Cookie management

When you visit our website at www.final-materials.com, cookies will be saved on your computer, mobile or tablet.

Our website is designed to be particularly attentive to the requirements and expectations of our clients. This is one of the reasons why we use cookies, for example as a means of identifying you and accessing your account, managing your shopping basket, memorizing your visits to the site and customizing the offers which we propose for your attention.

This page will help you to understand how cookies work and how to use existing tools for the setting of cookie parameters.

1/ WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Cookies are data which are saved on the terminal device of a web surfer as a means of transmitting information to the browser used by the web surfer concerned. This permits the browser to refer information to the source website (for example, a session identifier, choice of language or date).

Cookies permit the conservation, during the term of validity of the cookie concerned, of status information associated with browser access to the various pages of a website, or with the subsequent return of the browser to this same website.

Only the originator of a cookie can read or edit the information contained therein.

Various types of cookies will potentially be used on our website: 

• Cookies which are strictly necessary to the browsing of the site, and which ensure its correct operation; these cookies allow you to use the key functionalities of our website (for example, use of the shopping basket or access to your account).
• Cookies which are used for the constitution of statistics on site visits, and for the identification of the functioning and performance of our website, in the interests of improving its operation.
• Social media cookies and plug-ins.
• Advertising content published on our website is liable to contain cookies originating from third parties. Cookies of this type may also be saved on your terminal device as you browse.

The generation and use of these cookies by third parties will be subject to the privacy protection policies of said third parties. The specific purpose of these cookies is as follows:

• logging of the number of viewings of advertising content, identification of advertisements viewed and of the number of users who have clicked on each advertisement, specifically for the calculation of sums payable to advertising agencies and for the establishment of statistics; 
• the recognition of your terminal during a subsequent browsing operation, in order to permit the adaptation and customization of services and advertising offers posted for your attention on our website, or on any other site in which cookies are placed by the third parties concerned.

2/LIST OF COOKIES

3/ GOOGLE ANALYTICS

FINAL ADVANCED MATERIALS uses the services of the US corporation Google Inc. The Google Analytics service permits the logging of site visitors and the identification of the manner in which they use the site. These cookies are saved and read on the terminal device of the user, immediately the latter accesses a website which uses the “Google Analytics” service. 

Further information on the Google Analytics service can be found on this page (https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en).

4/ COOKIES FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SHARING FUNCTIONS

FINAL ADVANCED MATERIALS provides users with functionalities for the sharing of editorial content, or any other type of content, which is published on the website via social media sites (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn).

Social media cookies are managed by the social media site publisher. The publisher of the social media site concerned will be able to identify the user by means of share buttons, even if the relevant share button has not been used during a visit to our website. 

In practice, this type of application button will permit the social media site concerned to track the browsing of our website by a user, simply by the activation of a user account for that social media network (session in progress) on their terminal device while browsing the website.

FINAL ADVANCED MATERIALS has no control over the process employed by social media for the collection of information relating to the browsing of our website by a user, and associated with the personal data at their disposal. 

We would suggest that any user familiarize themselves with the social media cookie management policy for the websites concerned. These protection policies are specifically intended to allow a user to exercise available options on social media sites, particularly by the setting of parameters for their user accounts on each of the social media networks concerned.

5/ CONSENT

When you browse our website, the placement and reading of cookies will permit the analysis of your browsing operations, and the logging of the number of visits to our website at https://www.final-materials.com/. 

You also have the option for the management of cookies employed on our website, by setting parameters on our management tool, which can be accessed using the “Privacy control button” at the foot of the page, or by setting parameters on your browser, as described below. 

The user will be notified if cookies or other technologies are employed in association with connections to our website, subject to the preference expressed by the user; this preference may be modified at any time. 

A number of options are available for the removal of cookies. 

In practice, while the majority of browsers have default parameter settings for the acceptance of the installation of cookies, you have the option, should you so wish, to accept all cookies, to systematically reject cookies, or to select those cookies which you wish to accept, according to the originator. To this end, you can install a cookie management function for the addition, deletion, modification, retrieval, protection and blocking of cookies. 

You can also set parameters on your browser for the acceptance or rejection of each individual cookie, prior to installation. You can also delete cookies from your terminal device on a regular basis, using your browser. 

For the management of cookies and available options, the configuration of each browser is also possible. This function is described in the help menu of your browser, which will show you how to modify your preferences for cookie management. 

However, it should be borne in mind that, by setting your browser to reject cookies, certain functionalities, pages and spaces on our website will no longer be accessible, for which we can accept no responsibility.

We would also draw your attention to the fact that, when you object to the installation or use of a cookie, a rejection cookie will be installed on your terminal device. 

If you delete this rejection cookie, it will no longer be possible to identify you as a party who has rejected the use of cookies. 

Likewise, when you consent to the installation of cookies, a consent cookie will be installed. Consent or rejection cookies must remain in place on your terminal device.

UPDATE

The present policy was brought into force on 01/06/2021 and was updated on 31/05/2022.

To check for any updates to our policy, this page should be visited on a regular basis.

Do you have any questions concerning your personal data? 

The DPO of Final Advanced Materials will be able to provide you with any further information on the use of your data.

Your request should be submitted by post to: FINAL ADVANCED MATERIALS, 4 Avenue de Strasbourg, 68350 Didenheim, or by e-mail to info@final-materials.com

For any further information on the protection of personal data, you can also visit the website of the National Commission for Data-processing and Civil Liberties (“Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés” or “CNIL”) at www.cnil.fr