Personal Data and Cookies Charter

Last updated in May 2025.

The company LAGARDERE GLOBAL ADVERTISING, simplified joint-stock company with capital stock of 40,000,00 euros, registered at the Paris Trade and Companies Registry under the number 350 277 059, with the headquarters located at 2 rue des Cévennes 75015 Paris France (hereafter the “Publisher”), is the publisher of the following websites (the “Site”):

  • ca.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com
  • qc.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com
  • ch.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com
  • de.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com
  • es.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com
  • fr.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com
  • hk.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com
  • it.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com
  • jp.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com
  • kr.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com
  • me.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com
  • sg.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com
  • th.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com
  • tw.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com
  • uk.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com
  • us.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com
  • br.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com
  • vn.elle-vancleefarpels-alhambra.com

Any person having access to the Site, regardless of their status (private individual or professional), location, methods of connection to the Site, object and purpose of their access to the Site and/or use of the Services is a user (hereinafter "User" or “You”).

I. PERSONAL DATA CHARTER

The purpose of this personal data charter (the “Charter”) is to inform the User of the Site of the reasons and terms for processing his personal data (the “Personal Data” or “Data”) on the Site. The Personal Data are information which enable to identify the User directly or indirectly.

1. ACCEPTANCE OF THE PERSONAL DATA CHARTER

The Publisher may modify the Charter at any time in order to comply with any regulatory, jurisprudential, editorial or technical developments.

Before browsing, we suggest that you refer to the latest version of the Charter. You can find out if there has been any alteration since your last consultation by checking the date on the top of the page.

2. PRELIMINARY INFORMATION

The processing of the Personal Data is carried out in accordance with applicable regulations, and in particular the European Regulation “GDPR” (no. 2016-679 relative to the protection of physical persons with regards to the processing of data of a personal nature and the free flow of this data) and the “Information and Freedom” law, (law no.78-17 of 6th January 1978 relative to IT, files and freedom, amended, and any regulation that completes or substitutes these regulations (hereinafter “Rules on Information and Freedom”).

The Publisher is responsible for the processing of your Data on the Site, as specified below. Processing implies the use of a piece of Data (e.g., consultation, collection, etc.)

3. PROCESSING FOR WHICH THE PUBLISHER IS REPONSIBLE

When the User browses the Site, Data is likely to be collected and processed in order to enable access to certain Site services (hereinafter the “Services”) for the purposes of administration and business management.

a) Which Personal Data is indirectly collected on the Site?

Generally speaking, it concerns Personal Data from Cookies or other similar technologies. For further information on Cookies and their settings, the User is invited to consult the Cookies Charter available below.

  • Browsing Data: i.e. Data collected during your browsing of the Site on behalf of the Publisher. The Publisher collects two types of Browsing Data:
    • Connection Data, such as the date and time of connection and/or browsing, browser type, browser language and IP address.
    • Geolocation Data: refers to data collected when you activate geolocation systems when connecting to the Site. This geolocation service uses Data, such as GPS signals, terminal sensors, WIFI access points and base station identifiers, to derive or estimate your precise position.
  • Data collected via social networks or any other: when you use a Service via a social network site, you allow us to access certain information that you have provided to the social network site, such as your user name, your first and last name, your profile picture, and your data relating to the use of this Service. By accessing a Service via a social network site, you authorize us to collect, store and use all the information for which you have authorized the social network site to provide it to us.

b) Why do we collect your Personal Data?

The reason(s) for which Data is collected on the forms are specified upon collection.

The purpose of Data and information from Cookies, whose storing to your device is subject to authorization, are indicated in the information banner present upon first connection and described in greater detail in the Cookies Charter available below.

Generally speaking, the purposes and retention periods differ according to the Services. The purposes and retention periods may be as follows, it being specified that only the Data necessary for each of these purposes are collected. The purposes pursued by the Publisher and the corresponding retention periods are:

PurposeRetention period

Legal basis

Analytical management of the activity (audience measurement, etc.)

13 months from the deposit of the cookieLegitimate interest
Profiling13 months from the deposit of the cookieConsent

Personal Data may be collected for other purposes for some special or temporary services. Wherever necessary, information on said processing will be specified in a special document upon collection of this Personal Data.

Your Personal Data will not be kept by the Publisher beyond the duration strictly necessary for the purposes pursued as stated in the present Charter and this in accordance with the Data-processing Regulation and Freedoms and the applicable laws.

Your Data will be deleted or definitively anonymized when the retention periods expire.

Upon expiration of the retention periods for the main purpose of the processing, the Data may be archived and kept for the duration of the legal prescription in order to defend our rights or for the duration of the retention period imposed by the law.

Archiving implies that the Data will no longer be available online but will be extracted and stored on an autonomous and secure medium.

c) Who are the recipients of the Personal Data collected?

The Database created upon subscription to Services is strictly confidential. The Publisher undertakes to take all the necessary precautions, organizational measures and use all the appropriate techniques to preserve the security, integrity and confidentiality of Data and in particular, prevent it from being deformed, damaged or accessed by unauthorized third-parties.

