Cookies privacy rules on the website
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are placed and stored on your terminal when you visit a website. A cookie allows its issuer to identify the terminal in which it is stored for the duration of the validity or the storage of this cookie.
The term “cookies” refers to all technologies allowing to trace the user’s navigation.
The terminal refers to the equipment (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) you use to consult or view a website, an application or advertising content etc.
Why we are using cookies?
We and our partners use different types of cookies for the following purposes:
1.Cookies that do not require user’s consent
- These are operating cookies, that are essential for browsing our website (such as the session identifiers), allow you to use the main features of the website and to secure the connection.
For example, they allow you to access directly to reserved and personal areas thanks to identifiers or data that you have previously entrusted to us.
- These are cookies that are not essential for browsing our website, but whose sole purpose is to enable or optimise its operation and to give you access to specific features.
They also allow you to adapt the presentation of the website to the display preferences of your terminal. These cookies allow you to have a fluid and customised navigation.
2. Cookies that require the user’s consent
a) Audience measurement cookies
They allow us to better understand the use and performance of our website, to establish statistics, volumes of traffic and use of various elements of our website (visited pages, navigation path, etc.) allowing to improve the interest and ergonomics of our services (the most consulted pages and sections, the most read articles, …)
These cookies are also used to evaluate the performance of our advertising campaigns and to personalize the content of our website according to your profile and your navigation.
b) Advertising cookies
These cookies enable Societe Generale and its partners to present you personalized advertising based on your browsing on our website and your profile.
Societe Generale also uses navigation data collected via these tracers to feed its customer knowledge and send you personalized communication according to your needs. However, refusing them will not have any impact on the use of our website.
It will only result in the display of advertising that does not take into account your interests and preferences
How to refuse/delete cookies
The registration of a cookie in a terminal is essentially subject to the will of the terminal user, which can be expressed and modified at any time and free of charge.
If you have accepted, the storage of cookies in your terminal, the cookies integrated into the pages and contents that you have consulted may be stored temporarily in a dedicated space in your terminal.
A cookie management configurator is available to allow you to manage the cookies used and/or deposited on this website. At any time, by clicking on the link below, you will be able to access the configurator and modify your preferences by purpose.
The taking into account of your wishes is based on a cookie. If you delete all the cookies stored in your terminal via your browser, Societe Generale and its partner will not be aware of your refusal and you will therefore be asked again to express your choices on cookies.
The complete blocking of your cookies via your bowser or ad-blockers (including cookies related to the operation of the website), may lead to malfunctions such as the impossibility to accessing certain pages of the website or your secure client area.
As part of the regulation, you will be asked every 6 months to confirm or change your cookie preferences, regardless of how long they remain in effect
Link to the Consent Configurator
What cookies are used on our website and what are our partners?
| Name of the cookie | Data Controller | Cookie's retention period | Purpose |
| SOCGENLB | Societe Generale | Non- personal data, session |
Automatically generated for the user session |
| has_js | Societe Generale | Non-personal data, session | Javascript detection |
| incap_ses_ | Societe Generale | Session | Used by Incapsula, the firewall technical solution based on the DNS |
| visid_incap_ | Societe Generale | 1 year | Used by Incapsula, the firewall technical solution based on the DNS |
| didomi_token, euconsent-v2 | Societe Generale | 6 months | Cookie for consent management |
Cookies for audience measurement
| Name of the cookie | Data controller | Cookie's retention period | Purpose |
| atuserid | Societe Generale | 6 months | Visitor identification for the site in client-side cookies |
| xtant | Societe Generale | 6 months | Session cookie for AT Internet |
| _hjid | Societe Generale | 6 months | This cookie is definded upon arrival on a page with Hotjar script. It is used to manage the random user ID, unique to this site navigation. This guarantees that user behaviour on subsequent visits is attributed to the same user ID |
| xtvrn | Societe Generale | 6 months | Cookie allowing reporting on the number of visits by a user |
| checkfisrtvisit | Societe Generale | 6 months | Used to check whether it is the user's first visit to the site |
| Krxd | Societe Generale | 6 months | Used to collect navigation information on the site |
Advertsising Cookies
| Name of the cookie | Data controller | Cookie's retention period | Purpose |
| 3 months | Monitoring of marketing campaigns and targeting of advertising |
Cookies related to videos
| Name of the cookie |
Data Controller |
Cookie's retention period | Purpose |
| _SECURE-3PAPISID VISITOR_INFO_LIVE CONSENT LOGIN_INFO YSC |
Youtube | They allow to display videos from youtube on our website - For more information www.youtube.com/intl/ALL_fr/howyoutubeworks/our-commitments/protecting-user-data |