World WideZojirushi Corporation (the “Company”) may store cookies on, or access cookies stored on, your device. This Cookie Policy provides a detailed explanation on how the Company uses cookies.
1. Explanation Regarding Cookies
(1) What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files containing arbitrary characters that are exchanged between a web server and your web browser and stored on your device when you view a website. If you visit another website, such stored information will enable the operator of such other website to know that you viewed such website as the browser will externally transmit such stored information to the web server.
(2) Disabling Cookies
[Disabling All Cookies]
You may disable or delete cookies by changing the browser settings. Please be aware that, if you do so, certain features available on this website may be restricted or some websites may not be displayed properly. Please contact the provider of the browser on how to change the settings thereof.
[Disabling Certain Cookies]
You may disable (opt out of) all cookies other than essential cookies by making changes on the “Privacy Settings” page of the Company’s website.
2. Categories of Cookies Used by the Company
This website uses the following three categories of cookies:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are essential for providing the functions required to use this website and for the operation of the website itself.
- Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver targeted advertisements based on the behavior and attributes of users of this website and apps, as well as advertisements encouraging users to revisit the Company’s services, on both the Company’s and third-party websites, and are also used to measure the effectiveness of such advertisements.
- Analytics Cookies: These cookies are used to analyze users’ access to this website and apps, including the number of visits and the amount of time spent on each page, the number of users by usage environments and regions, referral sources, and search terms, and are also used to utilize such access information for enhancing your convenience, optimizing contents, and measuring the effectiveness of advertisements.
Cookies can be divided into the following two categories according to how long they are stored in your browser:
- Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that only remain in your browser’s cookie files until you leave the website.
- Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain in your browser’s cookie file even after you close your browser. They have an expiration date and are used to store information that can be accessed across multiple browsing sessions.
3. Details of Cookies Used by the Company
The details of the cookies used on this website are provided in the table below.
| Cookie | Domain | Purpose/Description | Storage Period | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autolingual (autolingual_session / autolingual_language / autolingual_user_preferences) | zojirushi.global | This type of cookie is used to collect information such as your language settings and URLs of pages you browse, and to control the website’s multilingual display and translation display functions. | Per session | Essential |
| Google Cloud CDN (Cloud-CDN-Cookie) | googleapis.com / gstatic.com | This infrastructure collects information such as IP addresses, request URLs, user agents, and referrer information in order to deliver website images and contents at high speed to improve page loading speed. | Per session | Essential |
| Google Tag Manager (dc_gtm_<property-id>) | www.googletagmanager.com | This system collects information such as IP addresses, page URLs, and user agents in order to centrally manage and deliver various scripts and tags (including Webtru control tags) used within the website. | Per session | Essential |
| Webtru (Webtru Consent Data) | zojirushi.global | This system collects information such as Cookie consent status, consent date/time, and identifiers in order to manage users’ consent regarding Cookies (Consent Management Platform, or CMP). | 1 year | Essential |
| YouTube (PREF/__Secure-YNID) | youtube.com | This system collects information such as identifiers, IP addresses, video viewing history, user agents, and device types in order to ensure that videos embedded on the website are correctly displayed and played. | PREF: 8 months __Secure-YNID: 6 months |
Essential |
| Google Analytics (_ga/_gid) | zojirushi.global | This system analyzes information such as identifiers stored on devices (including cookies), IP addresses, URLs and titles of apps browsed, dates/times of browsing, device types and versions, in order to analyze the number of visits and amount of time spent on each page, the number of users by usage environments and regions, referral sources, and search terms. Such analysis enables the system to improve your convenience, optimize contents, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. | _ga: 2 years, _gid: 1 day |
Analytics |
4. Externally Transmitted Information
(1) What is External Transmission?
External transmission means the act of transmitting your information that is recorded in your devices, such as computers and smartphones, to a web server, etc. of any third party other than you. The Company will use Externally Transmitted Information on certain services and websites to track your information.
(2) External Transmission Service
The Company uses advertisement distribution services and behavior log analysis tools, etc. provided by the information recipient specified below. Through this website, your information may be transmitted to the information recipient specified below for purposes such as enhancing your convenience, improving this website, providing you with optimal website display and distributing advertisements specifically tailored to you.
Please see the “Information Recipient’s Privacy Policy” section in the table below for information on the information recipient’s purposes of using information obtained through cookies, etc. Please see the “Opt-out” section in the table below for information on how to disable (opt-out of) the use of cookies, etc.
| Name of Cookie or Information Collection Module, etc. | Google Analytics |
|---|---|
| Name of Information Recipient | Google LLC |
| Externally Transmitted Information |
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| Company’s Purposes of Use |
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| Information Recipient’s Privacy Policy |
Providing services such as keeping track of and analyzing the usage status of websites, apps and services, conducting research on the usage environment thereof, and performing marketing in relation thereto. Please see the Privacy Policy for other purposes of use. * The above link will direct you to an external (Google) website. |
| Opt-Out |
If you wish to opt-out, please click here. * The above link will direct you to an external (Google) website. |
5. Inquiries Regarding Use of Cookies
If you have any questions or if there is anything unclear regarding the use of cookies, please make contact using the following telephone number or email address.
[E-mail]
Please use the “Inquiries form”.
Please be aware that it may take some time to respond to any inquiry you make during weekends, at the beginning of a week, or during summer holidays or year-end and new year holidays, etc.