What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file containing text that a website backs up to your computer or mobile device when you visit this site. Cookies are widely used to make a website work, or to make it work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to owners of the website.
How do we use cookies?
The Authentic Acts in Europe website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (hereinafter “Google”) that helps us analyze the use of the website. For this purpose, Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files placed on your computer.
The information generated by the cookie about the use of the website – standard information about internet access (including your IP address) and visitor behavior analyzed anonymously – is transmitted to Google, who stores it, including included on servers installed in the United States. We anonymize your IP address before sending it to Google.
In accordance with the data protection shield certification, Google declares that it complies with the framework defined by the EU-US Privacy Shield. Google may transfer the information collected by Google Analytics to third parties when required by law or when such third parties process the information on behalf of Google.
The Google Analytics Terms of Service state that Google does not link the individual’s IP address with other data held by Google.
You may refuse the use of Google Analytics cookies by downloading and installing the browser add-on for the deactivation of Google Analytics.
Cookies are also used to determine whether the person concerned has agreed (or not) to use cookies on the site, so that the question is not asked each time she consults.