Recipients of Personal Data for the purposes sought by the Publisher: in order to achieve the purposes of processing that they pursue, the Publisher needs accredited persons to be able to process the Data. As such the accredited services of the Publisher and its sub-contracted service providers are recipients bound to confidentiality, and authorized to access the Data collected within the framework of use of the Service.

Data transferred to authorities and / or public bodies: pursuant to the regulations in effect, Data may be transferred to the competent authorities upon request and in particular to public bodies, exclusively in response to legal obligations, court officers, ministerial officers and organisms assigned to carry out debt recovery, as well as within the context of searches for perpetrators of offenses committed over the Internet.

d) Protected transfers outside the European Union

Information from Cookies and similar technologies may be transferred outside the European Union with a view to its hosting and processing within the context of advertising purposes or of audience measurement. You can find further information on this point and the guarantees in place to ensure compliance of these transfers with the Rules on Information and Freedom for each partner in the Cookie Charter available below.

e) What are your rights and how to exercise them?

Pursuant to the Rules on Information and Freedom and within its limits, you have a right of access, rectification, deletion and in particular, a right to request the deletion of Data if it was collected when you were a minor, of opposition, limitation and portability of Data that concerns you.

When the processing of Data is carried out on the basis of your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.

When the processing is based on the legitimate benefit of the Publisher or of a third-party, you may oppose processing at any time, for reasons relating to your specific situation.

You have the opportunity to define instructions relative to the use of your Personal Data after your death.

The exercise of these rights may take place at any time with the Publisher at the following address: donneespersonnelles@lagarderenews.com.

You can also write to this address to the data protection officer appointed by Lagardère Média News or by sending him a letter to the address at the top of this document.

Personal Data that will be communicated within the context of your exercising your right of access and of portability, will be done privately and confidentially.

When you send a request to exercise a right, you must identify yourself by any means. If there is any doubt about your identity, we may ask you for additional information that appears necessary, including a photocopy of an identity document bearing the signature of the person concerned.

You may also file a complaint with the CNIL at the following address: 3 Place de Fontenoy - TSA 80715 - 75334 PARIS CEDEX 07.

f) Security

The Publisher takes the appropriate measures in technical and organisational terms to prohibit unauthorised access to, or divulging of, your Data to unauthorised persons.

In the event of a request for deletion, the Publisher will respond within the legal period in order to proceed with the deletion of Data but shall not be held responsible for any residual traces that may potentially be found over the Internet.

4. PROCESSING FOR WHICH THE PUBLISHER IS NOT REPONSIBLE

Some of your Personal Data collected on the Site may be used on behalf of third-party partners. Third-party partners may also process Cookie Data on their own behalf. These third parties are then responsible for the processing carried out, and your rights can in principle be exercised with them.

In general, such transfer to third parties only takes place with your prior consent, unless another legal basis is more appropriate.

Where such third parties are responsible for processing your Data, you will be informed of this in specific contractual documents (collection forms, competition rules, privacy policy of the third-party partner or customer, etc., Cookie section of this Charter).

II. COOKIES CHARTER

The present cookies charter (hereinafter the “Charter”) is to inform the User of the reasons and terms for processing information relative to your browsing of the Site, likely to be recorded in files called “cookies” or similar tools (hereinafter “Cookies”).

1) WHAT IS A “COOKIE”?

A cookie or similar device (hereinafter referred to as “Cookie(s)”) is a device that may be stored on your terminal (computer, tablet or smartphone) and/or when you consult a Service using a browser, via the Site.

During its period of validity, a Cookie enables its issuer to recognize the terminal concerned each time this terminal accesses digital content containing Cookies from the same issuer, and depending on the Cookie, to collect additional, non-directly identifying information about your behavior within the Services.

In the case of a computer consulted by several people, for example several members of a family using the same browser, the Cookie is assigned to the browsing information of all the people who have used the same terminal, without distinguishing between them.

2) WHO USES COOKIES?

Cookies may be placed by the Publisher, by its technical service providers, by its partners or by third parties.

Only the operator of the Cookie, i.e. the person on whose behalf it is issued, whether the issuer or not, is responsible for its use and the Data it collects.

3) WHY ARE COOKIES PLACED ON THE PUBLISHER’S WEBSISTES?

Cookies enable the Site to function efficiently, to remember your preferences, and to provide the Publisher and its partners with information for statistical or advertising purposes;

a) Traffic analysis cookies

These Cookies are necessary for your correct navigation on the Site in order to provide the User with a better use of the Site. These cookies do not require the User's prior knowledge and consent to be stored on his or her terminal. In particular, they are used to adapt the presentation of the Site to the viewing terminal's display preferences (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) during the User's visits to the Site, depending on the viewing or reading hardware and software that the terminal is equipped with.

b) Audience cookies

Audience measurement cookies help to establish statistics and volumes of visits to and use of the various elements making up the Site, enabling the Publisher in particular to improve the interest and ergonomics of the Services.

c) Targeted advertising cookies

We take steps to improve the relevance of our advertisements. To this end, we or our partners collect, match and analyze information, often pseudonymous, derived from your browsing on the Site (online activities, visits, pages viewed, links, using a line of code inserted into the pages you visit).

