Cookies are very useful, both for you and for us. In this policy, we explain why we use cookies, which ones we use, and most importantly, how these cookies enhance your browsing experience.
1. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file saved and/or read by your browser on the hard drive of your device, which allows obtaining information related to your navigation on our website.
Necessary cookies :
Some enable or facilitate your navigation on our site, these are technical cookies, while others are necessary for the site to function, these are functionality cookies. Necessary cookies cannot be disabled as they are essential for the site’s operation.
Non-essential cookies :
They do not affect the quality of your navigation or the basic functions of the site. These include advertising or targeting cookies and those related to site performance. We or our partners always use them with your explicit consent.
How long does a cookie last?
Some cookies are « session cookies », meaning that they disappear as you leave the site. Others are called « persistent », they remain on your device until their expiration or until you delete them using your browser’s features.
2. What are cookies used for?
Cookies enable :
- The proper functioning of the site and our services by remembering your cookie preferences or ensuring security on our site, for example.
- Improving navigation and experience by using your language for example, or offering personalized content.
- Enhancing interactions with your social networks, such as LinkedIn or Facebook.
- Analysing site’s use and traffic to help us understand the performance of our site.
3. Which cookies do we use?
Technical and functionalities cookies
| Name | Description | Domain | Duration |
| WPML | Store the language of the user and can redirect him to the version of the website that matches with the browser language | .expat-assurance.com | 1 day session, no expiration, |
| Elementor | Store the number of page views and active sessions of the user. | .expat-assurance.com | Session |
| Cloudflare | Protects websites from malicious traffic, used to uniquely identify the user | .expat-assurance.com | Session, 30 minutes, 1 minute, 1 day |
| Real Cookie banner | Store cookies preferences and users consent | .expat-assurance.com | 365 days |
| Google Tag Manager | Google Tag Management to trigger third-party scripts or send data to a third-party service. | .google.com | Session |
| YouTube | Integration of content published on youtube.com into websites to enrich websites with videos. | .youtube.com | Session, 1 day, 6 months, 9 months, 1 year, 13 months |
| Google maps | Integration of maps directly into websites to enhance them. | .google.com | 6 months, 1 year, 13 months |
| Google fonts | Integration of fonts into websites to enhance them without installing fonts on your device. | .google.com | |
| Integration of content published on facebook.com into websites to enhance them. | .facebook.com | Session, 1 day, 7 days, 3 months, 1 year, 13 month, 2 years, | |
| Google reCAPTCHA | Solution to prevent spam and detect bots | .google.com | Session, 1 day, 6 months, 1 year, 13 months |
Targeting and performance cookies (non-essential)
| Name | Description | Domain | Duration |
| Google Analytics | Creates detailed statistics on user behavior on the site | .expat-assurance.com | 24 months |
| HubSpot | Records sessions and adjusts session data, visitor tracking | hubspot.com | 5 months |
| Enables the embedding of Facebook pages / share and like buttons into websites to enhance the website | .facebook.com | 1 year, 7 days, 1 year, 13 months |
4. How to manage your cookies?
Most browsers allow you to decline cookies. The methods to do so vary from one browser to another and from one version to another.
Configuring your browser to decline or restrict the use of cookies may limit access to certain services, pages, or content and certain features of our site.
