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This Cookie Policy governs the use of cookies on the websites (https://www.komatsu.eu;  http://www.komatsu-deutschland.de , http://www.komatsu-germany.eu , https://webshop.komatsu.eu, www.komatsu-france.fr, hereinafter: “Website”) of Komatsu Europe International NV. (hereinafter: “KOMATSU”, “we”, “us”, “our”).

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site and which contain certain information and sometimes personal data. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don't have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. 

Social media plugins are small pieces of software developed and provided by social media service providers (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter), which add social media integration when built into the Website.

Pixels are also small pieces of software developed and provided by advertisers and social media service providers, which are integrated into the Website in order to provide you with more relevant advertisements, tailored to your interests.

NOTE : If you want general information on how we process your personal data other than the processing through cookies, social media plug-ins and pixels, including in relation to your communication with us via e-mail, telephone, fax and social media and in relation to your registration on our Website, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

By continuing to use the Website after having been informed of the use of cookies, social media plugins and pixels, you acknowledge that you have read this Cookie Policy carefully and that you agree with it without reservation. You may, however, at all times change your cookie preferences through the cookie settings. 


1. General

PROVISION EXPLANATION
1.1. Your personal data are processed by Komatsu Europe International NV, a corporation organised and existing under the laws of Belgium, with registered office at 1800 Vilvoorde, Belgium, Mechelsesteenweg 586, registered in Brussels under number RPR/CER(0)404.968.268. You can contact us via e-mail at PrivacyOffice@komatsu.eu . This is the entity responsible for the processing of your personal data as covered in this Cookie Policy.
1.2. Any notion starting with a capital shall be defined by explicit reference in this Cookie Policy. Where possible given the context, singular words shall be interpreted as also including the plural and vice versa. To make sure we have the same understanding of what is written here, it is important that certain notions are interpreted in the same way by you and by us.
1.3. Where reference is made to certain laws or regulations, such reference shall also include any change, replacement or annulment of said laws or regulations, including any related executive decisions. Laws tend to change from time to time, and we want to make sure that this Cookie Policy remains in line with any such changes.
1.4. KOMATSU reserves the right to modify, change or amend this Cookie Policy at its own discretion and from time to time. Such modification, change or amendment shall be communicated via the Website. If you do not accept the modifications, changes or amendments, you are to inform us by sending an e-mail to us via e-mail at PrivacyOffice@komatsu.eu. If we do not receive such an e-mail from you within three (3) business days after the changes to the Cookie Policy have been announced in a visible manner on our Website, you will be deemed to have unambiguously accepted all such changes.

As any company, changes in laws, market circumstances, interests etc. may require us to change our Cookie Policy from time to time to ensure that it remains accurate.

If this happens, you are kindly asked to take note of the changes and to agree with them if you find them acceptable. 

2.Cookies

PROVISION EXPLANATION

2.1. You can control and/ or delete cookies being placed by configuring your browser as such. For more details, see https://aboutcookies.org. You can 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.

 This provision is self-explanatory.
2.2. When you visit the Website, KOMATSU places a number of cookies. Most data pertaining to these cookies, their placement and use allow to identify you, and KOMATSU uses them to gain insight in how you and other visitors use the Website by gathering statistical and usage data, enabling KOMATSU to provide a better user experience on the Website. With this provision, KOMATSU aims to appropriately inform you of the cookies that are placed on your device when visiting and using the Website. 
2.3. KOMATSU knows about the following most important cookies being used on the Website:
Laws tend to change from time to time, and we want to make sure that this Cookie Policy remains in line with any such changes.
  • Essential cookies
    • ASP.NET_SessionId: KOMATSU places this Cookie to maintain an anonymized user session by the KOMATSU Website server.

    • Komatsu Cookies:
      • komatsu#Country: stores your preferred country
      • komatsu#Lang: stores your preferred language
      • komatsu#Consent: stores if you have explicitly confirmed to accept KOMATSU's cookie policy
      • komatsu#Analytics: stores if the KOMATSU Website is allowed to use Analytical & Statistical cookies
      • komatsu#Functional: stores if the KOMATSU Website is allowed to use Essential cookies
      • komatsu#PrivacyIntrusive: stores if the KOMATSU Website is allowed to use targeting cookies
      • komatsu#lstvstdpdp stores the last visited product page

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be disabled in our systems. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but as a consequence some parts of the site may not work. 

One example is the cookie used to remember your language setting; another one is for example used to store your privacy settings.
  • Analytical and statistical cookies
    • Google Analytics: The cookies placed by Google are the “_ga”- (2-year lifespan), as well as the “_gid”/“_gat” / "_dc_gtm" -cookies (1-day lifespan). It enables KOMATSU to learn information about our users’ use of the Website, such as the time of visit, the pages viewed, whether the user has visited the Website before, and the website visited prior to visiting the Website. For further information please see: You also can opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics with effect for the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for your current web browser: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
       
    • Doubleclick: the Doubleclick domain is also owned by Google. The cookies placed by Doubleclick are the “IDE” and "DSID"-cookies (both 1.5 years lifespan). These cookies enable KOMATSU to personalise its marketing campaign.

