Cookie policy

The Institute of Myology Association (AIM, ‘Association Institut de Myologie’ in French) wishes to inform you about the use of cookies when you visit the institut-myologie.org website and to remind you of your rights.

The topics covered on this page are:

1. The use of cookies and other trackers 
2. What is a cookie? 
3. Why does AIM use cookies? 
4. What types of cookies are used by AIM? 
5. How do we obtain your consent? 
6. How can you object to the use of these cookies?

1. Use of cookies and other trackers

When you browse the www.institut-myologie.org website, cookies, trackers and/or connection markers are placed on your computer, tablet or smartphone, subject to the choices and options you have expressed, or may express at any time, in accordance with this “Cookie policy”. This page helps you better understand how cookies work and how to use the tools made available to you to configure them.

This page on cookies may be amended. You are advised to consult it regularly.

2. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a piece of information placed on a user’s device when they browse a website. It contains several items of data: the name of the server that placed it, an identifier in the form of a unique number, state information and, where applicable, an expiry date. For the duration of their validity, cookies make it possible to retain state information when a browser accesses the various pages of a website or when that browser later returns to that website. Only the issuer of a cookie can read or modify the information it contains.

There are different types of cookies:

• session cookies, which disappear as soon as you close your browser or leave the website;
• permanent cookies, which remain on your device until their lifetime expires or until you delete them using your browser’s functions.

For more information on cookies, you can visit the website of the French data protection authority, the CNIL.

3. Why does AIM use cookies?

AIM is always looking for new ways to improve its website in order to offer you a better service. Using cookies in particular, the association can make the content and information on its website more relevant and adapt them to your personal needs. In addition, some cookies make the interaction between you and our website easier and faster, and help you navigate between its different sections.

In practice, we use cookies and other trackers for the following purposes:

• to manage user sessions;
• to store information you have provided to us or requested through the forms you complete on our site;
• to assess the relevance of the content published and the usability of the site;
• to produce statistics and analyses of traffic and use, of browsing behaviour, and audience measurements for the site and its various sections, with a view in particular to improving it.

4. What types of cookies are used by AIM?

• Functional and technical cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to work properly. They make the website more user-friendly and give you a more personalised online experience. An example is the cookie that remembers your user settings or preferences.

This is also the case of the technical cookie used to balance the load across our various servers, or of the cookie that identifies you as being logged in to the website. These cookies are not used to collect information about you and are not intended to identify users. These cookies are placed solely by AIM.

Without these cookies, you cannot use the site normally.

• Audience measurement cookies

AIM uses analytics cookies to collect information about connections and visitor behaviour for statistical purposes (browsing, use of the site, etc.), in order to improve the content and features of the site, tailor it more closely to your wishes and make it easier to use. These cookies also help us to count the visitors to a page and the number of page views, as well as to track visitor activity on the site and how often visitors return.

AIM relies on third parties to analyse how the website is used. These cookies are managed by Google Inc. and generated by the Google Analytics tool. They make it possible to analyse browsing on the site and to produce statistics and audience measurements. These cookies are placed on and read from the user’s device as soon as they access a website using the “Google Analytics” service.

They contain certain information, such as:

• The domain name of the site visited;
• A user identifier;
• The browsing history on the website using the “Google Analytics” service;
• Your IP address, with the last octet removed, so as to determine the city you are connecting from.

This data is transmitted and stored by Google on servers located in the United States.

If you do not wish these cookies to be installed on your device, you can go to your browser settings and follow the instructions provided there to object to their installation.

You can object to your browsing being tracked on this website. This will protect your privacy, but it will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and for other users.

You are not opted out. Untick this box to opt out.

5. How do we obtain your consent?

The installation of certain cookies is subject to your consent. Accordingly, on your first visit to the www.institut-myologie.org website, you are informed about the use of cookies. Your consent is obtained for the cookies that require it. You will be asked to tick a box formalising your consent. Only from that point on will they be installed on your device. Continuing to browse the website after reading this information, or closing the “cookie banner”, does not constitute consent to the installation of those cookies.

6. How can you object to the use of these cookies?

If you do not want the website to place cookies (other than functional cookies) on your computer, you can refuse and/or delete cookies through your browser settings.

However, if you have refused all or some of the cookies, the website may no longer work properly.

To find out more about managing and deleting cookies, visit the CNIL website by clicking the following link: https://www.cnil.fr/fr/les-conseils-de-la-cnil-pour-maitriser-votre-navigateur