COOKIE POLICY
This Cookie Policy ("Cookie Policy") provides you with the information you need to understand how we collect, use, and share your information when you visit our website www.pionniers.veolia.com and any of its pages - for example: www.pionniers.veolia.com/eau (hereinafter referred to as "our site" or "the site").
"Cookie Consent Management Solution" refers to the Didomi cookie management platform.
"Cookies" refers to the cookies referred to in sections 2 and 3 below.
"We" refers to Veolia Environnement SA and the company referred to in section 1, as the case may be, acting as publisher ("the Publisher").
"Third party" refers to a person who is neither you nor us.
"User" refers to visitors or users of the website.
"GDPR" refers to the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC.
This Cookie Policy may be updated at any time, particularly in the event of changes in applicable regulations.
Our Privacy Policy can be viewed here: https://www.pionniers.veolia.com/politique-confidentialite/, and will provide you with more details on the following main information:
- What data is processed by Veolia and for what purposes.
- Data security
- What are your rights under the GDPR and how to exercise them.
The legal notices ("Legal Notices") of our website can be viewed on this link: https://www.pionniers.veolia.com/mentions-legales/.
1. Who are we and how do we manage our website?
We administer our website through our service provider who is responsible for web mastering the content, ADN Studio, located at 13 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris.
The type of cookies we use and their respective purposes are detailed below.
2. What are cookies?
Cookies or trackers are small text computer files that are deposited or read on your computer, tablet or mobile phone when you visit a website. Cookies mean that the website will remember you and how you used the site every time you come back.
3. What cookies do we use?
3.1 - Strictly necessary cookies - Always activated
Strictly necessary cookies are only intended to enable or facilitate access to the website. These cookies are necessary for the operation of the website and cannot be disabled in our systems. They are usually set in response to actions performed by you that equate to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling out forms. You can configure your browser to block these cookies or alert you to them, but some parts of the site will not work. These cookies are not subject to the User's prior consent as they do not store personal data.
3.2 - Marketing cookies - Always deactivated and subject to your consent.
Marketing cookies allow:
- to measure the performance of the website
- to detect navigation problems
- to organize content
- to collect and communicate information anonymously, to understand how Users who have consented interact with their website (sections and content visited, journey on the site) in order to establish attendance statistics and detect possible errors.
These cookies also make it possible to identify the information on the site that is of most interest to the User, in order to adapt the site to the User and the relevance of the messages that may be addressed to him.
The data generated by these cookies concern:
- your visits to the website;
- your IP address to determine the city from which the connection originates.
3.3 - Preference Cookies - Always deactivated and subject to your consent
Preference cookies allow our website to give you access to personalized content or to target advertising based on your consent.
The Publisher may also use certain services offered by third-party sites to enable Users to share the site's content on their social networks or to follow Veolia France's accounts on social networks. This includes the share button (LinkedIn, X, and Facebook) and tweet lists (X).
The above-mentioned social network cookies are managed by the publisher of the social network site. The User is advised to read the cookie management policy of the above-mentioned social networks on the relevant websites:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy
- X (Twitter): https://help.twitter.com/fr/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
If you consent, these third parties may collect your browsing data and use the data collected via their cookies for purposes they have determined in accordance with their own privacy policy.
Inventory of cookies
You can view our cookie inventory below:
| Category of cookies | Name of cookie | Domain | Purpose | Duration | Legal basis |
| Statistical cookies | beyable | beyable.com | Beyable Analytics cookie for audience measurement | Session duration | Subject to consent |
| Third party or social networks | AcastLangi18next.translate.boo | acast.com | Cookie from the Acast broadcasting platform | Session duration | Subject to consent |
| Third party or social networks | YSC | youtube.com | Cookie for playing embedded content from Youtube | Session duration | Subject to consent |
5. What is the maximum duration of cookies
5.1 Cookie retention period
Cookies can be kept for a maximum period of thirteen (13) months from the date of the User's consent. The retention periods for each cookie are detailed above.
5.2 Retention period for information collected via cookies
At the cookie's expiration, the data collected via this cookie will either be deleted or anonymized depending on the nature of the cookie.
The information collected via cookies is kept by the Publisher for a maximum period of 25 months.
6. How can you control and delete cookies?
6.1 Cookie Consent Management Solution
Strictly necessary cookies cannot be deleted or disabled. The technical functionality of our website depends on these cookies. The cookie consent management tool we use cannot block cookies from third-party websites linked to our website, as we cannot technically control these websites.
With the exception of the "strictly necessary cookies" above which cannot be disabled, the deposit of all other types of cookies is subject to the prior consent of the User.
Our cookie consent management solution can be used to customize your cookie choices. This tool will record in real time when your cookie preferences and will ask for consent every 6 months, to ensure that Users stay up to date with changes in our cookie notice. Thanks to our cookie consent management solution, you can decide whether you wish to consent to the reading or depositing of marketing cookies or preference cookies on your terminal when you browse our website. You can also delete or block these cookies.
When the User visits our website for the first time, an information banner about cookies is displayed. The User can then accept/activate or refuse/disable the installation of cookies via the information banner, by ticking/unticking the boxes provided for this purpose. With the exception of the box relating to "strictly necessary cookies", the other boxes are unticked by default. Any deactivation results in the refusal to deposit the cookies in question.
By continuing to browse the site or by clicking on an element of the site, the User validates the installation of cookies according to the default setting.
If the User accepts the recording of cookies in his terminal, the cookies integrated in the pages and contents that he has consulted will be temporarily stored in a dedicated space of his terminal. They will only be readable by the sender.
The refusal of non-strictly necessary cookies cannot result in a restriction of access to our website.
The User's choices (consent or refusal) concerning cookies will be kept for a period of 6 months. After this period, the User's choice will be requested again during a new visit to this site.
At any time, the User can withdraw his consent or modify his choices concerning cookies by clicking on the "Cookie Management" link accessible on all pages of our site.
6.2 The Internet browser
To disable cookies through your browser, follow the instructions usually located in the "Help", "Tools" or "Edit" menus of your browser. Please note that disabling a cookie or a category of cookies does not delete the cookie from your browser. Below, you will find how to control cookies from the most used browsers on the website dedicated to the publisher:
Safari :
https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-sfri11471/mac
Microsoft:
Google chrome:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid
Firefox : cliquez sur le lien Firefox - Mozilla - Support.
Warning:
Your decision to accept or refuse cookies is itself based on one or more cookies. If you delete the cookies integrated by our site, Veolia will no longer know what you have decided and during your next visit to one of our sites, you will have to make your choice again. You will also have to repeat your choice if you use other browsers or other equipment such as a tablet or a smartphone.
7. How can you get additional information or exercise your rights?
7.1 By contacting Veolia directly
For internal cookies installed by our website of which we are the origin, Veolia invites Users to contact data.regulation@veolia.com.
To exercise your rights on the data directly collected by us, you must contact our DPO dpo.vesa@veolia.com.
7.2 By contacting the issuing third parties directly
For cookies installed by our website but coming from our third parties, Veolia invites Users to contact the issuers directly via their websites to obtain information about their cookies.
To exercise your rights on the data collected via third-party cookies or for any questions related to their processing, you must contact the competent publisher directly.
7.3 For more information, you can also consult the CNIL website:
https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-et-autres-traceurs