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The Editions Musée du Louvre website uses cookies, installed by the Musée du Louvre, to improve your browsing experience. Technical cookies are essential for the proper functioning of our website and are used by the provider for the technical management of the network. They allow you to use the main features of the website. As a result, they are essential and cannot be blocked. The purpose of this policy is to help you understand what cookies are and how they are used on the website.

  1. What is a cookie?
  2. Cookies used on our website
  3. For more information...

1. A cookie is a text file that may be stored in a dedicated space on the hard disk of your terminal when you consult an online service using your browser. A terminal is the hardware you use (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) to consult or view a website, an application, advertising content, etc.

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3. While you are browsing the website, cookies may be installed on your terminal by the Musée du Louvre or by third parties.

4. Some cookies are essential for using the site, while others are used to improve your browsing experience or to create statistics. The lifetime of a cookie varies according to its purpose. Some disappear as soon as you leave the site, while others remain on your terminal until their lifetime expires or you delete them.

5. All the cookies used on the Musée du Louvre website, together with the purpose and lifetime of each cookie, can be found in 'Cookies used on our website'.

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2. Cookies used on our website

7. The cookies used on our website are issued by the Musée du Louvre or by third parties.

2.1 Cookies issued by the Musée du Louvre

8. The cookies we place on our website are those that are strictly necessary for the site to function (known as 'technical' cookies).

9. Technical cookies are essential for the proper functioning of our website and are used by the provider for the technical management of the network. They allow you to use the main features of the website. As a result, they are essential and cannot be blocked.

10. They include the following:

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5. For more information...

11. For more information on cookies, you can consult the website of the French information commissioner’s office, Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés (CNIL): www.cnil.fr/.
and the following pages in particular:
- www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-et-autres-traceurs
- www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-les-outils-pour-les-maitriser
- www.cnil.fr/fr/les-conseils-de-la-cnil-pour-maitriser-votre-navigateur