Cookies policy
The websites of DEF Network companies use cookies. Below you will find information about cookies and how to limit them.
1. What is a cookie ?
Cookies are text files that are likely to be stored – subject to your choice – on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device, when visiting a website. On each subsequent visit, the cookies are sent back to the sending website, which will be able to recognise the terminal in which they are stored.
When consulting the websites of DEF Network companies, the information mentioned in article 2 – « What cookies do we use on the sites » may be recorded in the cookie files installed on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device, subject to any choices you may have made regarding such cookies.
2. What cookies do we use on the sites?
When you browse DEF Network companies' websites, we may install various cookies on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device. The cookies used by the DEF Network websites are used for the purposes described below, subject to your choices.
Operational cookies. When you browse the websites of DEF Network companies, we may install cookies that are necessary for the operation of our websites. These include, for example, the cookies that allow you to access the secure areas of our sites. Please note that these cookies do not collect information that can be used for marketing purposes or to remember your browsing history. This category of cookies cannot be disabled.
Analytics cookies. When you browse the websites of DEF Network companies, we may install, subject to your choices, analysis cookies on your terminal. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to know how they move around our websites. This helps us to improve the functionality of the latter, for example, by ensuring that users can easily find what they are looking for.
Functionality cookies. When you browse DEF Network companies' websites, we may, subject to your choices, install various cookies on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device, allowing us to recognise you when you return to one of our websites. This allows us to personalise our content and remember your preferences.
You can find in the table below, a list of the cookies that the DEF Network websites use as well as their retention period :
| NAME | DESCRIPTION | DURATION |
| __utma | This cookie is used to distinguish unique visitors to the site. It is updated on each page viewed. | 13 months |
| __utmz | This cookie stores all the information needed to identify a traffic source. It is in this cookie that the following information is stored: the source of traffic, the medium of this source of traffic, the keyword typed in if the user visits the site from a search engine, etc. | 6 months |
| _ga | Used to distinguish users in Google Analytics. | 13 months |
| _icl_current_language | User settings, in relation to the choice of the language of the site. | 1 day |
| _icl_current_admin_language | This cookie is stored by WPMLStores in the current language of the WordPress admin area. | 1 day |
| _icl_visitor_lang_js | Preserves the redirection language. | 1 day |
3. Your choices regarding cookies
There are several ways to manage cookies. It should be noted that any configuration that you may have implemented may modify your browsing on the websites of DEF Network companies and your conditions of access to certain services requiring the use of cookies.
How to disable or delete cookies?
You can deactivate cookies by modifying the settings of your browser, thus allowing you to refuse the installation of all or part of the cookies. However, if you disable all cookies through your browser settings (including those strictly necessary for operation), you may not be able to access all or part of the sites.
Deactivating a cookie or a category of cookies does not remove them from your browser, as deletion requires a specific action.
If you wish to change your cookie settings, please go to the “Options" or "Preferences" menus of your browser. For more information, go to the "Help" option of your browser.
For Chrome :
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=fr&hlrm=en
For Internet Explorer :
http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-FR/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-Cookies
For Safari :
https://support.apple.com/fr-fr/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
For Opera :
https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies
For Edge :
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy
You can also opt out of Google Analytics tracking by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=fr
If you have disabled one or more analytics cookies, please note that we may still use the information collected by the cookies set prior to disabling, however we will stop using disabled cookies to collect other information.
With the exception of cookies that are strictly necessary for the operation of the sites, all cookies expire at the end of the periods indicated in Article 2 and are then permanently deleted.
Use of information
The information which is collected via the sites is used to respond to your requests for information, to send you newsletters, to study your responses to our job offers or your unsolicited applications.