COOKIE POLICY

As we place great importance on protecting your privacy, we want to inform Internet users using the Website https://www.esthederm.co.uk/ and/or the mobile application of the deposit and use of cookies, as well as the means at their disposal to set up their functioning.

Our Policy is likely to be updated at any time and these changes will take effect immediately. We therefore invite you to refer to it regularly for the latest version available. By continuing to browse the Website, you accept the use of cookies, unless you have disabled them.

What is a cookie?

A "cookie" or "plotter" is a file of limited size, generally made up of letters and numbers, created and stored in the memory of your browser located on the hard disk of your device (computer, tablet, mobile, etc.) when consulting a Website, opening an email, installing or using software or mobile application. Cookies can temporarily store information about the use and users of a Website. Cookies have an essential role and allow us to improve and personalize your browsing on our Website, for example by offering you the content that corresponds most to your interests. Cookies do not compromise the security of the Website.

What data can we obtain?

Although the precise details of the data we collect through cookies vary according to specific needs, we generally collect the following data on our Website:

Connection data
Navigation data on our Website (pages viewed, length of visit, products sought ...)
Browser data
Device data
Advertisements clicked on
Location (country only)

How do we use them?

We use cookies to provide content, services and advertising tailored to your interests and to make visit statistics, record the data communicated and optimize navigation routes.

Here are the details of the 5 categories of cookies on our Website:

3.1 Strictly necessary cookies

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. By disabling the use of these cookies, the linked features can no longer be used. Institut Esthederm cannot be responsible for malfunctions related to their deactivation.

Name of the cookie	Purpose	Expiration
tartaucitron	Records the user's GDPR preference to find out whether or not they have activated services that allow us to comply with GDPR rules.	24 hours

3.2 Functional cookies

These cookies allow us to provide certain features and services on our Site to improve your experience. Some of these cookies may be placed on your device by our partners offering their services on our site (e.g. chat tool). If you do not accept these cookies, these features and services may not function properly.

The partners that we use and that place cookies on our site in order to offer their services are:

Name of the cookie	Purpose	Expiration
iAdvize - vuid and <site_id>vvc	These cookies allow our chat tool provider to offer you a chat window on our Site so that you can contact our consultants directly. https://privacy.iadvize.com/en/	13 months

3.3 Audience measurement cookies

These cookies show us how visitors interact with our Site, which pages or sections are most visited and therefore allow us to improve its operation and make it more user-friendly. If you disable these cookies, we will not be able to track our Site’s performance.

Name of the cookie	Purpose	Expiration
_dc_gtm_UA-#	Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag.	1 day
_ga	These cookies were created by Google Analytics and are used to measure Site usage data. For more information: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245. .	13 months
_gat	These cookies were created by Google Analytics and are used to monitor the rate at which queries are sent to its servers. These cookies help us to identify areas of our Site that need improving. For more information: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.	13 months
_gid	These cookies are required by Google Analytics to measure Site usage data. For more information: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245	13 months

3.4 Advertising cookies

These cookies are generally placed on your device by our advertising partners to provide you with relevant and personalised advertising content based on your interests, pages viewed on our Site and so on, both on our Site and elsewhere. The cookies issued by these partners may therefore collect data about you as you browse.

Our partners who may place cookies on our Site are:

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/

Google AdSense https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/7549925?hl=en-GB

If you do not agree to these cookies being stored, you may not see appropriate advertisements.

Name of the cookie	Purpose	Expiration
_fbp	These cookies were created by Facebook and allow us to offer users of our Site targeted advertisements for our products on their platform.	3 months
_gcl_au	These cookies are used by Google AdSense to test the efficacy of advertising on various websites using their services.	3 months

3.5 Social network & Third-Party Cookies

These cookies allow us to enhance our Site’s multimedia content and make it more user-friendly.

Our Site contains plug-ins (or application buttons), which allow you to share content (e.g. the “share” button) or to like our content (e.g. the “like” button). Please note that these plug-ins may identify you if you remain logged into your social network accounts (open sessions) while browsing our Site, even if you have not used a button.

Our Website may contain cookies issued by third parties.

These cookies are generally placed by our advertising partners, in order to offer you advertising content, on and off our Websites, relevant and personalized according to your interests, the pages viewed on our Website, etc. If you do not accept the deposit of these cookies, you may not see suitable advertisements appear.

These cookies allow us to enrich the multimedia content of our Website and improve its user-friendliness. They also allow you to connect to your social networks, share content from our Website, etc. If you deactivate these cookies, you risk not being able to use the functionalities offered by social networks, or not being able to consult the multimedia content of our Website.

These may be, for example, cookies deposited by social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, etc.), by advertising agencies.

Our Website contains plug-ins (or application buttons), allowing you to share content (e.g. “Share” button), to like our content (e.g. “Like” button) or to log in from your social network accounts. We hereby inform you that these plug-ins may identify you, even if you have not used a button, but remain logged into your social media accounts (open sessions) while browsing our Website.

We have no control over the process applied by these third parties to collect information about your browsing on our Website and to associate it with the personal data they have. We therefore suggest that you read the cookie policies of these third parties.

The third parties likely to deposit cookies through our Website are as follows:

Facebook;
Twitter;
Instagram;
Pinterest;
YouTube.

Your choices about cookies

You can always allow, limit or refuse the deposit of our cookies, in whole or in part, by clicking on the "Cookies settings" section at the bottom of the page.

Traffic and performance cookies, advertising and social media cookies will only be placed on your device if you have previously consented to them through the settings window.

For functional cookies, you have the possibility to refuse their deposit at any time from the settings window.

The consequences of refusing to store cookies are detailed in Articles 3 and following of this Policy.

To find out more about cookies, we invite you to consult the following Website: www.aboutcookies.org.