The BNP Paribas Group is committed to delivering the best possible service to you while maintaining the confidence that you place in us. As part of this, we have adopted strong principles across the Group to ensure the protection of your data.
As such, we would like to provide you with transparent information about how we place, use and store cookies on your device when you use our website and/or our mobile application (the “Website” and/or “Application”) and present you with the options to manage and/or to delete cookies.
Cookies are small text, image or software files that are placed on your device when you access our Website and/or use our Application. The word “device”, when used in this Cookies Policy, refers notably to computers, smartphones, tablets and all other devices used for accessing the internet.
Cookies may be either: (i) session specific, meaning that they are deleted from your device once the session and browser are closed; or (ii) persistent meaning that they will remain on your device until they are removed.
Cookies perform a number of useful functions, such as to:
The information stored by the cookies on your device may relate to the following, subject to their retention periods:
Cookies may contain personal data. Where we use cookies which collect your personal data, such collection is covered by our Data Protection Notice.
Cookies used on our Websites and/or Applications are classified into different categories set out below. Please note that some of these cookies are placed on your device by third parties. We provide further details regarding these third party cookies and how you can manage your preferences in respect of these types of cookies in sections 4 and 5 below.
These cookies are essential for the Website / Application to function properly. They may include, for example, cookies which collect session ID and authentication data. This category also includes cookies that allow us to comply with our legal obligations, including ensuring a safe online environment (for example by detecting repeated login failures in order to prevent unauthorised persons from reaching your account).
These cookies allow us [and our partners,] to personalise the content and features on the Website and / or the Application, and in particular, the display of products and services we offer. These cookies are used to improve your user experience and our Website and/or Application.
These cookies allow us [and our partners,] to understand how users arrive on our Website and / or Application, to measure the number of visitors to our Website and / or Application, but also to analyse the way in which visitors browse the Website and/or Application and create a better understanding of their customer journey.
This helps us improve the way our Websites and/or Applications work by ensuring, for example, that users easily find what they are looking for.
There are different categories of cookies used to provide you with advertising. Information obtained through advertising cookies is frequently shared with our partners through the use of third-party cookies. You can find more information on these partners in section 4 of this Cookies Policy.
Personalized advertising cookies
These cookies are used to provide you with adverts more tailored to you and your interests. These cookies record your visit to our Website and/or Application, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We [and our partners] use this information in order to personalise our Website and/or Application and the advertisements therein, if any, according to your areas of interest.
These cookies can also be used by us [and our partners] to display personalised advertisements of our products on other websites/applications, to measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, to limit the frequency of distribution (that is to say to limit the number of times that you see an advertisement), affiliate advertising, click fraud detection, market research, product improvement, and debugging.
Non-personalized advertising cookies
These cookies allow us [and our partners,] to display advertisements that are not personalised to your profile. These cookies are used to measure the performance of a marketing campaign.
Geolocation advertising cookies
These cookies allow us [and our partners] to show you personalised advertising based on your location (location-based advertising).
Social network cookies
These cookies allow us [and our partners] to share information with the social networks used on our Websites and/or Applications.
The display of this type of content on our Websites and/or Applications shares information about your browsing activity on our Websites/Applications with the social networks used.
Content sharing cookies
These cookies allow us [and our partners,] to display advertisements that are not personalised to your profile. These cookies are used to measure the performance of a marketing campaign.
When you select which types of cookies you allow on your device, the cookies may be deposited directly by us or by one of our partners.
From a practical point of view, this means that when “third-party” cookies are placed on your device, our partners will also be able to access the information they the third-party cookies contain (such as, for example, your browsing statistics when you allow third-party analysis cookies). ). We have set out below a list of the third party providers that we use and a brief summary of the type of cookies they use. If you would like further information about such third-party cookies, we strongly recommend that you check the websites of any such third parties and their privacy policies for more information about their cookies and how you can manage them.
Cookie Source: Google
Purpose: Google Analytics is the audience measurement tool that allows us to better understand the behavior of visitors to our Website. Google Analytics cookies make it possible to collect information and generate reports on site usage statistics without visitors being personally identified by Google.
Find out more: You can obtain more information about these cookies on the Google website by following this link: https://policies.google.com/privacy If you use an Internet browser, you can also use the tool available at this link to deactivate Google Analytics: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-analytics-opt-out/fllaojicojecljbmefodhfapmkghcbnh?hl=fr
To see the different categories of cookies that we use on the Website and/or Application and configure your choices, you can consult the cookie management module accessible [at the bottom of the page]. You can modify your preferences (for example, withdraw your consent and/or reconfirm your consent) at any time.
Please note that the use of strictly necessary cookies, which are cookies which are strictly necessary for the proper functioning the Website and/or Application, does not require your consent. This is why the option “strictly necessary cookies” is pre-checked in our cookie management tool and is not optional.
By refusing certain types of cookies (preference cookies for example), we will not be able to optimise your user experience on our Website and/or Application and some parts may not function properly.
By default, in relation to persistent cookies, we save your cookie choices on a device for a maximum of 6 months. If you change your mind about the preferences you have expressed regarding cookies, you can update your choices at any time, by following [this link]. We will ask you to make a choice again every 6 months.
You can find more general information about cookies and how they can be managed at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.com