1. Cookie Policy

2. What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small text file consisting of letters and numbers that will be stored on your computer, mobile device, or other equipment from which you access the internet. The cookie is installed through a request issued by a web server to a browser and is completely "passive" (it does not contain software programs, viruses, or spyware and cannot access user's hard drive information).

For more information about cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

3. What are Cookies Used For?

These files make it possible to recognize the user's device and present the content in a relevant manner, tailored to the user's preferences. Cookies ensure a pleasant browsing experience and support the efforts of Boutique Cadeaux to offer products adapted to the needs of each user. Additionally, cookies are used to prepare anonymous statistics that help us understand how users use our site, allowing us to improve its structure and content, excluding the user's personal identification.

4. What Cookies Do We Use?

We use three types of cookies: session cookies, persistent cookies, and advertising cookies.
• Session cookies are temporary files that remain in the user's terminal until the end of the session or until the application (web browser) is closed.
• Persistent cookies remain on the user's terminal for a period defined in the cookie's parameters or until they are manually deleted by the user.
• Advertising cookies help us provide relevant ads to you, measure the performance of our advertising campaigns by analyzing interactions with our ads. For example, they help us count how many times users have clicked on our ad and visited our website.

5. How Are Cookies Used by This Site?

A visit to this site may place cookies for the following purposes:
• Site performance cookies
• Visitor analysis cookies
• Geotargeting cookies
• Registration cookies
• Advertising cookies
• Third-party advertising cookies

6. Do We Use Third-Party Cookies or Plugins on Our Site?
We use the services of the following third parties to provide functionality, for analysis, and for advertising purposes. These third parties may set and use cookies and/or similar technologies on our websites and on other websites not operated by us.
For more details, please consult the data protection policies and user preference management guides provided by the companies that manage these services, as applicable.

Google Analytics
Category: Analytics
Purpose: Web analytics
Policies: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html; https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 

Google AdWords
Category: Advertising
Purpose: Remarketing, Display advertising
Policies: https://policies.google.com/privacy; https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads 

Facebook
Category: Advertising
Purpose: Remarketing
Policies: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation 

7. Do Cookies Contain Personal Data?

Cookies themselves do not request personal information in order to be used, and in most cases, they do not identify internet users personally. Personal data collected through the use of cookies can only be collected to facilitate certain functionalities for the user. Such data is encrypted in a way that prevents unauthorized access to it.

8. Deleting Cookies

Generally, the application used to access web pages allows cookies to be saved on the terminal by default. These settings can be changed so that automatic management of cookies is blocked by the web browser or the user is informed each time cookies are sent to their terminal. Detailed information on the possibilities and ways of managing cookies can be found in the application settings area (web browser). Limiting the use of cookies may affect certain web page functionalities.

9. Why are Cookies Important for the Internet?

Cookies are central to the efficient functioning of the internet, helping to create a user-friendly browsing experience tailored to each user's preferences and interests. Refusing or disabling cookies can make some websites impossible to use.

Refusing or disabling cookies does not mean that you will no longer receive online advertising – it just means that it will not be able to take into account your preferences and interests, as evidenced by your browsing behavior.

Examples of important uses of cookies (which do not require user authentication through an account):

• Content and services tailored to user preferences – product and service categories.
• Offers tailored to user interests – password retention.
• Child protection filters on internet content (family mode options, safe search functions).
• Limiting the frequency of ad display – limiting the number of times an ad is displayed to a specific user on a site.
• Providing more relevant advertising to the user.
• Measurement, optimization, and analytics features – such as confirming a certain level of traffic on a website, what type of content is viewed, and how a user reaches a website (e.g., via search engines, directly, from other websites, etc.). Websites conduct these usage analyses to improve their sites for the benefit of users.

10. Security and Privacy Issues Related to Cookies

Cookies are NOT viruses! They use plain text formats. They are not composed of pieces of code, so they cannot be executed or auto-run. Therefore, they cannot replicate or duplicate on other networks to run or replicate again. Because they cannot perform these functions, they cannot be considered viruses.

However, cookies can still be used for negative purposes. Because they store information about users' preferences and browsing history, both on a specific site and on multiple other sites, cookies can be used as a form of Spyware. Many anti-spyware products are aware of this and consistently mark cookies to be deleted in anti-virus/anti-spyware scanning/removal procedures.

In general, browsers have integrated privacy settings that provide different levels of cookie acceptance, expiration period, and automatic deletion after the user has visited a certain site.

11. Other Security Issues Related to Cookies:

Because identity protection is highly valuable and represents the right of every internet user, it is important to know what potential problems cookies can create. Because they constantly transmit information in both directions between the browser and the website, if an attacker or unauthorized person intervenes in the data transmission path, the information contained in the cookie can be intercepted.

Although very rare, this can happen if the browser connects to the server using an unencrypted network (e.g., an unsecured WiFi network).

Other cookie-based attacks involve incorrect cookie settings on servers. If a website does not ask the browser to use only encrypted channels, attackers can use this vulnerability to trick browsers into sending information through unsecured channels. Attackers then use the information for unauthorized access to certain sites. It is very important to be careful in choosing the most appropriate method of protecting personal information.

12. Tips for Safe and Responsible Browsing Based on Cookies

Due to their flexibility and the fact that most of the most visited and largest sites use cookies, they are almost inevitable. Disabling cookies will not allow you access to the most widespread and used sites, including YouTube, Gmail, Yahoo, and others.
Here are some tips that can ensure worry-free browsing with the help of cookies:

• Customize your browser settings regarding cookies to reflect a comfortable level of security for you in using cookies.
• If you do not mind cookies and are the only person using the computer, you can set long expiration terms for storing browsing history and personal access data.
• If you share access to your computer, consider setting your browser to delete individual browsing data each time you close the browser. This is a way