Cookies Policy
General Information
The Acousteam internet website is using cookies. A cookie is a small piece of text stored in your Web browser, it allows him to keep information between webpages et browsing sessions. Acousteam is using some ‘internal’ cookies – generated and used by the Acousteam website – and 3rd party cookies – generated in our website by 3rd parties. They are helping us to better understand our website’s users behaviour, allowing us to make your experience more enjoyable.
Cookies can only keep text information, it’s always confidential and most of the time encrypted.
Acousteam will never keep personal data in a cookie.
What’s a Cookie ?
Cookies are small text files generated by the website you are visiting, and that allow to keep data that can be useful in the future.
This data allows to keep information between the pages, but also to analyse the way you are interacting with the website.
Cookies are secured, they can only store information that are given to their disposal by the Web browser, information that the user will have keyed in the Web browser or that are included in the page requirements.
They can’t execute a program or be used to access your computer. If a website encrypts information held in a cookie, only this given website will be allowed to read this information.
There’s two different types of cookies of which the usage and the content are different: temporary and permanent.
The temporary cookies contain information that can be used during your current web session.
These cookies are automatically deleted when you close your web session. Nothing is stored in your computer once your web session is closed.
The permanent cookies are used to store information that is used during your different sessions. This data allows the websites to recognise that you are a recurrent customer, and adapt accordingly.
The permanent cookies have an expiry date defined by the website, it can vary between few minutes and few years.
Why using cookies ?
Cookies are used by the website to keep information of your session while you are surfing on the website.
Web analytics cookies of Google partners, allow us to follow the customer interaction through the website.
This gives us very precious information that allows us to improve the website and the products and services that we are offering.
Deactivation and deletion of cookies
All the web browsers allow you to limit the behaviour of the cookies or to deactivate them in the parameters or the options of your web browser.
The steps to follow are different from one web browser to the other, you can find the instructions in the menu “help” of your web browser.
Within your web browser, you can also see all the cookies existing in your computer, and delete them one by one or all in one go.
Cookies are text files therefore you can open them and read their content.
The data inside is most of the time encrypted and is related to one specific web session therefore it can only make sense for the website that has written them.
The deactivation of cookies will affect your surfing experience, but will not stop the Google Analytics code to recognise your visit.
The cookies of our IT partners
Google
Acousteam is a Google partner for Web Analytics and Advertising. The data contained in the cookies informs Google about the pages, the products and the services you visited, and gives him the opportunity to offer you the relevant advertising. Google writes permanent and temporary cookies. The cookies don’t store personal data. Deletion and deactivation will not disturb the functionalities of the website.