Last updated: 23/03/2024
The www.germitec.com website https://www.germitec.com (the"Service(s)") place cookies on visitors' terminals. This policy identifies the cookies used by Germitec, explains the reasons why they are used, and presents the tools available for you to manage them.
Germitec is referred to as "Germitec", "our" and "we" in this policy.
1. What are cookies?
A "cookie" is a small file deposited by a server on a user’s terminal (computer, phone, tablet, etc.) when viewing online content. It makes it possible to retain information about a user's navigation. Once the cookie is set, the web browser keeps it for a certain period of time and sends it back to the web server each time the user reconnects to it.
2. What cookies does Germitec use?
Germitec uses different categories of cookies to ensure the proper functioning and security of its own services, to improve your experience, and to carry out audience measurements.
a. Essential cookies
Essential Cookies are cookies that are essential for browsing the Services. They allow you to make full use of the essential features of the Services. These cookies do not require your consent, so they cannot be disabled from the Services. However, you can set your browser to block these cookies.
Note that the refusal of these strictly necessary cookies may alter your navigation on the Services and make certain parts of them unusable.
We use our own cookies in order to manage our Cookie banner.
b. Analysis cookies
Analysis cookies make it possible to collect information on the use of the Services and to carry out audience measurements in order to improve their use and content.
For this purpose, we use Google Analytics.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt out of having made your activityon the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytic sopt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript(ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visit activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page:
· ForEnglish speakers: <https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en>
· ForFrench speakers: <https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=fr>
c. Functional cookies
Thanks to functional cookies, Germitec is able to improve and personalize your browsing experience on its Services. If you do not allow these cookies, some orall of the features of the Services may not function properly.
Weuse the following plugin https://finsweet.com/cookie-consent to retain your consent for all the Cookies:
d. Advertising partner cookies
We use remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visit our Service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.
Here is a list of Advertising partner cookies:
· Google Ads
Google Ads remarketing service is provided by Google Inc.
You can opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page:
<http://www.google.com/settings/ads>
Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out BrowserAdd-on - <https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout> for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability top revent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page:
For English speakers <http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/>
For French speakers <https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=fr>
· X (formerly Twitter)
X (formerly Twitter) remarketing service is provided by X Inc.
You can opt out of X's interest-based ads by following their instructions: <https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170405>
You can learn more about the privacy practices and policies of X by visiting their Privacy Policy page: <https://twitter.com/privacy>
Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.
You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: <https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950>
To opt out of Facebook's interest-based ads follow these instructions from Facebook:<https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217>
3. How to express your choices regarding cookies?
The deposit of certain cookies requires Germitec to obtain your consent. You can express your choice in the "Cookies" module accessible when you first reach the websites. The module allows you to express your choice globally or precisely by selecting only the categories of cookies for the deposit of which you wish to consent.
With the exception of cookies strictly necessary for the provision of an online communication service at your express request or whose exclusive purpose is to allow or facilitate communication by electronic means, your prior consent to the deposit of cookies will always be required.
You can also manually configure your browser so that any attempt to deposit cookies on your terminal is blocked by default. To make this setting, we invite you to consult the menu of the browser you use.
Cookies are valid for a maximum of 13 months.
Your consent will be requested again at the end of this maximum period by the display of the information banner, regardless of the page visited on.
If you would like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.
Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.
· For the Chrome web browser, please visit this page from Google:
- https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=fr
- <https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050>
· For the Internet Explorer web browser, please visit this page from Microsoft:
- <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835>
· For the Firefox web browser, please visit this page from Mozilla:
- For French speakers: <https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/effacer-cookies-donnees-site-firefox>
- For English speakers: <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored>
· For the Safari web browser, please visit this page from Apple:
- <https://support.apple.com/fr-fr/HT201265>
For any otherweb browser, please visit your web browser's official web pages.
4. Processing of your personal data
Thanks to cookies, Germitec may collect, as data controller, personal data about you. To learn more about the personal data that Germitec processes in connection with the management of cookies and how this personal data is processed, please read the Privacy Policy.
5. Changes to the Policy
Germitec may modify this policy at any time to take into account changes in legislation, its services, its data processing practices or technological advances. The use of cookies is subject to the cookie policy in force at the time these cookies are placed.
6. How to contact us?
For any questions regarding the cookies used on the websites, you can write to Germitec at the following email address (contact@germitec.com) or complete a contact form on the websites
