COOKIE POLICY

PURPOSE

The purpose of this Cookie Policy (the “Policy”) is to supplement the Privacy Policy (the “Notice”). This Policy is intended to be read in conjunction with the Notice.

CONTROLLER

Decathlon is the controller and responsible for your personal data. We have appointed a data protection officer (DPO) who is overseeing the Policy and the Notice. If you have any questions, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out below:

  • Company: Decathlon Egypt LLC
  • Email address: [email protected] 
  • Postal address: Legal Department, Decathlon Egypt LLC, Head Office, Unit A1-07-10, Ground Floor – City Center Almaza – Cairo – Egypt, 11775

If, despite our efforts, you believe your privacy rights have not been respected, you have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Personal Data Protection Center, the Egyptian regulator for data protection issues. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the Personal Data Protection Center so please contact us in the first instance.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which a provider of an online service can “implant” on the “terminal equipment” of a user’s device (for example on a wearable technology, computer, tablet, smartphone, smart TV or other smart devices and connected devices) when the user visits a website, thereby creating a unique ID. The cookies are stored in a file on the web browser of a user’s device by the website that they visit.

Most websites, web applications and mobile applications use cookies to recognize a user’s device and store information about their previous visit to enable the website to function more efficiently, track the user’s preferences, personalize content, tailor advertising, and provide security and so on.

Cookies cannot be used alone to identify individuals. However, they may be linked directly or indirectly to an individual when combined with other information (for example, their name held by the online provider).

When you visit our website for the first time, you will be prompted to set your cookie preferences.

COOKIES STORED AND USED BY DECATHLON

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our website.

Strictly necessary cookies

We use strictly necessary cookies as these cookies are essential for the operation of our website and cannot be disabled. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.

Functional cookies: this type of strictly necessary cookies allows our website to remember choices you have made in the past, for example, your user name and password so that you can automatically log in. They also include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of our online payment.

Non-essential cookies

We also rely on non-essential cookies in order to make your website navigation more user-friendly and personalized. The information these cookies collect is usually aggregated and anonymized. You are free to enable or disable them depending on your preferences.

Analytics cookies: these non-essential cookies collect information about how you use a website, which pages you have visited and which links you have clicked on. They also allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. None of this information can be used to identify you. These cookies include cookies from third party analytics service as long as the cookies are for the exclusive use of the owner of the website visited.

Personalization cookies: these non-essential cookies allow our website to display personalized content based on your interactions with the website and based on your shopping habits. They 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. These cookies enable you to visit the website in a personalized way based on your previous visits and purchases and help you quickly find the best offers tailored to you.

Marketing cookies: these non-essential cookies track your online activity in order to help advertisers deliver more relevant advertising content or to limit how many times you see a particular advertisement. These cookies can share the information with other organizations or advertisers. These are persistent cookies and usually of third party provenance and enable you to receive offers from Decathlon on external partner websites.

Uncategorized cookies: these include non-essential cookies which are being used to:

  • Apply market research to generate audience insights

  • Create a personalized ads profile

  • Create a personalized content profile

  • Develop and improve products

  • Measure content performance

  • Measure ad performance

  • Select personalized content

  • Store and/or access information on a device

  • Select personalized ads

  • Select basic ads

  • Use precise geolocation data

THIRD PARTY COOKIES

You may notice that some cookies are not related to Decathlon. If you go onto a web page that contains embedded content (for example YouTube), you may be sent cookies from this website. As we do not control the setting of these cookies, please check the third party websites for information about their cookies management.

All these third party cookies detailed below may collect personal data.

MANAGING COOKIES AND THIRD PARTIES

You can manage your cookie and third party preferences through the pop-up notification available in the homepage at the beginning of your browsing.