For more information about the cookies used on ARTE pages, see the “<u>ARTE and cookies</u>” section.</p> <p>When Users sign up to the SSO, ARTE collects the following personal data:</p> <ul> <li> <u>identification data</u> when Users fill in the central sign‑up form: their email address (mandatory)</li> <li> <u>Metadata</u>: when a User creates an account, certain data (metadata) are retrieved to describe their account. These metadata are essential for the service to work (for example: password, date account was created, IP address used when account was created, date of last login with SSO, date personal data were last modified, etc.) <u>data linked to features of the personal page: </u>usage data (favourites, previously‑watched content, etc.),</li> <li> <u>Personal Data for some one‑off actions</u> (e.g. date of birth or postal address in the case of a competition)</li> </ul> <p>