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functioning and required to achieve the purposes illustrated in this cookie policy. By closing the
cookie warning banner, scrolling the page, clicking a link or continuing to browse otherwise, you
agree to the use of cookies.
Hamamatsu uses cookies in order to enhance your experience on our website and
ensure that our website functions.
You can visit this page at any time to learn more about cookies, get the most up
to date information on how we use cookies and manage your cookie settings. We will not use cookies
for any purpose other than the ones stated, but please note that we reserve the right to update
our cookies.
1. What are cookies?
For modern websites to work according to visitor’s expectations, they need to
collect certain basic information about visitors. To do this, a site will create small text files
which are placed on visitor’s devices (computer or mobile) - these files are known as cookies when
you access a website. Cookies are used in order to make websites function and work efficiently.
Cookies are uniquely assigned to each visitor and can only be read by a web server in the domain
that issued the cookie to the visitor. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses
to a visitor’s device.
Cookies do various jobs which make the visitor’s experience of the internet much
smoother and more interactive. For instance, cookies are used to remember the visitor’s
preferences on sites they visit often, to remember language preference and to help navigate
between pages more efficiently. Much, though not all, of the data collected is anonymous, though
some of it is designed to detect browsing patterns and approximate geographical location to
improve the visitor experience.
Certain type of cookies may require the data subject’s consent before storing
them on the computer.
2. What are the different types of cookies?
This website uses two types of cookies:
First party cookies. For our website, the first party cookies are controlled and
maintained by Hamamatsu. No other parties have access to these cookies.
Third party cookies. These cookies are implemented by organizations outside Hamamatsu.
We do not have access to the data in these cookies, but we use these cookies to improve the
overall website experience.
3. How do we use cookies?
This website uses cookies for following purposes:
Certain cookies are necessary for our website to function. These are strictly necessary
cookies and are required to enable website access, support navigation or provide relevant
content. These cookies direct you to the correct region or country, and support security and ecommerce.
Strictly necessary cookies also enforce your privacy preferences. Without these strictly
necessary cookies, much of our website will not function.
Analytics cookies are used to track website usage. This data enables us to improve our website
usability, performance and website administration. In our analytics cookies, we do not store any
personal identifying information.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This
enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences
(for example, your choice of language or region).
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you
have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on
it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for
this purpose.
Cookies help us help you. Through the use of cookies, we learn what is important
to our visitors and we develop and enhance website content and functionality to support your
experience. Much of our website can be accessed if cookies are disabled, however certain website
functions may not work. And, we believe your current and future visits will be enhanced if cookies
are enabled.
4. Which cookies do we use?
There are two ways to manage cookie preferences.
You can set your cookie preferences on your device or in your browser.
You can set your cookie preferences at the website level.
If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can modify your browser so that it
notifies you when cookies are sent to it or you can refuse cookies altogether. You can also delete
cookies that have already been set.
If you wish to restrict or block web browser cookies which are set on your device
then you can do this through your browser settings; the Help function within your browser should
tell you how. Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains
comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of desktop browsers.
5. What are Internet tags and how do we use them with cookies?
Occasionally, we may use internet tags (also known as action tags, single-pixel
GIFs, clear GIFs, invisible GIFs and 1-by-1 GIFs) at this site and may deploy these tags/cookies
through a third-party advertising partner or a web analytical service partner which may be located
and store the respective information (including your IP-address) in a foreign country. These
tags/cookies are placed on both online advertisements that bring users to this site and on
different pages of this site. We use this technology to measure the visitors' responses to our
sites and the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns (including how many times a page is
opened and which information is consulted) as well as to evaluate your use of this website. The
third-party partner or the web analytical service partner may be able to collect data about
visitors to our and other sites because of these internet tags/cookies, may compose reports
regarding the website’s activity for us and may provide further services which are related to the
use of the website and the internet. They may provide such information to other parties if there
is a legal requirement that they do so, or if they hire the other parties to process information
on their behalf.
If you would like more information about web tags and cookies associated with
on-line advertising or to opt-out of third-party collection of this information, please visit the
Network Advertising Initiative website http://www.networkadvertising.org.
6. Analytics and Advertisement Cookies
We use third-party cookies (such as Google Analytics) to track visitors on our
website, to get reports about how visitors use the website and to inform, optimize and serve ads
based on someone's past visits to our website.
You may opt-out of Google Analytics cookies by the websites provided by Google:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
As provided in this Privacy Policy (Article 5), you can learn more about opt-out
cookies by the website provided by Network Advertising Initiative:
http://www.networkadvertising.org
We inform you that in such case you will not be able to wholly use all functions
of our website.