agnès b. cookie policy
Effective Date: 10/09/2024
Last Updated: 18/02/2025
GENERAL INFORMATION
In this cookie policy, you will find details on how we, Agnès b., use cookies and other similar technologies on our customers' and users' devices. Since cookies may be related to the processing of personal data, we advise you to consult our privacy policy on our website for more information on the use of customers' and users' personal data, the exercise of rights, or the terminology used to describe our website.
DEFINITION OF COOKIES
A cookie is a small text file stored on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or similar device by a website. It contains information about your browsing and usage, functioning as a device identification tag. Cookies are essential for facilitating navigation, understanding user interactions to improve the website, and offering personalized advertisements based on user preferences. They serve various purposes, as detailed below, without damaging your device.
The term "cookies" includes similar technologies such as flash cookies, web beacons, pixels, HTML5 and SDK technologies for applications, as well as fingerprinting techniques that help identify your device. These technologies may work with cookies to collect and store information, enhance certain functionalities or services on our website, or display third-party advertisements based on your browsing activity.
This overview provides general information about what cookies entail. For more details on the cookies we use, please refer to the cookie configuration panel.
Cookies can be classified into two types based on ownership:
First-party cookies: Sent to the user's computer or device from a computer or domain managed by the publisher. They provide the platform or service requested by the user.
Third-party cookies: Sent to the user's computer or device from a computer or domain not managed by the publisher. They are processed by another entity that obtains data from the cookies.
Cookies can also be classified based on their purpose:
Strictly necessary cookies: Essential for providing the requested service or resource. Without these cookies, your request cannot be properly delivered. They are generally set to manage actions you take, such as requesting website visuals, page resources, or user login/logout. We may also use these cookies to enable essential security features and service efficiency, such as authentication and load balancing requests.
Functionality cookies: Allow websites to remember user preferences and choices, such as username, region, and language. This enables personalized features such as selected country and language, keeping you logged in, ensuring security and fraud prevention, storing your digital cart and wishlist items while browsing, remembering volume settings, and accessing secure website areas. These cookies are anonymous and do not track browsing activity across other websites.
Analytics cookies: Optional cookies that collect information on how visitors use and interact with our website to optimize design, operations, efficiency, and enhance the overall user experience. We request consent before deploying these cookies.
Third-party marketing cookies: Optional cookies that allow third parties to collect cookies enabling us to conduct targeted marketing/advertising of our products and services on other websites and social media. If you allow this, you permit the listed third parties to set cookies tracking your interests and behavior, including the products and services you browse or purchase on this website and others. Note that these third parties act as joint or independent controllers of the personal data tracked through cookies and will use the data for their own purposes. We request authorization to allow these third parties to place such cookies on sites.
TYPES OF COOKIES USED ON OUR WEBSITE
Cookies play a crucial role in our website's functionality. Their main purpose is to enhance your browsing experience, ensuring it is smooth and efficient. For example, they help retain your preferences (language, country, etc.) during your current session and future visits. Our cookies also play a key role in continuously improving our services and website, contributing to personalized advertising based on your browsing behavior.
The information collected through cookies enables us to improve our website by generating statistical data and analyzing usage patterns (e.g., visit frequency, popular sections, visit duration). These statistics help us understand user interactions, facilitate service improvements, and tailor the website to individual interests, speeding up searches.
Occasionally, cookies may be used to obtain information that allows us to display targeted advertisements, whether from our website, third-party platforms, or other means, based on an analysis of your browsing habits (visited products, viewed sections, etc.).
It is important to note that the cookies we use never store sensitive information such as passwords, credit, or debit card details.
WHAT IF I DON'T WANT COOKIES: CONSENT AND REFUSAL
Necessary cookies are essential for the website and cannot be disabled, but you may delete them after use—see how below.
For all other cookies, you can always adjust your settings and revoke your consent regarding data collection and/or processing purposes.
However, if cookies are strictly necessary for electronic communication or essential for the requested service, we may collect and process your information for this purpose even if you have not given your consent.
HOW TO MANAGE MY COOKIES
Cookies are stored on your browser. This means we cannot delete them for you; you must do it yourself following your specific browser's guidelines. If you are on an Agnès b. website, you can also prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting your device's browser settings. True browser cookies are configured to expire. Similar technologies, such as local storage on your device, do not have a built-in expiration and must be manually deleted. Below are instructions on how to adjust/delete cookies on some of the most common devices:
Examples of guides on how to block and delete cookies on different browsers for PC and Mac:
Regarding third-party cookies used to provide interest-based advertising, please note that some third parties may be members of certain self-regulatory programs for online behavioral advertising, offering corresponding opt-out options:
WHO USES THE INFORMATION STORED IN COOKIES?
The information contained in the cookies on our website is used solely by Agnès b., except for those described in the "Third-party cookies" section, which are managed by external entities to enhance our services and user experience. Further details are available in the Cookie Settings panel on our website.
For more information on how we process personal data with third parties and international data transfers, refer to our privacy policy on our website and the privacy policies/settings of these third-party collaborators on their platforms.
CONTACT US
If you have further questions regarding our privacy practices, you can email us at: [email protected]