Cookie Policy
The present Cookie Policy applies when you consult the websites of Euronews, namely Euronews.com, Africanews.com, and our applications. (“our Websites” or “our Applications”). As explained in this Cookie Policy, you can manage your cookie choices at any time in the Consent management Platform (CMP) by clicking here.
1. What’s a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your terminal (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) by our Websites that you visit thanks to your browser.
Cookies deposited on your terminal can only be read by its issuer who is able, during their period of validity, to recognize your terminal each time you access digital content containing cookies from the said issuer. A cookie does not identify you personally, but only the browser on your terminal. Your browser will keep it for a certain period of time, and will send it back to the web server each time you reconnect to it.
When you use our Applications, an identifier of your mobile phone or tablet may be sent to us depending on the preferences you have expressed in your mobile phone or tablet, to track certain activities for advertising purposes.
In iOS, this identifier is called “IDFA” (ID for Advertising). In Android (Google Play), this identifier is called “AAID” (Android Advertising ID).
This Cookies Policy takes into account both cookies when you visit our Websites and AAID/IDFA when you visit our Applications.
2. Who are the issuers of cookies from our Webites and Applications?
Please note that when you use our website and enter your email address on our website (either to log in, or to sign up for a newsletter, or similar), we may share with LiveRamp and its group companies information that we collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, pseudonymous form), IP address, or information about your browser or operating system, with any of the following, acting as “joint controllers” (as applicable and defined in the GDPR).
LiveRamp uses this information to create an online identification code that we may store in our first-party cookie for our use in online, in-app, and cross-channel advertising.
This may be shared with advertising companies to enable interest-based and targeted advertising. LiveRamp uses this information to create an online identification code for the purpose of recognising you on your devices. This code does not contain any of your directly identifiable personal data and will not be used by LiveRamp to re-identify you.
Detailed information on LiveRamp’s data processing activities is available in LiveRamp’s privacy policy https://liveramp.com/privacy/. You have the right to withdraw your consent or opt-out to the processing of your personal data at any time. https://liveramp.com/opt_out/
3. What are the purposes of the cookies issued on our Websites?
Some cookies are indispensable to the use of our Websites, others allow to optimize and personalize the displayed contents and advertising. Cookies allow us in particular to understand how users browse through our Websites and Apps, to improve the browsing experience, to establish statistics of attendance and to provide you with targeted advertisings.
Thus, the cookies allow you to facilitate your visit on our Websites and they help to meet your expectations.
Functional and necessary cookies
These cookies are exclusively necessary for the operation of our Websites and Applications and do not require your consent. These include cookies which allow us to adapt the presentation of our Websites or Applications and advertising spaces to the display preferences of your terminal (language, display resolution, operating system used, etc.), cookies which memorize your choices concerning the acceptance or not of cookies through the Consent Management Platform (CMP), and audience measurement cookies through the tool Adobe Analytics benefiting from an exemption from consent in accordance with the requirements of the French supervisory authority, the “Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés” (CNIL).
Advertising cookies
Advertising cookies allow us to adapt the advertising of our Websites and Apps to your preferences depending on your browsing through your terminal, in particular by retargeting functionalities to show you relevant advertising after you visit our Websites and Apps, to analyze how you interact with content and advertising, to limit the number of times you see an advertising (capping); to measure the effectiveness and impact of an advertising campaign.
If you do not give your consent for the deposit of advertising cookies, advertising will still appear but they will not be based on your browsing or your hobbies. However, refusing to give your consent for this kind of cookie deactivate the capping functionality and you may see several times the same advertising.
Audience and performance measurement cookies
These cookies allow us to establish attendance statistics on our Sites or Applications, in particular to study and improve the effectiveness of our content and advertising, to develop products and create personalized content profile, to detect navigation problems and improve the ergonomics of our services.
Cookies relating to social networks
These cookies allow you to share one of our content on different social networks and allow us to know if you are connected to these social networks.
For more information on the purposes and to consent to the deposit of cookies, click here.
