Last updated: November 3, 2026
Elite Higher Education (hereinafter “Elite” or “we”) is an orientation media outlet operated by Thotis, a simplified joint-stock company (société par actions simplifiée) with a share capital of €6,000, registered with the Pontoise Trade and Companies Register under number 840 091 664, whose registered office is located at 14K – PARC TECHNOLOGIQUE DE MONTMAGNY, 26 RUE DES SABLONS, 95360 MONTMAGNY (France), SIRET: 840 091 664 00010, telephone: 06 40 14 07 62, email address: contact@thotismedia.com.
To learn more about Elite, click here: https://elitehighered.com/legal-notice/
Elite operates the website and the orientation platform publicly accessible at the following addresses (hereinafter, together, the “Site”): https://elitehighered.com/ and https://app.elitehighered.com/.
The Site is intended to provide internet users (i.e. any natural or legal person who visits or uses the Site, hereinafter “users” or “you”) with content providing information on study paths, schools, degrees or programs offered to students, as well as news (events, publications, etc.), orientation tests, admission chance estimation tools and artificial intelligence tools.
The Site also offers features and/or information allowing users to contact students (see contact / information request), download information brochures or guides, interact with artificial intelligence tools, ask questions or obtain information, or leave comments.
When you browse and interact with the Site, cookies, tags, pixels or other trackers or similar technologies (hereinafter “cookies”) may be installed on the user’s computer or device, subject to the choices and options the user has expressed or may express at any time in accordance with this cookie policy.
Our cookie policy (hereinafter the “Policy”) explains what “cookies” are, details the types of cookies we use on the Site, and sets out your rights regarding the acceptance or refusal of cookies.
A cookie is a text file placed and read on your device when you visit a website. It notably allows identifiers and other information to be stored and read on your computer or phone. Equivalent technologies (such as device fingerprinting) may also be used; they are subject to the same rules as cookies.
This Policy explains how we use cookies and presents the choices available to you regarding them. Unless otherwise stated in this Policy, Elite’s data protection policy applies to the processing of data we collect through cookies. When you connect to our Site, we may, subject to your choices, install various cookies on your device allowing us to recognize your device’s browser for the period of validity of the cookie concerned.
Subject to your choices, expressed through our cookie management module and modifiable at any time, as well as the settings of your browser, the cookies we issue allow us to:
- offer you, subject to your consent, targeted advertising tailored to your interests;
- compile, subject to your consent where required, statistics and volumes of traffic and use of the various elements of our Site (sections and content visited, user journeys), allowing us to improve the relevance and usability of our services;
- adapt the presentation of our Site to your device’s display preferences (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) during your visits to our Site, depending on the viewing or reading hardware and software on your device;
- store information relating to a form you have filled in on our Site (registration or access to your account) or to information you have selected on our Site;
- allow you to access reserved and personal areas of our Site, such as your account, using identifiers or data you may have previously provided to us;
- implement security measures, for example when you are asked to log in again to content or a service after a certain period of time.
The lifespan of cookies is limited to a maximum of 13 months from the time they are placed. The information collected through them is kept for a maximum of 25 months. The lifespan varies depending on the purpose of the processing where necessary.
Third-party cookies
Subject to your consent, we use the following third-party services, which use cookies for audience measurement, performance and advertising purposes:
| Cookie name | Category | Issuer | Purpose | Lifespan | Placed before consent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Statistics | Google (Google Analytics) | Distinguish users | 13 months maximum | No |
| _ga_<ID> | Statistics | Google (Google Analytics) | Maintain session state | 13 months maximum | No |
| Brevo trackers | Statistics | Brevo | Measure email opens and clicks | 13 months maximum | No |
| _fbp | Marketing | Meta (Facebook Ads) | Identify the browser to serve and measure ads | 3 months | No |
| _gcl_au | Marketing | Google (Google Ads) | Measure conversions from ads | 3 months | No |
| li_fat_id, bcookie, lidc | Marketing | Serve and measure ads | 13 months maximum | No | |
| _ttp | Marketing | TikTok | Serve and measure ads | 13 months maximum | No |
| personalization_id | Marketing | X | Serve and measure ads | 13 months maximum | No |
| YSC, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Marketing | YouTube (Google) | Play embedded videos and measure their audience | Session to 13 months maximum | No |
How can I control Elite’s use of cookies?
When you browse our Site, certain cookies are automatically stored on your browser. These are known as “functional” cookies. In accordance with applicable regulations, these cookies and trackers are strictly necessary for the operation of our Site. These cookies are therefore not subject to the user’s consent and are installed by default. As these cookies are strictly necessary to provide the service you have expressly requested, we do not offer dedicated technical means allowing you to object to their installation or to disable them. You may, however, disable them (as with certain other cookies) by other means, for example using the features offered by your browser, it being specified that in this case you may not be able to access the Site, and/or may not properly receive the content and information available on the Site, and/or may not be able to benefit from all its features.
These are the following cookies and trackers:
- “session identifier” cookies, for the duration of a session, or persistent cookies limited to a few hours in some cases;
- authentication cookies;
- session cookies created by a media player;
- load balancing session cookies;
- persistent user interface customization cookies (choice of language or layout).
Your browser or device also offers settings allowing you to disable or delete cookies. To learn more, consult the help documentation for your browser or device. Some features of the Site may not work properly if you have disabled the use of cookies.
How do we obtain your consent to the installation of cookies?
The placing of a cookie on a computer or device, as well as the reading of this cookie through the Site, are in principle subject to the user’s consent, i.e. a free, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the user’s wishes signifying agreement for this purpose, given separately for each purpose pursued by the cookies concerned. This consent is obtained through our cookie management module, accessible at the bottom of every page of the Site (“Manage consent” link), under the conditions and in the manner detailed below.
Accordingly, during the user’s first visit to the Site, the user is asked whether they accept the cookies that require their consent, classified into different categories according to the purpose pursued, before they are installed on their computer or device. Cookies subject to such consent are only placed if the user expressly accepts them, either globally by clicking the “Accept” button to accept all cookies, or on a per-purpose basis by clicking the “View preferences” button to accept each of the categories (by purpose) of cookies concerned within our cookie management module (i.e. the module designed to allow the user to consent to or refuse the use of cookies, depending on the purposes pursued by those cookies).
The user can, just as easily, refuse all of these cookies by clicking the “Refuse” button, presented at the same level and in the same format as the “Accept” button. The user may withdraw their consent at any time, as easily as it was given, through the cookie management module. The user’s choices are stored for a limited period, after which their consent is requested again.
For users under the age of fifteen, consent to the placing of these cookies must be given jointly with the holder of parental authority. In any event, no advertising cookies based on profiling are placed on the device of a user whom Elite knows to be a minor.
Where can you find further information about cookies?
Information collected through cookies, and in particular the identifiers they contain, constitutes personal data insofar as it relates to an identifiable natural person.
In this regard, you are informed that by consenting to the installation of all or some of the cookies, you consent, for the purposes concerned, to the processing of personal data relating to you collected by this means, it being specified that such processing may involve the processing, combination and cross-referencing of a large volume of such data relating to you from various sources.
For any information relating to the processing of your personal data by Elite, in particular the processing of personal data collected through the cookies embedded on our Site, please consult our data protection policy.