Cookie policy
Scope and purpose
PAI Partners SAS, PAI SAS, PAI Partners S.à r.l., their subsidiaries and branches (together referred as to the “affiliates”) (collectively, solely for the purpose of this cookie policy: “PAI” or ”PAI Partners” or “we” or “us” or “our”) respect your concerns about privacy and are committed to protect and value the relationship that we have with you.
This cookie policy explains how and why cookies and other similar technologies (collectively “cookies”) may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit our website, including PAI Corporate website (the “Site”). This cookie policy should be read together with our Privacy notice and our Terms and Conditions of Use of the Site.
Please read this cookie policy carefully.
All about cookies
What are cookies?
A cookie is a piece of information in the form of a small text file that can be stored on the browser or hard drive of your computer, tablet, smartphone or other device when you visit our Site, to the extent you agree where required.
Cookies are not computer programmes. They cannot be executed as code and they cannot access the hard drive. Also, they cannot be used to disseminate viruses. They only contain and transfer to the server as much information as the users themselves have disclosed to the Site.
You can find more information AllAboutCookies.org and YourOnlineChoices.eu.
What is the purpose of cookies?
Cookies are essentials and customisers. They are used to identify and to “remember” users and users’ preferences, ensure a consistent and efficient experience for visitors and perform essential functions such as allowing users to navigate our Site, set the language settings, display the correct page for the device they are using.
Cookies also enable us to monitor and to analyse how users navigate and utilise our Site, which pages they find useful and which they do not so that we can tailor the Site to users’ needs.
They are also used to control access to certain content on our Site, protect the Site, and to process any requests that users make of us.
What type of cookies do we use?
“First party Cookies” are cookies that belong to PAI and that PAI places on your device. They are generally used to identify language and location preferences or render basic Site functionalities.
“Third-party Cookies” are cookies that another party places on your device through our Site. PAI uses, for example, a third-party analytics tool provider: Google Analytics to help measure and improve the effectiveness of our Site. PAI may also use third-party advertising and social media providers (such as LinkedIn) that place cookies on your device to deliver tailored content or advertisements and to enable interaction with their platforms. Such third-party service providers may place cookies on the devices of the Site users.
“Session Cookies” are temporary and deleted from your computer or device when your web browser closes. We use Session Cookies to help us track the Site usage.
“Persistent Cookies” are used to remember your preferences within the Site and remain on your computer or device even after you close your browser or restart your computer until deleted or until they reach their expiry date. We use Persistent Cookies to improve your experience of using the Site. This includes recording your acknowledgement of our cookie policy to remove the cookie message which first appears when you use the Site.
Why is PAI Partners using cookies?
PAI uses cookies for the following purposes:
Cookie type: Necessary Cookies
Purpose: These cookies are essential to allow you to browse the Site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas or maintaining your session. Without these cookies, some services you have requested cannot be provided. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data and cannot be disabled.
Cookie type: Functional Cookies
Purpose: These cookies enable the Site to provide enhanced functionality, such as sharing content on social media platforms (including LinkedIn) and collecting feedback. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages.
Cookie type: Analytics Cookies
Purpose: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the Site by collecting information such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, and traffic source. This information is used on an aggregated, statistical basis to improve the Site. These cookies are provided by our third-party analytics provider, Google Analytics.
Cookie type: Performance Cookies
Purpose: These cookies are used to understand and analyse key performance indicators of the Site, which helps us deliver a better experience for visitors (for example, page load speed and site responsiveness).
Cookie type: Advertisement Cookies
Purpose: These cookies are used to provide visitors with advertisements tailored to the pages they have previously visited, and to analyse the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These cookies may be set by us or by our advertising partners and may be used to build a profile of your interests.
How to agree or refuse cookies and how to remove your consent for cookies
When you visit the Site for the first time, a cookie banner appears on the home page of the Site. Through this cookie banner, you have the possibility to make a choice by clicking on one of the three following buttons:
Accept: it means you agree at the same time to all cookies on the Site, including Necessary Cookies (which remain active regardless of your choice) and all optional cookies, i.e. Functional, Analytics, Performance and Advertisement Cookies;
Reject: it means you refuse at the same time all optional cookies on the Site, i.e. Functional, Analytics, Performance and Advertisement Cookies. Necessary Cookies will remain active as they are required for the Site to function, and cannot be disabled;
Customise / Save My Preferences: it means you may customise your consent preferences category by category, and choose to accept or refuse Functional, Analytics, Performance and/or Advertisement Cookies individually. Necessary Cookies always remain active and cannot be disabled.
You can save your choices, i.e. consent or refusal to all or some of the cookies, that will be kept for 6 months without being asked again each time you connect to the Site or each page you visit. You may also change your consent preferences and remove your consent at any time by returning to the page “Cookies preferences.”
In addition to refuse such cookies, you may also disable them.
How to disable cookies
Internet browsers give users a level of control over cookies. If you do not want cookies to be dropped on your device, you can adjust the setting of your Internet browser to reject the setting of all or some cookies or to alert you when a cookie is placed on your device.
For details on what your browser offers and how to configure your browser according to your choices regarding cookies, please refer to your browser “help” / “tool” or “edit” section (or other dedicated section of your Internet browser) or see AllAboutCookies.org. For your convenience we have provided links to the cookie management page for the most popular web browsers:
How to exercise your rights
In accordance with the data protection regulation, you have a right to access, rectify, delete, limit port and oppose the processing of your personal data, as well as the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
You can exercise these rights be writing to the contact mentioned below in section “Contact us”.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint to a supervisory authority such as the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) in the event of a breach of the data protection regulation, and in particular the European General Data Protection Regulation n° 2016-679 (GDPR) in force since 25 May 2018.
Changes to the Cookie Policy
We may update this cookie policy from time to time without notice.
We encourage you to regularly check PAI’s Site to ensure that you are aware of the most updated version.
This cookie policy was last updated on August 2026 and replaces and supersedes any prior version of our cookie policy.
Contact us
If you have any questions about our Cookie Policy or how PAI processes your personal data as part of the use of cookies, please contact us at: [email protected].
Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google LLC. Cookies provided by Google Analytics are used to collect information about our users’ habits: the time they visited our website, websites that they visited prior to visiting our website, etc. (For more information about Google Analytics please see: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en). Users can prevent their data from being collected by Google Analytics by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on with their web browser, available at the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881?hl=en. Users can also refuse these cookies on the page “Cookies preferences” and/or disable these cookies by changing their browser settings as explained in the section “How to disable cookies”.
Where applicable, third-party advertising cookies (e.g. LinkedIn Ads) are used to deliver tailored advertisements and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. Users can manage their preferences regarding these cookies via the “Cookies preferences” page, or directly through the relevant third-party provider’s own opt-out tools (e.g. LinkedIn’s advertising preferences).
