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Use of cookies

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By continuing your navigation without modifying your parameters, you accept the use of cookies or similar technologies to allow you to access your reserved and personal areas, to provide social sharing services, and to establish statistics and volumes of traffic and use of the various elements making up the site.

Cookies explanation page
When you visit www.hecalumni.fr, cookies are placed on your computer, mobile phone or tablet. Our site is designed to be particularly attentive to your needs and expectations. This is one of the reasons why we use cookies, for example to identify you in order to access your account, to enable the sharing of articles / events on social networks and also for internal statistics on the use of the network.

This page gives you a better understanding of how cookies work and how to use the current tools to set them.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file placed on your computer when you visit a site or view an advertisement. Their purpose is to collect information about your browsing on the sites and to send you personalised services. In your computer, cookies are managed by your Internet browser.

Different transmitters

These are cookies deposited by {www.hecalumni.fr} on your terminal for the purposes of browsing our website, optimising and personalising our services on the site.

Third-party cookies
These are cookies deposited by third-party companies (e.g. partners) to enable the import of your Linkedin or Viadeo profiles and also to enable you to share them with social networks. We ensure that partner companies agree to process the information collected on the site exclusively for our needs and in accordance with our instructions, in compliance with the amended "Informatique et Libertés" law of 6 January 1978, and undertake to implement appropriate measures to secure and protect the confidentiality of data.

Different types of cookies

Different types of cookies are used on our site for different purposes. Some are necessary for your use of our site.

Strictly necessary cookies
These are cookies that are necessary for the operation of our site. They allow you to use the main features of our site. Without these cookies, you will not be able to use our site normally. These are cookies placed by {www.hecalumni.fr} which only concern the functioning of our site. The "essential cookies" for the use of the site:

PHPSSID : session number used during navigation.
sessver : request session number, used to resync the session in case of a server session switch.
SERVERID : ID of the server where the user is located.
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_atuvc : used by Addthis for the service of sharing articles / events on social networks.
Cookies Twitter : service de sharing des articles / évènements sur Twitter.
Cookies Linedkin : profile import service from LinkedIn.

Accepting or rejecting cookies

There are several ways to manage cookies.

Setting up your internet browser
You can choose to disable these cookies at any time. Your browser can also be set to notify you when cookies are placed on your computer and to ask you to accept them or not. You can accept or refuse cookies on a case-by-case basis or systematically refuse them once and for all. We remind you that the setting is likely to modify your conditions of access to our services requiring the use of cookies. In order to manage cookies in a way that best suits your needs, we invite you to set your browser's parameters taking into account the purpose of cookies as mentioned above.

How to control or prevent the storage of cookies
The configuration of each browser is different. It is described in the help menu of your browser, where you can find out how to change your cookie preferences

Disable cookies
- if you are using Internet Explorer
In Internet Explorer, click on the Tools button, then Internet Options. On the General tab, under Browsing History, click Settings. Click the View Files button. Click the Name column heading to sort all files in alphabetical order, then scroll down the list until you see files starting with the prefix "Cookie". (All cookies have this prefix and usually contain the name of the website that created the cookie.) Select the cookie(s) containing the name "HECAlumni.fr" and delete them Close the window containing the list of files, then double-click OK to return to Internet Explorer.
- if you are using Firefox
Go to the "Tools" tab of the browser and select the "Options" menu In the window that appears, choose "Privacy" and click on "Show cookies In the window that appears, choose "Privacy" and click on "Show cookies Locate the files that contain the name "HECAlumni.fr" Select them and delete them.
- if you are using Safari
In your browser, choose Edit > Preferences. Click on Security. Click on Show Cookies. Select the cookies that contain the name "HECAlumni.com" and click on Delete or Delete All. After deleting the cookies, click on Done.
- if you are using Google Chrome
Click on the Tools menu icon. Select Options. Click on the Advanced Options tab and navigate to the Privacy section. Click on the Show Cookies button. Locate the files that contain the name "HECAlumni.fr" Select them and delete them. Click on "Close" to return to your browser.

The setting on a cookie management platform
You can manage your cookies by visiting cookie management platforms offered by advertising professionals.

More information on the CNIL website.