    • Sitecore: The cookies placed by Sitecore are a session cookie “SC_ANALYTICS_SESSION_COOKIE” and a permanent cookie (life span 10 years) “SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE” to handle its internal analytics tracking.

    • YouTube: KOMATSU embeds videos from their official YouTube channel. In the light thereof, cookies can be set by YouTube in order to allow you to view the video clips shown on our Website. For further information please see https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies

    • Microsoft Application Insights: The cookies placed by Application Insights are ”ai_session”, a unique anonymous session identifier cookie and a permanent cookie (life span 1 year) “ai_user” enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application.

Some cookies gather information meant to give KOMATSU insight (typically through statistics) in how the Website is used by users, what features are popular, which are not and so on. This information can be used to make the Website better so as to give you a better user experience.

Also this type of cookies does not store any personally identifiable information.
  • Targeting cookies
  • Facebook: Facebook places both a Pixel and a cookie, the fr-cookie, that enables KOMATSU to measure, optimize and build audiences for advertising  campaigns served on Facebook. In particular, it enables KOMATSU to see how our users move between devices when accessing the KOMATSU website and Facebook, to ensure that KOMATSU’s Facebook advertising is seen by those users who are most likely to be interested in such advertising by analysing which content a user has viewed and interacted with on the Metia website.

    For further information about the Facebook Pixel, please see: https://en-gb.facebook.com/business/help/651294705016616  and https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/

  • HubSpot: places 4 cookies: __hssc, __hssrc, __hstc and hubspotutk .
  • 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. It expires in 6 months.
  • __hssrc is a session cookie. 
  • __hssc is a cookie that keeps track of sessions. It is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It also contains the domain. It expires after 30 minutes. 
  • __hstc is the main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session).
    It expires in 6 months.

For further information about the HubSpot cookies, please see https://knowledge.hubspot.com/account/hubspot-cookie-security-and-privacy and https://knowledge.hubspot.com/reports/what-cookies-does-hubspot-set-in-a-visitor-s-browser

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

You can change your preference on the acceptance of this type of cookies at any time by clicking the link 'cookie settings' at the bottom of this page.
 2.4. You may at all times withdraw your consent with KOMATSU’s use of cookies. To exercise this right, it suffices to delete the cookies, which have been placed on your device. To do so, you are kindly asked to refer to the appropriate instructions of your browser manufacturer, as listed above in §2.1. This provision is self-explanatory.

3. PURPOSES FOR WHICH KOMATSU USES YOUR PERSONAL DATA

PROVISION EXPLANATION
3.1. KOMATSU processes your personal data to perform statistical analyses so that we may improve our Website, products and services or develop new products and services. This provision is self-explanatory.
3.2. KOMATSU processes your personal data to provide you in a personalized and efficient way with the products and services, via the Website. This provision is self-explanatory.

3.3. KOMATSU processes your personal data for marketing purposes, i.e. to provide you with targeted communications, promotions, offerings and other advertisements of KOMATSU regarding KOMATSU’s products and services. 		 This provision is self-explanatory.
3.4. KOMATSU may process your personal data for informing any third party in the context of a possible merger with, acquisition from/by or demerger by that third party, even if that third party is located outside the EU.

This provision is self-explanatory.
 3.5. KOMATSU may process your personal data for the preservation of the legitimate interests of KOMATSU, its partners or a third party if and when your registration with, or use of, the Website can be considered (a) a violation of any applicable terms of use or the intellectual property rights or any other right of a third party, (b) a threat to the security or integrity of the Website, (c) a danger to the Website or any of KOMATSU’s or its subcontractors’ underlying systems due to viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, malware or any other form of malicious code, or (d) in any way hateful, obscene, discriminating, racist, slanderous, spiteful, hurtful or in some other way inappropriate or illegal.  Here we reserve the right to process your personal data if you use our Website in any way that may harm KOMATSU or someone else or is illegal.

4. LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

PROVISION EXPLANATION
4.1. For processing your personal data under the conditions outlined in this Cookie Policy, but with the exception of functional cookies and analytical & statistical cookies, KOMATSU as the responsible party asks for your consent. 

The law requires us to state precisely which legal basis we use to process your personal data, considering the purposes we have listed in the previous article. 

The main legal basis for the processing covered in this Cookie Policy is your consent.

KOMATSU obtains your consent through the cookie banner. By clicking on this banner affirmatively and continuing to use any of the Website you acknowledge that you have read this Cookie Policy carefully and that you agree with it without reservation.

