This website, like many others, utilizes cookies to enhance your browsing experience and ensure proper functionality. By interacting with our site – whether by closing the cookie banner, scrolling, clicking links, or simply continuing to browse – you consent to our use of cookies as described in this policy.
Hamamatsu is committed to improving your online experience. Cookies help us achieve this by ensuring our website operates effectively and is tailored to your needs.
We encourage you to revisit this page periodically for the latest updates on our cookie usage and management. Please be assured that we only employ cookies for the purposes outlined here, although we may update this policy as necessary.
1. Delving into Cookies: What Are They?
For websites to function optimally and meet user expectations, collecting basic visitor information is essential. Cookies are the mechanism for this. When you visit a website, small text files, known as cookies, are created and stored on your device (computer or mobile). These cookies are fundamental to website operation and efficiency. Each cookie is uniquely assigned to you and can only be accessed by the web server in the domain that issued it. Importantly, cookies cannot execute programs or introduce viruses to your device.
Cookies play a crucial role in streamlining and enriching your internet experience. They remember your preferences on frequently visited sites, such as language settings, and facilitate smoother navigation between pages. While much of the data collected is anonymized, some cookies analyze browsing patterns and approximate geographical location to personalize and improve your interaction.
It’s worth noting that certain types of cookies require your explicit consent before they are stored on your computer.
2. Exploring the Different Cookie Categories
This website employs two primary categories of cookies:
- First-Party Cookies: These cookies are directly managed and controlled by Hamamatsu for our website. No external parties have access to this data.
- Third-Party Cookies: These cookies are implemented by external organizations to enhance your website experience. While we don’t have direct access to the data within these cookies, they are instrumental in improving overall website functionality and user experience.
3. How Cookies Enhance Your Website Visit
We utilize cookies for the following key purposes:
- Essential Website Functionality: Certain cookies are strictly necessary for our website to operate correctly. These essential cookies are crucial for enabling website access, facilitating navigation, and delivering relevant content. They ensure you are directed to the correct regional or country-specific content, bolster security measures, and support e-commerce functionalities. Furthermore, strictly necessary cookies help enforce your privacy preferences. Without these cookies, significant portions of our website would be non-functional.
- Website Analytics: Analytics cookies are employed to track website usage patterns. This valuable data enables us to refine website usability, enhance performance, and improve website administration. It is important to note that our analytics cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
- Personalized Functionality: Functionality cookies are designed to recognize you upon your return to our website. This recognition allows us to personalize your experience by tailoring content to your preferences, greeting you by name, and remembering your chosen settings, such as language or region.
- Content and Advertising Optimization: These cookies record your website journey, including the pages you visit and the links you follow. We leverage this information to enhance our website and ensure that the advertising displayed is more relevant to your interests. For this purpose, we may also share this data with trusted third-party partners.
Cookies are instrumental in helping us improve our services for you. By understanding visitor behavior through cookies, we gain insights into what content is most valuable and can subsequently develop and refine our website’s content and functionality to better support your needs. While much of our website remains accessible even if cookies are disabled, certain features may not function as intended. We firmly believe that enabling cookies will significantly enhance both your current and future visits.
4. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have control over how cookies are managed. There are two primary methods to adjust your cookie settings:
- Device or Browser Settings: You can directly configure your cookie preferences within your device’s settings or your web browser’s options.
- Website-Level Settings: Some websites, including ours, may offer options to manage cookie preferences directly at the website level.
If you prefer not to receive cookies, you can modify your browser settings to either notify you when cookies are being sent or to reject cookies altogether. Additionally, you have the option to delete cookies that have already been set.
For detailed instructions on restricting or blocking web browser cookies, consult your browser’s Help function. Alternatively, websites like www.aboutcookies.org provide comprehensive guidance on managing cookies across various desktop browsers.
5. Internet Tags and Their Role with Cookies
We may occasionally utilize internet tags (also referred to as action tags, single-pixel GIFs, clear GIFs, invisible GIFs, and 1-by-1 GIFs) on this website. These tags/cookies might be deployed through third-party advertising or web analytics partners, potentially located in foreign countries where information, including your IP address, may be stored. These tags/cookies are placed on both online advertisements that direct users to our site and on various pages within our site.
This technology allows us to measure visitor responses to our website and assess the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns, including tracking page views and content engagement. It also helps us evaluate your overall website usage. Our third-party partners may collect data about visitors across our site and other websites through these internet tags/cookies. They may compile reports on website activity for our analysis and offer additional services related to website and internet usage. These partners may disclose information to other parties if legally required or if they engage other parties to process data on their behalf.
For more in-depth information regarding web tags and cookies associated with online advertising or to opt-out of third-party data collection, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative website: http://www.networkadvertising.org.
6. Analytics and Advertising Cookies in Detail
We utilize third-party services, such as Google Analytics, to track visitor behavior on our website, generate reports on website usage, and optimize and deliver advertisements based on past interactions with our site.
You can opt-out of Google Analytics cookies directly through Google’s provided tools:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
As mentioned in section 5, you can also learn more about opting out of cookies through the Network Advertising Initiative website:
http://www.networkadvertising.org
Please be aware that opting out of certain cookies may limit your ability to fully utilize all the features and functionalities of our website.
