About our cookie policy
1. About cookies
Cookies are small data files which are downloaded to your device when you visit our website.
Cookies are used by websites for a lot of practical reasons. None of which are meant to be harmful for you. In fact, they’re designed to make your online experience more enjoyable.
Some are necessary to the functioning of the website. Others are used to draw up statistics allowing us to offer you a more enjoyable visit. There are different types of cookies. This website uses technical, tracking and third-party cookies
Useful information about the technical aspects of Cookie can be found: http://www.allaboutcookies.org
2. What types of cookies are used?
A cookie can be classified by its lifespan, purpose and the domain to which it belongs. By lifespan, a cookie is either a:
- Session Cookie which is erased when the user closes the browser,
- Persistent Cookie which remains on the user’s computer/device for a pre-defined period of time.
As for the domain to which it belongs, there are either:
- First-party Cookie which are set by the web server of the visited page and share the same domain;
- Third-party Cookie stored by a different domain to the visited page’s domain. This can happen when the webpage references a file, such as JavaScript, located outside its domain.
These cookies are:
- necessary cookies – cookies that allow the technical operation of the website and its features;
- analytical / performance cookies – cookies that collect data about the performance of the website and how you use our website. These cookies allow us to improve how the website works;
- functionality cookies – cookies that allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your language) and provide enhanced or customized features.
3. Cookies used on this website
An overview of the cookies used on this website is set in the following table:
| Name | Set by | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Globule Bleu | This cookie is used to manage your login session | session |
| __cfduid | Cloudflare | Used by Cloudflare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis | 1 year |
| __gads | Doubleclick for Publishers | This cookie is used by Google for a variety of purposes (e.g., ensuring Frequency Caps work correctly). It includes AdSense if you have AdSense enabled. This cookie is associated with the DoubleClick for Publishers service from Google. Its purpose is to monitor the showing of advertisements on the site, for which the owner may earn some revenue. The main purpose of this cookie is targeting/advertising. | |
| __unam | ShareThis | The __unam cookie is set as part of the ShareThis service and monitors clickstream activity, e.g., Web pages viewed, navigation from page to page, time spent on each page. The ShareThis service personally identifies you only if you have separately signed up with ShareThis for a ShareThis account and given your consent. See more at: http://sharethis.com/privacy. | |
| __utma | Google Analytics | This cookie is typically written to the browser upon the first visit. If the cookie has been deleted by the browser operator, and the browser subsequently visits strategy-business.com, a new __utma cookie is written with a different unique ID. In most cases, this cookie is used to determine unique visitors to strategy-business.com, and it is updated with each page view. Additionally, this cookie is provided with a unique ID that Google Analytics uses to ensure both the validity and the accessibility of the cookie as an extra security measure. | 2 years |
| __utmb | Google Analytics | This cookie is typically written to the browser upon the first visit. If the cookie has been deleted by the browser operator, and the browser subsequently visits strategy-business.com, a new __utma cookie is written with a different unique ID. In most cases, this cookie is used to determine unique visitors to strategy-business.com, and it is updated with each page view. Additionally, this cookie is provided with a unique ID that Google Analytics uses to ensure both the validity and the accessibility of the cookie as an extra security measure. | 30 minutes |
| __utmc | Google Analytics | Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether or not to establish a new session for the user. For backward compatibility purposes with sites still using the urchin.js tracking code, this cookie will continue to be written and will expire when the user exits the browser. However, if you are debugging your site tracking and you use the ga.js tracking code, you should not interpret the existence of this cookie in relation to a new or expired session. | |
| __utmv | Google Analytics | This cookie is not normally present in a default configuration of the tracking code. The __utmvcookie passes the information provided via the _setVar() method, which you use to create a custom user segment. This string is then passed to the Analytics servers in the GIF request URL via the utmcc parameter. This cookie is written only if you have added the¬_setVar() method for the tracking code on your website page. | 2 years |
| __utmz | Google Analytics | This cookie stores the type of referral used by the visitor to reach this website, whether via a direct method, a referring link, a website search, or a campaign such as an ad or an email link. It is used to calculate search engine traffic, ad campaigns, and page navigation within this website. The cookie is updated with each page view to this website. | 6 months |
| _ga | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users. | 2 years |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Used to throttle request rate. | 1 minute |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users. | 1 day |
| _icl_current_language | wpml | Contains the current language of the site user. | 24h |
| _sm_au_c | Cloudflare | This cookie is used to accelerate content delivery | |
| _ym_uid | Yandex Metrica | 2 years | |
| device | Globule Bleu | Used to identify the device type that is being used to view a site (e.g.: smartphone, tablet, desktop computer) so that a site can be formatted optimally for that device. | 2 hours |
| device_type | Globule Bleu | Used to identify the device type that is being used to view a site (e.g.: smartphone, tablet, desktop computer) so that a site can be formatted optimally for that device. | 2 hours |
| s_cc | Adobe Analytics | Used by Adobe Analytics to anonymously determine if cookies are enabled | session |
4. Cookie configuration settings
You can prevent the setting of Cookie by adjusting the settings on your browser.
Cookie settings can vary from one browser to another, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
Besides, you can find information about how to manage Cookie in the browser at the following addresses:
