Cookies Policy
ICARE 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 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 web icare-service.com and you present the option to manage and to delete cookies.
1. What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text, image or software files that are placed on your device when you access our website. 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:
- session specific, meaning that they are deleted from your device once the session and browser are closed.
- Or persistent meaning that they will remain on your device until they are removed.
Cookies perform a number of useful functions, such as to:
- Authenticate and identify you on our website in order to provide you with services that you have requested.
- Enhance the website security, including to prevent fraudulent use of login credentials and protect user data from access by unauthorized parties.
- Send you personalized advertising notably based on your browsing history and your preferences online.
- Monitor your use of our website in order to improve them.
- Enhance your user experience by adapting and tailoring the content on the website to your interest and providing more relevant ICARE ads and content to you on our websites.
- Remember information that you provided to us. e.g. to automatically populate forms with information that you have previously provided to us so that you can log on more quickly.
- Keep track of your preferences and settings in your use of our website (e.g. time zone etc.).
2. What kind of information can be stored in a cookie?
The information stored by the cookies on your device may relate to the following, subject to its retention period:
- the webpages you have visited on that device.
- the advertisements you have clicked on.
- the type of browser you use.
- your IP address.
- and any other information that you have provided on our website.
Cookies may contain personal data. Where we use cookies which collect your personal data, such collection is covered by our Data Protection Notice
3. What kind of cookies do we use and for what purpose?
Cookies used on our websites are classified into different categories:
3.1 Strictly necessary cookies (mandatory)
These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They may include, for example, cookies which collect session ID and authentication data, cookies that make it possible to personalize the interface of a website (for example, for the choice of the language or presentation of a service) or some audience measurement cookies.
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 unauthorized persons from reaching your account).
3.2 Preference cookies (subject to your consent)
These cookies allow us and our partners, to personalize and offer the content and features of the website (and in particular the display of our products and services). They are used to improve our website and your user experience.
3.3 Analytics cookies (subject to your consent, except in some circumstances)
These cookies allow us and our partners, to understand how users arrive on our website to measure the number of visitors to our website, but also to analyze the way in which visitors browse the website or reconstitute their journey.
This helps us improve the way our website work by ensuring, for example, that users easily find what they are looking for.
These cookies may be exempt from consent when they are strictly necessary for the functioning of the website in accordance with the article 3.1.
Otherwise, they are subject to consent in accordance with the present article 3.3.
3.4 Social networks and content sharing cookies (subject to your consent)
- Social network cookies
These cookies allow us and our partners to share information with the social networks used on our websites.
The display of this type of content on our website shares information about your browsing on our website with the social networks used.
- Content sharing cookies
These cookies allow us and our partners, to offer you the viewing on our website of content hosted on an external site.
The visualization of this type of content on our websites involves sharing information with the hosting site about your browsing on our websites.
4. In this context, who places the cookies on your device (for example ICARE or a partner)?
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 you authorize the installation of certain so-called “third-party” cookies on your device, our partners will also be able to access the information they contain (such as, for example, your browsing statistics when you allow third-party analysis cookies) within the respect of our data protection Notice and those of our partners
The following list of providers is also available in Cookie Settings at the bottom of the page
Categorie : Strictly Necessary Cookies
Custodian Partner | Description | Website cookies | Purpose | Retention period (days) |
OneTrust | Manages visitor consent through a dedicated interface. | OptanonConsent | Stores information about the categories of cookies used by the website and whether or not visitors consent to the use of each category. It makes it possible to prevent the installation of cookies of each category in the user’s browser, if they have not given without consent. It does not contain any information that identifies the website visitor | 365 |
OneTrust | Manages visitor consent through a dedicated interface. | OptanonAlertBoxClosed | Is set after the visitor has seen the cookie information message and, in some cases, only when they close the message. It allows the message not to be shown to the visitor more than once and it does not contain any personal information. | 365 |
Adobe (Adobe Dynamic Tag Manager) | Adobe Dynamic Tag Management (DTM) makes it quick and easy to manage tags and provide tools for data collection and distribution. | s_cc | Combined with Adobe Site Catalyst, it determines whether cookies are enabled in the visitor’s web browser. | 0 |
Adobe (Adobe Dynamic Tag Manager) | Adobe Dynamic Tag Management (DTM) makes it quick and easy to manage tags and provide tools for data collection and distribution. | TEST_AMCV_COOKIE_WRITE | Adobe Analytics cookie that determines whether the user has accepted cookie consent. | 0 |
Categorie : Preference cookies
Automattic / WordPress | Website Editing & Design Tool icare-service.com | Pll_language | Is associated with the multilingual plugin of the website running on WordPress. It stores a language preference of the visitor. When set as a persistent cookie, it is considered functional rather than strictly necessary. | 365 |
Categorie : Analytics cookies
OneTrust | Manages visitor consent through a dedicated interface | eupubconsent | Associated with the open-source web analytics platform Piwik. It is used to track visitor behavior and to measure the performance of the website. It stores the name of the campaign that directed the visitor to the website | 0 |
Adobe (Adobe Dynamic Tag Manager) | Adobe Dynamic Tag Management (DTM) makes it quick and easy to manage tags and provide tools for data collection and distribution. | AMCV_xxxxxAdobeOrg | Used to identify a unique visitor for tracking purposes by Adobe Experience Cloud. This is a pattern cookie associated with Adobe Marketing Cloud. It stores a unique visitor ID and uses an organization ID to track users across its domains and services | 365 |
5. How can you manage cookies?
To see the different categories of cookies that we use on the website and configure your choices, you can consult the cookie management module accessible at the bottom of the page. You can modify at any time your preferences, withdraw or give again your consent at any time.
Please note that the use of strictly necessary cookies for the proper functioning of the website 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 optimize your user experience on our website and some parts may not function properly.
By default, 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 the button bellow. We will ask you to make a choice again every 6 months.