Cookies policy

1. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE COOKIES POLICY?

At Ekino, the protection of your personal data is a priority!

When the User (or “You”, “Your”) browses the EKINO website www.ekino.com (the “Website”), cookies or other trackers or similar technologies (hereinafter the “cookies”) may be installed on the User’s browser subject to the choices and options that the User has expressed or may express at any time in accordance with this Cookies policy. These cookies and this data collected through this means are used by Ekino (the “Company”) as well as by the company Matomo.

Our Cookies policy explains what cookies refer to, indicates the types of cookies we use on the Website and specifies the rights you have with regard to accepting or refusing to install cookies. You can manage Your choices via the cookie management module.

2. WHAT IS A “COOKIE” ?

A cookie is a small file for the storage and recovery of information, usually made up of alphanumeric characters (see letters and numbers), placed by a web server on the User’s computer or electronic device to send status information to said browser and obtain the same information back from the browser. For example, status information may be a session ID, language, expiry date, field of response, etc.

Cookies usually allow to obtain certain information about the user’s browsing habits, his/her computer or his/her device, in order to improve the content and service offered by the website in question, to know the traffic of the said website and to provide Internet users with personalised services.

The concept of cookies as used in this Cookies policy covers all types of trackers or similar technologies, for example:

• HTTP cookies;
• but also the use of other techniques:
  • local shared objects sometimes called “Flash cookies”;
  • the local storage implemented within HTML 5;
  • device fingerprinting;
  • IDs generated by the operating systems (whether advertising or not: IDFA, IDFV, Android ID, etc.);
  • material IDs (MAC address, serial number or any other device ID).

In any event, cookies may be:

• session cookies, that disappear as soon as the User leaves the browser or the Website;
• permanent cookies that remain until their duration or validity expires, or until the User deletes them through the features of his/her browser for example or through the cookies management module made available on our Website.

3. TYPE OF COOKIES

There are two main categories of cookies, subject to different legal regimes.

a) Strictly necessary cookies not subject to the User’s consent

Strictly necessary cookies are solely intended to (i) enable or facilitate electronic communication on, from or to the Website or (ii) to enable the provision of an online communication service at the express request of the Website User.

Without them, the recording of services and the connection are either not possible or in a degraded mode. In fact, if You disable these cookies for example using the features offered by Your browser, You may not be able to access the Website, and/or to correctly receive the content and information available on the Website and/or You may not be able to benefit from all the features of the Website.

These cookies are exempt from the need for Ekino to request Your consent to their installation. Ekino may thus use those cookies which are essential to browse the Website and/or strictly necessary for the provision of certain services without seeking Your prior consent.

b) Other cookies subject in principle to the consent of the User

Statistical cookies: these cookies allow to establish statistics and traffic and use volumes of the various elements of our website and application (sections and content visited, path, visit times), allowing us to improve the interest and user-friendliness of Our services.

The use of other cookies as referred to in this section b) is subject in principle to the User’s prior consent, and the User is free to (i) accept them by expressly consenting to their installation and reading in his/her browser (it being specified that the latter will then have the option to withdraw his/her consent at any time under the conditions and in accordance with the terms referred to in section 4 below), (ii) or refuse them.

By way of exception, when these cookies establishing statistics and traffic are strictly necessary for operating and managing day-to-day administration of the Website, under certain conditions and in accordance with the configuration guides determined by the CNIL, they are exempt of prior consent. The user can, however, express his choice concerning exempted statistical cookies via the Cookies Management Module.

4. DETAILS OF COOKIES USED ON THE WEBSITE (NAMES, PURPOSES, DURATION, ETC.)

STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES

Our Website only collects strictly necessary cookies that are not subject to prior consent in accordance with the provisions mentioned above :

• Cookies necessary for operating the Website
• Audience measure services necessary for operating the Website and for the good management of the Website, meeting the requirements in the configuration guides determined by the CNIL and falling within the exemption of consent.

For this reason, the Website do not contain a cookie banner for collecting prior consent on the home page. You can, however, technically block these cookies by using the settings of Your browser (see paragraph 5-b) Alternative – Cookie management setting via the browsers) but Your experience on the website may be jeopardized.

Furthermore, You can object to the use of cookies via the Cookies Management Module.

Your choices relating to consent to cookies are kept for a period of 6 months. Information collected through cookies is kept by Ekino for a maximum period of 25 months, in accordance with applicable regulations.

The cookies used are detailed below.

1. Strictly necessary cookies

These “operating” cookies allow the Website to operate optimally and provide you with certain online services at your request. These cookies cannot be deactivated from our systems. The User may object and delete them using the settings of his/her browser (see below). However, as indicated above, in this case, the User’s experience could be degraded.

