Version updated on May 14, 2020
Like a vast majority of websites, the bic.com website (hereinafter "site") uses a standard technology called "cookies" to collect information that helps us improve your online experience and deliver personalized services.
What is a "cookie"?
A "cookie" is a small text file, identified by a name, that may be sent to your browser by a website you visit. Your browser will keep it for a certain period of time, and will send it back to the web server each time you reconnect. Cookies have many uses and are usually divided into the following categories:
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of the website and cannot be disabled in our systems. They are generally only activated in response to actions you have taken that are consistent with a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling out forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you to the use of these cookies. However, if you block this category of cookies - which do not store any personal data - some parts of the site will not function.
Functionality Cookies
These cookies are used to improve the functionality and personalization of our site, such as the use of videos and instant messaging services. They may be set by us, or by third parties whose services are used on our website pages. If this category of cookies is not accepted, some or all of these features may not function properly.
Performance Cookies
These cookies allow us to analyze the number of visits and sources of traffic to our website in order to measure and improve its performance. They also help us to identify which pages are visited most or least often and to evaluate how visitors navigate our site. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and anonymized. If you disable these cookies, we will not know when you visited our site and will not be able to monitor its performance.
Cookies for targeted advertising
These cookies may be enabled on our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by these companies to profile your interests, and serve you relevant advertisements on other sites. They work only by identifying your browser and device (computer, tablet or cell phone). If you disable these cookies, the advertisements you are shown when browsing other websites will be less targeted to your interests.
Social network" cookies
These cookies are activated by the services offered on the social networks that we have added to our site, in order to allow you to share our content with your networks and your friends. They give us the ability to track your browsing on other sites and profile your interests. This may affect the content and messages displayed on other websites you visit. If this category of cookies is not accepted, you will not be able to use, or even view, these sharing tools.
How do we use cookies on this site?
The cookies we use are designed to help us recognize you as a repeat user of the site so that we can offer you the most personalized service based on your profile and improve your experience the next time you visit.
The cookies we use cannot retrieve information stored on your hard drives that identifies you in any way other than as cookies.
We use cookies only to collect the information mentioned in this privacy policy and in no way to collect personal or personally identifiable information without your consent.
The cookies used on this site allow us :
to establish statistics in particular on the duration and volumes of your visits and on your use of the various elements present on our site (sections and contents visited, path) with the aim of improving the interest and ergonomics of our services. In this context, we may use Google Analytics or any other similar analysis tool. The information collected is aggregated and does not allow your identification. We may share this information with our developers and service providers working with us on the website. To learn more about Google Analytics please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html.
to establish statistics or to invite you to use the platforms or offers of our partners (communication agencies, audience measurement companies, social networks, YouTube, ...) corresponding to your centers of interest. The issue and use of cookies by third parties are subject to the privacy policies of these third parties.
to adapt the presentation of our site to the display preferences of the terminal you are using (language used, display resolution, operating system, etc.) during your visits to our site, according to the hardware and software for viewing or reading that your terminal has.
to personalize the home pages by saving the preferences you have expressed during a previous visit to our site.
to implement security measures, for example when you are asked to reconnect to a content or service after a certain period of time
to identify the areas you have visited, to track your preferences, or to track your movement through our web pages.
send you targeted marketing, advertising, promotional and other information that may be of interest to you
or to remember information related to a form you filled out on our site in order to allow you to access reserved and personal areas of our site (your customer account) or products, services or information you chose on our site (contents of an order basket).
How to set cookie preferences?
It is possible at any time to inform you and to set your cookie preferences to accept or reject them either globally or service by service. However, by rejecting some of the cookies, your user experience may be degraded.
Cookie preferences can be configured by accessing the cookie settings console.
It is also possible to configure the navigation software so that cookies are saved in the terminal or, on the contrary, that they are rejected, either systematically or according to their sender. The configuration of the browser software allows you to accept or reject cookies from time to time, before a cookie is likely to be saved in the terminal. The configuration of each browser is different and is described in the browser's help menu.
How do I configure cookies issued by third parties?
The issuance and use of cookies by third parties is subject to the privacy and/or cookie policies of those third parties.
We may integrate third party software applications into our site that allow us to share the content of our site with others or to inform others of the visit to our site or the opinion on its content. This is notably the case of the "Share" and "Like" buttons of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Viadeo, etc.
The social networks providing these button applications can use this button to identify the user even if the button itself has not been used during the visit to our site. Indeed, this type of button application may allow the social network in question to track the navigation on our site, simply by virtue of the fact that the account on the social network was active on the device (logged in) when visiting our site.
We have no control over the processes used by social networks to compile information about visits to our site, nor do we have any control over the related personal data they may have. We invite you to read the privacy policies of these social networks in order to understand the purposes of the collection of browsing information that they may compile through these buttons, particularly with regard to advertising. The policies of the social networks must allow the exercise of personal choice by configuring the settings of each account.
Please note that the Flash cookies used by Adobe® Flash Player are managed on an interface outside the browser. The Adobe® Flash Player is an application that enables the rapid viewing of dynamic content through the use of the Flash computer language. Flash and other similar applications store settings, preferences, and usage data in the same manner as cookies. If the device has the ability to view content developed with Flash technology, the Flash cookie management tool can be accessed directly at adobe.com.
Finally, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.com, a website created by professional associations, and follow the instructions offered by this site to help control, authorize or block the cookies held in the terminal used.