What is a cookie?
Cookies are files containing small amounts of information that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. This text file is likely to be saved, subject to your choices, in a dedicated space on your terminal’s hard disk, when you use your browser to consult an online service.
A cookie file enables its issuer to identify the terminal in which it is stored, for the duration of its validity.
Cookies are stored for 13 months.
What are the cookies used for on our site?
Only the sender of a cookie can read or modify the information contained in it.
The cookies used on our site enable us to identify the services and sections the user has visited, and more generally his or her visiting behavior.
This information is useful for :
- Facilitate and improve your browsing on our site
- Better personalize the services, content, promotional offers and banners that appear on our site
- Offer social media and network functionalities
- Keep certain services running smoothly
- Measure audiences for certain services.
Cookies may be included in the advertising spaces on our site. These spaces help finance the content and services we make available to you. Cookies are also included in the sharing buttons on social networks.
The cookies used on energynews.pro may be implemented by VERVANT LTD or administered by partners (e.g. publishers of audience measurement solutions, advertising agencies and social networks).
The cookies we issue on our site :
When you connect to our site, we may, subject to your choices, install various cookies on your terminal, enabling us to recognize your terminal’s browser for the duration of the cookie’s validity.
The cookies we issue are used for the purposes described below, subject to your choices resulting from the settings of your browser software used when visiting our site.
The cookies we issue allow us to :
- 1. To facilitate and improve your browsing on our site:
- by adapting the presentation of our site to the display preferences of your terminal (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) during your visits to our site, according to the hardware and software for viewing or reading that your terminal has,
- by memorizing information relating to a form you have filled in on our site or to products, services or information you have chosen on our site (service subscribed to, content consulted, purchase made, etc.).
- by allowing you to access reserved and personal areas of our site, such as your account, using identifiers or data that you may have previously entrusted to us
- by implementing safety measures.
- 2. Count the number of articles consulted on a part of our site:
Our energynews.pro includes a “Paywall” system that allows any unregistered user to read a limited number of articles per month free of charge on the site, then to identify themselves by name-first name-email in order to continue consulting the articles in order to be offered a subscription once an additional number of articles has been reached. The number of articles read free of charge is calculated by cookies installed on your computer.
- 3. Improve our services :
These cookies enable us to compile statistics and volumes of visits to and use of the various elements making up our site (sections and content visited, path taken) in order to improve the interest and ergonomics of our services.
- 4. Adapt the advertising on our site :
- by counting the total number of advertisements displayed by us on our advertising spaces, to identify these advertisements, the number of users having clicked on each advertisement and to draw up statistics,
- by adapting our advertising spaces to your terminal’s display preferences (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.), depending on the hardware and viewing or reading software that your terminal is equipped with,
- by adapting the advertising content displayed on your terminal by our advertising spaces, according to the navigation of your terminal on our site,
- by adapting, where appropriate, the advertising content displayed on your terminal in our advertising spaces according to the location data transmitted by your terminal with your prior consent
- by adapting the advertising content displayed on your terminal in our advertising spaces according to the personal data you have provided us with
Cookies issued on our site by third parties
The issue and use of cookies by third parties are subject to the privacy policies of these third parties. We inform you of the purpose of the cookies we are aware of and how you can make choices about them.
Third-party applications integrated into our site
We may include third-party software applications on our site/application that enable you to share content from our site with other people or to inform these other people of your consultation or opinion concerning content on our site/application. This is particularly true of “Share” and “Like” buttons from social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
The social network providing such an application button is likely to identify you thanks to this button, even if you did not use this button when consulting our site/application. In fact, this type of application button may enable the social network concerned to track your browsing on our site, simply because your account with the social network concerned was activated on your terminal (open session) during your browsing on our site.
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 privacy protection policies of these social networks in order to learn about the purposes for which they may use the browsing information they may collect through these application buttons, in particular for advertising purposes. In particular, these protection policies must enable you to exercise your choices and rights with regard to these social networks, notably by configuring your user accounts for each of these networks.
Via third-party content displayed in our advertising spaces
Advertising content may contain cookies issued by third parties: either the advertiser behind the advertising content concerned, or a third-party company (communications agency, audience measurement company, targeted advertising provider, etc.), which has associated a cookie with an advertiser’s advertising content.
Where applicable, the cookies issued by these third parties may allow them, during the period of validity of these cookies :
- to count the number of times advertising content is displayed via our advertising spaces, to identify the advertisements displayed in this way and the number of users who clicked on each advertisement, enabling them to calculate the sums due as a result and to draw up statistics,
- to recognize your terminal during its subsequent navigation on any other site or service on which these advertisers or these third parties also emit cookies and, if necessary, to adapt these third-party sites and services or the advertisements that they broadcast, to the navigation of your terminal of which they may have knowledge.
By an external advertising agency using our advertising space
The advertising spaces on our site may be operated by one or more external advertising agencies and, where applicable, may contain cookies issued by one of them. Where applicable, the cookies issued by these external advertising agencies allow them, during the period of validity of these cookies :
- to count the total number of advertisements displayed by them on our advertising spaces, to identify these advertisements, their respective number of displays, the number of users having clicked on each advertisement and, where applicable, the subsequent actions carried out by these users on the pages to which these advertisements lead, in order to calculate the sums due to the players in the advertising distribution chain (advertiser, advertising agency, advertising sales house, distribution site/support) and to draw up statistics,
- to adapt the advertising spaces they operate to your terminal’s display preferences (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.), depending on the hardware and viewing or reading software your terminal is equipped with,
- to adapt the advertising content displayed on your terminal via our advertising spaces according to the navigation of your terminal on our site,
- to adapt the advertising content displayed on your terminal via our advertising spaces according to your terminal’s previous or subsequent browsing on third-party sites on which the advertising company concerned also issues cookies, provided that these cookies have been stored on your terminal in accordance with the choices you have made with regard to this advertising company,
- adapt the advertising content displayed on your terminal via our advertising spaces according to the location data (longitude and latitude) transmitted by your terminal with your prior consent
- to adapt the advertising content displayed on your terminal in our advertising spaces according to the personal data you may have provided to this advertising agency.
