This policy explains what cookies and other trackers are, the categories that may be used on the MAP SPACE COATINGS website, and how users can manage their preferences.

1. What is a cookie or a tracker?

A cookie is a small file or piece of information stored on or read from a user’s device when they access an online service. Other technologies may serve similar purposes. In this policy, the term ‘cookies’ covers, for the sake of simplicity, all such trackers.

2. Principles applied by MAP SPACE COATINGS

Cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to function may be used without consent provided they meet the exemption conditions set out in the regulations.

Cookies or trackers that are not strictly necessary and are subject to consent are only placed or read following an explicit choice by the user.

The user must be able to accept or refuse cookies subject to consent with a comparable level of ease.

The absence of an explicit choice does not constitute consent.

The user may amend or withdraw their consent at any time via the cookie management tool accessible on the website.

3. Categories of cookies that may be used

Category	Purpose	Consent	Duration / principle
Strictly necessary cookies	To ensure essential functions: security, technical operation, storing cookie preferences, load balancing or functions requested by the user.	No, where the conditions for exemption are met.	Duration limited to what is necessary for their purpose.
Audience measurement	To understand website traffic and usage in order to improve its content and performance.	Depending on the tool and its configuration: consent is required unless all the conditions for an exemption are met.	Depending on the tool used and its configuration.
Third-party content and services	To enable the display or use of embedded content or external services, such as video, mapping, anti-spam or social media features.	Yes, where they involve non-exempt trackers.	Depending on the service concerned.
Advertising / social media	To measure or personalise advertising content, or to enable certain tracking related to social media platforms.	Yes.	Depending on the service in question and the choices made.

Important — The exact list of cookies and trackers actually set must correspond to the site’s actual configuration. The cookie management module must display the purposes and, where relevant, the partners involved before consent is obtained.

4. Obtaining consent

On the first visit, where consent is required, a cookie management tool allows the user to make a choice. The options to accept or refuse must be accessible in a clear, comprehensible manner and with a comparable degree of simplicity.

No cookie subject to consent must be set or read until the user has given explicit consent. Closing the banner, continuing to browse or taking no action do not, in themselves, constitute valid consent.

5. Retention period for the choice

MAP SPACE COATINGS may retain the choice expressed by the user, whether consent or refusal, for a period of 6 months. At the end of this period, the user may be asked to make a choice again. A new choice may also be requested earlier in the event of significant changes to the purposes, partners or operation of the system.

6. Changing or withdrawing your choice

The user may change their preferences or withdraw their consent at any time via the ‘Cookie Management’ link or button accessible on the website, in particular at the bottom of the page. Withdrawing consent must be as straightforward as giving it.

7. Browser settings

Browsers generally allow you to restrict or delete cookies. However, these settings may affect certain features of the website. Browser settings alone do not replace the mechanism for obtaining consent where this is required.

8. Personal data associated with cookies

Where the use of cookies involves the processing of personal data, information regarding this processing and the rights of data subjects is set out in the website’s Privacy Policy.

9. Updates to the policy

This policy may be updated to reflect changes to the tools used on the website, their purposes or the applicable legal framework. The current version is the one published on the website.

Key references

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 (GDPR).

Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, as amended, on data processing, files and freedoms.

Act No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy (LCEN).

CNIL recommendations and guidelines on cookies and other trackers.