2. Statistical cookies

The purpose of these cookies is to carry out Website visit statistics: testing, monitoring, measurements and audience, traffic, browsing and performance analysis.

The Website use cookies of Matomo in accordance with the guide and conditions for exemption determined by the French authority CNIL. These cookies are not subject to prior consent. However, You can express Your choice at any moment via the Cookies Management Module. If you refuse, we will not know when You visit Our website and we will not be able to monitor performances.

Cookies used by the career website of ekino

The career website of Ekino accessible via the page https://www.ekino.com/careers/ is provided by Teamtailor AB (“TeamTailor”) whose cookies usage can be necessary. For more information on how Your Data is used and cookies are placed on this page by TeamTailor, we invite you to refer to the cookie policy and Privacy policy of TeamTailor on their website. You will find below a list of the types of cookies used by TeamTailor as well as their purpose:

We are in no way implicated in the placement and the operating of third-party cookies generated by TeamTailor and we do not have any access or control over these cookies. These cookies have their own cookie policies accessible on each third-party website. We invite you to refer to said policies for information on how each website manage cookies and other tracers. Third party cookies placed on Our Website depend on an external Controller who can process Your Personal Data if you accept these cookies.

5. HOW DO I MANAGE COOKIES ?

During Your first visit to our Website or if You have not made a choice regarding the management of cookies during Your previous visits to our Website, You can express Your choice at any moment to accept or refuse cookies strictly necessary via the cookie management module.

a. Description of the Cookie Management Module:

The Cookie Management Module is accessible on all the pages of our Website.

Thanks to the buttons (accept, refuse), You may  inform us of Your choice regarding the use of cookies so that We can place and read cookies on your computer or other device in accordance with these choices. We invite you to refer to the cookie policy of Matomo company to make Your choice regarding the placement of cookies of measures of audience.

In any case, You may receive information at any time about the cookies used on the Website, but also change the settings of your cookies via the Cookies Management Module, here.

b. Alternative – Cookie management setting via the browsers

Each web browser offers different setting methods to manage cookies.

For example:

• For more information on the Google Chrome browser: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=fr&hlrm=en;
• For more information on the Firefox browser: https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/autoriser-bloquer-cookies-preferences-sites?redirectlocale=fr&redirectslug=activer-desactiver-cookies-preferences and https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/desactiver-cookies-tiers;
• For more information on the Internet Explorer browser: https://support.microsoft.com/fr-fr/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies;
• For more information on the Safari browser: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/fr-ww/cookies/ and https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/fr-ww/;
• For more information on the Edge browser: https://support.microsoft.com/fr-fr/help/4468242/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy-microsoft-privacy;
• For Opera™: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/ and https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies.

We nevertheless draw your attention to the fact that in the current state of the art, browsers:

• do not all allow to distinguish cookies according to their purposes (the consequence of which is that you often have to “accept all” or “refuse all” when setting your choices);
• do not all allow the User to express a valid consent (the consequence of which is that despite the fact that you may have consented to cookies via your browser, we will ask for your specific consent again under the aforementioned terms and conditions prior to any installation / reading by us of cookies subject to your consent);
• do not all allow to express a choice on technologies other than “cookies for the purpose of tracking the browsing” in the strict sense of the term. It is also possible that certain cookies, trackers or other similar technologies may not be blocked in principle (e.g.: device fingerprinting) and can still be installed and/or activated despite your refusal expressed as part of the setting of your browser.

We therefore recommend that you favour the use of the module in order to express your cookie choices on the Website.

However, if you decide to refuse cookies, we will not be held liable in the event of a degraded operation of the Website related to the settings you have chosen.

Finally, if you have deactivated one or more cookies, we may still use the information collected by these cookies before their deactivation. However, we will cease to collect data through the refused cookie.

c. Use of third-party tools available online

You can obtain information on how to control your data when browsing on the Internet on the website of the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés or “CNIL” (https://www.cnil.fr/fr/maitriser-mes-donnees, in particular https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-les-outils-pour-les-maitriser). In relation to this topic, third-party cookies are usually not necessary to benefit from the resources available on the Internet. If you want to limit your traces, it is recommended that you refuse them by default, by referring to the advice of the CNIL.

6. WHAT SHOULD I DO IF I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THIS COOKIES POLICY?

If you have any questions regarding this Policy, you may contact our Data Protection Officer (or DPO):

• by email: dpo@ekino.com
• by mail: EKINO – Délégué à la protection des données (Data Protection Officer) – 157 rue Anatole France – 92300 Levallois-Perret.

7. UPDATE OF OUR COOKIES POLICY

This Policy is part of our Privacy Policy and may be updated periodically to reflect changes to our privacy practices and to comply with legal requirements.