This Policy on cookies and similar technologies (hereinafter “Cookies”) is governed by European and French legislation applicable to Davis Acoustics (hereinafter “Davis Acoustics”, “We”, “Us”, “Our”). It governs Our use of Cookies and allows You (hereinafter, “You”, “Your”) to learn more about the origin, terms and conditions of use of navigation information processed in connection with Your use of Our websites, mobile sites, cell phone applications and other mobile terminals or telephone services (hereinafter, “Services”) and Your rights in this respect.

This Cookie Privacy Policy (hereinafter the “Policy”) is a contractual and informational statement governing Your use of Our Services. Unless otherwise specified, the Policy applies to the processing of data that We collect by means of Cookies.

. WHAT IS A COOKIE?

When you use Our Services, information relating to Your browsing and Your terminal (computer, tablet, smartphones, etc.) may be recorded by means of small text files called “Cookies” installed on Your terminal by means of Your Internet browser, subject to the choices You have made concerning Cookies and which You may modify at any time (see the “Configuring my Cookies” section below).

Our Services collect connection data likely to identify Your terminal when You use our Services, such as the telephone number when You call Us, the IP address of Your terminal connected to the Internet, the type of browser and operating system used by Your terminal, as well as other data that Our online Services process automatically, such as the identity of Your Internet service provider, the name of the website from which Your terminal accessed Our online Service, the number of pages visited within Our Services, Your route through Our online Services, the time spent on each page of Our online Services, etc. This data is used to manage Our Services, and to analyze visits to Our Services and their use.

Only the issuer of a Cookie may access this Cookie and read or modify the information contained therein. The information concerning You contained in the Cookies we use is not transmitted to third parties other than Our subcontractors, when this is necessary for the purposes of providing Our Services. We do not transmit this data to other third parties.

Davis Acoustics uses different types of Cookies on the Services:

  • Session or “temporary” Cookies are temporary Cookies that are active only for the time of Your use of Our Services and are deleted when You close Your browser. Their duration is limited to the time during which You are connected to Our Services;

Persistent Cookies are stored on the hard disk of Your terminal (computer, smartphone, tablet) and remain active once Your browser is closed, until Your browser purges them after a certain period of time, You manually delete them before this period expires or their lifetime, as indicated below, is reached and We delete them.

  1. WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?

2.1 The Cookies We Issue When You Use Our Services

When You connect to and use Our Services, We and, where applicable, service providers acting on Our behalf, may, subject to Your choices, install various Cookies on Your terminal, enabling Us to recognize Your terminal’s browser for the duration of the Cookie’s validity. The Cookies that We issue are used for the purposes described below, subject to the choices that You may express to Us at any time (see “Configuring my cookies” below).

2.1.1 Cookies necessary for the operation of Our Services

The cookies that We use enable Us in particular to:

adapt the presentation of Our Services to Your terminal’s display preferences (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) when You use Our Services, depending on Your terminal’s viewing or reading hardware and software;

to store information relating to a form that You have filled in when using Our Services (registration or access to your account) or to products, services and information that You have chosen through Our Services (subscribed service, etc.).

2.1.2 Analysis and audience measurement cookies

The Cookies that We use enable Us to establish statistics and volumes of visits to and use of the various elements making up Our Services (pages, sections and content visited, browsing paths, etc.), thus enabling Us to improve the interest and ergonomics of Our Services.

2.2 Cookies issued by third parties during Your use of Our Services

Multi Tech Home© and other entities that are Our service providers are likely to use Cookies on the Services in order to provide Us with services (for example, partners measuring the audience on the Services and the advertisements displayed on them).

Third parties may also use Cookies on their own sites and services in connection with Our Services. The issuance and use of Cookies by third parties are subject to the privacy policies of such third parties, to the exclusion of the rules of this Policy.

This Policy informs You of the purpose of Cookies issued or used by Davis Acoustics and the means available to You to make choices with respect to such Cookies (see “Configuring my Cookies” below), to the exclusion of any other third-party Cookies.

2.2.1 Cookies relating to social networks or third-party applications integrated into Our Services

Some of Our Services include computer applications from third parties, which allow You to share content from Our Services with other people or to let these other people know about Your consultation or Your opinion concerning content on Our Services. This is notably the case of the ‘Share’ or ‘Like’ buttons on social networks such as ‘Facebook’, ‘Twitter’, ‘Google +’, ‘Linkedln’, ‘Viadeo’, etc.