We participate in and use exchange services based on the pseudonymous marketing identifiers contained in Cookies (“cookie matching”) with third parties, advertising agencies or analysis services. These Cookie exchanges enable the customers of partners offering Cookie matching services to enrich user profiles with Data held by us for advertising targeting purposes.

This processing does not enable us to identify you directly. On the other hand, only advertisements concerning news, products or services likely to interest you and of which you would not necessarily have been aware otherwise will be displayed on the pages visited.

If you refuse all targeted advertising Cookies, you will continue to receive advertising but it will be standard advertising, not linked to your presumed preferences and therefore likely to be of less interest to you.

In the event that we intend to obtain browsing information from a third party in order to associate it with the Data you provide us, we will first seek your explicit consent before proceeding with such association and sending you targeted advertising or prospecting.

d) Social network sharing cookies

The Publisher offers you the possibility of sharing editorial content and any other type of content published on the Site via social networking sites. Social network cookies are managed by the publisher of the social network site. You are invited to read the social network cookie management policy on the sites concerned.

4) HOW TO MANAGE THEM?

By continuing your browsing on the Site, you accept that Cookies from the Publisher and third parties may be stored on your terminal, for the purposes specified in the information banner and in the present Charter.

You may, however, express your choice to the Publisher's partners and configure your browser software at any time, so that Cookies are stored on your terminal or, on the contrary, are rejected, either systematically, or depending on the sender. You can also configure your browser so that you are asked to accept or reject cookies from time to time, before a cookie is stored on your terminal.

Please note: a Cookie is used to take into account your wishes concerning advertising Cookies. If you delete all the Cookies stored on your browser terminal, we will no longer know what consent you have given, and this will be tantamount to resetting it. Your consent will therefore be requested again the next time you visit the Site or load a page.

a) Consent on cookies

You are presumed to have given your consent:

  • By clicking on the “I accept” icon on the information banner visible when you first connect to the Site;
  • By continuing your browsing, i.e. when you have clicked on an element of the Site (image, link, “search” button, etc.) or have gone to another page of the Site;

If you accept the storage of Cookies on your terminal via your browser, the Cookies integrated into the pages and content you have consulted may be stored temporarily in a dedicated space on your terminal. They will only be readable by their sender.

The consent you give is valid, in principle, only for a period of thirteen (13) months from the first deposit in the equipment of your terminal, following the expression of your consent.

b) Refusal of Cookies

If the User refuses to accept cookies on his/her terminal or browser, or if he/she deletes the cookies stored there, he/she is informed that his/her browsing and experience on the Site may be limited. This may also be the case when the Publisher or one of its service providers is unable to recognize, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used by the terminal, the language and display settings or the country from which the terminal appears to be connected to the Internet.

Where applicable, the Publisher declines all responsibility for the consequences linked to the degraded operation of the Services resulting from (i) the User's refusal to accept Cookies, (ii) the Publisher's inability to save or consult the Cookies required for their operation due to the User's choice.

5) EXERCISING YOUR CHOICES

Some Cookies are issued and operated by third party partners of the Publisher for purposes that these third parties determine.

You will find more information on the purposes of the cookies deposited by third parties, by reading the privacy policies of these partners that you will find linked in the module of parameter setting of the Cookies.

6) OTHER WAYS TO EXERCISE YOUR CHOICES

VIA INTERPROFESSIONAL OPPOSITION PLATFORMS: In addition to the cookie management module displayed when you first connect to the Site, you can manage and modify the use of cookies at any time via the inter-professional opposition platforms:

VIA GOOGLE ANALYTICS: The use of Google Analytics implies a transfer of collected Data from Google Analytics’ Cookies outside the European Union to the United States. Google is a member of the programme called Privacy Shield, which has been recognised by the European Commission as offering an adequate level of protection to data of a personal nature transferred by a European entity to businesses in the United States. You can access its cookie management tool here https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

VIA THE BROWSER SETTINGS: For Cookie preferences, the settings for each browser are different. They are described in your browser’s help menu, which will tell you how to edit your cookie preferences.

For Internet Explorer™ :
https://windows.microsoft.com/fr-FR/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

For Safari™ :
https://support.apple.com/kb/H19214?locale=fr_FR&viewlocale=fr_FR

For our Chrome™ :
https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=fr&hlrm=en&answer=95647

For our Firefox™ :
https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/Activer%20et%20d%C3%A9sactiver%20les%20cookies

For Opera™ :
https://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html

However, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that by setting your browser to refuse Cookies, certain functionalities, pages and areas of our Site, which require the use of Cookies, will not be accessible, for which we cannot be held responsible.

7) DURATION OF VALIDITY

The cookies deposited via our Site have a validity period of 13 months from their deposit.

Your consent or refusal is valid for 6 months unless you change your mind before this term.

The statistical data resulting from the use of cookies are kept for 25 months.

8) MODIFICATION OF THE PRESENT POLICY

This Charter is regularly updated. The User is invited to refer to it regularly.