Use of the cookies

Cookies are placed on your computer while you browse our website geneveMonde.ch. This section allows you to better understand how cookies work and how to use the current tools in order to set them.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a text file that the server (the website) you visit places on your hard disk or in the memory of your browser and that allows your computer to store various technical data allowing the general monitoring of public access to the website (number of visits, frequency of exposure to an advertising banner, connection to other websites etc.) or the customisation of the displayed pages for your future interactions with this website (your account, your browsing etc.).

Cookies on the website geneveMonde.ch

These are cookies placed on your computer, tablet or mobile device by geneveMonde.ch for the purposes of browsing our website.

Personal data collected automatically

When you browse this website, your computer communicates with a server that provides all the requested resources by automatically registering each operation in a specific file in which your computer is identified by its IP address.

In this way, your browser automatically forwards certain standard data to us.

In addition to your IP address, this particularly relates to the type of browser you use, its functions, your operating system, the identity of the third-party website (Facebook, Twitter etc.) from which you may have connected and the date and time at which you accessed the website.

This automatic collection allows us to monitor general activity on the website, to identify errors and to ensure that the website has suitable hardware resources.

These data, and particularly your IP address, do not allow us to identify you by name without asking your access provider, which is only possible within the context of legal proceedings.

Like many commercial websites, we collect information automatically each time you visit this website (pages, links, documents consulted, number of bytes transferred, etc.).

This personal information concerning you helps to simplify your perusal of this website by avoiding the need for you to provide the same information each time you visit or by customising the website content to the preferences or focuses of interest that you may have expressed.

This website sends cookies for the same reason.

We may use cookies to register your user ID (digital identity) in order to facilitate your searches for information and your connections on the website and in order to retain other information of interest for the operation of your session.

Some of these cookies, particularly those relating to your browsing of the website, are deleted automatically at the end of your session. They are retained for the statutory periods for marketing to customers and prospective customers.

Others are used in aggregate form, and thus anonymously, to allow us to make browsing more user friendly and to identify the areas of interest for internet users as a whole.

You can accept or refuse these cookies. Simply change some of your browser settings to refuse cookies or to be alerted if a cookie is registered on your computer.

You can also delete cookies stored on your computer in order to permanently remove the information they contain.

Third-party cookies

Audience measurement cookies

We use Google Analytics, Amplitude, Customer.io et Hotjar to collect information on your use of the website geneveMonde.ch.

Why?

• To help us measure and study the effectiveness of our online interactive content • To monitor analytical data on the website and users’ use of the website • To improve the services on the website

Google Analytics collects information on:

• The pages you visit and how much time you spend visiting these pages • The way in which you accessed the website (referring website, social networks, search engine, etc.) • The links you clicked on the website during the visit

We do not collect your personal information (your name or your address for example).

We do not authorise Google Analytics to use or to share these data.

You can specify that information must not be sent to the Google Analytics service.

Managing your preferences

There are various ways to manage cookies.

Your browser may also be set to alert you of cookies being placed on your computer and to ask you whether or not to accept them. You may accept or refuse cookies individually or refuse them systematically.

We would remind you that your settings may change your experience on our website.

Each browser is configured differently. It is described in your browser’s help menu, which will allow you to find out how to change your cookie preferences.

You can disable cookies by following the instructions below:

1- If you use the Internet Explorer browser

• In Internet Explorer, click on “Tools” and then on “Internet Options". • Under the “General” tab, under “Browsing history", click on “Settings". • Click on “Display files". • Click on the “Name” column header to sort all files in alphabetical order, then scroll through the list until you see files beginning with the prefix “Cookie” (all cookies have this prefix and usually include the name of the website that created the cookie). • Select the cookies including the name “ genevemonde.ch” and delete them. • Close the window containing the file list and then click twice on “OK” to return to Internet Explorer.

2- if you use the Firefox browser

• Go to the browser’s “Tools” tab and then select the “Options” menu • In the window that opens, select “Privacy” and click on “Display cookies” • Identify the files including the name “www.genevemonde.ch” • Select and delete these.

3- if you use the Safari browser

• In your browser, select the “Version > Preferences” menu. • Click on “Security”. • Click on “Display cookies”. • Select the cookies that contain the name “www.genevemonde.ch” and click on “Delete” or “Delete all”. • Once you have deleted the cookies, click on “Done”.

4- if you use the Google Chrome browser

• Click on the icon for the “Tools” menu. • Select “Options”. • Click on the “Advanced options” tab and go to the “Confidentiality” section. • Click on the “Display cookies” button. • Identify the files including the name “www.genevemonde.ch”. Select and delete these. • Click on “Close” to return to your browser.