2.2.2 Advertising cookies or cookies relating to third-party content distributed by Our Services

We also authorise third parties (in particular Google) to use Cookies (both temporary and persistent) on Our Services in order to enable Us to:

  • Count the number of users of Our Services, in particular for statistical purposes ;
  • To aggregate and compile information about the areas of Our Services that are most frequently used, and to track Our advertising activity on and off the Services. This information is used to enhance the content of Our Services and to make it easier for You to use them, but also to inform Us about the success of Our advertising campaigns on other websites;
  • To recognise Your terminal during its subsequent browsing on any other site or service on which these third parties also issue Cookies and, where appropriate, to adapt these third party sites and services or the advertisements they display, to the browsing of their terminal of which they may be aware.
  1. LIFESPAN OF COOKIES

The Cookies we use have a maximum lifetime of 13 months within Your terminal.

  1. YOUR CHOICES CONCERNING COOKIES

Several options are available to You for managing Cookies on Our Services. Any settings that You may make may modify Your browsing on the Internet and the operating conditions of certain Services that require the use of Cookies.

You may at any time express and modify Your choices concerning Cookies, by the means described below.

4.2 Refusal of Cookies

We use ‘technical’ Cookies to enable Our Services to function properly. If You refuse the storage of Cookies on Your terminal, or if You delete those stored there, You will no longer be able to benefit from a certain number of functionalities which are nevertheless necessary to navigate in certain areas of Our Services. This would notably be the case if We – or our service providers – were unable to recognise, for technical accounting purposes, the type of browser used by Your terminal, its language and display settings or the country from which Your terminal appears to be connected to the Internet.

Where applicable, We decline all responsibility for the consequences linked to the degraded functioning of Our Services resulting from the impossibility for Us to record or consult the Cookies necessary for the functioning of the Services and which You would have refused or deleted.

5.1 Configure Your browser software:

You can configure Your browser software to accept or reject all or some of the Cookies issued by any online service that You visit, including Our Services or services provided by third parties.

You can configure Your browser software so that Cookies are stored in Your terminal or, on the contrary, rejected, either systematically or depending on the sender. You can also configure Your browser software so that You are offered the option of accepting or rejecting Cookies from time to time, before a Cookie is recorded on Your terminal. For further information, please

see the section below entitled ‘How to exercise Your choices depending on the browser You are using’.

If You have accepted the storage of Cookies on Your terminal in Your browser software, the Cookies integrated into the pages and content that You consult or have consulted are or will be stored temporarily in a dedicated space on the hard disk of Your terminal. They can only be read by the sender, who is the only person with access to them. Select each family of Cookies independently in order to configure the information You wish to communicate as You wish.

5.2 How do you exercise your choices depending on the browser you are using?

For the management of Cookies and Your choices, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in Your browser’s help menu, which will tell you how to modify Your preferences with regard to Cookies.

For Internet Explorer™: windows.microsoft.com/en-EN/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies,

For Safari™: docs.info.apple.com/article.html

For Chrome™: support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py,

For Firefox™: support.mozilla.org/en/kb/Activate%20and%20d%C3%A9sactivate%20the%20cookies,

For Opera™: help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/en/cookies.html,

  1. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE COOKIES ACCOMPANYING OUR ADVERTISING CONTENT DISTRIBUTED BY THIRD PARTIES?

When You access a site or an application containing advertising spaces displaying one of Our advertisements, this advertisement is likely to contain a Cookie. This Cookie is likely, subject to Your choices, to be stored on Your terminal and to enable Us to recognise Your terminal’s browser for the duration of the Cookie’s validity. The Cookies integrated into Our advertisements broadcast by third parties are used for the purposes described below, subject to Your choices, which result from the parameters of Your browser software used during Your use of Our Services and which You may express to Us at any time (see the ‘Configuring my cookies’ section above).

The Cookies that We issue enable Us, if You have allowed them to be stored on Your terminal:

  • to count the number of times our advertising content is displayed and activated on third-party sites/applications, to identify this content and these sites/applications, and to determine the number of users who clicked on each piece of content;
  • according to the display preferences of Your terminal (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) when You use Our Services and according to the hardware and software for viewing or reading that Your terminal has,
  • according to the location data (longitude and latitude) transmitted to Us (or to our service providers) by Your terminal with Your prior consent,
  • to monitor Your terminal’s subsequent browsing of websites/applications or other advertising content;
  • dynamically adapt the display of the content of Our Services and offers or Our advertising spaces according to Your browsing and Your centres of interest.