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Cookie Policy

Last updated: September 2026
 

This Cookie Policy is intended to provide clear and transparent information about the use of cookies and other tracking technologies that may be placed on your device when you browse the SILEAT website.

It supplements our Privacy Policy and applies to all website visitors.
 

1. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file or tracking technology that may be stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies may, in particular, help ensure the proper functioning of a website, remember certain browsing preferences, measure website traffic or, where the user has given consent, enable the use of certain services provided by third parties.
 

2. Who uses cookies on the SILEAT website?

Cookies used on the website may be placed directly by SILEAT or, depending on the features available on the website, by third-party service providers involved in areas such as hosting, audience measurement, security or the integration of external services.

Where third-party cookies or tracking technologies require your consent, they are only placed after your consent has been obtained.


3. What cookies may we use?

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the proper functioning, security and display of the website.

They may, in particular, be used to ensure website security, maintain certain technical functionalities, support the proper operation of forms, remember your cookie preferences and enable navigation between different pages of the website.

Where they are strictly necessary for the operation of the website or for the provision of a service expressly requested by the user, these cookies do not require your consent.

Audience Measurement Cookies

Subject to the tools actually used by SILEAT, audience measurement cookies may help us understand how our website is used, including the number of visits, most frequently viewed pages, duration of visits, general source of traffic, possible navigation difficulties and website performance.

Where the conditions for an exemption from consent are not met, these cookies are only placed after your consent has been obtained.


Functional Cookies and Third-Party Services

Certain website features may rely on services provided by third parties, for example the display of external content, videos, maps, interactive features or links to professional platforms.

Where such services involve the placement or reading of tracking technologies requiring consent, they remain disabled until you have accepted them.
 

Advertising Cookies

As the SILEAT website is primarily intended to present our activities, raw materials and services to professional users, we seek to limit the use of advertising tracking technologies to what is strictly necessary.

If SILEAT were to use advertising or marketing tracking solutions requiring cookies or other tracking technologies, these would be subject to your prior consent.
 

4. Your consent

When you first visit the website, a cookie management tool may allow you to:

  • Accept all cookies

  • Reject all cookies

  • Customise your preferences

Cookies requiring your consent are not placed on your device before you have made your choice.

Failure to make a choice or simply continuing to browse the website does not constitute consent.

You may accept or reject cookies by purpose and may change your decision at a later time.
 

5. Changing or withdrawing your consent

You may change your preferences or withdraw your consent at any time using the “Manage my cookies” link or cookie management tool available on the website.

Withdrawing your consent must be as easy as giving it.

Refusing non-essential cookies does not prevent access to the main information and functionalities of the SILEAT website.


6. Retention period for your preferences

SILEAT retains your choice regarding the acceptance or refusal of cookies for a period appropriate to applicable regulations and the recommendations of the competent supervisory authority.

As a good practice, SILEAT may apply a period of six months before asking you to make your choice again, unless there is a regulatory change, a significant change to the cookies used or another specific reason.

The lifetime of each cookie also depends on its purpose and the relevant service.
 

7. List of cookies used

The precise list of cookies and tracking technologies actually used on the website must be kept up to date in the cookie management tool.

For each tracking technology, the list may include, in particular:

  • Cookie name

  • Provider

  • Purpose

  • Category

  • Retention period

This list may change when SILEAT adds, removes or modifies certain website functionalities.
 

8. Audience measurement cookies

Where SILEAT uses an audience measurement solution that qualifies for an exemption from consent in accordance with the conditions defined by the CNIL, the settings of that solution are configured so as to limit data collection to what is strictly necessary.

Where those conditions are not met, the user’s prior consent is requested.
 

9. Third-party services and websites

The SILEAT website may contain links to websites or services operated by third parties.

These websites have their own privacy and cookie policies.

SILEAT has no control over cookies placed directly by such websites when you visit them outside the SILEAT website.

We encourage you to review their respective policies before providing them with information or accepting their tracking technologies.


10. Protection of your personal data

Where the use of a cookie involves the processing of personal data, that processing is also subject to applicable data protection rules.

For information about how SILEAT collects and processes your personal data and the rights available to you, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

11. Changes to this Cookie Policy

SILEAT may amend this Cookie Policy in order to take account, in particular, of legal or regulatory developments, recommendations issued by competent authorities, changes made to the website, and the addition or removal of services or service providers.

The date of the latest update shown at the top of this page identifies the version currently in force.
 

12. Contact

For any questions regarding the use of cookies or the protection of your personal data, you may contact SILEAT using the contact details provided in the Legal Notice and Privacy Policy available on the website.

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