tab and choose the desired options.
  • For Chrome™: open the settings menu (wrench logo), then select Settings; click on Advanced settings, then Content settings, then choose the desired options.
  • For Safari™: choose Safari > Preferences, then click on Security; click on Show cookies, then choose the desired options.

Please note that if you set your browser to refuse cookies, certain features, pages and areas of the Website will not be accessible, for which we cannot be held responsible.