Information: Cookies

Information on the use of cookies on Lastatlas.com and Thelastatlas.com

For what purpose does Lastatlas.com use cookies?

When you connect to our site and subject to your choices resulting from the settings of your browser software used during your visit to our site, we may have to install cookies on your device allowing us to recognize the browser on your device during the period of validity of the cookie concerned. With the cookies that we emit we have the possibilities:

- to adapt the presentation of our site to the display preferences of your terminal (display resolution, operating system) during your visits to our site.

- we also share information about the use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners, to provide you with quality advertising content.

For what purpose do third-party websites use cookies?

The issue and use of cookies by third parties are subject to the privacy policies of third-party sites. That's why we inform you about the purpose of the cookies we know about and the means you have to make choices about these cookies.

1 - Transmission of cookies on our site by third parties due to third-party applications integrated into our site.

We may include on our site, third-party computer applications that allow you to share content from our site with others or to share with others your consultation or opinion regarding content on our site. This is particularly the case of "Like", "Recommend", "Tweet" buttons from social networks such as "Facebook", "Google +", "Twitter".

The social network providing such an application button is likely to identify you with this button, even if you did not use this button during your consultation of our site. Indeed, this type of application button can allow the social network concerned to follow your navigation on our site, if for example your social network account was activated on your device (open session) during your navigation on our site.

We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information about your browsing on our site and associated with the data they have. We advise you to consult the privacy policies of these social networks to learn the purpose of use, including advertising, navigation information they can collect with the application buttons. These protection policies must, in particular, enable you to exercise your choices with social networks, in particular by setting up your usage accounts for each of these third-party sites.

2 - Transmission of cookies by third-party content broadcast on our advertising spaces. The advertising content (graphics, animations, videos) broadcast in our advertising spaces may contain cookies issued by third parties: the advertiser at the origin of the advertising content concerned, or a third party to the advertiser who has associated a cookie with the advertising content of an advertiser.

In this case, the cookies issued by these third parties may allow them, during the lifetime of these cookies:

- to count the number of displays of the advertising contents diffused through our advertising spaces, to identify the advertisements thus displayed, the number of users having clicked on each advertisement, allowing them to calculate the amounts due to establish accurate statistics recognize your device when it later connects to the sites or services on which these advertisers or third parties issue cookies and to adapt these third-party sites and services or the advertisements they broadcast to the navigation of your terminal which they can know.

Your choices on the use of cookies:

Several possibilities are available to you to manage the cookies. Any setting that you can undertake will be able to modify your navigation on our site and on Internet. And your conditions of access to certain services of our site require the use of cookies, but you can at any time express and modify your wishes in terms of cookies, by the means described below.

You can configure your browser software so that cookies are saved in your device or, conversely, they are rejected, systematically or according to their issuer. You can also configure your browser so that the acceptance or rejection of cookies is offered to you punctually, before a cookie is likely to be registered in your device.

1 - The agreement on cookies.

The registration of a cookie in a terminal depends essentially on the will of the user of the terminal, that it can express and change at any time and free of charge by the choices that are offered by its browser software.

If you have accepted in your browser the recording of cookies in your terminal, cookies embedded in the pages and contents you have viewed will be stored temporarily in a dedicated area of your device. They will be read only by their issuer.

2 - The refusal of cookies.

If you refuse the registration of cookies in your device, or if you delete those that are saved there, you will not be able to benefit from certain functionalities which are necessary to navigate certain spaces of our site. This would also be the case when our service providers or we could not recognize, for technical compatibility, the type of browser your device uses, its language and display settings, or the country from which your device is connected on Internet.

In this case, we do not accept any liability for the consequences of the poor functioning of our services due to the impossibility for us to register or consult the cookies necessary for their proper functioning and that you have refused or deleted.

3 - How to exercise your choices, depending on the browser you use?

For the management of cookies and your choices, the configuration of each browser is variable. You can consult it in the help menu of your browser, to let you know how to change your cookie choices.