5. RECIPIENTS

PROVISION EXPLANATION
5.1. KOMATSU does not send your personal data in a directly identifiable manner to any third party without your explicit permission to do so. You understand, however, that our use of analytical and statistical as well as social media cookies may imply that the third party providers of those cookies may obtain certain information about you, including about your surfing behavior. You can find more information in the respective policies of those providers.

We do not share your personal data with third parties in a way that those parties can identify you directly unless you consent to it or unless we have anonymized your personal data. You understand however that when you use Facebook for instance to communicate, Facebook also processes your personal data. 

 

 
5.2. KOMATSU relies on third party processors to provide you the Website as well as to process your personal data on our behalf. These third party processors are only allowed to process your personal data on behalf of KOMATSU upon explicit written instruction of KOMATSU. KOMATSU warrants that all third party processors are selected with due care and are obliged to observe the safety and integrity of your personal data.  Our Website may be developed, maintained or hosted by third parties. Similarly, we rely on the services of third parties such as cloud providers to process your personal data internally.

6. QUALITY ASSURANCES

PROVISION EXPLANATION
6.1. KOMATSU does its utmost best to process only those personal data which are necessary to achieve the purposes listed under the purpose for processing.

We will not process more personal data about you than we need for the purposes we have communicated to you.

 

 

6.2. Your personal data are only processed for as long as needed to achieve the purposes which are described above or up until such time where you withdraw your consent for processing them. Note that withdrawal of consent may imply that you can no longer use the whole or part of the Website. KOMATSU will de-identify your personal data when they are no longer necessary for the purposes outlined in the purpose for processing, unless there is: 

  • an overriding interest of KOMATSU or any other third party in keeping your personal data identifiable;
  • a legal or regulatory obligation or a judicial or administrative order that prevents KOMATSU from de-identifying them. 
 Here we explain how long we will keep your personal data in a way that allows us to identify you.
 6.3. KOMATSU will take the appropriate technical and organizational measures to keep your personal data safe from unauthorized access or theft as well as accidental loss, tampering or destruction. Access by personnel of KOMATSU or its third party processors will only be on a need-to-know basis and subject to strict confidentiality obligations. You understand, however, that safety and security are best efforts obligations only, which can never be guaranteed.  We are committed to keeping your personal data safe.

7. YOUR RIGHTS

PROVISION EXPLANATION
7.1. You have the right to request access to all personal data processed by KOMATSU pertaining to you. KOMATSU reserves the right to charge an administrative fee for multiple subsequent requests for access that are clearly submitted for causing nuisance or harm to KOMATSU.
 

In this article we explain which rights you have vis-à-vis the processing of your personal data. The rights themselves are self-explanatory. 

 


Here we explain how long we will keep your personal data in a way that allows us to identify you.
 We are committed to keeping your personal data safe.

7.2. You have the right to ask that any personal data pertaining to you that are inaccurate, are corrected free of charge. If a request for correction is submitted, such request shall be accompanied of proof of the flawed nature of the data for which correction is asked.

7.3. You have the right to withdraw your earlier given consent for processing your personal data.

7.4. You have the right to request that personal data pertaining to you will be deleted if they are no longer required in light of the purposes which are outlined above or if you withdraw your consent for processing them. However, you need to keep in mind that a request for deletion will be evaluated by KOMATSU against:

  • overriding interests of KOMATSU or any other third party;
  • legal or regulatory obligations or administrative or judicial orders which may contradict such deletion.

Instead of deletion you can also ask that KOMATSU limits the processing of your personal data if and when (a) you contest the accuracy of that data, (b) the processing is illegitimate or (c) the data are no longer needed for the purposes which are outlined above, but you need them to defend yourself in judicial proceedings.

 7.5. You have the right to oppose the processing of personal data if you are able to prove that there are serious and justified reasons connected with his particular circumstances that warrant such opposition.
 7.6. You have the right to receive from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format all personal data you have provided to us.
 7.7. If you wish to submit a request to exercise one or more of the rights listed above, you can send an e-mail to us at PrivacyOffice@komatsu.eu for all data subject rights matters. An e-mail requesting to exercise a right shall not be construed as consent with the processing of your personal data beyond what is required for handling your request. Such request should clearly state and specify which right you wish to exercise and the reasons for it if such is required. It should also be dated and signed, and accompanied by a digitally scanned copy of your valid identity card proving your identity. 
KOMATSU will promptly inform you of having received this request. If the request proves valid, KOMATSU shall notify it as soon as reasonably possible and at the latest thirty (30) days after having received the request.
If you have any complaint regarding the processing of your personal data by KOMATSU, you may always contact KOMATSU via the e-mail address mentioned in the first paragraph of this clause. If you remain unsatisfied with KOMATSU’s response, you are free to file a complaint with the competent data protection authority, i.e. the Belgian data protection authority. For more information, visit http://www.privacycommission.be.