When you visit the Sonia Rykiel website, www.soniarykiel.com (hereafter designated: "Our Website") or when you view an advertisement relating to Sonia RYkiel products, a small text file (hereafter designated "Cookie" or "Cookies") is stored and available for reading on your terminal (tablets, smartphones, computers). Cookies collect information related to your browsing through Our Website and allow us to provide you with customized services.

Cookies are stored on your terminal and can be directly managed through your web browser (See Section 3.).

Different types of Cookies are used on our Website. Each type of Cookie has a different purpose.

2.1. Cookies required for Our Website operation

In compliance with Guideline 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 on the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Privacy and Electronic Communications Guideline), the following Cookies are not subject to your prior consent:

A) Cookies necessary for using Our Website:

These Cookies allow you to use the main functions of Our Website (for example, to use the shopping basket or access your Sonia Rykiel account). Without those Cookies, you cannot browse or use Our Website normally. This is the reason why we are not submitting the use of these Cookies to your prior consent.

2.2 Cookies subject to prior consent:

Through a notification on Our Website, we asked for your consent so that Sonia Rykiel could introduce and read advertising Cookies on your terminal, analytical Cookies as well as cookies allowing social media sharing.

The lifespan of a cookie is six months. Following this six month period, we will send you a new notification in order to obtain your consent once again.

A) Analytical Cookies:

Analytical Cookies allow us to evaluate the rate of use as well as Our Website performance while improving the functioning.

For this purpose, we are particularly using services from the following providers:

1. Google Analytics: Through Google Analytics, we collect anonymous data for Our Website use and we generate statistics concerning users. For more information on how Google Analytics uses your data, please refer to the website: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners/

You can refuse the use of these Cookies. Therefore, no analytical Cookies will be installed on your terminal, for analysis purposes. You can modify your selection at any time, by answering the question on top of the page.

You also have the possibility to manage analytical Cookies used on Our Website by changing the settings of your browser, as described below in Section 3.

B) Advertising Cookies:

Advertising Cookies are used in order to display advertisements or send information that suit you interests on Our Website or outside of Our Website when you are browsing through the Internet. Advertising Cookies are essential to limit the number of times we present an advertisement and to measure the efficiency of our advertising campaigns.

Failure to use advertising Cookies has no impact in the use of Our Website. However, refusing to make use of advertising cookies doesn't stop the advertisement on Our Website or on the Internet. Therefore, advertisements displayed on Our Website or on the Internet will not take into account your areas of interests and your preferences.

We are particularly using services from the following providers:

1. Rakuten Advertising : We use Rakuten Advertising to analyze your behavior, determine with precision your interests so we can provide you with relevant advertisements. For more information on how Rakuten Advertising uses your data, please refer to: https://rakutenadvertising.com/en-uk/legal-notices/website-privacy-policy.

2. Google Adwords : We use Google Adwords to determine the number of visitors which viewed Our Website via a Google ad in order to broadcast business announcements on Google. For more information on how Google Adwords uses your data, please refer to: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/

Advertising Targeting

Sonia Rykiel is required to use advanced targeting features like "retargeting" (display of a Sonia Rykiel advertisement during browsing outside of Our Website, particularly after viewing products of Our Website).

These features have been made possible thanks to the use of Cookies suggested by our partners:

1. Bing : We use Bing in order to target our advertisement according to your search history. For more information on how Bing uses your data, please refer to: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-GB/privacystatement.

2. Meta : We use Meta to collect data related to your browsing on Our Website in order to provide you with personalized advertisement. For more information on how Meta uses your data, please refer to the website: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policies/cookies/.

You also have the possibility to manage advertising Cookies used on Our Website by changing the settings on your browser, as described below in Section 3 or through the Ads Preferences Managers suggested by our partners.

C) Cookies allowing social media sharing and social media "plug-ins" (social buttons):

Our Website also uses "plug-ins" or social buttons. These social Cookies allow users to share pages and content via social media like Facebook. They also allow to target an advertisement offer on these social media.

Social "plug-ins" facilitate pages and content sharing of Our Website on different social platforms. They allow you for example to like and share information coming from Our Website with your friends on social media.

For this purpose, "plug-ins" use Cookies allowing to trace your navigation whether or not you are users of this platform and whether or not you are connected to the social media during your navigation. These Cookies also allow targeting of advertisement offers on these platforms.

For more information on the use of your personal data related to Facebook, you can check its privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

You also have the possibility to manage Cookies allowing social media sharing used on Our Website by changing the settings on your browser, as described below in Section 3.

Even if most browsers and devices accept Cookies by default, their settings allow you to delete or refuse these Cookies. However, if you decide to deactivate all the Cookies, some features of Our Website may not work properly.

For Cookies and selections management, the setting of every browser is different. It is described in the help menu of your browser, which will let you know how to modify your selections regarding Cookies. For example, here is the documentation for Google Chrome, Apple Safari for mac OS, Apple Safari for iOS, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Opera

Sonia Rykiel takes all the necessary precautions to preserve your data's security in order, in particular, to prevent its disclosure to unauthorized third parties

In the event that your data were subject to transfers by subcontractors (particularly for their data hosting), Sonia Rykiel ensures that the latter presents a safety level in line with standards.

Our Website doesn't use "tracking-walls".