Our websites use cookies. Please read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information about who we are and how we use cookies on our websites. This policy should be read together with our privacy notices relating to website users, customers and prospective customers which set out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally in relation to website use, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and the relevant data protection regulator if you have a complaint. Our privacy notice can be found here.
Who are we?
This website is operated by Komatsu America Corp. This policy explains how Komatsu America Corp. and their group companies and affiliates use cookies.
Our website
This cookie policy relates to your use of our website www.komatsupress.com.
We may link to other websites from our websites. These other websites may also use cookies or similar technologies and should have their own separate cookie polices. For privacy information relating to these other websites, please review their cookie policies.
What is a cookie
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. These help us recognize you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past use of the website.
For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of a user’s internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.
Your Choices about Cookies
We will ask for your permission (consent) to place cookies (other than essential cookies) or other similar technologies on your device when you visit our website.
There is a notice on our home page which describes how we use cookies and requests your consent to place cookies on your device.
You can also control and/or delete cookies being placed by configuring your browser. For more details, see aboutcookies.org. You can also delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work or stop working properly. For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.
Our use of cookies
We use cookies on this website to:
- recognise you whenever you visit this website (this speeds up your access to the website as you do not have to log in each time);
- obtain information about your preferences and use of our website
- carry out surveys, research and statistical analysis to help improve our content, products and services and to help us better understand our users’ requirements;
- target our marketing and advertising campaigns more effectively by providing interest-based content that are personalised to your interests; and
- make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.
For further information on cookies generally visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Types of cookies
The cookies we place on your device fall into the following categories:
- Essential cookies—these cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work.
- Analytical and statistical cookies—these cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
- Functional cookies—these cookies allow our website to remember the choices you make (such as your user name, language, last action and search preferences) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. The information collected by these cookies is anonymous and cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
- Targeting cookies—these cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They uniquely identify your browser and internet device to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. We will use this information to record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
- Social media cookies—these cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.
Duration of cookies
The cookies we place on your device are stored for the following duration:
- Session cookies—these allow our website to link your actions during a particular browser session. These expire each time you close your browser and do not remain on your device afterwards.
- Persistent cookies—these are stored on your device in between browser sessions. These allow your preferences or actions across our website to be remembered. These will remain on your device until they expire, or you delete them from your cache. Details of their duration are set out below.
The cookies we use
The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:
Functional cookies
| Cookie Name | Domain Host | Description | Expiry Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| wp_woocommerce_session_* | www.komatsupress.com | WooCommerce sets this cookie to make a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each one. | 2 days |
| pll_language | www.komatsupress.com | The pll _language cookie is used by Polylang to remember the language selected by the user when returning to the website, and also to get the language information when not available in another way. | 1 year |
| wpEmojiSettingsSupports | komatsupress.com | WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user’s browser can display emojis properly. | session |
Performance cookies
| Cookie Name | Domain Host | Description | Expiry Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| sbjs_migrations | .komatsupress.com | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. | session |
| sbjs_current_add | .komatsupress.com | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. | session |
| sbjs_first_add | .komatsupress.com | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. | session |
| sbjs_current | .komatsupress.com | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. | session |
| sbjs_first | .komatsupress.com | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. | session |
| sbjs_udata | .komatsupress.com | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. | session |
| sbjs_session | .komatsupress.com | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. | 1 hour |
Targeting cookies
| Cookie Name | Domain Host | Description | Expiry Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga_* | .komatsupress.com | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
| _ga | .komatsupress.com | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
Third-party cookies
| Cookie Name | Domain Host | Description | Expiry Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | .youtube.com | 6 months | |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | .youtube.com | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | .youtube.com | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. | 6 months |
| yt-remote-device-id | youtube.com | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. | never |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | youtube.com | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. | never |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | youtube.com | The cookie ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user. This information is used to improve the user experience by providing more relevant search results in the future. | never |
| yt-remote-session-app | youtube.com | The yt-remote-session-app cookie is used by YouTube to store user preferences and information about the interface of the embedded YouTube video player. | session |
| iU5q-!O9@$ | youtube.com | session | |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | youtube.com | The yt-remote-cast-installed cookie is used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | session |
| -7b71aae5-372455bb | youtube.com | session | |
| -5277106f7a77f635 | youtube.com | session | |
| yt-remote-session-name | youtube.com | The yt-remote-session-name cookie is used by YouTube to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | session |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | youtube.com | The yt-remote-fast-check-period cookie is used by YouTube to store the user’s video player preferences for embedded YouTube videos. | session |
How to contact us
If you have any questions or concerns about the information in this notice, or about our handling of personal information more generally, or if you would like more detailed information on a particular point, you should contact our Local Privacy Officer who can be contacted as follows:
- Komatsu America Corp. and any Komatsu America Corp. group companies: submit a request to us at Komatsu’s compliance portal.
- Komatsu Mining Group companies (not listed below): GPO@global.komatsu
- Joy Global UK Limited (UK): LPO.UK@global.komatsu
- Joy Global (Poland) spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością (Poland): LPO.PL@global.komatsu
- Limited Liability Company “Joy Global” (Russia): LPO.RU@global.komatsu
- Komatsu Mining Corp.: LPO.US@global.komatsu
- Any other Komatsu Mining Group companie: GPO@global.komatsu
Changes to this cookie policy
This policy was published in 2021 and last updated in August 2024.
We keep our cookie policy under regular review. Any changes we make in the future will be posted on this page.
