Cookie Policy

As such, we would like to provide you with transparent information about how we place, use and store cookies on your device when you use our website and/or our mobile application [fondation.bnpparibas] (the “Website” and/or “Application”) and present you the options to manage and delete cookies.

1. WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Cookies are small text, image or software files that are placed on your device when you access our Website and/or use our Application. The word “device”, when used in this Cookies Policy, refers notably to computers, smartphones, tablets and all other devices used for accessing the internet.

Cookies may be either: (i) session specific, meaning that they are deleted from your device once the session and browser are closed; or (ii) persistent meaning that they will remain on your device until they are removed.

Cookies perform a number of useful functions, such as to:

• Authenticate and identify you on our Website and/or Application in order to provide you with services that you have requested;
• Enhance the security of the Website and/or Application, including to prevent fraudulent use of login credentials and protect user data from access by unauthorised parties;
• Send you personalised advertising notably based on your browsing history and your preferences on line ;
• Monitor your use of our Website and/or Application in order to improve them;
• Enhance your user experience by adapting and tailoring the content on the Website and/or Application to your interest and providing more relevant BNP Paribas ads and content to you on non-BNP Paribas websites and non-BNP Paribas applications.
• Remember information that you provided to us (e.g. to automatically populate forms with information that you have previously provided to us so that you can log on more quickly);
• Keep track of your preferences and settings in your use of our Website and/or Application (e.g. time zone etc.).

2. WHAT KIND OF INFORMATION CAN BE STORED IN A COOKIE?

The information stored by cookies placed on your device may relate to the following elements, within the limit of their retention period:

• The web pages you have visited using this device;
• The advertisements you clicked on;
• The type of browser you are using;
• Your IP address;
• And any other information you have provided on our Website and/or Application.

Cookies may contain personal data. Where we use cookies which collect your personal data, such collection is covered by our Data Protection Notice.

3. IN THIS CONTEXT, WHO PLACES THE COOKIES ON YOUR DEVICE (FOR EXAMPLE THE COMPANIES OF BNP PARIBAS GROUP OR A PARTNER)? ?

When you choose which types of cookies you allow on your device, the cookies may be deposited directly by us or by one of our partners.

From a practical point of view, this means that when you authorize the installation of certain so-called “third-party” cookies on your device, our partners will also be able to access the information they contain (such as, for example, your browsing statistics when you allow third-party analysis cookies) within the respect of our data protection Notice and those of our partners.

4. WHAT TYPE OF COOKIES DO WE USE? IS IT POSSIBLE TO REFUSE THE INSTALLATION OF THESE COOKIES?

Cookies we use on this Website / Application are exclusively cookies which have the sole purpose of enabling or facilitating communication by electronic means or which are strictly necessary for the operation of the Website / Application.

For instance, cookies we use on this Website / Application can allow us to:

• Authenticate and identify you on our Website and/or Application in order to provide you with services that you have requested;
• Enhance the security of the Website and/or Application, including to prevent fraudulent use of login credentials and protect user data from access by unauthorised parties;
• Monitor your use of our Website and/or Application in order to improve them;
• Keep track of your preferences and settings in your use of our Website and/or Application (e.g. time zone etc.).

The use of cookies strictly necessary for the proper functioning of theWebsite / Application does not require your consent. This is why no module for managing your cookie preferences is available on this Website / Application.