SAM Outillage uses cookies on its website to improve the interactivity of the site "https://www.sam-outillage.com/" and its services.

What is a cookie and what purpose does it serve?

A "cookie" is a piece of information, generally small and identified by a name, that can be sent to your browser by a website that you connect to. Your web browser will keep it for a certain length of time, and will send it to the web server again whenever you re-connect to it.

There are multiple purposes for cookies: they can be used to store your customer identifier with a commercial website, the current content of your shopping basket, and an identifier making it possible to track your navigation history for statistical or publicity purposes, among others.

What types of cookies does SAM Outillage use?

Browsing or session cookies

The browsing cookies are strictly necessary for the proper functioning of the website or for providing an online service at the user's express request. Deactivating them will cause serious difficulties in the utilisation of the website, and even make it impossible to use the services it proposes. You can block them and delete them using your browser's settings, however your user experience may be negatively impacted.

Name	Purpose	Cookie lifetime
Axeptio	Save your choices regarding the acceptance of cookies	12 months

Audience measurement cookies

These cookies are used to recognise web-users at the time of their various visits. These cookies only store an "identifier" (specific to each cookie) and are never used to collect personal data regarding visitors. They record which pages are visited, the length of the visit and any error messages, enabling us to improve our website's performance. Audience measurement cookies may be installed and managed by partners, but SAM Outillage limits their use to statistical purposes.

Name	Purpose	Type of cookie	Cookie lifetime
_ga	Identify a visitor anonymously.	Third-party cookies	38 months
utmb/utmc	These two cookies function together and are used to calculate the length of a visit. The _utmb cookie records the exact moment a user arrives on the website, and the _utmc cookie records the exact moment they leave.	Third-party cookies	Session. Click here to find out more about Google Analytics cookies

Marketing automation

We use the Webmecanik Automation marketing platform to follow our visitors on the site, collect information on their preferences and manage the forms used on the site. This cookie records information on the pages you visit, the length of the visit, the pages of origin, etc. The expiry time given below represents a cookie's lifetime on your browser.

Name	Purpose	Cookie lifetime
mtc_id	Identify a visitor anonymously.	Session
mtc_sid		Session
mautic_session_id		12 months
mautic_referer_id		12 months
mautic_focus_x	x is replaced by a number (an ID). Used to display popins on the website.	never

How can I modify my authorisations?

You can configure your browser so that cookies are saved to your computer or, on the contrary, they are rejected, either systematically or depending on the sender. You can also configure your browser so that you are asked occasionally whether you want to accept or refuse cookies, before a cookie can be saved to your computer.