What is a cookie ?

A cookie is a text file that contains information filed on your hard drive by the server of the website you visit. A cookie contains several informations:

• The name of the server who filed it.
• A unique number as identifier.
• An expiration date.

What’s the use of a cookie?

Cookies have different functions. They may for example allow:

• To recognize a user thanks to a unique identifier
• To save the language settings of a site
• To obtain statistics related to the browsing of a user

Cookies management

During your visit of the Contest website (http://www.contest-lighting.com), cookies are implanted into your browser :

• Through the Google Analytics software in order to record information about your browsing on the site www.contest-lighting.com (date and time of your connection, visited pages, ...). This information allows Contest to study your browsing and customize our site to facilitate your visit.
• When you are redirected to the website www.contest-lighting.com from a partner site.
• When you are using the share buttons on social networks. They allow to link to your profile.
• In future, it is possible that www.contest-lighting.com creates new ones.

Your rights concerning cookies

In accordance with the "Data Protection" law, you have an access right as well as a right to more information, rectification and opposition to your data. This gives you the right to object to the registration of cookies.

To do this, you must follow the following procedure depending on your browser:

In Chrome:

• Click on the top right icon of your window representing 3 lines and then click on "Settings".
• Click on "Show advanced settings".
• In "Privacy", click on the button "Content Settings ...".
• In the section "Cookies", you can block cookies and data of third party sites.

In Firefox:

• Click on the top right icon of your window representing 3 lines and then click on "Options".
• Select the panel “Private life”.
• In “’History”, for the option Conservation rules, select “use the settings personalized for the history”.
• Deselect “Accept cookies”.

In Internet Explorer:

• Go into Tools, Options Internet.
• Click on the tab Confidentiality.
• Click on the button “Advanced” and tick the box “Ignore automatic handling of cookies”.

In Safari:

• Go into Settings > Preferences.
• Click on the tab Confidentiality.
• In the zone “Block cookies”, tick the box “block always”.

In Opera:

• Go into Settings > Private life & security.
• In the zone “Cookies”, tick the box “Block cookies of third parties and the site date”.

Deposit Agreement cookies

When going on the site www.contest-lighting.com, a banner will warn you of the presence of cookies and will request you a confirmation of deposit agreement. If you ignore it and you don’t take knowledge of the operating system to oppose the registration of cookies, your pursuit is an agreement to deposit cookies on your computer.