Policy on Cookies

HMN & Partners wishes to provide you with clear and transparent information about how cookies are used when you visit its web site: hmn-partners.com.

 

1. Preamble

1. In order to allow Internet users to benefit from the services offered on www.hmn-partners.com (the ‘Site’) of HMN & Partners (‘the Firm’ or ‘’we’) (e.g., browse it, enhance your user experience on it), the Site uses cookies.

 

2. You can deactivate the cookies that you have accepted at any time and free of charge, using the deactivation options as discussed below.

2. Definition

3. When you visit the Site, information on how your terminal (e.g., computer, tablet, smartphone.) browses the Site may be registered in text files known as ‘cookies’, which are installed on your browser. Cookies are used to recognize your browser during the cookie’s validity period and to send certain information back to the Site (e.g. session ID or choice of language).

 

4. Only the cookie issuer can read or modify the information contained in the cookie.

 

5. There are different types of cookies:

 

– Session cookies which disappear as soon as you leave the Site;
– Permanent cookies which remain on your terminal until expiration of their service life or until you delete them using your browser settings.

 

6. You are informed that cookies may be placed on your terminal when you visit this Site.

3. Reasons for using cookies

7. Our Site uses cookies for several purposes:
– to facilitate your browsing;
– to analyse the Site audience and compile statistics;

 

8. Some cookies, which do not require your consent, are essential for using the application. These are technical cookies used by the Firm for:

 

– keeping your session open;
– registering your choices relating to cookies;
– registering your choice of language.

 

9. Other cookies require your consent. They are used for improving the performance of the Site and allowing the Firm to analyse and measure the Site traffic.

4. Cookies used by tour Site

10. The cookies used on the Site are:

 

– the Firm’s cookies;
– third-party cookies selected by the Firm to achieve for specific purposes.

 

11. Cookies placed by the Firm are identified below:

 

Cookie name: _pk_id
Company: Matomo
Purpose: unique user ID.
Validity period: 13 months

 

Cookie name: _pk_ref
Company: Matomo
Purpose: unique referrer
Validity period: 6 months

 

Cookie name: _pk_ses
Company: Matomo
Purpose: unique session ID
Validity period: 30 minutes

 

Cookies name: pll_language
Polylang / WP Syntex
Purpose: Saves language settings
Validity period: 1 year

 

Cookie name: moove_gdpr_popup
Moove Agency Plugin wordpress
Purpose: Save cookie preferences
Validity period: 1 year

5. Consent

12. When you first visit our Site, you will be asked to agree to or refuse the use of all cookies, whether from the Firm or from third parties.

 

13. You can also consent independently and specifically to each individual purpose, through the option ‘personalize my choices’.

 

14. When you accept the use of cookies, a consent cookie is installed.

 

15. If you do not want cookies to be installed or read on your terminal, a refusal cookie will be placed on your equipment, so that the Firm can register the fact that you have refused the use of cookies. This will remain in place for a period of 6 months. Please note that if you do not give your consent, you may not have access to some sections of the Site.

 

16. If you delete this refusal cookie, it will no longer be possible for you to be identified as having refused the use of cookies.

 

17. Refusal and consent cookies must remain on your terminal. You can modify your choice at any time by clicking here.

6. Managing cookies

18. You can manage and modify the use of cookies at any time, using the following methods:

 

– by clicking on our “Wheel” icon which you can access at all times on every page on the Site, or
– through your browser software, or
– through industry-wide blocking platforms.

 

Note: In order to register your refusal of cookies, a ‘refusal’ cookie must be placed on your terminal. Therefore, if you deactivate all cookies o your terminal or if you change terminal, we will no longer be able to know that you have chosen to refuse cookies.

7. Protection of personal data

19. When using cookies as described above, the Firm may process personal data concerning you, such as IP addresses, in its capacity as a controller.

 

20. The purposes of those cookies are described above.

 

21. The legal basis for processing your personal data collected from cookies for which your consent is required is your consent. The legal basis for processing your personal data collected from cookies exempted from consent is the Firm’s legitimate interests to analyse and measure visits to its Site.

 

22. Data obtained from the cookies used by the Site will be communicated to the Firm’s authorised personnel.

 

23. Cookies will never be stored longer than necessary to achieve the purpose of the cookie, and in no case longer than 13 months. Data collected from cookies will be kept for 25 months maximum.

 

24. You can withdraw your consent at any time by using the management module available on every page of our Site or through this link.

 

25. You have right of access, a right to rectification, to erasure and to restriction of processing in relation to your data.

 

26. To find out more, including on how to exercise your rights, please read our Privacy Policy.

 

27. Requests relating to the exercise of your rights should be sent to HMN & Partners’ Data Protection Officer at the following postal address: Lexing Alain Bensoussan Avocats, Immeuble Cap Etoile – 58 boulevard Gouvion-Saint-Cyr 75017 Paris (France) or to the following email address: hmnrgpd@hmn-partners.com.

 

28. You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Commission nationale Informatique et Libertés (CNIL), which is the competent supervisory authority, whose offices are located at 3, place de Fontenoy 75007 Paris (France).