Cookies Policy

We use various cookies on the website in order to:

• Allow the website to work in the way intended,
• Measure its audience, and
• Integrate services that make it more user-friendly.

Some cookies require prior consent from you and some do not. More information is provided below.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a file, generally small and identified by a name, placed in your browser by a website that you visit. Your browser will store the cookie until the end of its validity or retention period, and will send it back to the web server every time that you visit the website. Cookies allow us to collect information about your browsing and provide services appropriate to your device (PC, mobile or tablet). We do not use cookies capable of identifying your personally.

What type of cookies do we use?

• Technical cookies

Technical cookies are necessary for browsing our website and accessing the different products and services. We inform you about the use of technical cookies that allow the website’s main services to work optimally.

Depending on your browser’s settings, you can block these cookies. However, blocking them may adversely affect your experience on the website.

• Analytics cookies

These cookies aim to measure the audience of our website’s content and sections in order to assess them and organise them better. They also allow us to detect browsing problems and therefore make our services more user-friendly.

Depending on your browser’s settings, you can block these cookies. However, blocking them may adversely affect your experience on the website.

The lifetime of these cookies does not exceed 13 months.

• Matomo

We use Matomo audience measurement cookies, the sole purposes of which are those listed above, for our sole benefit.

These cookies only produce anonymous statistics and website traffic figures, and do not produce any individual information.

• Cookies related to social media and third-party services

We request your consent before using cookies related to social media and third-party services, intended to facilitate the sharing of content and make the website more user-friendly. By default, refusal is assumed and these cookies are not placed in your browser or activated.

The browsing data collected may be used by third parties operating these social media and third-party services on their own account, to offer targeted advertisements and content based on your browsing history. For more information, we encourage you to look at their privacy policies and cookie information pages, listed below.

You can withdraw your consent at any time.

Your options regarding cookies

You can configure the cookies that we use on the VINCI Energies Group websites in two ways: with the cookie management tool that we have made available on the site, or by changing your internet browser settings. You can choose to deactivate some or all cookies at any time with the cookie settings (activation or deactivation buttons) accessible via the “more information about cookies” link in the cookie banner — with the exception of the technical cookies needed for the site to function, as explained above. You can also change your browser settings so that cookies can be saved or deleted by your device.

Blocking cookies with your internet browser

You can deactivate some or all cookies at any time. You can also change your browser settings to notify you when cookies are placed on your device and to ask you whether you accept them or not, either on a case-by-case basis or all at once. We would like to remind you, however, that deactivating all cookies will stop you from being able to use our site in the usual way, apart from the basic functions.

Each browser is configured differently when it comes to managing cookies and your choices. This will be explained in the help menu of your browser, which will tell you how to adjust your cookie settings.

• Google Chrome™: more information
• Microsoft Internet Explorer™:  more information
• Mozilla Firefox™: more information
• Apple Safari™ : more information
• Opera™ : more information 

You can also change your browser settings so that it sends a code to websites to indicate that you do not want to be tracked (“Do Not Track” feature). For:

• Google Chrome™ : more information
• Microsoft Internet Explorer™ : more information
• Mozilla Firefox™ : more information
• Apple Safari™ : more information
• Opera™ : more information

Blocking social network cookies

If you do not want our site to save cookies in your browser for social network purposes, click on the deactivation links below. Doing so will save a cookie to your browser, but it will only be used to cancel other cookies from the same issuer. Deactivating cookies will then prevent any interaction with the social network(s) in question:

• Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
• Twitter : https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169453
• LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy

What blocking cookies mean:

Please note that one or more specific cookies are used to take your different choices into account. If you delete all of the cookies saved on your device by our website, we will no longer know what you have consented to and what you have blocked. You will therefore be asked for consent again, and have to block the cookie(s) that you do not want again. If you use a different internet browser, you will also have to block these cookies again because your choices, like their associated cookies, depending on the browser and device (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) that you use to visit our site.

More information about cookies

You can look at the CNIL website (in French) here: CNIL – Tools for managing cookies (in French)