Cookie Policy
This cookie policy explains how Tractebel Engineering S.A. (hereinafter “Tractebel”, “we”, “us”), which is the administrator of this website, uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files of text that we place on your computer. These cookies allow us to remember your preferences and help us to continuously improve our website and to provide you with the best possible experience.
In practice, different types of cookies can be distinguished:
Essential and non-essential cookies:
Cookies can be distinguished on the basis of their purpose. Essential cookies are those that are necessary for the proper functioning of the website, for example facilitating navigation (they allow you to return to the previous page) or remembering your language preferences. Non-essential cookies are those without which the site can still function properly. These include functional cookies, which improve the user’s experience (for example by retaining the “shopping cart”) and tracking cookies, which analyse the behaviour of the users on the website and retain their preferences (pages viewed, time and geographical area viewed, number of visits, etc.).
First and third-party cookies:
Whether a cookie is ‘first’ or ‘third’ party depends on who places the cookie. First-party cookies are those placed by the website of Tractebel. Third-party cookies originate from others and are often used to track online behaviour across different websites, such as cookies placed by Piwik Pro, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook .
Persistent and session cookies:
Cookies can also be distinguished on the basis of their lifespan.
Persistent cookies remain on the user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie or until they are manually deleted by the users (see below point 4. How to delete and block our cookies?). They are activated each time the user visits the website which created that particular cookie. On the contrary, session cookies are temporary: they persist only for the duration of the browser session (which starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when he closes the browser window). Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.
Why do we use cookies?
We use cookies to collect standard internet log information and details of our visitors’ behaviour patterns. This allows us to obtain statistics on the number of visits and determine popular pages on the site. This helps us improve our web content and better understand what our users want.
We do not use this information for anything other than our own analysis.
We use cookies to:
– remember your language and cookies preferences;
– analyse web statistics and performance and personalisation.
What type of cookies do we use?
Necessary cookies
These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of our website and are used to recognize individual users and to remember their preferences, such as the language preference. These cookies cannot be blocked or denied, if you wish to access our website.
Performance cookies
These cookies analyse how our website is used by keeping track of which pages you visit, from which location you are visiting our website, how long you are visiting our website, etc., to allow us to improve our website and the services we provide. These cookies are placed by third parties, such as Piwik Pro, and the results are only shared with Tractebel. You can decline these cookies.
Functional cookies
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like the region you are in. These cookies are placed by third parties, such as Piwik Pro and the results are only shared with Tractebel. You can decline these cookies.
Advertising / tracking cookies
These cookies are set by external advertising partners and are used for profiling and tracking data across multiple websites. If you accept these cookies, we may show our advertisements on other websites based on your user profile and preferences. These cookies also save data about how many visitors have seen or clicked on our advertisements in order to optimize advertising campaigns.
How to delete and block our cookies?
If you wish to block or delete cookies from your device, you can use the parameter of your browser. You will find more information on how to do it via the following links.
FIREFOX
CHROME
SAFARI
INTERNET EXPLORER
What are your rights?
Tractebel uses necessary cookies to manage the content of its website. These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of this website and cannot be refused, if you want to visit our website.
Other non-essential cookies, such as performance, functional, advertising and tracking cookies will only be used after you have agreed upon them. You can always change your preferences and withdraw your consent.
For more information or any questions regarding your rights as a data subject, you can consult our privacy statement or you can contact us at privacy@tractebel.engie.com