Cookie Policy
The present Cookie Policy applies when you consult the websites of Euronews, namely Euronews.com, Africanews.com, and our applications. (“our Websites” or “our Applications”).
As explained in this Cookie Policy, you can manage your cookie choices at any time in the Consent Management Platform (CMP) by clicking here.
- What’s a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your terminal (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) by our Websites that you visit thanks to your browser.
Cookies deposited on your terminal can only be read by its issuer who is able, during their period of validity, to recognize your terminal each time you access digital content containing cookies from the said issuer. A cookie does not identify you personally, but only the browser on your terminal. Your browser will keep it for a certain period of time, and will send it back to the web server each time you reconnect to it.
When you use our Applications, an identifier of your mobile phone or tablet may be sent to us depending on the preferences you have expressed in your mobile phone or tablet, to track certain activities for advertising purposes.
In iOS, this identifier is called “IDFA” (ID for Advertising). In Android (Google Play), this identifier is called “AAID” (Android Advertising ID).
This Cookies Policy takes into account both cookies when you visit our Websites and AAID/IDFA when you visit our Applications. - Who are the issuers of cookies from our Webites and Applications?
Depending on your choice concerning unnecessary cookies, the cookies set by us are mainly linked to the operation of our Websites. (First party cookies). The others cookies are set by our partners or by advertising agencies via the advertisements broadcast on our Websites. (Third party cookies).
Those partners can be: advertising agencies, advertisers, audience measurement companies, audience measurement and performance measurement companies for advertising campaigns, targeted advertising providers, real time bidding platforms, etc.
Euronews ensures that the deposit and use of cookies on their part are carried out in compliance with the regulations in force. You can access to the list of our partners and consult their privacy policies by clicking here. - What are the purposes of the cookies issued on our Websites?
Some cookies are indispensable to the use of our Websites, others allow to optimize and personalize the displayed contents and advertising. Cookies allow us in particular to understand how users browse through our Websites and Apps, to improve the browsing experience, to establish statistics of attendance and to provide you with targeted advertisings.
Thus, the cookies allow you to facilitate your visit on our Websites and they help to meet your expectations.
Functional and necessary cookies
These cookies are exclusively necessary for the operation of our Websites and Applications and do not require your consent. These include cookies which allow us to adapt the presentation of our Websites or Applications and advertising spaces to the display preferences of your terminal (language, display resolution, operating system used, etc.), cookies which memorize your choices concerning the acceptance or not of cookies through the Consent Management Platform (CMP), and audience measurement cookies through the tool Adobe Analytics benefiting from an exemption from consent in accordance with the requirements of the French supervisory authority, the “Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés” (CNIL).
Advertising cookies
Advertising cookies allow us to adapt the advertising of our Websites and Apps to your preferences depending on your browsing through your terminal, in particular by retargeting functionalities to show you relevant advertising after you visit our Websites and Apps, to analyze how you interact with content and advertising, to limit the number of times you see an advertising (capping); to measure the effectiveness and impact of an advertising campaign.
If you do not give your consent for the deposit of advertising cookies, advertising will still appear but they will not be based on your browsing or your hobbies. However, refusing to give your consent for this kind of cookie deactivate the capping functionality and you may see several times the same advertising.
Audience and performance measurement cookies
These cookies allow us to establish attendance statistics on our Sites or Applications, in particular to study and improve the effectiveness of our content and advertising, to develop products and create personalized content profile, to detect navigation problems and improve the ergonomics of our services.
Cookies relating to social networks
These cookies allow you to share one of our content on different social networks and allow us to know if you are connected to these social networks.
For more information on the purposes and to consent to the deposit of cookies, click here. - What information do we access thanks to cookies?
- Identifiers of your terminal (IP address, , IDFA/AAID)
- Operating system used by your terminal (Microsoft Windows, Apple Os, Linux, Unix, BeOS, Android, iOS, etc.)
- Device name (e.g. iPhone 10…)
- Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.)
- Language of your web browser
- Date and hour of connection to our Websites ou Apps
- The “referrer” (provenance HTTP address)
- Browsing data on our Websites and Apps and content viewed
- What is the lifespan of a cookie?
Cookies are placed on your terminal for a period of 13 months maximum in accordance with the legislation in force.
