Mines Museum

Information on Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that the sites visi­ted by users send to their ter­mi­nals, whe­re they are sto­red befo­re being re-transmitted to the same sites on the next visit. The coo­kies of the so-called “Third par­ties”, on the other hand, are set by a web­si­te other than the one the user is visi­ting. This is becau­se on each site the­re may be ele­men­ts (ima­ges, maps, sounds, spe­ci­fic links to web pages of other domains, etc.) that resi­de on ser­vers other than that of the site visited.

What are cookies used for?

Cookies are used for dif­fe­rent pur­po­ses: exe­cu­tion of com­pu­ter authen­ti­ca­tion, ses­sion moni­to­ring, sto­ra­ge of infor­ma­tion on spe­ci­fic con­fi­gu­ra­tions regar­ding users who access the ser­ver, sto­ra­ge of pre­fe­ren­ces, etc.

What are “technical” cookies?

These are coo­kies that are used to bro­w­se or pro­vi­de a ser­vi­ce reque­sted by the user. They are not used for other pur­po­ses and are nor­mal­ly instal­led direc­tly by the web­si­te owner.
Without the use of the­se coo­kies, some ope­ra­tions could not be per­for­med or would be more com­plex and / or less secure.

What are “analytical” cookies?

These are coo­kies that col­lect infor­ma­tion on the use of our web­si­te (eg which pages are most fre­quen­tly visi­ted, if the­re are dif­fi­cul­ties in navi­ga­tion, etc.) with the aim of impro­ving its func­tio­ning. The infor­ma­tion is col­lec­ted in aggre­ga­te form and can be used to per­form sta­ti­sti­cal ana­ly­sis of the col­lec­ti­ve cha­rac­te­ri­stics and beha­vior of web­si­te visitors.

What are “profiling” cookies?

These are coo­kies used to track the use­r’s navi­ga­tion on the net­work and crea­te pro­fi­les on his tastes, habi­ts, choi­ces, etc. With the­se coo­kies, adver­ti­sing mes­sa­ges can be tran­smit­ted to the use­r’s ter­mi­nal in line with the pre­fe­ren­ces alrea­dy expres­sed by the same user whi­le bro­w­sing online.