COOKIE POLICY
1.What are Cookies?
The company (“Company,” “our,” “we,” or “us”) uses cookies for the purpose of maintaining and improving the convenience of using our website (“Website”) and the quality of services on the Website. A cookie is a file that is created and stored on a customer’s device when accessing our Website and contains information sent and received between a customer’s browser and the web server. Cookies are provided either by us or by third parties who provide services to us. Using cookies helps improve the convenience of our Website by remembering the customer’s login status, language preference, and display settings, that eliminates the need to re-enter the information when navigating between pages.
2.Cookies Used on our Website
The following categories of cookies are used on our Website:
(1) Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential to run our website correctly and allow you to operate and use its functions of our website. Use of strictly necessary cookies does not require customer’s consent. The strictly necessary cookies used on our website are as follows:
| Cookie Name | Intended Use | Retention Period | Legal Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| __hs_opt_out | This cookie is used to remember not to ask our customer the preference for cookies again. This cookie is set when we give our customers the choice to opt out of cookies. | 6 months. | Legitimate interest (to reflect your preferences on the Website.) |
| __hs_do_not_track | This cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot. | 6 months. | Legitimate interest (to reflect your preferences on the Website.) |
| __hs_initial_opt_in | This cookie is used to prevent the banner from always displaying when visitors are browsing in strict mode. | 7 days. | Legitimate interest (to prevent showing unnecessary banners.) |
| __hs_cookie_cat_pref | This cookie is used to record the categories a visitor consented to. | 6 months. | Legitimate interest (to reflect your preferences on the Website.) |
| __hs_gpc_banner_dismiss | This cookie is used when the Global Privacy Control banner is dismissed, to maintain such condition. | 180 days. | Legitimate interest (to avoid displaying banners you have already dismissed.) |
| __hs_notify_banner_dismiss | This cookie is used when the website uses a Notify consent banner type. | 180 days. | Legitimate interest (to avoid displaying banners you have already dismissed.) |
| __cfruid | This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider because of their rate-limiting policies. | This cookie expires at the end of the session. | Legitimate interest (to keep Website secure.) |
| __cfuvid | This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider because of their rate-limiting policies. | This cookie expires at the end of the session. | Legitimate interest (to keep Website secure.) |
| __cf_bm | This cookie is set by HubSpot's CDN provider and is a necessary cookie for bot protection. | 30 minutes. | Legitimate interest (to keep Website secure.) |
(2) Analytics Cookies
These are non-essential cookies controlled by the cookie banner. Customers can opt out of these cookies by not giving consent.
| Cookie Name | Intended Use | Retention Period | Legal Basis |
| __hstc | The main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, hubspotutk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). | 6か月間 | Consent |
| hubspotutk | This cookie keeps track of a visitor's identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current visitor. | 6 months. | Consent |
| __hssc | This cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, view count (increments each pageview in a session), and session start timestamp. | 30 minutes. | Consent |
| __hssrc | Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, it is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. | This cookie expires at the end of the session. | Consent |
| Google Analytics cookies | We use Google Analytics cookies to track visit history and measure user interests, which helps us improve our website. | 14 months. | Consent |
- Customers can refer to the following website for more information on HubSpot cookies:
https://knowledge.hubspot.com/privacy-and-consent/what-cookies-does-hubspot-set-in-a-visitor-s-browser - Customers can refer to the following website for more information on Google Analytics cookies:
https://developers.google.com/analytics
3.How to Opt-Out?
Customers can change the cookie settings, such as allowing or disabling cookies on each browser of the device that the customer actively uses to access the Website. For detailed instructions, a customer should refer to the help menu of their browser. Additionally, if a customer blocks/rejects cookies, they may not be able to access or use some or all features and contents on our Website.
4.Revision of This Policy
The Company reserves the right to revise this Cookie Policy without prior notice. Any changes in the Cookie Policy will become effective when we make the revised Cookie Policy available on the Website.
April 2025
Gun Ei Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
President & CEO
Kiichiro Arita
