This Cookies Policy (the "Policy") is intended to inform you of how Duchesnay Pharmaceutical Group and its subsidiaries (“DPG”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) use cookies and related technologies (pixel, tags or beacons) (together “cookies” or “cookie”), on the Group’s websites.

Please take a minute to read and understand this Cookies Policy which should also be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a very small text document stored on your computer/other device. They guarantee websites’ functioning or improve the browsing, and also supply certain information to the owners of these websites, in particular in terms of audience measurement.

What kind of cookies do we use and how do we use them?

Information collected through cookies helps us to analyze the use of our websites and to enable us to offer users a better experience when visiting our Group’s websites. We will only keep cookies for as long as necessary to achieve the relevant purposes set out in this Policy, notably for marketing and statistical purposes. None of the cookies used by us store personal information.

Generally speaking, we use first party (set by us) and third-party (set by our third-party partners) session and persistent cookies. Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you close your web browser. Many session cookies are essential to make our websites work correctly. Persistent cookies remain on your device for some time after you close your browser or until you manually delete it. Persistent cookies help us recognize you as an existing user of our websites, so it’s easier and more convenient to return to our websites or interact with our Services without signing in again. In addition, persistent cookies help us better understand your use of our website and your browsing habits.

Cookies used

Necessary Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary for our websites to function properly and ensure our Services are accessible to you (e.g., log-in functionality, load balancing, navigation, filling in forms). Our websites cannot function properly without these cookies.

Statistic Cookies: Statistic cookies enable us to understand how visitors interact with our websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Social media cookies: Our websites incorporate functionalities from third-party sites, including the following social network. These cookies can be used to personalize advertising messages. We have no access to these cookies, nor any control over social networks which are responsible for their own processing, nor to the data they collect. However, their use may require your consent. For additional information, please refer to the list of potential social network cookies below:

LinkedIn: the following LinkedIn features can be integrated into our websites and may read or place LinkedIn cookies:

  • Sign in to LinkedIn (which allows the user to sign in to their LinkedIn account and interact with our Website through that account);
  • Share on LinkedIn (which allows the user to share with others an item on LinkedIn).

Click here to read LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy.
Click here to get information on LinkedIn’s Cookies Policy

Can I manage my preferences on cookies?

If you have any concerns about our use of cookies, you can take action to prevent them from being set, such as by changing your browser settings to block certain types of cookies. You may also delete cookies held on your device at any time by going to the appropriate settings within your web browser.

You have the option to configure your devices to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is issued or to never accept cookies. If you do not wish to receive cookies in general or only to refuse certain cookies, you can change your browser settings accordingly.

Instructions to this effect are provided by each browser’s website:

For any other browser not mentioned above, the user should not hesitate to consult the cookie management help information available on the Website.

You can also visit the below link for an overview of how to block or delete cookies on the most common browsers: http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Contact us

Please see below for a list of the cookies used on our websites.

For any further queries or information related to this Cookies Policy, please write to confidentialite_privacy@duchesnay.com, with the subject line “Cookies Policy”.

Provider Cookie Duration Description Accept/Decline
Necessary cookies
First party cookie Random alphanumeric name End of the session Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. N/A
Statistic cookies
Google Analytics   2 months Google Analytics is a web analytics service that provides statistics and basic analytical tools for search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing purposes.