What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your Web browser or the hard drive of your computer or mobile device when you visit a website so that the website can remember who you are. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. Cookies allow us to recognize your preference information, keep track of your transactions, and facilitate effective website administration. It is important to note that cookies generally do not collect any personal data stored on your mobile device or computer’s hard drive.
The user’s browser memorizes cookies on the hard disk only during the current session, occupying a minimum memory space without damaging the computer. Cookies do not contain any kind of specific personal information, and most of them are deleted from the hard disk at the end of the browser session.
Most browsers accept cookies as standard and, regardless of them, allow or prevent temporary or memorized cookies in security settings.
Without your explicit consent –by activating cookies in your browser– kyodynamics.com will not link the stored data with your personal data in the cookies.
Key definitions
First- and third-party cookies: Whether a cookie is first-party or third-party refers to the domain placing the cookie.. First-party cookies are those set by a website that is being visited by the user, the domain host can see the data that the cookie retrieves. Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than that of the website being visited by the user.
Persistent cookies: These cookies remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time the user visits the website that created the specific cookie.
Session cookies: These cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A session starts when a user opens the browser and ends when he/she closes the browser. Session cookies are temporary, so all session cookies are deleted when the user closes the browser.
Strictly necessary cookies: They allow the user to navigate the website and use essential functions such as secure areas (for example, payment activity) and shopping carts. Without these cookies, the services you request cannot be provided. These cookies do not collect any information from you that can be used for marketing purposes or to remember the sites you visited on the Internet.
What types of cookies does KyōDynamics use?
Strictly necessary cookies: We use strictly necessary cookies to:
- Direct users to specific applications of a service or specific servers.
- Make sure you connect to the right service on our website when we make any changes to the way the website works.
- Identify you as being logged in to our website.
- Remember information you have entered when you navigate to different pages on our website during a browser session.
- Remember your purchase requests when you get to the checkout page.
Technical cookies: Are those used for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of certain information on an electronic communications network or as strictly necessary for the provider of an information service to provide services requested explicitly by the subscriber or user. These cookies allow the user to navigate through our website and use its different options and services, including those that KyōDynamics uses to manage and operate the website, such as for example, identifying user’s session, remembering the elements that make up the shopping cart, managing payments, storing content for broadcasting video or audio, etc. In addition, technical cookies include those that allow the website to remember information configured by the user so that he or she accesses the service with certain characteristics that can differentiate their experience from that of other users, such as the language selected by the user, the type of navigation and regional configuration through which it accesses, etc. Technical cookies are strictly necessary to provide the services of the website, as well as for its proper functioning, therefore, this type of cookie does not require prior consent from the user.
Functionality cookies: These allow websites to remember the user’s site preferences and choices they make on the site including username, region, and language. They are anonymous and don’t track browsing activity across other websites. Functionality cookies can include first party, third party, persistent or session cookies. Similar to strictly necessary cookies, functionality cookies are used to provide services you request. These cookies can remember your preferences to boost the user experience on a website. Examples of functionality cookies include web chat services, user preferences, and the ability to comment on a blog you visit.
Performance cookies: These Are cookies used specifically for gathering data on how visitors use a website, which pages of a website are visited most often, or if they get error messages on web pages. These cookies monitor only the performance of the site as the user interacts with it. These cookies don’t collect identifiable information on visitors, which means all the data collected is anonymous and only used to improve the functionality of a website. Website owners can use these cookies to gather statistical data on how their website is performing to make improvements.
Targeting and advertising cookies: These cookies allow third parties to recognize that you have visited our website. We, and our third party service providers, also may combine information obtained from these cookies with personal information available from other sources, including data collected about you when you are using other websites and data collected about you offline, whether on our site or data that the third party maintains.
These are cookies specifically designed to gather information from you on your device to display advertisements to you based on relevant topics that interest you. Advertisers will place these cookies on a website with the website operator’s permission. The information the cookies gather on you can be shared with other advertisers to measure the performance of their advertisements. Additionally, another purpose of targeting and advertising cookies is to build user profiles from visitors to the website to gather statistics on the performance of the advertisements that can carry across many websites. These cookies are almost always third party, persistent cookies. This means that the cookies can follow the user as they visit other websites. Sometimes, the site with the advertising cookies do not display the advertisements but it can target users with advertisements elsewhere even after they’ve left the site.
Third-party cookies: In particular, this website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service. It is operated by Google Inc. . (“Google”), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google uses cookies to help the website analyze how users use the Site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Site (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. An “Internet Protocol Address” or “IP Address” is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to and shortened by Google servers in the United States. On behalf of the Site provider, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Site, compiling reports on Site activity for Site operators and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of these cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser as discussed in this Policy. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this Site. Furthermore, you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.
For more information about cookies used by Google Analytics, please read Google’s Privacy Policy and visit Google Analytics Help pages.
How to delete and block cookies
If you have not changed your browser setting, you are consenting to Kyodynamics.com’s use of cookies when you visit our website, in the manner previously mentioned and for the aforementioned purposes.
If you do not want your information to be collected through cookies, you can change the setting on your Internet browser. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including Strictly Necessary cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our website. Our website places cookies as soon you visit our website. Turning off or deleting cookies will not prevent device identification and related data collection from occurring. This can only be done by changing your browser setting. The following links may help you to change the cookies preferences: