Cookie use policy

When you consult a website published by an Inserm entity, information may be recorded in “cookie” files stored in the browser of your terminal (computer, tablet or cell phone). This page explains what a cookie is, what it is used for and how you can accept or refuse those that are not essential to the operation and management of the site.

A cookie is a small text file containing small amounts of information that may be temporarily stored on your computer’s hard drive when you visit a website using your browser, subject to your choices regarding cookies not required for site operation. Cookies are managed by your web browser, and users can read them by right-clicking on the web page and selecting “Inspect code”.

Only the sender of a cookie can modify the information it contains. A cookie can be either a session cookie (persists only for the duration of the browsing session), or a permanent cookie (set for a specific period of time).

The cookie does not identify you personally, but only your terminal’s browser. Some cookies require your prior consent before being installed on your terminal.

Mandatory cookies

These are cookies placed exclusively by the site editor. They are essential for navigation on the site. These cookies cannot be deactivated or configured, otherwise you will no longer be able to access the site or its services, and/or their display will be altered. They enable you to use the site’s main functions and secure your connection. Depositing these cookies does not require your prior consent. Their lifetime generally does not exceed the duration of the session.

Functional and audience measurement cookies

These cookies are necessary for the operation of the site. Depositing these cookies does not require your prior consent.

These cookies enable us to :

• Compile anonymous statistics on the number of visitors to and use of the various components of the site, to enable the publisher to administer and improve the site;
• Adapt the presentation of the site to your terminal’s display preferences (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) during your visits to the site, according to the hardware and viewing or reading software that your terminal is equipped with.

The sites published by Inserm entities use the Matomo audience analysis tool, which complies with RGPD specifications and CNIL recommendations on the subject. The Matomo tool can deposit several cookies with a lifetime ranging from session time or a few tens of minutes to 11 months.

List of functional cookies deposited by Inserm :

• Name: _pk_ses, pk_cvar, pk_hsr

Service provided: visitor statistics (Matomo)

Purpose: these cookies temporarily store the current session.

Duration: 30 minutes

• Name: _pk_ref

Service provided: visitor statistics (Matomo)

Purpose: this cookie is used to store attribution information, the referrer initially used to visit the website

Duration: 6 months

• Name: _pk_id

Service provided: visitor statistics (Matomo)

Purpose: this cookie assigns a unique identifier to the user

Duration: 13 months

• Name: _pk_testcookie

Service provided: traffic statistics (Matomo)

Purpose: checks whether the browser accepts cookies.

Duration: session

• Name: matomo_sessid

Service provided: CSRF (cross-site request forgery) protection

Purpose: prevents fraud, protects the user and the reliability of data collected by Matomo.

Duration: 14 days

Cookies whose sole purpose is not to enable or facilitate communication by electronic means, or which are not strictly necessary for the provision of an online communication service at the express request of the user, require the prior consent of the Internet user.

To manage the cookies deposited by a site, you have several complementary options :

In order to manage cookies according to your wishes, we invite you to configure your browser according to the purpose of the cookies :

Your browser can be set to warn you before a cookie is installed;

The browser can also be set to refuse all types of cookies, or only third-party cookies;

Any cookies already installed on the computer can be deleted;

Each browser must be set up separately to refuse cookies.

Desactivate/delete cookies on your browser

For Internet Explorer™: http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-FR/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

For Safari™: https://support.apple.com/en-ie/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

For Safari™mobile: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265

For Chrome™: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=fr&hlrm=en&answer=95647

For Firefox™: http://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/activer-desactiver-cookies

For Opera™: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html

For Microsoft Edge™: https://privacy.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy