Cookie policy
How groupemai.nc uses cookies and similar technologies, and how you stay in control.
About this policy
This cookie policy sets out and informs you of how the groupemai.nc website (hereinafter the "Site") uses cookies and similar technologies as you browse. It supplements our Privacy policy, which describes the processing of personal data collected via the contact form (surname, first name, email, telephone, company concerned, subject, message). The Site has neither a customer account, nor online sales, nor a newsletter.
The Site is published by:
- GIE Groupe MAI — RIDET 0 679 563.001;
- Publication director: Mr Christian Taupua;
- Address: 11 Rue du Docteur Guégan, Quartier Latin, BP 1514, 98800 Nouméa, New Caledonia;
- Telephone: (+687) 23 38 14 (standard-rate number) — Email: secretariat@groupemai.nc.
The Site was produced by Pacific Consulting and is hosted in New Caledonia by Stratos NC (Pacific Consulting group).
What is a cookie?
A cookie (or connection tag) is a small text file that may be saved, subject to your choices, in a dedicated space on your device (computer, tablet, smartphone) when you visit a website. It is sent by the site's server to your browser and allows its issuer to recognise your device for its period of validity. A cookie does not, in itself, make it possible to identify a natural person.
Similar technologies are treated in the same way as cookies, in particular local storage ("localStorage"): an area of your browser in which a site can save information that remains on your device without being sent to the servers with each request.
The Site makes deliberately minimal use of these technologies: it sets, in its own right, no cookie, and its fonts are self-hosted (no call to a remote service such as Google Fonts).
The cookies and trackers used on groupemai.nc
Trackers fall into three categories: necessary, statistics and marketing.
Necessary trackers
These items are essential for the operation of the Site and for taking your choices into account. Only one local record is used: groupemai_cookie_preferences (browser local storage — technically, this is not a cookie), which stores your consent choices for the three categories, for a maximum period of six (6) months. No other necessary tracker (session cookie or otherwise) is set to date.
Statistics trackers
The Site uses Matomo, an analytics tool hosted in New Caledonia (by Pacific Consulting), to find out the number of visits and the pages viewed. It is configured without any cookie ("disableCookies" mode): no tracker is set on your device and your IP address is not kept in clear text. This configuration, strictly limited to audience measurement and without any sharing of the data with third parties, does not require a consent banner. The data is neither resold nor passed on to any advertising service.
Marketing trackers
This category would bring together advertising or personalisation cookies. To date, no marketing tool is active on the Site: the category exists only as a precaution, and the list would be updated, with your prior consent obtained, before any activation.
Should cookies subject to consent come to be used in the future, their lifetime would not exceed thirteen (13) months, in accordance with the applicable recommendations.
Managing your consent
When you first visit the Site, a consent window is displayed. It presents three buttons placed at the same level, allowing you to choose to: accept all trackers, reject them all, or customise your preferences category by category. Refusing is as easy as accepting, and simply continuing to browse does not constitute consent.
Your choice — acceptance or refusal — is saved in your browser's local storage, under the key groupemai_cookie_preferences. This record contains only your preferences for the three categories; it contains no personal data, stays on your device and is sent to no server. It is kept for a maximum of six (6) months, after which your choice is requested again. You can change it at any time via the "Manage cookies" link in the footer or the button below.
Third-party content
The Site embeds no third-party content: no social-media buttons, no videos hosted by third parties, no interactive maps and no remote fonts (the fonts are self-hosted). The use of links pointing to third-party sites is subject to the privacy policies of those sites, for which Groupe MAI cannot be held responsible.
Configuring your browser
Independently of the Site, you can configure your browser to limit or exclude the use of cookies: to be alerted before any is set, to refuse certain types of cookie or to refuse them all, and to delete cookies and site data already saved. Blocking cookies does not disrupt the browsing of groupemai.nc, which sets none of its own, but it may affect the operation of other sites.
To do so, follow the instructions for your browser:
- Google Chrome: support.google.com
- Mozilla Firefox: support.mozilla.org
- Safari: support.apple.com
- Microsoft Edge: support.microsoft.com
Legal framework and your rights
This policy falls within the framework of Act No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on information technology, data files and civil liberties, applicable in New Caledonia, and of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as applicable in New Caledonia.
The only personal data collected on the Site is collected via the contact form; its processing is detailed in our Privacy policy. For any question about cookies or to exercise your rights (access, rectification, erasure, objection), you can contact Groupe MAI by post (GIE Groupe MAI, 11 Rue du Docteur Guégan, Quartier Latin, BP 1514, 98800 Nouméa), by telephone ((+687) 23 38 14) or by email (secretariat@groupemai.nc).
If, after contacting us, you consider that your rights are not being respected, you may lodge a complaint with the CNIL: cnil.fr/fr/plaintes.
Updating this policy
This cookie policy may be amended or supplemented at any time, in particular in order to comply with any legislative, regulatory, case-law or technical developments (for example the activation of an analytics tool). In such a case, the update date will be clearly indicated and, if a new tracker subject to consent were introduced, your consent would be obtained beforehand.
Change your choice at any time
Last updated: August 2026.
