Cookies
The Become a Patron! website uses cookies, installed by the Musée du Louvre or by third parties, to improve your browsing experience and gather usage statistics. The purpose of this policy is to help you understand what cookies are, how they are used on the website, and how to manage them.
What is a cookie?
- A cookie is a text file that may be stored in a dedicated space on the hard drive of your device when you access an online service using your browser. A device is the hardware you use (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) to access or view a website, an application, advertising content, etc.
- A cookie file allows the issuer to identify the device on which it is stored and to send information such as a session identifier or choice of language to the website during the validity or retention period of the cookie. Only the issuer of the cookie can read or modify the information contained in said cookie.
- While you are browsing the website, cookies may be installed on your device by the Musée du Louvre or third parties.
- Some cookies are essential for using the site, while others are used to improve your browsing experience or to compile statistics. The lifetime of a cookie varies according to its purpose. Some disappear as soon as you leave the site, while others remain on your device until their lifetime expires or you delete them.
- All the cookies used on the Become a Patron! website, together with the purpose and expiration time of each cookie, can be found below in ‘Cookies used on our website’.
- When you access the Become a Patron! website, you are given the choice of allowing all cookies, rejecting all cookies, or setting your preferences. You can subsequently reject the cookies you have allowed, at any time, free of charge, using the options presented in ‘Cookie Management’.
Cookies used on our website
The cookies used on our website are issued by the Musée du Louvre or by third parties.
Cookies issued by the Musée du Louvre
The cookies we use on our website are those that are strictly necessary for the site to function (known as ‘technical’ cookies).
Technical cookies are essential for the proper functioning of our website and are used by the provider for the technical management of the network. They allow you to use the main features of the website. As a result, they are essential and cannot be rejected.
They include the following cookies:
- pll_language
Purpose: information on the website display language chosen by the user
Collected data: user’s choice
Lifetime: 12 months - tarteaucitron
Purpose: Save the preferences set by the user in the cookie manager
Collected data: user’s choice
Lifetime: 12 months
Third-party cookies
This category concerns cookies issued by a party other than the Musée du Louvre. The use of third-party cookies is governed by the conditions of use determined by the third party.
Piano Analytics
This website includes cookies issued by Piano Analytics from AT Internet designed to create statistics and analyse the number of visitors to our website and how they use it in order to:
- improve the browsing experience of our website with the ultimate aim of ensuring that it best meets your needs;
- conduct research.
These cookies are not used for commercial purposes by the Musée du Louvre. They are not essential to proper functioning of the website.
They include the following cookies:
- _pcid
Purpose: measurement of website traffic by Piano Analytics
Data collected: different types of visitors
Lifetime: 13 months - _pctx
Purpose: measurement of website traffic by Piano Analytics
Data collected: different types of visitors
Lifetime: 13 months - pa_privacy
Purpose: measurement of website traffic by Piano Analytics
Data collected: different types of visitors
Lifetime: 13 months
Youtube
Our website contains cookies issued by a video-sharing site (YouTube) in order to allow users to view multimedia content directly on our website. Further information on the use of YouTube cookies can be obtained directly on the YouTube website.
YouTube cookies are designed to:
- Measure website traffic and usage;
- Store users’ preferences.
They include the following:
- APISID
Purpose: measurement of YouTube traffic and usage
Data collected: information on use of embedded YouTube videos
Lifetime: session - SID
Purpose: measurement of YouTube traffic and usage
Données collectées : information on use of embedded YouTube videos
Lifetime: session - SAPISID
Purpose: mesure d’audience et d”usage YouTube
Data collected: information on use of embedded YouTube videos
Lifetime: session - SSID
Purpose: measurement of YouTube traffic and usage
Data collected: informations d’usage pour les vidéos hébergées sur YouTube
Lifetime: session - HSID
Purpose: measurement of YouTube traffic and usage
Data collected: information on use of embedded YouTube videos
Lifetime: session - LOGIN_INFO
Purpose: measurement of YouTube traffic and usage
Data collected: informations d’usage pour les vidéos hébergées sur YouTube
Lifetime: 13 months - PREF
Purpose: user preferences
Data collected: information on users’ preferences
Lifetime: 9 months - _VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Purpose: user preferences
Data collected: information on users’ preferences
Lifetime: 6 months - YSC
Purpose: measurement of YouTube traffic and usage
Data collected: information on use of embedded YouTube videos
Lifetime: session
Cookie management
The first time you enter our website, you are given the choice of allowing or blocking cookies, either completely or specifically, or setting your preferences.
If you do not want cookies to be placed or read on your terminal, a ‘blocker’ cookie will be placed on your terminal so that the Musée du Louvre can register the information that you have blocked the use of cookies. Likewise when you allow cookies, a ‘consent’ cookie will be placed on your terminal.
The ‘blocker’ cookies and ‘consent’ cookies will remain on your terminal for twelve (12) months.
You can manage the use of cookies, free of charge and at any time, by allowing or blocking them in the following ways:
- cookie management module;
- browser settings;
- industry-wide ad blocking platforms..
Warning: as indicated above, a cookie can only be rejected by placing a ‘blocker’ cookie on your device. As a result, if you reject all the cookies on your device or if you change devices, the cookie consent banner will be displayed again when you access the site at a later time.
Cookie management module
Our website provides you with a cookie management module that allows you, at any time, to choose or modify which cookies you wish to allow or reject.
You can access the module by clicking on ‘Manage preferences’ at the top of the page, or visiting the ‘Cookies’ page linked in the website’s footer.
Industry-wide ad blocking platforms
Several professional advertising platforms also offer the possibility of rejecting or allowing cookies used by member companies. These centralised platforms do not block the display of advertisements, but only prevent the storage of cookies that allow advertisements to be tailored to your interests and behaviour.
For example, you can log on to the www.youronlinechoices.com website to prevent these cookies from being placed on your device. This website is proposed by digital advertising professionals who are members of the European Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) and is managed in France by the Interactive Advertising Bureau France.
You can find out which companies are registered with the EDAA and offer you the possibility of allowing or rejecting the cookies they use for interest-based advertising on your web browser: https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.
This European platform is shared by hundreds of internet advertising professionals and provides a centralised interface so that you can allow or reject cookies as indicated above.
Personal data protection
The cookies issued by the Musée du Louvre do not process any of your personal data. However, the third-party cookies used on our website are dependent upon external processors that may, if you allow these cookies, process your personal data.
The issue and use of such cookies by third parties are governed by their own privacy and data protection policies.
The data collected is needed to achieve the specific purpose of each cookie. The data is only intended for the relevant, authorised departments of the company issuing the third-party cookies.
Your personal data may be transferred by YouTube to service providers located in countries outside the European Union, namely the United States.
Such data transfers must be governed by a cross-border agreement drawn up in accordance with the standard contractual clauses issued by the European Commission and currently in force.
Personal data collected via cookies must not be kept longer than necessary to achieve the purpose of the cookie.
For more information on the data processing that may be carried out by third party cookies placed on our site, please refer to the privacy policies and terms of use of YouTube and Google.
More information
For more information on cookies, refer to the French Data Protection Authority, Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés (CNIL) website: https://www.cnil.fr/en
The following pages are of particular interest (in French):