This Cookies Policy was last updated on October 30th 2024
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information.
What is the lifetime of a cookie?
There are two types of cookies:
- session cookies that disappear when you leave the website;
- persistent cookies that remain on your terminal until the expiration of their lifespan mentioned in the section “Which cookies do we use?” below or until you delete them in accordance with the indications referred to below in the section entitled “How to configure cookies?”.
Why do we place cookies?
We use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes.
Some cookies used by UTAC have the sole purpose of enabling or facilitating electronic communication and therefore improving your experience on the UTAC websites (to keep you logged into the website, understand how you use the website of UTAC). These cookies are exempt from your consent. You can technically block them using your browser settings, but your experience on the site may be degraded.
Some cookies are used in order to analyze the traffic and the use made of the websites, to be able to amend it in order to improve the browsing experience or to share certain content with third parties via social media. These cookies require your consent
Which cookies do we use?
Functional cookies
The functional cookies we are using are the following :
| Provider | Cookie name | Purpose | Lifespan |
| Complianz | cmplz_banner_status | To store if the cookie banner has been dismissed | 1 year |
| Complianz | cmplz_consented_services | To store cookie consent preferences | 1 year |
| Complianz | cmplz_functional | To store cookie consent preferences | 1 year |
| Complianz | cmplz_marketing | To store cookie consent preferences | 1 year |
| Complianz | cmplz_policy_id | To store accepted cookie policy id | 1 year |
| Complianz | cmplz_preferences | To store cookie consent preferences | 1 year |
| Complianz | cmplz_statistics | To store cookie consent preferences | 1 year |
| Pardot | pardot | To store and tranck if the browser tab is active | session |
| Polyland | pll_language | To store language settings | persistent |
| Moodle | MoodleSession | Ensure continuity and the persistent state of the user session when navigating the site | session |
| JSP | JSESSIONID | To maintain an anonymous user session by the server | session |
| Microsoft Application Insights | ai_session | Preserve users states acrouss page requests | persistent |
| Google reCAPTCHA | _GRECAPTCHA | To provide spam protection | 6 months |
| Tarteaucitron | tarteaucitron | To manager user consent for cookies | persistent |
Audience measurement and statistics cookies
These cookies are used to measure the audience in an aggregate and anonymous manner and produce generic statistics about the usage of our website/application. This enables us to understand better how users interact with our site/application, and to improve and adapt our services.
These cookies are exempt from your consent, except for Google Analytics.
The lifespan of these cookies is limited to 13 months. The personal data collected via these cookies are kept for a maximum of twenty-five months. As an exception, Google Analytics cookies are kept for a maximum of twenty-six months.
| Provider | Cookie name | Purpose | Lifespan |
| Google Analytics | _ga | To store and count pageviews | 2 years |
| Pardot | lpv* | To store and count pageviews | 30 minutes |
| Google various services | _gat_gtag_UA_113543428_1 | To store anonymized statistics | 2 years |
| Google Analytics | _gid | Track user behavior within a single day or session | session |
| Google Analytics | ai_user | To recognize users on returning visits over time | 1 day |
| Google Analytics | _gat | To throttle request rate (limit the collection of data on high traffic sites) | 1 minute |
For more information, please read: Google Privacy Statement
Advertising or marketing cookies
The primary purpose of these cookies is to track user behavior and personalize their experiences accordingly.
These cookies can profile a user with information such as what phone a user is using, screen dimensions, operating system, etc. This data allows a website to completely personalize a users’ experience online and display better-targeted ads. or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
When applicable, we will collect your consent before we use them. You can withdraw your consent and remove them at any time using the Cookies preference settings of the site/application.
| Provider | Cookie name | Purpose | Lifespan |
| Google Advertising Products | _gcl_au | Store and track user interaction with the website | persistent |
| Pardot | visitor_id* | To store a unique user ID | Various |
Social medias cookies
Our websites may also incorporated application buttons (plugins) to improve the interactivity of the website (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or to share certain content with third parties (e.g. “tweet”) via social networks like Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. This content is embedded with code derived from Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn and places cookies. This content might store and process certain information for personalized advertising.
For more information, please read:
- Twitter Privacy Statement
- LinkedIn Privacy Statement
- YouTube Privacy Statement
- Instagram Privacy Statement
How to configure cookies?
UTAC allows you to choose the cookies you wish to accept and those you wish to refuse on this website. At any time, you can change your cookies preferences by clicking on “Manage consent” located in the website’s left side footer.
If you deactivate cookies, you will no longer be able to benefit from certain features for which the services offer depend on the use of these same cookies.
How to delete cookies?
At any time, you can delete cookies by changing your cookies preferences by clicking on “Manage consent” located in the website’s footer.
You can also configure your browser so that it does not accept cookies. The below websites explain how to delete cookies from your browser. However, in some cases, certain features of our website may not work.
You can delete cookies on your terminal at any time by following the methods mentioned below:
The deletion of cookies placed on your terminal may also result in the deletion of the settings of your choices.
