1. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file containing information stored on the terminal used to visit the website (computer, tablet, smartphone).
A cookie can contain various information:
- an identification number;
- the server that placed a cookie on your computer;
- the file’s expiration date or period of validity;
- information to improve your navigation.
There are two kinds of cookies:
- session cookies which disappear as soon as you leave the website;
- permanent cookies which are stored on your terminal until their expiration date or if removed manually.
- Strictly necessary cookies
- analytical cookies
Intern cookies are used by the website and can only be read by the site itself.
Third party cookies
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, which can’t work correctly without them.
NAME | PURPOSE | EXPIRY DATE |
pll_language | This cookie remembers the language selected by the user when he comes back to visit the website. | 1 year |
rgpd-consent | Used to allow third-party functions and services in general. | 30 days |
rgpd-allow-analytics | Used to activate the Google Analytics statistics services. | 30 days |
ga-disable-UA-(propertyid)-1 | Used to prevent cookies from being sent to Google Analytics. | 30 days |
rgpd-visited | Used to find out if it’s the user’s first visit or not and apply or not implied consent through the continuation of the navigation. | 30 days |
These cookies allow us to collect information on how visitors move around our website when they are using it (for example number of page views, connection time, most visited pages, etc.). bffarchitectes.lu uses Google Analytics for web analytics, a solution developed by Google Inc. The collected data refer to your navigation on the site and your IP address which determines your geographic location and is anonymised after being identified.
NAME | PURPOSE | EXPIRY DATE |
_utma | Collects data on how often the user visits the website as well as the dates of the first and last visit. | 2 years |
_utmz | Collects data on where the user comes from, the search engine, the clicked link and the search criteria. Used by Google Analytics. | 6 months |
_ga | Used by Analytics to save a unique identifier used to generate statistical data on how visitors move around the website. | 2 years |
_gat | Used by Google Analytics to radically reduce the requests ratio. | Session time |
_gid | Used by Analytics to save a unique identifier used to generate statistical data on how visitors move around the website. | Session time |
3. How to configure cookies?
You can manage, allow or refute cookies through the browser’s configuration or an advertising cookies configuration platform.
3.1 Manage cookies by configuring your browser
Click on the corresponding link to set your browser:
- Manage cookies on Internet Explorer
- Manage cookies on Firefox
- Manage cookies on Google Chrome
- Manage cookies on Opera
- Manage cookies on Safari
bffarchitectes.lu would like to bring your attention to the fact that by configuring your cookies on the browser, some of the website’s functions may not be completely accessible.
3.2 Manage advertising cookies through a platform
bffarchitectes.lu also informs you of the existence of a platform regrouping online advertising professionals. It provides the internet users with a tool to help manage the rejection of cookies from member companies.
- Manage advertising cookies via http://www.youronlinechoices.com/fr/controler-ses-cookies/
3.3 Manage cookies via the cookies manager