Cookie use policy
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For greater transparency, we have put ourselves in the Customer/Visitor's position and tried to anticipate as many questions as possible that they might ask us on this topic.
What is a cookie?
What are cookies used for on our site?
What types of cookies are used on our site?
How long do cookies generated by our site last?
Which cookies are placed on our site by third parties?
How can you express your preferences regarding these cookies?
How can you accept or decline the use of cookies on www.terre-blanche.com?
WHAT IS A COOKIE?
A cookie is a piece of information placed on your hard drive by the server of our Website (hereinafter the Site) when you visit it.
It contains several pieces of data:
The name of the server that placed it;
A unique numerical identifier;
Possibly an expiry date.
This information is sometimes stored on your computer in a simple text file, which a server accesses to read and record information. The information in a cookie file allows its issuer to identify the device in which it is stored, for the duration of its validity period.
WHAT ARE COOKIES USED FOR ON OUR WEBSITE?
Only the issuer of a cookie can read or modify the information it contains. Cookies used on our Site allow us to identify the services and sections visited by the visitor, and more generally their browsing behaviour. They measure the number of visits, the number of pages viewed, as well as activity and frequency of return visits.
This information is useful for facilitating your navigation on our Site and adapting it to your needs.
Cookies are also necessary for the proper functioning of certain services, in particular to ensure secure browsing, transaction protection, user session management, and the prevention of fraudulent or malicious actions.
WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES ARE USED ON OUR SITE?
When you connect to our Site, we may, subject to your choices, install various cookies on your device allowing us to recognise your browser for the duration of the relevant cookie's validity period.
The cookies we issue are used for the purposes described below, subject to your choices resulting from the settings of the browser you use when visiting our Site and your consent, considered as a free, specific and informed expression of will.
The cookies we issue allow us to:
Facilitate your navigation on our Site
By adapting the presentation of our Site to your device's display preferences (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) during your visits, according to the hardware and viewing or reading software your device contains;
By remembering information relating to a form you have completed on our Site (such as your newsletter subscription);
By implementing security measures.
Improve our services
By enabling statistics to be compiled on traffic volumes and usage of the various elements making up our Site (sections and content visited, browsing paths) in order to improve the relevance and usability of our pages and the presentation of our services.
Strictly necessary cookies are based on legitimate interest. Audience measurement, advertising or social cookies are based on consent.
HOW LONG DO COOKIES GENERATED BY OUR SITE LAST?
Cookies generated on our Site have a maximum validity period of 12 months.
WHICH COOKIES ARE PLACED ON OUR SITE BY THIRD PARTIES?
The issuing and use of cookies by third parties are subject to the personal data protection policies applied by those third parties. We inform you of the purpose of cookies of which we are aware and the means available to you to make choices regarding these cookies.
Cookie table: https://www.terre-blanche.com/pdfs/61/cookiespdf-55.pdf
Due to third-party applications integrated into our Site
✔ We may include on our Site links allowing visitors to go directly to the websites of our commercial partners, to enable the sharing of content from our Site with other parties or to inform those parties of your consultation or opinion regarding content on our Site. This is particularly the case for buttons linking to social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
✔ The social network providing such an application button may be able to identify you through that button, even if you did not use it while browsing our Site. Indeed, this type of application button may allow the relevant social network to track your browsing on our Site, simply because your account on the relevant social network was active on your device (session open) during your browsing on www.terre-blanche.com.
✔ We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information relating to your browsing on our Site and associated with the personal data they hold. We invite you to consult the personal data protection policies of these social networks in order to learn about the purposes of use, including advertising purposes, of the browsing information they may collect through these application buttons. These protection policies should in particular allow you to exercise your choices with these social networks, notably by configuring your user accounts on each of these networks.
As a result, certain cookies may involve a transfer to the United States or other countries outside the EU. These transfers are governed by the Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses.
HOW CAN YOU EXPRESS YOUR PREFERENCES REGARDING THESE COOKIES?
Several options are available to you for managing cookies. Any settings you apply may affect your browsing on the Internet and, consequently, on our Site, as well as your access to other sites and services that require the use of cookies. Upon arriving on our Site, you are invited to express your preferences regarding cookie management by accepting or declining.
You may also configure your browser so that cookies are saved on your device or, conversely, so that they are rejected, either systematically or depending on their issuer. You can likewise configure your browser so that you are asked to accept or decline cookies on a case-by-case basis, before any given cookie is stored on your device.
HOW CAN YOU ACCEPT OR DECLINE THE USE OF COOKIES ON WWW.TERRE-BLANCHE.COM?
The cookie banner displayed when your session begins allows you to accept, decline or configure the use of cookies that may be placed on the site.
To learn more about the management of your personal data, you can consult the Personal Data Protection Policy: https://www.terre-blanche.com/utilisation-donnees-personnelles