In France, Personal Data Protection is regulated by the General Data Protection Regulation of 27th April 2016 (better known under the name RGPD) and by the IT and Freedom Act of 6th January 1978 (amended).
The Casino, Guichard-Perrachon Company (hereafter “we”), is a public limited company with a Board of Directors, a share capital of 165,892,131.90€, registered in the Saint-Etienne Trade and Companies under number 554 501 171, with its headquarters located 1 Cours Antoine Guichard – 42000 Saint-Etienne.
As we are in charge of dealing with all data, we are very mindful of Data protection for all our customers and potential customers (hereafter “you”), whose data we may handle for business purposes. This is the reason why we are committed to respecting the essential principles applicable to Personal Data Protection.
For this reason, we wish to share in this policy the way we handle cookies on our site http://groupe-casino.fr. We also wish to inform you on the different options offered to manage your preferences as regards cookies.
1/ What is a cookie?
A cookie can be defined as a tracker or connexion marker, installed, registered and/or read by the user’s web browser when they browse an internet site, download an app, use software or a mobile app.
There are 5 types of cookies:
- the cookies “strictly necessary” for the operation of the website. They cannot be deactivated in our systems. These cookies do not store any personally identifying information ;
- the cookies for “technical use” (“essential”) improve the interactivity of the site, facilitate content sharing and usability ;
- the cookies for audience measurement are used to determine the number of visits, to understand navigation and traffic sources, in order to measure and improve and optimize the experiences and performance of our website and web application. They also help us to identify the most / least visited pages and to assess how visitors navigate the site. If you do not accept these cookies, your user experience will not help improve the experience and performance of our site ;
- the cookies for advertising or targeting record data that makes it possible to control the display of advertisements towards a particular Internet user. The deposit of these cookies requires the collection of your consent ;
- the cookies for “social network” allow content to be shared to social networks. The deposit of these cookies requires the collection of your consent.
2/ What are the shared cookies?
The names of the cookies likely to be shared or read on your device, their purpose and the period for which they are kept are summarised in the following chart:
2.1/ The cookies "strictly necessary"
| Name of the cookies | Third party name | Purpose | Period |
| PHPSESSID | WordPress | Enables anonymous identification of a user to contextualise the behaviour of the page. Cookie generated by the php language. | Duration of the session |
| __cfduid | OneTrust | Helps detecting malicious visitors and minimises blocking of legitimate users. | 6 months |
| OptanonConsent | OneTrust | Saves the visitor’s choice of settings. | 6 months |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | OneTrust | Enables not to show a cookie message more than once to the user. | 6 months |
| BIGipServerREC_PRD_FO_AZ | TalentSoft | Enables the proper functioning and display of the TalentSoft tool, and ensures the link with the correct database. | Duration of the session |
| eupubconsent | IAB Europe | Enables the user’s consent to be stored. | 6 months |
2.2 / The cookies for "technical use" ("essential")
| Name of the cookies | Third party name | Purpose | Period |
| pll_language | WordPress | Enables you to keep the version of the site used (FR/EN) for the next visit. | 6 months |
| JSESSIONID | JSP | Enables the user’s session to remain anonymous. | Duration of the session |
| ts_sessionid | TalentSoft | Enables the proper functioning and display of the TalentSoft tool, and ensures the link with the correct database. | Duration of the session |
| BIGipServerREC_PRD_FO | TalentSoft | Enables the proper functioning and display of the TalentSoft tool, and ensures the link with the correct database. | Duration of the session |
| gdpr[consent_types] | WordPress | Manages the authorization and consent of the users of the privacy policy. | 6 months |
| test_cookie | DoubleClick | Check whether the user’s browser supports cookies. | Duration of the session |
| SERVERID | Textkernel | Technical cookie generated by the server to ensure overall system stability. | Duration of the session |
| prevnext | WordPress | Necessary for the proper functioning of the Elementor page management module. | Duration of the session |
| gdpr[allowed_cookies] | WordPress | Manages the authorization and consent of the users of the privacy policy. | 6 months |
| ogp_front_prod | INA | Enables the enhancement and customisation of the website’s functionality, by creating a gateway to the INA’s database. | Duration of the session |
| _gat_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Calameo | Enables you to improve and customise the functionality of the website, by creating a gateway to the Calameo database. | Duration of the session |
| user_session | recrute.groupe-casino | Identifies the user on the site. | Duration of the session |
| tarteaucitron | recrute.groupe-casino | Saving cookies consent choices. | 6 months |
2.3/ The cookies for audience measurement
| Name of the cookies | Third party name | Purpose | Period |
| xtan | AT Internet | Maintain a visitor’s digital identity when they log in to the site. | 6 months |
| xtant | AT Internet | Help in managing identified visitors. | 6 months |
| idrxvr | AT Internet | Enables the visitor’s path to be traced in order to establish visit statistics. | 6 months |