- How can you manage your choice?
You can configure your choices at any time to accept, refuse or withdraw your consent, or to oppose processing based on legitimate interest by clicking here.
You can also express your choices on your computer's browser software. Your choices will apply to all of your Internet browsing and not just to our Websites.
However, any setting on your browser software concerning the refusal of functional cookies will be likely to alter your browsing comfort on our Websites, or even prevent the use of some of our services requiring the use of these cookies. Where applicable, we decline all responsibility for the consequences related to the degraded operation of our Websites and our services resulting from the impossibility for us to record or consult the cookies necessary for their operation that you may have refused or deleted.
Regarding our Applications, you can deactivate the ad tracking system to prevent Applications from using your advertising ID to display targeted advertising.
In Android: you can go to the "Google settings" and activate the "Opt-out of Interest-based ads" option
In iOS: you can go to “Settings”, “Privacy”, “Apple Advertising” and turn off the “Personalized Ads” option.
For more information, you can consult:
https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-et-autres-traceurs
www.youronlinechoices.eu
The following list of cookies is currently used on the euronews.com website:
Third Party Cookies on Euronews Website
| Services | Cookies | Usage | Persistance | More information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Required | ||||
| Didomi | didomi_token | This cookie contains consent information for custom purposes and vendors, as well as Didomi-specific information (user ID, for instance) | 12 months | |
| euconsent | This cookie contains the IAB TCF consent string and consent information for all the standard IAB vendors and purposes | 12 months | ||
| Adobe Analytics | s_cc | Determine if cookies are enabled | end of session | |
| s_sq | Contains information about the previous link that was clicked on by the user | end of session | ||
| s_vi | Used to distinguish users | 13 months | ||
| Analytics | ||||
| Google Analytics | _ga | Used to distinguish users | 13 months | https://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html?hl=en-GB |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users | 24 hours | ||
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>. | 1 minute | ||
| AMP_TOKEN | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service | 30 seconds to 1 year | ||
| _gac_<property-id> | Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out | 90 days | ||
| __utma | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 13 months from set/update | ||
| __utmb | Used to determine new sessions/visits | 30 mins from set/update | ||
| __utmc | Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. | End of browser session | ||
| __utmz | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site | 6 months from set/update | ||
| __utmt | Used to throttle request rate | 10 minutes | ||
| _gaexp | Used to determine a user's inclusion in an experiment and the expiry of experiments a user has been included in | Depends on the length of the experiment but typically 90 days | ||
| Services | ||||
| datr | These cookies, provided by Facebook, are set when a visitor is logged in to or otherwise using their service. This allows a user to easily comment or share an article with their peers through the social network. | 2 years | https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ | |
| locale | 3 days | |||
| reg_ext_ref | Session | |||
| reg_fb_gate | Session | |||
| highContrastMode | Session | |||
| wd | Session | |||
| twitter_sess | Used in conjunction with the Twitter social plugins in order to allow following our Twitter accounts easily, share content via Twitter, and to display the latest tweet. Twitter makes use of cookies to improve its own service as well. | end of session | https://twitter.com/privacy | |
| guest_id | persistent | |||
| k | persistent | |||
| OwnPage | ownpage_fp2 | Newsletter personalisation | 1 year | https://www.ownpage.fr/optout.en.html |
| mailmunch_second_pageview | Management of registration form | 1 year | ||
| mailmunch_scrollbox | 1 year | |||
| mailmunch_subscribed | 1 year | |||
| Projekktor | qwprojaaekktor_volume | Used to store user’s information and settings for the projekktor html 5 video player. | 1 year | http://www.projekktor.com/docs/configuration |
| Spot IM | Strictly necessary Tracking Technologies. These unlisted cookies might be in use on internal sections of the Services, in order to customize and simplify the user experience on the site by remembering choices you made and your log in credentials. | https://www.spot.im/privacy/ | ||
| Advertising | ||||
