COOKIES POLICY

USE OF COOKIES BY BUREAU VERITAS

You are informed that the company Bureau Veritas S.A, Abu Dhabi Branch  ("Bureau Veritas", "we") uses cookies and other tracking devices on the www.middle-east.bureauveritas.com site (the "Site").

These cookies are likely to be installed on your device, subject to the choices and options you have selected or may select at any time, in accordance with this policy.

In the interest of providing information and transparency, Bureau Veritas has defined this policy to allow you to learn more about:

  • The origins and purpose of the information processed when you browse the Site; 
  • Your rights with respect to cookies and other tracking devices used by Bureau Veritas. 

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

A "cookie" is a string of information, usually small and identified by name, that can be sent to your browser by a website you connect to. Your web browser will store this information for a certain period of time, and will send it back to the web server each time you reconnect to it.

Cookies have multiple uses: they can be used to memorize your customer identification details for a merchant site or the current contents of your shopping basket, as an identifier to allow you to trace your navigation for statistical or advertising purposes, etc.

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE COOKIES ISSUED ON THE SITE?

We use cookies and other tracking devices, notably for the following purposes:

ATEGORY NAME DEPOSITOR DOMAIN PURPOSE OF COOKIES RETENTION PERIOD
Analytics _ga Google Analytics .group.bureauveritas.com
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This cookie is always present and is used to distinguish unique users. 6 months
Analytics _gat_UA-110347436-1

_gat_UA-110347436-42
Google Analytics .bureauveritas.com
.group.bureauveritas.com
This cookie is used to reduce request rates. These are third party cookies that are placed on your device to allow us to use the Google Analytics service. These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our Site. We use this information to compile reports and to help us improve the Site. 1 minute
Analytics _gid Google Analytics .group.bureauveritas.com
.bureauveritas.com
This cookie is used to store information about how visitors use our Site and helps in creating analytics reports on how the Site is doing. The data is collected anonymously and includes the number of visitors, where they are coming to the Site from, and the pages visited. 24 hours
Necessary cookie-agreed Bureau Veritas group.bureauveritas.com This cookie is used to store your consent for the placement of cookies when visiting our Site. 6 months
Necessary JSESSIONID New Relic .nr-data.net This cookie is used to store a session identifier that enables us to track the technical performance of our Site, and thus improve your experience during your visit. Session
Necessary VISITOR_INFO1_LIV YouTube .youtube.com This cookie aims to estimate your bandwidth on the pages of our Site featuring YouTube videos that you view, and to improve the quality of the viewing of these videos. 6 months
Analytics YSC YouTube .youtube.com This cookie stores a unique identifier for keeping statistics on the YouTube videos that you have seen. This cookie is necessary for the use of the YouTube player on the Site. Session

Links to the privacy policies of different cookie-leaving sites:

Bureau Veritas | Google Analytics | New Relic | YouTube

The social networking applications present on the Site, as mentioned above, may in some cases allow the corresponding social networks to identify you, even if you have not clicked on the application buttons. This type of button can in fact allow the relevant social network to follow your navigation on the Site, simply because your account on that social network is activated on your device (“open session”) while you browse.

We recommend that you review the policies of these social networks in order to be aware of the purposes and uses, including advertising, of the browsing information they may collect. These policies must allow you to make your choices with these social networks, in particular by setting up your account uses for each of them.

HOW DO YOU SET YOUR COOKIE CHOICES?

When you browse the Site, we obtain your express consent prior to the placement of any cookies.

You may at any time be informed of your preferences and modify your choices regarding the acceptance or refusal of cookies saved to your device by clicking on the "Manage Cookies" tab, available at the bottom of every page of the Site.

You are free to accept or refuse individual cookies on a purpose-by-purpose basis, or to accept or refuse them all together.

We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the setting of cookies is likely to modify the functionalities of the Site and limit its performance.

You can also configure your browser software so that cookies are rejected, either systematically or based on the sender. The configuration of each browser is different. Here are a few examples:

To find out more about the protection of the data we process, click here.

Version from February 2, 2021