Cookie Policy

Established: 1 April, 2005
Revised: 25 May, 2018
Revised: 26 September, 2018
Revised: 1 April, 2022

Rigaku Holdings Corporation
Chief Executive Officer
Jun Kawakami

1. OUR USE OF COOKIES

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data or a text file that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain websites. Cookies may contain text that can be read by the web server that delivered the cookie to you. The text contained in the cookie generally consists of a sequence of letters and numbers that uniquely identifies your computer or mobile device; it may contain other information as well.

2. NECESSARY COOKIES

These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of the website, such as displaying content, logging in, validating your session, responding to your request for services, and other functions. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable these cookies, you may not be able to access features on our website correctly or at all.

3. ANALYTIC COOKIES

These cookies collect information about the use of the website, such as pages visited, traffic sources, users' interests, content management, and other website measurements.

4. FUNCTIONAL COOKIES

These cookies enable the website to remember a user's choices - such as their language, user name, and other personal choices - while using the website. They can also be used to deliver services, such as letting a user make a blog post, listen to audio, or watch videos on the website.

5. MEDIA COOKIES

These cookies can be used to improve a website's performance and provide special features and content. They can be placed by third parties who provide services to us or by our company.

6. ADVERTISING OR TARGETING COOKIES

These cookies are usually placed and used by advertising companies to develop a profile of your browsing interests and serve advertisements on other websites that are related to your interests. You will see less advertising if you disable these cookies.

7. WE MAY ALSO USE COOKIES FOR:

  • Identifying the areas of our website that you have visited;
  • Personalizing content that you see on our website;
  • Our website analytics;
  • Remarketing our products or services to you;
  • Remembering your preferences, settings, and login details;
  • Targeted advertising and serving ads relevant to your interests;
  • Affiliate marketing;
  • Allowing you to post comments; and
  • Allowing you to share content with social networks.

Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access features on our website correctly or at all.

8. GOOGLE ANALYTICS PRIVACY POLICY

Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website. Google Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyze traffic, remarket our products and services to users, improve our marketing, advertising, and to improve our website. We have enabled Google Analytics advertising features such as remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our website, not your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected using Google Analytics with personal data. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google also uses specific identifiers to help collect information about the use of our website. For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit:
https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out at this link:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

9. SHARING INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES FOR MARKETING PURPOSES

We may share your cookie data with third parties for similar audience marketing purposes. Similar audience marketing is also called lookalike audience marketing. The third parties we share your cookie data with for this type of marketing include Facebook and/or Google. We use your cookie data for similar audience marketing or lookalike audience marketing to help us find new audiences (users and customers) based on similar interests to yours and to help us improve our marketing services. Your cookie data is only shared with third parties listed on Cookie Consent. By using our website and agreeing to our privacy policy, you are giving your consent for your cookie data to be used for the marketing purposes described within this section.

10. DO NOT TRACK SETTINGS

Some web browsers have settings that enable you to request that our website not track your movement within our website. Our website does not obey such settings when transmitted to and detected by our website. You can turn off tracking features and other security settings in your browser by referring to your browser's user manual.

11. GOOGLE REMARKETING

Why am I seeing ads by Google for products I've viewed?
Our website uses a remarketing advertising service. Our remarketing service is provided by Google and other companies that show our ads on websites across the Internet. With remarketing you may see ads for our products you have previously looked at. As an example, suppose you visit a website that sells computers, but you do not buy a computer on your first visit to that website. The website's owner might like to encourage you to revisit his/her site and buy a computer by showing you his/her ads again on other websites that you visit. We use remarketing for similar purposes. For this to happen, Google will read a cookie that is already in your browser, or they place a cookie in your browser when you visit our site or other sites using remarketing.
You can opt out of Google's use of cookies and remarketing at this link:
https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en or you can opt out using the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page at:
http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/

12. COOKIE CONSENT

Our website uses third-party partners to improve the overall web browsing experience for our users. Our partners use cookies and other mechanisms to connect with social networks and to display advertising content tailored to your interests. You can limit the collection of information by our partners by visiting the page.