Cookie Policy
Last updated: October 19, 2026
1. Preamble
The website www.barnes-provence-littoral.com (hereinafter the “Website”) uses cookies and other trackers to ensure its proper functioning, improve your browsing experience and, where applicable, measure its audience or offer content tailored to your interests.
The purpose of this Cookie Policy is to inform you about the nature of the cookies that may be used on the Website, their purposes and the means available to you to manage your preferences.
This Cookie Policy supplements the Website’s Privacy Policy.
2. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that may be stored on your device (computer, tablet or smartphone) when you visit a website.
Other similar technologies, referred to as “trackers,” may also be used to collect or read information on your device.
These technologies make it possible, in particular, to remember certain preferences, make browsing easier, compile traffic statistics or measure the effectiveness of content and communication campaigns.
3. What types of cookies do we use?
Depending on the features and tools actually installed on the Website, several categories of cookies may be used.
3.1. Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential to the operation of the Website or to the provision of a service you have expressly requested.
They may, in particular, be used to ensure browsing security, remember your cookie choices or guarantee that forms function properly.
These cookies do not require prior consent where they meet the exemption criteria provided for by the regulations.
3.2. Audience measurement cookies
These cookies provide information about traffic to the Website and how visitors use it: pages viewed, browsing time, interactions or any malfunctions.
This data may help improve the performance and content of the Website.
The placement of these cookies is subject to your consent, except where the solution used actually meets the applicable exemption criteria.
3.3. Personalization cookies
These cookies may be used to remember certain browsing preferences or to adapt the features and content offered.
Where they are not strictly necessary for the requested service, they are placed only with your prior consent.
3.4. Advertising and social media cookies
Where such tools are present on the Website, these cookies may be used to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, personalize ads or enable certain interactions with third-party platforms, in particular social media.
They may be placed by external partners and allow them to collect information relating to your browsing, in accordance with their own privacy policies.
These cookies are subject to your prior consent where required by the regulations.
4. Managing your consent
When you first visit the Website, a cookie management tool allows you, where necessary, to accept, refuse or customize the cookies and trackers used.
Your choice is retained for the period provided for by the consent management tool.
You may change your preferences at any time by using the cookie management link or button available on the Website, if one is provided.
Refusing cookies that are not necessary must not prevent access to the Website’s essential features.
You can also configure your browser to block or delete certain cookies. However, blocking strictly necessary cookies may disrupt the operation of certain features.
5. Cookies placed by third parties
Certain features of the Website may use services provided by third parties, in particular audience measurement tools, interactive maps, videos or social media features.
Where these services result in the placement of cookies or in access to information stored on your device, the applicable consent rules are complied with.
The third parties concerned may process certain data in accordance with their own privacy policies. We invite you to review them to learn about their processing terms.
The list of partners concerned depends on the tools actually integrated into the Website.
6. Cookie retention period
The retention period varies depending on the category of cookie and its purpose.
Cookies and trackers are retained for the period necessary for their use, in compliance with the applicable legal and regulatory obligations.
Where consent is required, its validity period and the cookie retention period are determined in accordance with the applicable rules and the settings of the consent management tool.
7. How can you configure your browser?
You can also manage cookies from your web browser settings, in particular to delete them or limit how they are stored.
The configuration procedure depends on the browser used. You can consult your browser’s help pages to find out which procedure applies.
Deleting or blocking certain cookies may result in the loss of saved preferences or disrupt certain features of the Website.
8. Protection of personal data
Information collected through cookies may, in certain circumstances, constitute personal data.
Its processing is then subject to the applicable regulations on the protection of personal data.
To learn more about the purposes of the processing, the recipients of the data, retention periods and your rights, please consult the Privacy Policy available on the Website.
9. Changes to this Cookie Policy
BARNES Provence Littoral reserves the right to amend this Cookie Policy to reflect regulatory or technical developments, or changes to the features of the Website.
The applicable version is the one published on the Website. The date of the last update appears at the top of the document.
10. Contact
For any question relating to cookie management or the protection of your personal data, you may contact:
BARNES Provence Littoral
- By email: dpo@barnes-international.com
- By mail: BARNES Aix-en-Provence, Hôtel du Poët, Pl. Haut du Cr Mirabeau, 13100 Aix-en-Provence