How and why do we use your browsing data?
When you first connect to our website or our mobile application, a banner on your screen informs you that information relating to your browsing may be stored in files called “cookies”.
This section helps you better understand the measures we implement regarding browsing on our website and/or our mobile application. It informs you in particular about all the cookies we use, their purpose and explains the steps to configure them.
1.1.1. WHAT IS A COOKIE?
Cookies are data files stored on your device (computer, smartphone, etc.) when you first visit a website or mobile application.
We use cookies when you visit our and/or our mobile application, but you may choose not to accept certain types of cookies.
Please note, however, that blocking certain cookies may impact your experience on Ballon d’Or as well as the services we offer you.
1.1.2. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF A COOKIE?
Cookies have many uses, such as allowing you to navigate efficiently between pages, remembering your preferences and improving your user experience. They can also ensure that the advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and reflect your interests expressed during browsing.
1.1.3. WHICH COOKIES DO WE USE?
Strictly necessary cookies for the operation of the website and our mobile application: These cookies are necessary for proper browsing on the website and application. They notably allow you to:
Maintain your login session from page to page;
Adapt the website/application’s presentation to the display preferences of the device;
Remember information relating to identifiers.
Performance/analytics cookies: These cookies help us to:
Establish statistics and volumes of traffic and use of the various elements composing the website/application (sections and content visited, paths);
Improve the relevance and ergonomics of the services by analyzing the overall use of the website/application.
Advertising cookies: We use these cookies to:
Send you advertisements that may be relevant to you and match your interests;
Record the number of times you have received a specific advertisement to ensure that we do not present the same advertisement to you repeatedly;
Help us measure the effectiveness of our campaigns.
Please note that your choice will not prevent the display of advertisements but will block the technologies that allow advertisements to be tailored to your interests.
Social network cookies:
To allow you to share articles and content with your contacts or to comment on them, our website/application contains sharing links to social networks (Facebook, Twitter). When you use these sharing buttons, a third-party cookie is set. If you are logged in to the social network while browsing our website/application, the sharing buttons allow the content viewed to be linked to your user account.
1.1.4. HOW TO CONFIGURE COOKIES?
First note that:
Cookies that are strictly necessary for the operation of the website/application may be placed automatically when you first connect;
Other types of cookies require your consent to place or read information from your device.
Several options are available to manage cookies, accept or refuse them. You can:
Use the consent management platform (CMP);
Express your choice by configuring your internet browser;
Express your choice directly to the issuer of the cookie as regards analytics cookies or cookies issued by social networks.
Settings via the consent management platform (CMP):
You can express your choices regarding the placement or refusal of cookies via the consent management platform commonly called the “CMP” that will appear during your first visit. You can subsequently withdraw your consent at any time by reconnecting to the platform.
Access to the CMP can be found in the footer at the bottom of all pages on the site.
Please note that you can:
Consent to or refuse cookies by specific purpose;
Object to the use of your data by recipients on a named basis (recipient by recipient) or globally via this same CMP.
The choice expressed is valid for a maximum period of 6 months from the first placement on the device.
Warning: if you do not consent to the placement of cookies necessary for the operation of the website or if you delete them, browsing and the experience on the website could be degraded.
Settings via the browser:
You can configure your browser to refuse the placement of cookies. For cookie management, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in the help menu of your browser, which will allow you to know how to modify your cookie preferences.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=fr&hlrm=en
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19214?locale=fr_FR&viewlocale=fr_FR
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/activer-desactiver-cookies?redirectlocale=fr&redirectslug=Activer+et+d%C3%A9sactiver+les+cookies
Settings via third-party cookie issuers:
To learn about the purpose and scope of the collection and use of data by social networks to which you may belong, as well as your rights and settings options, we invite you to read their cookie management policies on their websites.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Google+: http://www.google.com/intl/fr/policies/privacy/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/privacy/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/legal/cookies/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/static?template=privacy_guidelines