Use of cookies by Bureau Veritas
You are informed that the company Bureau Veritas Services ("Bureau Veritas", "we") uses cookies or other tracers on the site https://idp.bureauveritas.com/ and https://iww.prod.cert.bureauveritas.com/ (the "Site").
These may be installed in your terminal subject to the choices and options you have made or may express at any time in accordance with this policy.
Bureau Veritas has defined this policy for your information and transparency, so that you can learn more about:
- the origin and purpose of the information processed when you browse the Site;
- your rights to cookies and other tracers used by Bureau Veritas.
What is a cookie?
Cookies, or similar tracers, are data used by a server to send status information to a user's browser, and by that browser to send status information back to the original server.
Status information can be, for example, a session ID, language, expiration date, etc.
Cookies are used to store status information for the duration of their validity when a browser accesses different pages on a website or when the browser subsequently returns to that website.
What are the cookies issued on the Site used for?
We use cookies and other tracers, in particular for the following main purposes:
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Cookies are strictly necessary to facilitate the navigation on the Site
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These cookies have in particular vocation to:
- manage the authentication of Internet users and associated security, and ensure the proper functioning of the authentication module;
- optimize the user experience and facilitate navigation, in particular by determining "technical routes" of navigation;
- retain the information according to which the Internet user has seen the "cookies" information banner displayed and has continued to browse, thus allowing the insertion of cookies on his terminal;
- implement security measures (e. g. when you are asked to re-login to a content or service after a certain period of time, or to ensure that the Site is functioning properly and that you are using its main technical features such as monitoring performance and navigation errors, managing the user session, etc.).
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These cookies have notably vocation to:
- adapt the Site to the display preferences of your terminal (language, currency, display resolution, operating system used, configuration and configuration of the display of web pages according to the terminal you are using and its location, etc.);
- memorize certain information that you enter on the Site in order to facilitate and personalize your next browsing (especially displaying the name and surname of the Internet user identified if he has a user account);
- allow you to access your personal spaces more quickly by memorizing identifiers or data that you have previously indicated.
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| Cookies used to track users' use of the Site (audience measurement)
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These cookies help us understand your interactions with the Site (most visited pages, applications used, etc.); these cookies can be used to compile statistics, or to test different displays in order to improve the interest and ergonomics of our services. |
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These cookies allow the identification of the third party Internet site of origin having redirected the Internet user to the Site. |
Cookies subject to your consent
The installation of certain cookies is subject to your consent. Also, when you first visit the Site, you are asked, by the presence of an information banner on the Site's home page, if you accept the installation of this type of cookie. Cookies will only be activated after your acceptance by continuing your browsing on the Site.
Accessplanit application contains an information banner on the log in page and within the shopping basket to inform the user that use of the tool will record cookies. These cookies are necessary for the functionality of the system and therefore cannot be turned off or rejected, the user can instead choose to not login to the tool.
You will be able to return to your choice at any time by the various means described in the section "How to manage cookies?".
How to manage cookies?
There are several ways to manage cookies and other tracers.
You can configure your browser to:
- accept all cookies, or
- reject them systematically, or
- choose the ones you accept according to their emitters.
You can also set your browser to accept or refuse cookies on a case-by-case basis before they are installed. You can also regularly delete cookies from your device via your browser.
Do not forget to configure all the browsers of your different terminals (tablets, smartphones, computers...).
For the management of cookies and your choices, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in the help menu of your browser, which will let you know how to change your cookie preferences.
For Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies,
For Safari: https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/3.0/en/9277.html,
For Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&hlrm=en&answer=95647,
For Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences,
For Opera: https://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/privacy/
The registration of a cookie in your terminal is essentially subject to your will, which you can express and modify at any time and free of charge through the choices offered by your browser.
If your browser is set to accept cookies in your device, the cookies embedded in the pages and content you have viewed may be temporarily stored in a dedicated area of your device. They will only be readable by their transmitter.
Conversely, you can set your browser to refuse cookies. In this regard, your attention is drawn to the fact that by setting your browser to refuse cookies, certain features, pages and spaces on the Site will not be accessible (e. g., if you try to access our content or services requiring your identification, or if we or our service providers cannot recognize, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used by your terminal, its language and display settings or the country from which your terminal is located). We cannot be held responsible for the consequences of degraded functioning of our services resulting from the impossibility for us to record or consult the cookies necessary for their functioning and which you would have refused or deleted.