Cookie Policy
Preamble
The purpose of this policy is to inform you in a clear and transparent manner about how we use cookies and other tracers on the Usefun Platform (“the Platform”) and in the electronic communications that you may receive from us.
To adjust the settings of your cookies and other tracers,. You can also click on the icon at the bottom left of your screen.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files saved by a server on a user’s terminal (e.g., computer, phone, tablet) and associated with a web domain (i.e., all the pages on a single website). These files are automatically sent back when the user comes back to the same domain.
They only collect information related to your use of the Platform so that your terminal can be recognized when you revisit the Platform; this facilitates the implementation of some of the Platform features, such as saving your preferences or enabling comments on a blog.
There are different types of cookies:
- session cookies, which disappear as soon as you leave the Platform;
- permanent cookies, which remain stored in your terminal device until the end of their lifetime or until they are deleted by you via your browser settings;
- internal cookies, which are placed by Usefun;
- third-party cookies, which are cookies placed by a third party on the Platform, to be able to see which pages have been visited on the Platform by a user and to collect information about that user.
The Platform also uses invisible pixels. These are tiny graphic images that can be placed on the Platform or in an email.
Their function is to collect technical information (e.g., your IP address or the type of device you are using) and information about your activity (e.g., the date and time you consulted a page or an email).
What cookies do we use on the Platform?
Categories of cookies
Several categories of cookies are used on the Platform, within which each cookie has its own specific purpose:
Information on the use of social plug-ins
Our Platform uses social plug-ins from the Twitter, Meta and LinkedIn social media. These social plug-ins are recognizable by their respective logos and allow you to access our pages directly on these media.
In order to protect your data when you use our Platform, we have integrated these plug-ins in such a way that the connection to the social media operator is only established when you activate the plug-in by clicking on the corresponding icon. When you activate the plug-in and establish a connection, we have no influence on the extent of the data collected by Twitter, Meta or LinkedIn.
To the best of our knowledge, the interaction with a social plug-in allows the operator of the relevant social media to receive information about the web page of our Platform that you have visited. If at the same time you are connected to a social media, the operator of that social media may also associate the corresponding visits with your social media account. Even if you are not a member of one of the above-mentioned social media, they may be able to retrieve and possibly record your IP address via the plug-in when you click on it.
To find out more on the scope and purpose of the data processing, collection and use by LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter, and your rights and configuration options, we invite you to consult their respective privacy policies (see section 4 below).
If you are a customer of one of the social media listed above, but do not want them to be able to collect your data from our Platform and link it to your user account, you must log out of the relevant social media before clicking on a plug-in.
Which third-party companies place cookies on the Platform?
The companies that place third-party cookies on the Platform are the following:
- Twitter (privacy policy);
- LinkedIn (privacy policy);
- Meta (privacy policy);
- Wordpress (privacy policy);
- Google (privacy policy).
Usefun acts as a joint controller for the collection and transmission of data to these third-party companies, but only to the extent that this is technically necessary. Beyond the technical collection and transmission, Usefun has no control over the cookies and other third-party tracers of these companies.
Therefore, we recommend that you consult the privacy policies and terms and conditions of these third-party companies, available on their respective websites, before accepting the placing of the cookies concerned.
How to manage your cookies?
The first time you visit our Platform, you will be given the choice to accept or refuse the use of cookies and other tracers. You can manage and change your choices at any time in the following ways:
- directly on our Platform, using the consent management module, or
- from your browser, or
- from industry-wide ad blocking platforms.
Warning: a cookie can only be accepted or blocked by placing a cookie on your terminal. As a result, if you block all the cookies on your terminal or if you change terminals, we will no longer be able to know whether you have chosen to accept or refuse cookies.
Consent management module
Our Platform provides you with a module that allows you to choose which cookies and other tracers you wish to accept or reject on our Platform. You can access this module at any time, by or on the icon that appears at the bottom left of your screen.
Browser software
You can adjust the settings your browser so that it systematically accepts or rejects all cookies or only cookies from certain issuers.
You can also regularly delete cookies from your terminal using your browser.
Remember to adjust the browser settings on each of your terminal (such as tablets, smartphones, computers).
Each browser has its own way of managing cookies and cookies settings. Go to the “Help” menu of your browser to know how to change cookie settings. For example:
- for Safari,click here;
- for Google Chrome,click here;
- for Microsoft Edge,click here;
- for Internet Explorer,click here;
- for Firefox,click here;
- for Opéra,click here.
For more information, please visit the website of the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés: https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-les-outils-pour-les-maitriser.
ndustry-wide ad blocking platforms
Several professional advertising platforms also offer the possibility to reject or accept the cookies used by their member companies.
Please note that these centralised mechanisms do not block the display of advertisements on the websites that you visit; they will only block the placing of cookies that allow advertisements to be customised to your interests.
For example, you can go to www.youronlinechoices.com to prevent these cookies from being placed on your terminal. This website is offered by digital advertising professionals who are members of the European association EDAA (European Digital Advertising Alliance) and is managed in France by the Interactive Advertising Bureau France.
You can find out which companies are registered on this platform and offer you the possibility of rejecting or accepting the cookies they use for interest-based advertising on your web browser:https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.
This European platform is shared by hundreds of Internet advertising professionals and provides a centralised interface allowing you to reject or accept cookies as described above.
ReCAPTCHA
The Google reCAPTCHA solution is used to protect the Platform against automated or semi-automated software and the risk of intrusion on the site. This is a service to protect form entries on our Platform.
This solution makes it possible to distinguish between natural persons and automated software (called bots) by analysing their behaviour on the Internet. This technology is used to protect certain forms on the site from bots that scan the web and send spam or phishing messages.
This service uses several cookies and sends information to Google for service improvement purposes.
You can withdraw your consent to the use of these cookies by using the cookie management tool and turning off “Re-captcha”.
For information on how Google uses cookies and other tracers, please visit Google’s cookie pages:
In the context of the use of Google’s services, data are transferred to the United States, a country which does not have a level of protection equivalent to that ensured in Europe, for the provision of the service of site analysis and traffic and the fight against automated and semi-automated software (bot).
The European Commission’s standard contractual clauses have been signed to provide a framework for this data transfer and provide an equivalent level of protection.
Effective date
This policy is effective as of the date it is posted online. The same applies to its modifications.
