Use of cookies
What is a cookie?
When you visit the wcs-fieldservice.com website, information relating to the browsing of your terminal (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) on our site may be recorded in text files called “cookies”, installed on your terminal, subject to the choices you have made and which you can modify at any time. Only the sender of a cookie can read or modify the information contained in it.
Cookies that can be installed
When you connect to our site, we may install various cookies on your terminal to enable us to recognize your browser for the duration of the validity of the cookie concerned, and :
- to compile statistics and volumes concerning visits to and use of the various elements making up our site, enabling us to improve the interest and ergonomics of our content and services
- to adapt the presentation of our site to your terminal’s display preferences (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) during your visits to wcs-fieldservice.com, depending on the hardware and viewing or reading software your terminal has.
- to store information relating to a form you have filled in on our site (request for information, access to your account, etc.) or to products you have chosen on our site (contents of your shopping basket, etc.).
- allow you to access reserved and personal areas of our site, using identifiers or data that you may have previously entrusted to us
- to implement security measures, for example when you are asked to reconnect to a content or service after a certain period of time
- adapt our offer to your browsing habits and provide you with product recommendations
- insofar as you have provided us with personal data concerning you, in particular your electronic contact details, to send you, for example, electronic prospecting or to display on your terminal, personalized content specifically intended for you
Cookies issued by third parties
We would like to inform you that certain third-party companies may issue cookies from certain areas accessible on our site. We have no control over cookies placed by third parties. The issue and use of cookies by these companies are subject to the policies of these companies.
Social network cookies
We may include third-party software applications on our site that allow you to share content from our site with other people or to let other people know that you have viewed or thought about content on our site. This is particularly true of “Share” or “Like” buttons from social networks such as Twitter. The social network is likely to identify you thanks to this button, even if you did not use it when consulting our site. This type of application button may enable the social network concerned to track your browsing on our site, simply because your social network account was activated on your terminal (open session) during your browsing on our site. We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information relating to your browsing on our site and associated with the personal data they hold. We invite you to consult the privacy protection policies of these social networks in order to learn about the purposes of use, in particular advertising, of the browsing information they may collect through these application buttons. These protection policies should enable you to exercise your choices with regard to these social networks, in particular by configuring your user accounts for each of these networks.
Your choices concerning cookies
You have several options for managing cookies. Any settings you may make may affect your Internet browsing experience and your access to certain services requiring the use of cookies. In particular, you can configure your browser so that cookies are stored on your terminal or rejected, either systematically or depending on the sender. You can also configure your browser so that you are prompted to accept or reject cookies before a cookie is stored on your terminal. Simply go to your browser’s help menu to find out how to modify your cookie settings.
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Cookie agreement
The recording of a cookie in a terminal is essentially subject to the terminal user’s wishes, which he or she can express and modify at any time and free of charge through the choices offered by his or her browser software. If you have accepted the storage of cookies on your terminal, the cookies integrated into the pages and content you have consulted may be stored temporarily in a dedicated space on your terminal. They can only be read by the sender.
Refusing cookies
If you refuse to accept cookies on your terminal, or if you delete the cookies stored on your terminal, you will no longer be able to benefit from a certain number of functions which are nevertheless necessary for browsing certain areas of our site, for example :
- if you attempt to access content or services that require you to be identified,
- when we or our service providers are unable to recognize, for technical reasons, the type of browser used by your terminal, its language and display settings or the country from which your terminal appears to be connected to the Internet.
We would like to inform you that the refusal to install or the deletion of cookies necessary for proper navigation on our site may lead to a degraded functioning of our services. This choice, which is personal to you, is made at your own risk and its consequences cannot be considered to be our fault.
If you share the use of your terminal with others
If your terminal is used by several people and when the same terminal has several browsers, we cannot be certain that the services and content intended for your terminal correspond to your own use of this terminal and not to that of another user of this terminal. You are free to choose whether or not to share the use of your terminal with others, and you are responsible for configuring your browser’s settings with regard to cookies.