| Smartadserver | TestIfCookieP | SmartAdServer is a remote ad serving system. Sites and Advertisers are using the system to manage the delivery of their online advertising campaigns. They can collect anonymous statistical data on their visitors to follow the delivery of their campaign and to increase their performance. | 2 years | http://smartadserver.fr/privacy-policy |
| TestIfCookie | Session | |||
| pdomid | 2 years | |||
| pid | 2 years | |||
| pbwmaj6 | 1 month | |||
| pbw | 2 years | |||
| dyncdn | 1 day | |||
| Mediamind | ebNewBandWidth_.www.euronews.com | Collect information that may be used for online ad tailoring purposes. | 1 year | http://www.mediamind.com/privacy-policy |
| Google Ad Manager | __gads | These cookies are used for online advertising frequency capping and avoiding the duplication of ads on a page. | 13 months | http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/ |
| _drt_ | 1 day | |||
| id | 13 months | |||
| Grapeshot | Contextual targeting technology that allows us to place more relevant advertising based on the user reading habits and interests. | https://www.grapeshot.com/services-privacy-statement/ | ||
| Outbrain | Native advertising content, using targeted advertising to recommend articles, slideshows, blog posts, photos or videos to a reader. | 13 months | https://www.outbrain.com/legal/privacy https://www.outbrain.com/legal/#cookies | |
| Sharethrough | _ga | Delivering targeted and relevant content | https://platform-cdn.sharethrough.com/privacy-policy | |
| _gid | ||||
| stx_vc | ||||
| stx_user_id | ||||
| Spot IM | AppNexus | These cookies are used to collect data used for conversion tracking and audience retargeting of advertising campaign | ||
| Pubmatic | ||||
| DFP | ||||
| Third party Analytics | ||||
| Spot.IM | First Party Analytics Cookies | Performance Tracking Technologies. These Tracking Technologies are used to collect information regarding how you interact with the content on our Services, attribution purposes (for example, the referral URL), etc. We use the information to compile reports, calculate the revenues due to us and, help us improve the Services and to offer personalized products and content. | https://www.spot.im/privacy/ | |
| Google Analytics (_gads, _ga and _gid) | Performance Tracking Technologies. This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use our Services. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the Services. The cookies collect the number of visitors to the Services, where visitors have come to the Services from and the pages they visited, and other data | |||
| Scorecard Research (UID and UIDR) | Performance Tracking Technologies. We use cookies associated with comScore; these are used to get 3rd party measurement of our audience size | |||
| Hotjar (_hjIncludedInSample and _hjMinimizedPolls) | Performance Tracking Technologies. Hotjar is an analytics and feedback tool that we use to understand how our Services are used and improve usability. Hotjar sets cookies to help us track behavior across pages and to control visitor polls | |||
| Twitter (personalization_id and tfw_exp) | Social Media Tracking Technologies. We use Twitter Tracking Technologies in order enable the embedment of content | |||
| Instagram (csrftoken, mid, rur and urlgen) | Social Media Tracking Technologies. We use Instagran Tracking Technologies in order enable the embedment of content | |||
| Cedato | Performance Tracking Technologies. Cedato is a platform we use for hosting online videos. It uses cookies to track how people watch videos, including how much of each video is watched and how many videos each visitor views | |||
| StreamRail | Performance Tracking Technologies. StreamRail is a platform we use for hosting online videos. It uses cookies to track how people watch videos, including how much of each video is watched and how many videos each visitor views (see StreamRail’s privacy policy). | |||
| Ownpage | ownpage_tp | Third Party Cookies for analytics (open rate...) | 1 year | https://www.ownpage.fr/optout.en.html |
| Minute.ly | minDaily | Is user belongs to control group, Was unique analytic sent | Daily | |
| minBuffer | Buffer buckets | infinite - but no values | ||
| _minEE0 / _minEE1 / _minEE2 | Message buffer (aggregating analytics before send) | 24H | ||
| minSession | sessionID, Unique APV impressions and clicks, Was Analytics sent | 24H / 30 min | ||
| minVersion | Current version for a/b testing | 1 year | ||
| minUniq | UserID, Which highlights were given for Internal A/B testing | infinite | ||
| Local storage | minViewedHlts, Which highlights were given for Internal A/B testing | |||
Euronews’ Own Cookies
| Cookies | Usage | Persistance | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preferences | EN-cookie-accept | Memorize the cookies’ acceptance | 1 year |
| Processus | EN_poll_{pollid} | Memorizes user’s answer to a poll. | 1 year |