Cookie Policy

1. What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files placed on your Device, the details and purposes of which are set out below. Cookies are managed by your internet browser, and only the party that issued a cookie can read or modify the information it contains.

2. What types of cookies are placed, and for what purposes?

2.1 The cookies we place

The cookies we issue are used for the purposes described below, subject to the choices you make via the settings you customize in our cookie management interface.

2.1.1 Technical or functional cookies

Purposes: these cookies ensure the Site works properly and allow it to be optimized. These are cookies placed exclusively by Les Merveilles du Pacifique. They are essential for browsing our Site. They allow you to use the Site’s main features and to secure your connection. For example, they allow us to:

• implement security measures, for example when you are asked to log in again to content or a service after a certain period of time;
• access restricted, personal areas of our Site, such as your account, using credentials or information you have previously provided to us;
• remember information relating to a form you have filled in on our Site (for example, registration or access to your account) or to products, services or information you have selected on our Site (a subscribed service such as a newsletter or email alert, etc.);
• adapt the presentation of our Site to your Device’s display preferences (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) during your visits to our Site, based on the hardware and viewing or playback software your Device includes;
• adapt our advertising spaces to your Device’s display preferences (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.), based on the hardware and viewing or playback software your Device includes;
• compile anonymous statistics and traffic and usage volumes for the various elements making up our Site (sections and content viewed, browsing paths), enabling us to improve the relevance and usability of our services.

In addition, your data is collected by the ACPM for purely statistical audience measurement purposes. With your consent, it may be processed by TNS Sofres and its potential subprocessors, including Médiamétrie, as part of the “ONE Next” Press Audience Measurement Survey.

Without these cookies, you will not be able to use the Site normally, as they ensure it functions and contribute to its optimization. Since these cookies are essential, they cannot be disabled.

2.1.2 Audience measurement cookies (also known as “Web Analytics” cookies)

Purposes: these cookies measure traffic on our Sites.

These cookies allow us to:

• determine your interests and behavior
• improve our knowledge of customers/users for personalization purposes

These cookies are placed on your Device only with your consent. You can find out about and configure your cookie choices (accept or refuse) at any time by visiting our cookie management interface.

2.2.2 Social Media and Video Cookies

Purposes: these cookies allow you to interact with the social media and video modules present on the Site.

These cookies are placed on your Device only with your consent.
You can find out about and configure your cookie choices (accept or refuse) at any time by visiting our cookie management interface.

2.2.2.1 Social Media

We may include on our Sites computer applications from third parties, which allow you to share content from our Sites with other people, or to let other people know about your viewing of, or opinion on, content from our Sites.

This is notably the case for “Share” or “Like” buttons from social networks such as “Facebook,” “Twitter,” “LinkedIn,” etc. The social network providing such a button may be able to identify you through that button, even if you did not use the button while browsing our Sites.

Indeed, this type of button may allow the social network concerned to track your browsing on our Sites simply because your account with that social network was active on your Device (open session) while you were browsing our Site.

Social cookies allow us to create and distribute certain personalized advertisements and communications relating to our publications, offers and services.

As a reminder, we have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information relating to your browsing, and to associate it with the personal data they hold. We invite you to review the privacy policies of these social networks to learn about the purposes — including advertising purposes — for which they may use the browsing information they collect through these application buttons. These privacy policies should, in particular, allow you to exercise your choices with these social networks, notably by configuring your account settings on each of these networks.

3. What is the legal basis for collecting cookies?

The recording of a cookie on a Device is essentially subject to the wishes of the Device’s user, which the user can express and change at any time, free of charge, through the choices offered via the cookie management interface we make available, or through their browser software. The refusal or acceptance of cookies is subject to your consent, with the exception of technical cookies.

If you have accepted, in your browser software, the recording of cookies on your Device, the cookies embedded in the pages and content you have viewed may be stored temporarily in a dedicated area of your Device. They will only be readable there by the party that issued them.

If you refuse to have cookies recorded on your Device, or if you delete those already recorded there, you will no longer be able to benefit from the features of our Sites. This would be the case if you attempted to access our content or services. This would also be the case where we — or our service providers — are unable, for technical compatibility purposes, to recognize the type of browser used by your Device, its language and display settings, or the country from which your Device appears to be connecting to the Internet.

Where applicable, we disclaim any liability for the consequences of degraded functioning of our services resulting from our inability to record or read the cookies necessary for them to function, where you have refused or deleted those cookies.

4. How do you manage your cookies?

4.1 By accessing our dedicated cookie consent management platform

Our Site allows you to configure the cookies placed on the Site via the interface directly accessible in the Cookie banner the first time you connect. You can return to your choices and reconfigure them at any time by accessing our cookie management interface.

4.2 By configuring your browser software

You can configure your browser software so that cookies are recorded on your Device or, conversely, rejected, either systematically or depending on their issuer. You can also configure your browser software so that you are asked, on a case-by-case basis, to accept or refuse cookies before a cookie is recorded on your Device. The configuration for managing cookies and your choices is different for each browser. It is described in your browser’s help menu, which will tell you how to change your cookie preferences.