Cookies Policy

Menard, as the party responsible for processing personal data relating to the management of the website, is likely to install cookies on your equipment when you visit the website and to use cookies on e-mails sent to you. 

The purpose of this Cookie Policy is to provide you with information on the various cookies used, their purposes and your rights, particularly with regard to setting the parameters.

1) WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Cookies are small text, image or software files that can be read/or placed on your device (computer, tablet, smartphone, or any other device used to access the Internet) when you access our site. 

Cookies are used on the website and temporarily stored on the user’s computer terminal, such as a computer, tablet and/or smartphone, to facilitate browsing and optimize the quality of the website. These cookies may be refused by the user subject to the choices and options that the user may express at any time. 

The cookies used on this website may be set either by our website or by a third-party website. These cookies may be session cookies or persistent cookies: a session cookie is a cookie that is automatically deleted when the user closes the browser, whereas a persistent cookie remains stored on the user’s computer until its expiry date. 

The cookies used on the website have a maximum lifetime of 12 months.

2) WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES ARE USED AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE? 

We use the following different types of cookies on this website:

  • Mandatory technical and session cookies 

These cookies are essential in order to be able to browse our website and take full advantage of its features such as access to certain secure Internet pages. Without these cookies, some of the services you request cannot be provided.  

The mandatory cookies used on the website are the following: 

  • PHPSESSID 
  • lang 
  • JSESSIONID 
  • wp-wpml_current_language
  • Functional and performance cookies : 

These cookies enable the website to save your settings choices in order to provide you with enhanced and more personal functionality. These cookies may also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, font and other parts of web pages that you have personalized. They may also be used to provide you with certain services that you have requested, such as watching a video. 

These cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites and do not collect any information about you that could be used for advertising purposes. 

  • Fonts.googleapis.com 
  • Ggpht.com 
  • Linkedin 
  • Addtoany 
  • Instagram 
  • Ytimg.com 
  • lidc 
  • lissc 

The performance cookies used on the website are the following:  

  • Cdninstagram 
  • Licdn.com
  • Audience measurement cookies :

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often or the appearance of error messages on certain pages. All information collected through these cookies is anonymized and collected for the sole purpose of developing and monitoring traffic patterns on our website in order to improve the way it operates. 

This information is used exclusively by Menard and is not shared with third parties. 

The audience measurement cookies used for analytical purposes on the website are the following: 

  • _ga 
  • _gat 
  • _gid
  • Targeted advertising cookies : 

Targeting cookies are used to measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign by enabling the distribution of targeted advertisements that listen to users and whose recurrence of appearance is limited. 

  • gads 
  • DSID 
  • IDE 
  • test_cookies 
  • APISID 
  • CONSENT 
  • GPS 
  • HSID 
  • LOGIN_INFO 
  • PREF 
  • SAPISID 
  • SID 
  • SSID 
  • VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE 
  • YSC

3) COOKIES AND PERSONAL DATA 

Cookies deposited or used may result in the collection of personal data, in particular identification data (IP address), connection data, acceptance data, identity data and contact data whose protection, integrity and confidentiality are covered by our “Personal Data Protection Policy”. 

Third-party social media sites may collect certain information (such as IP address, browser type, language used or time of access) if you are connected to these sites while browsing our website. These websites may also link this collected information with your profile information available on their own website. We do not control these third-party tracking technologies, so we recommend that you read the terms of use and Privacy Policy of these third-party sites before using them.  

Other cookies may collect Personal Data (including information from cookies placed by our advertising links on third party sites):  

– If a user is a registered user;  

-If we send you a targeted email that includes web beacons, cookies, or similar technologies, we will know whether you open, read, or delete that email.

4) OTHER FOLLOW-UP 

Menard also uses technologies substantially like cookies, such as Internet tags or any other technology that may appear in advertising e-mails or newsletters to determine whether these messages have been consulted or whether you have clicked on the links they contain. Internet tags do not deposit any data on your computer but can be used alongside cookies to analyze site browsing activity.

5) HOW ACCEPT OR REFUSE COOKIES 

Menard allows you to manage and configure your cookies and to accept or refuse all or some of the cookies placed.   

However, we would remind you that deactivating cookies may lead to the alteration or loss of certain settings or information. Deleting cookies may alter or even make it difficult to navigate the website.  

In order to allow you continuous access to your cookie settings and full control over the data collected, Menard provides you with a tool for managing your consents by clicking below: 

Click here to change the levels of cookies accepted 

If you do not wish to receive cookies from our website, you can also configure your browser. To do this, please follow the appropriate instructions below for your browser:  

  1. Select the “Tools” menu, then “Internet Options”.  
  2. Click on the “Confidentiality” tab.
    Select the desired level using the slider  
  • If you are using  Firefox 
  1. Select the “Tools” > “Options” menu.  
  2. Click on the “Privacy” option.  
  • If you are using Safari 
  1. Choose the “Editions” menu.  
  2. Click on “Preferences”. 
  3. Click on “Security”. 
  4. Click on “Show cookies”.  
  1. On your computer, open Chrome.  
  2. In the top right-hand corner, click on “More Settings”.  
  3. Under “Confidentiality and security”, click on “Cookies and other site data”. 
  4. Click on “Display all cookies and site data”.  
  5. Confirm deletion by clicking on “Delete all”.

6) EVOLUTION 

This Policy was updated in: October 2023.   

It may be modified at any time in the event of changes in legislation, case law or recommendations from the CNIL.