Cookie Policy

This “Cookies” section is intended to provide you with more information about the origin and use of browsing data collected while you consult our website, as well as your rights. This section is therefore important both for you, so that you may enjoy a positive and confident experience of our services, and for us, so that we may answer your questions accurately and comprehensively regarding your use of our website and take your preferences into account.

Accordingly, when you browse our website, information relating to the navigation of your device (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) on our site may be recorded in “Cookies” files installed on your device. Furthermore, we may purchase advertising space directly or through our service providers (communication agencies, advertising networks) in order to promote our business activities and offers on third-party websites/applications through advertising content (text, graphics, animations, videos, etc.) distributed by such websites/applications. Please note that only the issuer of a cookie is likely to read or modify the information contained therein.

A. Cookies Issued by Us on Our Website

When you connect to our website, and subject to your preferences (see “Your Cookie Choices”), we may install various cookies on your device that allow us to recognize your browser for the duration of the cookie’s validity period.

These cookies enable us to:

Compile statistics and traffic volumes regarding the use of the various sections and content of our website, helping us improve the relevance and usability of our services;
Adapt the presentation of our website to your device’s display preferences (language used, display resolution, operating system, etc.) according to the hardware and software used by your device;
Store information relating to forms you have completed on our website (registration or access to your account) or to products, services, or information you have selected on our website (subscribed service, shopping cart contents, etc.);
Allow you to access reserved and personal areas of our website, such as your account, using identifiers or data you may previously have provided to us;
Implement security measures, for example when you are asked to log in again to content or a service after a certain period of time.

B. Cookies Issued by Third Parties Through Our Website

Advertising content displayed within our advertising spaces may contain cookies issued by third parties. The issuance and use of cookies by such third parties are governed by their own privacy protection policies.

These cookies allow such third parties, during the validity period of the cookies, to:

Count the number of displays of advertising content distributed through our advertising spaces;
Identify the advertisements displayed and the number of users who clicked on each advertisement, enabling them to calculate the related amounts due and compile statistics;
Recognize your device when it subsequently browses any other website or service on which these advertisers or third parties also issue cookies and, where applicable, adapt those third-party websites, services, or advertisements according to your device’s browsing behavior known to them.

C. Cookies Placed by Us on Third-Party Websites Featuring Our Advertisements

When you access a website/application containing a VISTA PETS advertisement, that advertisement may contain a cookie. Subject to your preferences, this cookie may be stored on your device and allow us to recognize your browser for the duration of the cookie’s validity period.

These cookies are used to:

Count the number of displays and activations of our advertising content distributed on third-party websites/applications;
Identify such content and websites/applications;
Determine the number of users who clicked on each item of content;
Calculate amounts due to participants in the advertising distribution chain (communication agencies, advertising networks, media outlets);
Compile statistics;
Adapt the presentation of the website linked to one of our advertising contents according to your device’s display preferences (language used, display resolution, operating system, etc.) and the hardware and software installed on your device;
Use location data (longitude and latitude), transmitted by your device with your prior consent, in order to track subsequent browsing carried out by your device on websites/applications or other advertising content for which we operate cookies.

Adobe Flash Player™ “Flash” Cookies

Adobe Flash Player™ is a software application used for the rapid development of dynamic content using the “Flash” programming language. Flash (and similar applications) stores settings, preferences, and usage information for such content using technology similar to cookies. However, Adobe Flash Player™ manages this information and your preferences through a different interface from the one provided by your web browser.

If your device is capable of displaying content developed with Flash technology, we invite you to access your Flash cookie management tools directly from Adobe’s website.

The legal basis for the use of cookies is the legitimate interest of VISTA PETS pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

D. If You Share Your Device with Other People

We cannot ensure with certainty that the services and advertisements intended for your device correspond exclusively to your own use of that device and not to that of another user.

Sharing the use of your device with others and configuring your browser settings with regard to cookies are matters of your free choice and responsibility.

E. Your Choices Regarding Cookies

Several options are available to you for managing cookies. Any settings you configure may affect your Internet browsing experience and your access conditions to certain services requiring the use of cookies.

You may choose at any time to express and modify your preferences regarding cookies by using the methods described below.

Choices Offered by Your Browser Software

You may configure your browser software so that cookies are stored on your device or, conversely, rejected either systematically or according to their issuer. You may also configure your browser software so that you are prompted to accept or reject cookies before a cookie is likely to be stored on your device.

For more information, please refer to the section “How to Exercise Your Choices Depending on the Browser You Use.”

F. Consent to Cookies

The storage of a cookie on a device is essentially subject to the device user’s wishes, which may be expressed and modified at any time, free of charge, through the choices offered by their browser software.

If you have accepted the storage of cookies on your device through your browser software, the cookies embedded in the pages and content you have viewed may be temporarily stored in a dedicated space on your device. They will only be readable by their issuer.

H. Refusing Cookies

If you refuse the storage of cookies on your device, or if you delete those already stored, you may no longer benefit from certain features that are nevertheless necessary for browsing certain areas of our website.

This would be the case, for example, if you attempted to access content or services requiring identification. It would also apply if we could not recognize, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used by your device, its language and display settings, or the country from which your device appears to be connected to the Internet.

Where applicable, we disclaim any liability for consequences related to the degraded functioning of our services resulting from our inability to record or consult the cookies necessary for their operation and which you have refused or deleted.

I. How to Exercise Your Choices Depending on the Browser You Use

Cookie management and settings differ depending on the browser you use. These settings are described in your browser’s help menu, which will explain how to modify your cookie preferences.

Internet Explorer™: Open the “Tools” menu, select “Internet Options,” click the “Security” tab, then “Custom Level.”
Firefox™: Open the “Tools” menu, select “Options,” then click the “Privacy” tab.
Chrome™: Open the “Customize and Control Google Chrome” menu, select “Settings,” click “Show advanced settings,” then choose “Privacy” and click “Content settings.” Configure your choices in the “Cookies” section.
Safari™: Open the “Tools” menu, select “Preferences,” then click the “Security” tab.
Opera™: Open the “Tools” menu, select “Preferences,” then click the “Cookies” tab.

J. Your Online Choices Through Industry Platforms

You may visit the website Youronlinechoices, offered by digital advertising professionals grouped within the European Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) and managed in France by the Interactive Advertising Bureau France.

This platform allows you to identify the companies registered with it and gives you the opportunity to refuse or accept cookies used by these companies to tailor advertisements displayed on your device according to your browsing information:
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/fr/controler-ses-cookies/

This European platform is shared by hundreds of Internet advertising professionals and constitutes a centralized interface enabling you to express your acceptance or refusal of cookies used to adapt advertising displayed on your device according to your browsing behavior.

Please note that this procedure will not prevent advertisements from being displayed on the websites you visit. It only blocks technologies that adapt advertisements to your interests.