European laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the e-Privacy Directive 2002/58/EC, create obligations for digital publishers such as PhinC Development (France) and (PhInc Modeling) (Canada) (together “PhinC”) to give visitors of their sites and apps information about how they will use and share their personal data, as well as about the use of cookies, mobile ad IDs, and other forms of local storage.
A cookie is a text file, normally consisting of letters and numbers, sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser on the user’s device (e.g., computer, telephone, tablet). These cookies can be used to identify or to collect information about you.
They are created, sent to your device and stored by the website you are visiting directly. They allow PhinC to collect customer analytics data, remember language settings, and carry out other useful functions that help provide a good user experience.
They are placed through services provided by third parties integrated into PhinC’s website. These third parties may process information collected through the cookies in accordance with their respective privacy and cookie policies.
Cookies can also be classified depending on the purpose of their placement. Main categories are:
they allow PhinC to recognize and link your actions during a browsing session. When you go to the login page, these temporary cookies will be created to determine whether or not your browser accepts cookies.
they are placed on your device between sessions. They can be used to remember your preferences or actions on PhinC’s website.
Cookies do not give PhinC access to the contents of your device. However, depending on their purpose, cookies may allow PhinC or third parties to collect information about your device, browsing activity and interactions with the website.
Concretely, these cookies help to improve the functioning of the website of PhinC and can be used for several purposes:
| Cookie name | Type | Purpose | Provider | First or Third-Party cookies | Retention period |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
oc_sessionPassphrase | Necessary | Nextcloud/ownCloud session cookie: stores the passphrase used to encrypt the user's session data on the PhinC file-sharing instance | PhinC | Internal | Session duration |
oc4x9257qu6h | Necessary | Nextcloud/ownCloud instance session ID (name = 'oc' + instance ID); keeps the user logged in on the PhinC file-sharing instance | PhinC | Internal | Session duration |
__Secure-1PAPISID | Functional | Google account authentication cookie; also used by Google to build a profile of interests for ad personalisation | Third-party | 13 months | |
__Secure-1PSID | Marketing | Google account authentication cookie; also used by Google to build a profile of interests for ad personalisation | Third-party | 13 months | |
__Secure-3PAPISID | Marketing | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting | YouTube / Google | Third-party | 13 months |
__Secure-3PSID | Marketing | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting | YouTube / Google | Third-party | 13 months |
__Secure-BUCKET | Functional | Google internal cookie (service/experiment segmentation) | Third-party | 6 months | |
__Secure-ENID | Functional | Stores the user's Google preferences (e.g. language, SafeSearch) and consent choices on Google services | Third-party | 13 months | |
_ga | Analytics | Cookie used to count and track pageviews | Google Analytics | Internal | 13 months |
_ga_XHTNQPXX09 | Analytics | Cookie used to count and track pageviews | Google Analytics | Internal | 13 months |
_gcl_au | Marketing | To store and track conversions | Google Ads | Third-party | 3 months |
APISID | Functional | Set by YouTube on pages with embedded YouTube video | YouTube | Third-party | 13 months |
cookieyes-consent | Necessary | Remember the cookie consent choices expressed by the user. | PhinC | Internal | 12 mois |
IDE | Marketing | To serve targeted advertisements that are relevant across the web | DoubleClick | Third-party | 13 months |
ifso_visit_counts | Analytics | Counts visits (used for personalised content) | Extension If-So | Third-party | 1 year |
NID | Marketing | To enable ad delivery or retargeting, store user preferences | Optimisation Google Ads | Third-party | 6 months |
o2s-chl | Strictement nécessaire | Anti-bot protection, blocks automated access | o2switch | Internal | 24 hours |
PHPSESSID | Strictement nécessaire | Used to preserve user session state across page requests | PhinC | Internal | Session duration |
SAPISID | Functional | Google account authentication cookie; also used by Google to build a profile of interests for ad personalisation | YouTube | Third-party | 13 months |
sib_cuid | Analytics | Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) tracker: unique visitor ID used to track visits and link them to email campaigns/automations | Brevo | Internal | 6 months |
SID | Functional | Google account authentication cookie; also used by Google to build a profile of interests for ad personalisation | YouTube | Third-party | 13 months |
SOCS | Functional | To store cookie consent preferences | Third-party | 13 months | |
SSID | Functional | Google account authentication cookie; also used by Google to build a profile of interests for ad personalisation | YouTube | Third-party | 13 months |
uuid | Marketing | Brevo automation tracker (sibautomation.com): identifies the visitor across sessions for marketing automation | Brevo | Third-party | 6 months |
wpEmojiSettingsSupports | Strictement nécessaire | Checks whether the browser can display emojis (sessionStorage, not a cookie) | WordPress | Third-party | Session |
elementor | Strictement nécessaire | Required for the page builder / theme to work (localStorage) | Elementor | Third-party | Never expires |
_gcl_ls | Marketing | Google Ads: stores ad click identifiers (gclid) in localStorage to attribute conversions | Google Ads | Internal | Session |
__wpfvdk | Functional | WonderPush SDK (Brevo web push): installation/visit identifier for web push notifications | WonderPush / Brevo | Internal | Session |
_wpinitialpermissionstate | Functional | WonderPush: stores the initial browser notification permission state | WonderPush / Brevo | Internal | Session |
test_cookie | Marketing | DoubleClick: checks whether the browser accepts cookies | DoubleClick (Google) | Third-party | 15 minutes |
ar_debug | Marketing | DoubleClick: debugging of the Attribution Reporting API (conversion measurement) | DoubleClick (Google) | Third-party | 3 months |
In addition, newsletters and transactional emails sent via the Brevo platform (formerly Sendinblue) contain a tracking pixel (an invisible one-pixel image). This pixel measures email open rates and tracks interactions with their content, for audience measurement purposes and to improve our communications. This tracker remains active until you withdraw your consent, which you may do at any time via the unsubscribe link included in every email.
However, for certain transactional emails, tracking pixels may be used without consent when they are used exclusively for deliverability purposes and in accordance with the conditions set out in the applicable regulations.
You are able to accept or decline cookies when you enter PhinC’s website and see the cookies notice. If you change your opinion, you are also able to come back to your preferences at all times by clicking on:
Alternatively, you can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. However, in some cases, some functions of the website may not work.
To find out more about cookies, including seeing what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org.
Find out how to manage cookies on those popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
The information stored through cookies is only used by PhinC except those identified in section 3 as “Third-Party cookies”, which are used and managed by external entities aiming to improve PhinC’s services and your experience when browsing on the website.
PhinC collaborates with the following third parties:
Please note that PhinC do not have any control over how the information in these cookies is used by these external parties nor do PhinC have access to it. Please refer to the cookies policies of the relevant party for more information.
For any question regarding this Cookies notice, you may contact PhinC, who, if required, will contact its Data Protection Officer ("DPO"), using the information below:
36 Rue Victor Basch
Le Classea building
91300 Massy, France
Last edited on Sept 24, 2026
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