Atos Approach to Privacy
Cookies and other Tracking Technologies
Atos is committed to comply with the EU Directive on Privacy in Electronic Communications. For this purpose, we have developed the following notice to provide you with full control over managing the cookies and other web tracking technologies we use during your visit to our website.
What is a Cookie? Cookies are small files containing information which are downloaded onto a device when the user accesses certain websites. That piece of information is sent to the original website when the user visits the page again or they visit a website that recognizes the cookie. Cookies allow a website to identify and recognize users, understand their navigation across different pages, and facilitate browsing by saving user preferences and enhancing their web experience. Cookies also help deliver relevant content to users and enable sharing on other social networks. You may find more information about cookies via the following sources: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu
Why do we use Cookies? When navigating through Atos website(s), information about your web activity may be collected to help us to understand overall usage of our webpage, analyse user engagement with our content, tailor our future communications, enhance the effectiveness of our marketing activities and to enable real-time chats with our support professionals. For these purposes, we use cookies provided by Matomo and Adobe Marketo Engage. For more information about the third-party cookies deployed on our website, please click on the provider names to view their privacy policies.
Cookies on Atos.net
- Session Cookies and Persistent Cookies
- Session Cookies –remain in your browser during your browser session only, i.e. until the session expires or until the browser is closed.
- Persistent Cookies –remain in your browser after the session (unless manually deleted by the user).
- Utility Cookies
- Necessary Cookies –are essential cookies for the user navigation and enable access to core functionalities, such as logging in and accessing secured areas of a website. Without these cookies, it would not be possible to operate our website.
- Performance Cookies –collect information about user interactions with a website, such as the pages visited, duration of visits, and any error messages encountered. The data collected is aggregated and anonymized, making individual identification highly unlikely. These cookies are used to enhance user experience and optimize website functionality more effectively based on insights generated from user behaviour.
- Functionality Cookies –allow the website to remember user preferences and choices, such as changes to text size, customized page settings, and language preferences. They also enable interactive services, such as commenting on a blog posts.
- Targeting Cookies –are cookies used to deliver advertisements more relevant for users, limit the number of times users see an advertisement, measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, and understand user behaviour after viewing an advertisement. These cookies help personalize advertising to individual preferences and track user engagement to optimize overall performance of marketing campaigns.
- First Party Cookies and Third Party Cookies
- First Party Cookies –are cookies set and used uniquely by Atos.
- Third Party Cookies –are cookies either set-up by and/or used by a third party, other than Atos.
Where the cookie is mandatory, “NA” will appear under “How to disable/enable this cookie” section.
For detailed information about the cookies used on Atos.net, please check our Atos.net cookie table.
Matomo Analytics
In order to improve our website’s performance, we use the web analysis tool Matomo, which is hosted on our premises. Matomo collects aggregated data about website usage, including approximate geographical location, user behavior patterns, traffic sources, and device/browser details, to help us better understand how users interact with our website content and improve our website accordingly.
Matomo is configured to comply with consent exemptions by anonymizing data, and such exemption is explicitly recognized by our lead data protection authority. Altough Matomo reduces the specificity of the data and makes individual identification unlikely, the collected information is still subject to the same level of protection and safeguards as required for personal data under our policies. You may opt out of Matomo tracking at any time through the Matomo cookie banner.
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Contact us
If you have any questions or require further clarification regarding this notice and use of our cookies, please contact us at dpo-global@atos.net.
For more detailed information on how Atos processes your personal data, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
