This policy explains what cookies are, how the official website of the General Inspectorate of Mines (IGM) uses them and how you can manage them.

A cookie is a small text file placed on your device (computer, tablet, phone) when you visit a website. It is used in particular to remember your browsing preferences and to ensure the proper functioning of the services provided.

The IGM website uses a limited number of cookies, either strictly necessary or intended to improve your experience :

• Technical cookies essential to the operation, security and navigation of the site;
• A language preference cookie, used to remember your choice between French and English;
• Session cookies related to the use of the site's forms, in particular the reporting form.

These cookies are not used for advertising purposes and do not track your browsing on other websites. The information they contain is neither sold nor shared with third parties.

Reports submitted through the platform can be made anonymously: the cookies used by the site do not make it possible to identify the author of an anonymous report.

• Configure your browser to accept or refuse cookies, in full or on a case-by-case basis;
• Delete cookies already stored on your device;
• Enable private browsing, which automatically deletes cookies when the browser is closed.

However, refusing or deleting certain technical cookies may affect the operation of some site features, in particular the storage of your language preference.