Cookies Notice

July 2024

We use in our Website https://altair.sony-semicon.com/ (“Website“) cookies and similar files or technologies to automatically collect and store information about your computer, device, and Website usage, in order to improve their performance and enhance your user experience. We use the general term “cookies” in this notice to refer to these technologies and all such similar technologies that collect information automatically when you are using our Website where this notice is posted.  You can find out more about cookies and how to control them in the information below.

If you do not accept the use of these cookies, please disable them using the instructions in this cookie notice or by changing your browser settings so that cookies from this Website cannot be placed on your computer or mobile device. Important: disabling cookies on this Website may impair certain Website features.

In this cookie notice (“Cookies Notice”), we use the term SSI (and “we“, “us” and “our“) to refer to Sony Semiconductor Israel Ltd. Our Privacy Policy is available at https://altair.sony-semicon.com/privacy/.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are computer files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website.  Cookies can then be sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited our Website before or whether you are a new visitor.

There are two broad categories of cookies:

• First party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device.
• Third party cookies, which are served by a third party on our behalf. The third-party cookies are outside of our control. The third parties may, at any time, change their terms of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc. See below additional information on how to manage such cookies.

Cookies can remain on your computer or mobile device for different periods of time. Some cookies are ‘session cookies’, meaning that they exist only while your browser is open. These are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Other cookies are ‘permanent cookies’, meaning that they survive after your browser is closed. They can be used by websites to recognize your computer when you open your browser and browse the Internet again.

Web beacons: Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are small graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our Website. A tracking pixel is a hyperlink to a resource, usually an image file, embedded into a piece of content like a website or an email. This pixel usually fulfils no purpose related to the content itself; its sole purpose is to establish a communication by the SSI to the host of the pixel.This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our Website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our Website from an online advertisement displayed on a third party website, to improve Website performance and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In most instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function, and therefore declining cookies prevents them from functioning.

Targeted advertising: Third parties may drop cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details or other personally identifying details unless you choose to provide these to us.

What types of cookies do we use?

How to control or delete cookies

You may have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies.  When you access our Website, you are presented with a cookie consent mechanism that allows you to accept or reject cookies that are not essential cookies.  You may also control cookies by setting your browser to turn off cookies as described further below. If you turn off cookies, web beacon and other technologies will still detect your visits to our Website; however, they will not be associated with information otherwise stored in cookies

As another way of controlling cookies, most browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings and learn how to use them, please consult the “Help” function of your browser, or the documentation published online for your particular browser type and version. However, please note that if you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Website. The following pages have information on how to change your cookies settings for the different browsers:

• Cookie settings in Chrome and Chrome mobile
• Cookie settings in Firefox and Firefox mobile
• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge
• Cookie settings in Safari and Safari mobile
• Cookie settings in iOS
• Cookie settings in Opera
• Cookie settings in Apple Safari

If you use another browser, you can check if the procedure for your browser is mentioned in this explanatory website or here.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit here.

Need More Information? If you would like to find out more about cookies and their use on the Internet, you may find the following link useful: All About Cookies

Contact us. If you have any questions or comments about this Cookies Notice, or privacy matters generally, please contact us via email at ssi-privacy@sony.com.