Last revised: August 16, 2024

BUBBLEMAPS, a société par actions simplifiée incorporated in France within the company registry of Nanterre under number 922 810 288, with a registered office located at 7, rue Pablo Neruda, 92300 Levallois-Perret and its affiliates (hereinafter referred to as "BUBBLEMAPS", the "Company", "we", "us" or "our") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy (hereinafter referred to as "Users", "you" or "your").

1. COOKIES

(i) WHAT IS A COOKIE?

A cookie is a small file for storing and retrieving information, generally made up of alphanumeric characters (cf. letters and numbers), deposited by a web server on the computer or electronic terminal of the User of the site to send state information to said browser and likewise obtain such information back from the browser. The status information can be for example a session identifier, a language, an expiration date, a response domain, etc.

Cookies usually make it possible to obtain certain information on the browsing habits of the User, his computer or his terminal, in particular in order to improve the content and the service offered by the site in question, to know the traffic of said site and to provide Internet Users with personalized services.

The notion of cookies covers all types of tracers or other similar technologies, for example:

• HTTP Cookies;
• but also the use of other techniques:
  • “local shared objects” sometimes called “Flash Cookies”;
  • “local storage” implemented within HTML 5;
  • identifications by calculating the fingerprint of the terminal (“device fingerprinting”);
  • identifiers generated by operating systems (whether advertising or not: IDFA, IDFV, Android ID, etc.);
  • hardware identifiers (MAC address, serial number or any other identifier of a device);
  • etc.

In any case, cookies can be:

• session cookies, which disappear as soon as the User leaves the browser or the Site;
• where permanent cookies that remain until the expiration of their lifespan or validity, or until the User deletes them by means of the functionalities of his browser for example or through the cookie management module set available on our Site.

(ii) WHAT ARE THE MAIN “FAMILIES” OF COOKIES?

"Functional" cookies not subject to User consent

Functional Cookies, ie those whose sole purpose is to allow or facilitate electronic communication on, from or to a site or which are strictly necessary for the provision of a communication online at the express request of the User of a site, are exempt from the need for the publisher of a site to request the User's consent for their installation.

The Company may thus use such functioning cookies, in particular technical cookies essential for navigation on the Site and cookies strictly necessary for the provision of certain services explicitly requested by the User, without requesting prior consent from you. If the User deactivates these “operating” cookies for example by means of the functionalities offered by his browser, he may not be able to access the Site, and / or not correctly receive the content and information available on the Site and / or not being able to benefit from all the features of the Site.

Other cookies, subject in principle to the consent of the User

The use of other cookies as referred to below is subject in principle to the prior consent of the User, the latter being free to either accept them by expressly consenting to their installation and reading in his browser (it being specified that the latter will then have the possibility to withdraw his consent at any time), or to refuse them.

(iii) THE COMPANY’S COOKIES POLICY?