4. What information do we access thanks to cookies?
Identifiers of your terminal (IP address, , IDFA/AAID)
Operating system used by your terminal (Microsoft Windows, Apple Os, Linux, Unix, BeOS, Android, iOS, etc.)
Device name (e.g. iPhone 10…)
Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.)
Language of your web browser
Date and hour of connection to our Websites ou Apps
The “referrer” (provenance HTTP address)
Browsing data on our Websites and Apps and content viewed
5. What is the lifespan of a cookie?
Cookies are placed on your terminal for a period of 13 months maximum in accordance with the legislation in force.
6. How can you manage your choice?
You can configure your choices at any time to accept, refuse or withdraw your consent, or to oppose processing based on legitimate interest by clicking here.
You can also express your choices on your computer’s browser software. Your choices will apply to all of your Internet browsing and not just to our Websites.
However, any setting on your browser software concerning the refusal of functional cookies will be likely to alter your browsing comfort on our Websites, or even prevent the use of some of our services requiring the use of these cookies. Where applicable, we decline all responsibility for the consequences related to the degraded operation of our Websites and our services resulting from the impossibility for us to record or consult the cookies necessary for their operation that you may have refused or deleted.
Regarding our Applications, you can deactivate the ad tracking system to prevent Applications from using your advertising ID to display targeted advertising.
In Android: you can go to the “Google settings” and activate the “Opt-out of Interest-based ads” option
In iOS: you can go to “Settings”, “Privacy”, “Apple Advertising” and turn off the “Personalized Ads” option.
For more information, you can consult:
https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-et-autres-traceurs
www.youronlinechoices.eu
The following list of cookies is currently used on the euronews.com website:
1. Euronews’ own cookies
| Cookies | Usage | Persistence | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preferences | Selected-lang | Memorizes the default language of the user. | 1 year |
| EN-cookie-accept | Memorize the cookies’ acceptance | 1 year | |
| Processus | EN_poll_{pollid} | Memorizes user’s answer to a poll. | 1 year |
2. Third party cookies on Euronews website
Required cookies
These cookies are dropped to ensure and improve the proper functioning of the website or to provide anonymous data (measure the performance of our content, detect navigation problems…)
| Partner | Cookies | Usage | Persistence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Didomi | didomi_token | This cookie contains consent information for custom purposes and vendors, as well as Didomi-specific information (user ID, for instance) | 12 months |
| euconsent-v2 | This cookie contains the IAB TCF consent string and consent information for all the standard IAB vendors and purposes | 12 months | |
| Adobe Analytics | s_cc | Determine if cookies are enabled | end of session |
| s_vi | This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor | 13 months | |
| s_sq | It contains information about the previous link that was selected on by the user | end of session | |
| AMCV_237E3E1059F2E95E0A4 95E5D%40AdobeOrg | Indicates the start of a session for Adobe Experience Cloud | end of session | |
| Chartbeat | _cb | This cookie stores a visitor’s unique identifier (relative to your specific site) for Chartbeat tracking on your site. | 13 months |
| _chartbeat2 | This cookie stores timing information about when this visitor has visited your site before. This enables us to distinguish between new, returning, and loyal visitors. | 13 months | |
| _cb_svref | This cookie stores the original referrer for this site visitor — for example, this will store the fact that a visitor arrived to your site via Twitter, past the first page view, so that when a visitor recirculates to a different article page, we still know that they originally arrived on your site via Twitter. | 30 minutes |
Social networks
Social networks cookies allow the user to interact from our website on social networks, notably through sharing buttons.
| Partner | Cookies | Usage | Persistence |
|---|---|---|---|
| datr | These cookies, provided by Facebook, are set when a visitor is logged in to or otherwise using their service. This allows a user to easily comment or share an article with their peers through the social network. | 2 years | |
| locale | 3 days | ||
| reg_ext_ref reg_fb_gate highContrastMode | end of session | ||
| twitter_sess | Used in conjunction with the Twitter social plugins in order to allow following our Twitter accounts easily, share content via Twitter… Twitter makes use of cookies to improve its own service as well. | end of session | |
| guest_id personalization_id | 2 years |
Services
These cookies are dropped in order to improve your experience by enabling you to comment articles or by offering to subscribe to our newsletters.
