Most ski school websites set forty or fifty cookies the moment a visitor arrives. We set a handful, with a clear purpose for each, and ask permission for any that does not strictly serve the operation of the site. This is, in our view, the only honourable position.
Section 1What cookies are.
A cookie is a small text file written by a website to your browser's storage. It is read back on subsequent visits and allows the website to recognise the same browser, remember a preference (such as your chosen language), maintain a session as you click between pages, or count visits in aggregate. Modern websites also use closely related technologies — local storage, session storage, server-side identifiers — that we treat under the same policy.
Section 2Strictly necessary.
The following cookies are set without prior consent because they are functionally indispensable to the operation of the site, in line with article 82 of the French Data Protection Act and the European Commission's guidance on the ePrivacy Directive. Refusing them would leave the site partly broken; for that reason no consent is required to set them.
- session — a temporary identifier that holds the state of any form you have begun to fill (a booking enquiry, a newsletter sign-up). Expires when you close the browser tab.
- lang — your chosen language. Set to one of en, fr, ru or es. Persists for one year.
- consent — a record of your choice in the cookie banner, so we do not ask again on every page view. Persists for six months, after which we ask afresh.
Section 3Privacy-respecting analytics.
We use a single analytics tool, chosen for its restraint: a European-based provider that collects only page-view counts, anonymised IP addresses (the last octet is dropped before storage) and the geographic country of the visit. No cross-site fingerprinting; no behavioural profile; no transfer to third parties; no advertising network integration. Data is retained for thirteen months, then permanently deleted.
This analytics cookie is opt-in only. It is not set until you have actively accepted it via our consent banner. Refusing it has no effect on your ability to use the site.
Section 4What we do not set.
We make a point of saying clearly what is absent, since the omission is the work of a deliberate choice and not an accident:
- No third-party advertising cookies of any kind.
- No Facebook Pixel, no Meta tracking, no LinkedIn Insight Tag.
- No Google Ads, no Google Analytics, no DoubleClick.
- No retargeting beacons. No marketing-platform identifiers. No data brokers.
- No social-network share buttons that load externally — our footer links open the relevant page in a new window without setting a third-party cookie.
Should that ever change — for instance, if we one day decide to run a discreet display campaign — we would update this page first, set new cookies only after fresh consent, and notify regular guests by email.
Section 5Managing your preferences.
On your first visit, our consent banner offers a binary choice: Accept or Refuse. Either choice is recorded equally and respected on every subsequent page. To change your decision, scroll to the foot of any page and click the small Cookie preferences link; the banner reopens with the option to switch.
At browser level, every modern web browser allows you to inspect, refuse or delete cookies by domain. The relevant menu is usually found under Settings → Privacy; on mobile, the equivalent option lives within the app's privacy settings. Deleting our cookies will reset your language preference and ask the consent question again on the next visit.
Section 6Update history.
We keep a short log of revisions to this page so that any change is visible:
- May 2026 — first published version, ahead of the December 2026 winter season.
Future revisions will be appended above this paragraph. Material changes — adding a new analytics tool, adopting a new consent-management platform — will be flagged in the consent banner the next time you visit.
Snowtailors — Val Thorens · May 2026