| xtvrn | AT Internet | Enables the visitor’s path to be traced in order to establish visit statistics. | 6 months |
| atidx | AT Internet | Enables the visitor’s path to be traced in order to establish visit statistics. | 6 months |
| atid | AT Internet | Enables the visitor’s path to be traced in order to establish visit statistics. | 6 months |
| IDE | DoubleClick | Use for ad targeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution. | 6 months |
| UID | Score Card Research | Collects data on website activity. | 6 months |
2.4/ The cookies for advertising or targeting
| Name of the cookies | Third party name | Purpose | Period |
| ctkgen | indeed | Determines which ads are shown to the visitor. | Duration of the session |
| jasx_pool_id | indeed | Determines which ads are shown to the visitor. | Duration of the session |
| INDEED_CSRF_TOKEN | indeed | Determines which ads are shown to the visitor. | Duration of the session |
| CTK | indeed | Determines which ads are shown to the visitor. | Duration of the session |
| uuid | goldenbees | Enables to remember a visitor’s digital identity in order to offer them more targeted content. | 6 months |
| TDCPM | adsrvr | Enables to remember a visitor’s digital identity in order to offer them more targeted content. | 6 months |
| TDID | adsrvr | Contains a unique randomly generated value that allows the platform to distinguish between browsers and devices. | 6 months |
2.5/ The cookies for “social network”
| Name of the cookies | Third party name | Purpose | Period |
| uvc | Addthis | Count the visits. | 6 months |
| xtc | Addthis | Anonymously tracks visits to sites that offer a content sharing function on social networks.. | 6 months |
| __atuvc | Addthis | Cookie allowing Addthis to propose sharing on social networks. | 6 months |
| __atuvs | Addthis | Cookie allowing Addthis to propose sharing on social networks. | Duration of the session |
| __atrfs | Addthis | Used to collect anonymous statistical data. | Duration of the session |
| st_samesite | Sharethis | Enables ShareThis to offer sharing on social networks. | Duration of the session |
| __sharethis_cookie_test__ | ShareThis | Enables ShareThis to offer sharing on social networks. | Duration of the session |
| __stid | ShareThis | Enables ShareThis to offer sharing on social networks. | 6 months |
| __stidv | ShareThis | Collects information about the user and their movements. | 6 months |
| UIDR | Score Card Research | Collects information about the user and their movements. | 6 months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube | Measures the visitor’s bandwidth in order to offer them a video in the best format. For more information. | 6 months |
| YSC | YouTube | Records the statistics of YouTube videos viewed by the user on the site. For more information. | Duration of the session |
| CONSENT | YouTube | Collects user data through videos embedded in the website. For more information. | 6 months |
| lang | Sets the default language setting. For more information. | Duration of the session | |
| bcookie | Used to monitor integrated services. For more information. | 6 months | |
| lidc | Optimises the selection of data centres. For more information. | 1 day | |
| lissc | Used to monitor integrated services. For more information. | 6 months | |
| li_gc | Used to store guest users’ consent to use cookies for non-essential purposes. For more information. | 6 months | |
| fr | Measures and improves the relevance of ads. For more information. | 90 days | |
| personalization_id | Enables the visitor to share content from the website on Twitter. For more information. | 90 days |
3/ On what occasion are cookies installed?
You are informed that, while visiting our websites and mobile apps, cookies can be installed on your devices (PC, tablet or smartphone). Also, cookies can be installed on your device via emails you receive or while downloading software or a mobile app.
These cookies can be installed by us as publisher of digital materials, or by third parties, which can act on our behalf as subcontractors or in their own interest.
3/ How to set the use of cookies?
We save your choice for up to 6 months. We allow you to set the parameters of the cookies, i.e. to accept or refuse all or part of the cookies placed on our digital spaces. The settings can be made:
- either using the setting tool available at all times by clicking on ;
- or by pre-setting your web browser. To do this, each browser has its own particularities but settings are available via Help menus for each one. For instance :
Note that we cannot guarantee the sustainability of these URLs, nor the quality of the information provided.
As regards mobile apps, emails and social networks, please look at the setting options on your account, as they may be different according to the platform or operator, but they enable you to control the personal data collected.
We also wish to draw your attention on the fact that deactivating certain types of cookies may bear consequences on the use of our services. As a matter of fact, refusing or restricting certain cookies can result in access limitation or restriction to a service, a page or content, or generally, a limited customer experience, which is characterised for example by the obligation of retyping many times the same information in boxes to fill in.
5/ Contacts
To find out more, and to exercise your rights, you can also read our Data Protection Policy available on our internet site.
Should you wish to make a complaint to a French monitoring entity, you must contact the Cnil.
You can also contact our Personal Data protection Officer (DPO) at the following address: informatique-et-libertes@groupe-casino.fr
The current policy will be updated whenever necessary.
March 2021 version