| Partner | Cookies | Usage | Persistence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownpage | ownpage_fp2 | Newsletter personalisation | 1 year |
| mailmunch_second_pageview mailmunch_scrollbox mailmunch_subscribed | Management of registration form | 1 year | |
| ownpage_tp | Third Party Cookies for analytics (open rate…) | 1year | |
| Vuukle | Vuukle provide commenting solutions that is placed at the bottom of the article to build community engagement where users are allowed to express their opinion relating to the article by maintaining decent conversations | ||
| Dailymotion | v1st | Used to store a unique user ID | 13 months |
| ts | Functional cookie | ||
| usprivacy | Used to store privacy preferences. | ||
| damd | Used to store performed actions on the website. | ||
| Minute.ly | minDaily | Is user belongs to control group, Was unique analytic sent | Daily |
| _minEE0 / _minEE1 / _minEE2 | Message buffer (aggregating analytics before send) | 24H | |
| minSession | sessionID, Unique APV impressions and clicks, Was Analytics sent | 24H / 30min | |
| minVersion | Current version for a/b testing | 1 year | |
| minBuffer | Buffer buckets | 1 year | |
| minUniq | User ID | 1 year | |
| Local Storage | minViewedHits | Which highlights were given for Internal A/B testing |
Advertising cookies
These cookies are placed by advertisers. If you give your consent, personalised ads can be shown to you based on your profile (country, browsing history…), in order to get more relevant ads and offer a personalised experience. The performance and effectiveness of ads that you see or interact with can be measured.
| Partner | Cookies | Usage | Persistence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audience Manager | aam_uuid | Set for ID sync for Adobe Audience Manager | 1 month |
| dextp | Audience Manager sets this cookie to record the last time it made a data synchronization call. | 6 months | |
| Adara | fbh0 gcma rmxc cktst ckid dph ph | Provides advertising or advertising-related services such as data collection, behavioral analysis or retargeting. | 1 year |
| Bidswitch | c / tuuid_lu / tuuid | This cookie has a unique user ID (randomly generated), on the basis of which Bidswitch can remember which banners you have seen and whether you have visited an advertiser’s website. Bidswitch uses this information only for this particular advertiser to determine when and how often you see a particular banner. | 1 year |
| Dailymotion | dmvk | Used to store information for remarketing purposes. | end of session |
| DoubleClick (Google Ad Manager) | __gads | DoubleClick is Google’s ad network that lets advertisers display ads for income to monetize a website. The DoubleClick network is incorporated into Google’s Adsense network | 13 months |
| __gpi | 13 months | ||
| test_cookie | end of session | ||
| IDE | 13 months | ||
| Grapeshot | Contextual targeting technology that allows us to place more relevant advertising based on the user reading habits and interests. | ||
| Liveramp | rlas3 | LiveRamp uses browser cookies to help companies and content providers present online content that is more likely to match your interests. | 1 year |
| pxrc | 2 months | ||
| Nativo | visitor status gdpr_consent ver opt_out | Nativo is an advertising technology provider. Nativo uses cookies to help store basic information about a user of website-based Properties. | 1 year |
| OpenX | i | Targeting cookies | 13 months |
| Outbrain | Native advertising content, using targeted advertising to recommend articles, slideshows, blog posts, photos or videos to a reader. | 1 year | |
| Sitescout | ssi _ssuma | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. | 1 month |
| Tapad | TapAd_TS TapAd_DID TapAd_3WAY_SYNCS | Tapad cookies are used for Cross Device matching capabilities. They can be used to determine what type of devices (smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs etc.) is used by a user. | 2 months |
| Teads | _tfpvi tt_viewer | Targeting solution | 1 year |