Cookie Policy
At Kubota Canada Ltd. ("Kubota") we use technologies like cookies, pixels, and web beacons to make help ensure our website displays properly, to understand how visitors use it, and to tailor content and advertisements to be more relevant for you both on our site and on third party websites. This Policy is designed to explain what cookies are, why we use them, and what options you have to control or delete them – if you decide you want to.
You should also read our Privacy Policy, which provides more information regarding how we collect, use, and disclose personal information.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a string of information that a website transfers to the browser on your computer or device's hard disk. Cookies help a website display properly, help us understand how visitors use the website, and help us to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly - most major websites use cookies.
A cookie will typically contain the "lifetime" of the cookie (which may be for your browser session, or another set period); and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Two types of cookies are used on this website:
- Session Cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site.
- Persistent Cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).
How we use Cookies and Related Technologies
How are cookies and related technologies used on this site and what information is collected?
The information collected using cookies and related technologies such as web beacons and pixels may include:
- your domain name,
- your IP address,
- the type of browser and operating system being used, and
- information on how you arrive at our site,
- whether you open our emails or interact with our advertisements,
- information on how you use our website, such as which pages on our website you view, your settings and preferences, how you use the site, errors you encounter, and the files you request and what links you click.
We use cookies and related technologies such as web beacons and pixels to:
- To allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter information.
- To help us recognise you as a unique visitor when you return to our website.
- Count the number of visitors to our website.
- Understand how visitors reach our website and interact with our advertising. For example, we may determine whether you open any email we send to you, and use links within it to visit out website, or if you click on our advertisements to reach our website. This helps us understand how well our communications and advertising are working.
- To allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred interests or to avoid showing you the same advertisements repeatedly. For example, we may use cookies to display advertising on third party websites after you have visited our website. We may also use them to better direct advertisements to audiences we think may be interested in them, to tailor the content of the emails we send, or to prevent you from seeing advertisements we think you are not interested in, or may have seen too many times.
○ For information on how to control your advertising preferences, please see “Your Choices” below. - To compile statistics that allow us to understand how visitors use our site and to help us improve the structure and functionality of our website. For example, we use cookies to understand what parts of our website visitors see, what content is accessed on our site, and what links and other functions visitors use.
- To remember certain actions you take on our website. For example, we use cookies to remember your settings, such as your language preference, and whether you have previously seen our cookie banner, and what options you selected. Please note that if you reset your stored cookies, you will need to reset your preferences.
We work with third parties to help us implement these tools. For example, we work with:
- Google Analytics, Google Ads, and YouTube to understand and improve how you interact with our Website. Google Analytics provides web analytics services to track, monitor and report website traffic through collection of data about each visitor to the Website. Information collected may include: IP address, demographic data, language preferences, interests, browser type, operating system information, pages of our Website visited, and traffic origin. Data collected by Google Analytics is stored by Google and shared with us in the form of reports that allow us to better understand how users interact with our Website. Google Analytics may also share data with other Google services. You can opt-out of having your information tracked in Google Analytics by installing an opt-Out Browser Add-on. This add-on will prevent Google Analytics script from sending your user data to Google Analytics. For more information, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You can learn more about Google privacy practices by visiting https://policies.google.com/privacy. For information about the options offered by YouTube, please visit: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9487666?hl=en.
- Facebook, to understand and improve how you interact with our website. Facebook may provide statistical data of different categories about users of our page, for example, what actions are taken on the page (such as if you make a purchase or click a link). This information is used to understand how visitors interact with our website, and to better serve advertising we think may interest you, on this and other websites. For more information about Facebook’s privacy practices, please refer to Facebook's privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. You may also learn about available options and abilities to opt-out of some practices offered by Facebook, here: https://www.facebook.com/adpreferences/ad_settings
Web Beacons
Some of our Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web Beacons (sometimes known as clear gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited these pages. Web Beacons collect information which includes a cookie number; time and date of a page view; and a description of the page on which the Web Beacon resides. We may also carry Web Beacons placed by third party advertisers. These Beacons are used to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign.
Your Choices
Disabling and Enabling Cookies, Opting-out of Targeted Marketing
You have the ability to accept or decline the use of cookies in two ways – by either using the Cookie Preferences tool accessed from our cookie banner and website footer, or by modifying your internet browser’s settings.
Please note that your choices are browser and device specific- you must set your preferences separately for each device or browser you use.
Please note, you may not be able to use all of the features of our site if all cookies are disabled. Rejecting all cookies can lead to an inferior experience on the internet.
Kubota works with third-party behavioural advertisers registered with the Self-Regulatory Program For Online Behavioural Advertising. For more information about behavioral advertising in Canada, the Self-Regulatory Program, and how to opt-out of participating advertising services, please visit http://youradchoices.ca/.
If you receive commercial email from us, and would like to unsubscribe, please use the “unsubscribe link” in our commercial email. For more information about our practices with respect to personal information, please visit our Privacy Policy.
Most internet browsers also allow you to delete the cookies stored on them. If you do this, please note that you will need to reset your preferences.
The processes for controlling and deleting cookies varies depending on which browser you use. To find out how to do so with a particular browser, please consult the help or options information provided by your browser.