What is a cookie?
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can recognize you when you revisit and remember certain information about you. This can include which pages you have visited, choices you have made from menus, any specific information you have entered into forms and the time and date of your visit.
The obligation to inform about the use of cookies
EUROPA websites must follow the Commission’s guidelines on privacy and data protection and inform users that cookies are not being used to gather information unnecessarily. The ePrivacy directive requires prior informed consent for storage or for access to information stored on a user’s terminal equipment. In other words, users must be asked if they agree to most cookies and similar technologies (e.g. web beacons, Flash cookies, etc.) before the site starts to use them. For consent to be valid, it must be informed, specific, freely given and must constitute a real indication of the individual’s wishes. However, some cookies are exempt from this requirement.
When you visit collabas.com, cookies can be recorded or read, on your computer, mobile phone or tablet, depending on your preferences.
The cookies that are used on our website and require your consent are the following:
- Cookies that allow us to collect statistics about our website visitors (most visited pages, search terms used in the search engines).
- Preference cookies that save choices made by users on our website. Users thus benefit from more customized functionalities. The information gathered does not allow users to be identified personally or their browsing activity to be monitored.
The analytics tool is used on this website in order to obtain information about the navigation of visitors. It particularly enables us to understand how users navigate through the website. – the information collected is not associated with any other data processing; – the cookie that is stored is only used to produce anonymous statistics; – the cookie cannot be used to track the navigation of the internet user on other sites.
Cookies from social networks when you share our website’s content and your opinion on it with others, e.g. “Share” and “Like” application buttons. Advertising cookies or pixel: third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads.
Accept or refuse cookies
You can at any time choose to deactivate all or part of the cookies. Your browser can also be set to alert you of cookies stored in your device and ask you whether to accept them or not (case-by-case or all cookies). As concern management of cookies and your choices, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in the help menu of your browser, which you can use to find out how to modify your wishes concerning cookies.
If you do not want our site to store cookies issued by a social media network in your browser, you can click on the following deactivation links which will store on your browser a cookie whose sole purpose is to block use of other cookies from the same issuer. Deactivating these cookies will therefore prevent any interaction with the social media networks concerned.
Information about the analytics tool
The analytics tool is used on this website in order to obtain information about the navigation of visitors. It particularly enables us to understand how users navigate through the website. – the information collected is not associated with any other data processing; – the cookie that is stored is only used to produce anonymous statistics; – the cookie cannot be used to track the navigation of the internet user on other sites.
NB: Your wishes regarding cookies are associated with a specific cookie or specific cookies. If you delete all the cookies stored in your device concerning our site, we will no longer know which you have accepted or refused. This means that you will have to reinitialize your consent and once again refuse the cookie(s) you do not wish to store. Likewise, if you use another internet browser, you will have to once again refuse these cookies, since your choices, like the cookies they concern, are associated with the browser and the device (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) that you use to visit our website.