Your choices concerning cookies
The placement of cookies on your terminal that are not strictly necessary for the provision of the Site requires your consent, except in the case of legal exemption.
You have several options for managing cookies. Any settings you make may affect your browsing experience on the Internet and on our site, as well as your access to certain services requiring the use of cookies. You can choose at any time to express and modify your wishes with regard to cookies, by the means described below.
The configuration and recording of your choices regarding the deposit of cookies and other tracers is carried out via the CMP
(Consent Management Platform) banner displayed when you first connect to the Site. The console allowing you to modify your initial choices, by purpose and/or by Partner, is available at all times in the “Manage my consents” module at the top of the page of this Cookies Charter.
The choices offered by your browser :
You can configure your browser so that cookies are stored on your terminal or, conversely, so that they are rejected, either systematically or depending on the sender. You can also configure your browser so that you are prompted to accept or reject cookies before a cookie is stored on your terminal.
“How to exercise your choices, depending on the browser you use?”
The registration of a cookie in a terminal is subject to the will of the terminal user, who can express and modify it at any time and free of charge through the choices offered to him by his navigation software. If you have enabled your browser to store cookies on your terminal, the cookies embedded in the pages and content you have consulted may be stored temporarily in a dedicated space on your terminal. They can only be read by the sender.
If you refuse to accept cookies on your terminal, or if you delete the cookies stored on your terminal, you will no longer be able to benefit from a certain number of functions required to browse certain areas of our site. This would be the case if you attempted to access our content or services that require you to be identified. This would also be the case if we – or our service providers – were unable to recognize, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used by your terminal, its language and display settings or the country from which your terminal appears to be connected to the Internet. Where applicable, we decline all responsibility for the consequences linked to the degraded operation of our services resulting from the impossibility for us to record or consult the cookies necessary for their operation and which you would have refused or deleted.
How do you exercise your choices, depending on the browser you use?
To manage cookies and your choices, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in your browser’s help menu, which will tell you how to modify your cookie preferences.
Refusing a Video Cookie
Our site uses Video cookies to display videos on our site. This service places cookies on users’ computers:
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- optimize the use of the video service by its users;
- personalize the advertising shown before or after the video;
- record the data required to play audio-video content, such as image quality, buffering parameters and network connection speed;
You can also click on the following links to find out more about their practices and make your choice:
Refuse a Cookie for audience measurement or segmentation
Audience measurement and segmentation cookies are deposited by Google, AT Internet A/B Tasty, Nugg Ad, Chartbeat, Ownpage, Alliance Gravity Data Media (operated by Mediarithmics – see 4) and Weborama (see 5).
If you do not wish our site to store cookies in your browser for segmentation purposes, please refer to paragraph 4. For audience measurement cookies, you can click on the following deactivation link, which will save a Cookie in your browser for the sole purpose of deactivating them:
For the
Google Analytics cookie
, Tag Manager
Please note that these segmentation cookies enable us to measure the traffic or audience associated with our website, the pages visited and the interactions carried out on the Site during your visit. Deactivating them therefore prevents the collection of any information relating to your browsing on our Site and therefore the proposal of editorial content tailored to your browsing.
Refusing an advertising cookie
You can manage the use and exploitation of these Cookies by visiting
the advertising Cookie management platform offered by advertising professionals and by following the instructions given there.
This will enable you to find out which companies are registered with this platform, and which offer you the option of refusing or accepting the Cookies they use to tailor the advertising they display to your browsing data.
Certain cookies for behavioral advertising purposes are deposited by third-party partners. You can also click on the following links to find out more about their practices and make your choice:
Please note that this deactivation will prevent the display of any advertisements targeted to your centers of interest, although you will continue to receive other advertisements. Deactivating these Cookies prevents the collection of information enabling better targeting of advertising during your visits.
Refusing a Cookie issued by a social network
If you do not wish our site to store Cookies in your browser for this purpose, you can click on the following deactivation links, which will store a Cookie in your browser whose sole purpose is to neutralize the use of other Cookies from the same issuer.
Deactivating these cookies will prevent any interaction with the social network(s) concerned:
Please note that taking your wishes into account depends on one or more specific Cookies. If you delete all the Cookies stored on your terminal concerning our site, we will no longer know which consent or refusal you have given. This will reset your consent and you will have to refuse again the Cookie(s) you do not wish to keep. Similarly, if you use another Internet browser, you will have to refuse these Cookies again, as your choices, like the Cookies to which they relate, depend on the browser and terminal (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) you use to consult our site.
6. For more information on cookies
To guide you in the process of limiting your traces on the web, if you wish, and being aware that this may degrade your navigation on our site and access to our services and / or your subscription, we invite you to consult the following page:
CNIL advice to users
The CNIL (Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés – French Data Protection Authority) has produced a video explaining everything you need to know about cookies:
the video is available here.
