COOKIES POLICY


1. ABOUT THIS COOKIES POLICY

We are Petit Bateau UK Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 3274758 and with a registered office at 2nd Floor 35-36 Great Marlborough Street, London, W1F 7JF (Petit Bateau).

When you visit our website, cookies may be installed on your device (e.g. your computer, tablet or smartphone). Cookies may also be set if you click on links in emails sent to you or if you install our mobile app.

This Cookies Policy is designed to help you understand how we use cookies. Please read this Cookies Policy in conjunction with our Privacy Policy (accessible here) which explains how and why we use your personal data.


2. WHAT IS A COOKIE?

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your device when you visit a website or click on a link to a website within an email.

Cookies are widely used in a variety of contexts to make websites work, or work more efficiently, and to provide information to website owners.

There are four main types of cookies:

- Strictly necessary cookies are required for the operation of our website, to enable you to use a particular service or to access specific content that you have requested.

- Functionality cookies allow us to recognise you when you return to our website and to tailor our content for you, e.g. by remembering your preferences.

- Analytical/performance cookies allow us to and count the number of visitors to our website and to see how visitors move around our websites. This helps us to improve the way our website works, e.g. by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

- Advertising and targeting cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests and to manage which adverts are displayed to particular web users.


3. INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES

The cookies that we use are used by most businesses and aim to fulfil three main functions:


- The smooth operation of our website and our services. This includes the identification of error messages and ensuring the security of user accounts, e.g. by requiring a new authentication after a certain time period has elapsed.

- To improve your Petit Bateau experience. This includes remembering your preferences so that we can configure our website appropriately.

- To tailor advertising content. This includes personalising the advertising displayed to you according to your interests and location data etc.


4. THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

Please note that third parties such as providers of external services such as web traffic analysis services or advertising agencies may also use cookies. We have no control over these cookies, which are set by those third parties in circumstances including when you browse a website or click on an advert. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.


5. DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA USING COOKIES?

We collect only limited amounts of personal information through our use of cookies, such as IP addresses.

We may also collect additional, non-personal information such as user ID, a session ID, a user's language preference and (in some circumstances) geolocation data.

We do not aim to collect special categories of personal data (such as health data) or criminal convictions data through our use of cookies.


6. WHO HAS ACCESS TO THIS DATA?

Within Petit Bateau, access to data collected through our use of cookies is limited to those departments who require access in order to carry out their roles. We may also share data with selected third parties such as advertisers and technical service providers.


7. YOUR CONSENT TO OUR USE OF COOKIES

Your consent to our use of cookies applies when you visit our website.


8. CAN I CONTROL THE USE OF COOKIES ON MY DEVICE?

Most web browsers (including Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari) allow you to control your cookie settings and to delete any cookies already stored on your computer or other devices.

You can control the use of cookies on your device, including deleting and blocking the cookies we and others use, through the browser settings on your device. However, please note that any changes you make may affect your ability to properly use our website.

The links below provide further information on how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

• Google Chrome

• Microsoft Edge

• Mozilla Firefox

• Microsoft Internet Explorer

• Opera


9. AMENDMENTS TO THIS POLICY

This Cookies Policy may be amended or updated from time to time. The latest version published on our website www.petit-bateau.co.uk will take precedence over all previous versions. Please check our website regularly for any updates.


10. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION

If you have any questions concerning this Cookies Policy, please contact our Customer Service Department:

- using the "Contact" form available on www.petit-bateau.co.uk website

- by post: Petit Bateau Customer Services Department - 2nd floor, 35-36 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7JF

For further information on cookies in general, please visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.