Cookie Policy

This website is owned and controlled by Omron Electronic Components Europe B.V., Wegalaan 57, 2132 JD Hoofddorp, The Netherlands (hereinafter 'Omron', 'we' or 'us'). Our website makes use of cookies and similar technologies. This Cookie Policy describes which cookies we use, for what purposes we use them and the options available to you to manage these cookies.

What are cookies?

Cookies are tiny text files stored on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more effectively, as well as to provide functionalities for the visitors that may, for example, enhance visitor friendliness.

On this website we use cookies that are strictly necessary to enable you to move around the site or to provide certain basic features. We use cookies to enhance the functionality of the website by storing your preferences, for example. We also use cookies to help us to improve the performance of our website to provide you with a better user experience.

To get the most out of this website, you need to have all cookies enabled. If you don't wish to enable cookies or wish to disable specific cookies, you will still be able to use the website but may not be able to use all of its features or functions. Please see the section below on how to manage your cookies.

Cookies we use and purposes

Cookies are used for a variety of purposes. The table below explains the first and third party cookies we use on our website, why we use them and how long the different cookies are stored on your computer or mobile device.

Name cookie Category of cookies Purposes Expiry date
ELOQUA First party Identify users 2 years
fr Third party Facebook advertising 3 months
_ga First party Google analytics: used to distinguish users 2 years
_gid First party Google analytics: used to distinguish users few seconds
_gat_UA-3556851-* First party Google analytics: used to throttle request rate 1 day
CONSENT Third party Offers users the option to opt-in consent to allow cookies that pass information about your browsing activities to third parties 20 years
IDE Third party Google targeted advertising 1 year
NID Third party Google targeted advertising 6 months
hs_ga First party Determine which domain to measure, distinguish unique users, remember number and time of previous visits, determine the start and end of a session 1 year
hs_sessionid Third party Collects information you enter and routes you take through the website during your session session
_hjClosedSurveyInvites First party Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor interacts with a Survey invitation modal popup. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not re-appear if it has already been shown. 1 year
_hjDonePolls First party Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not re-appear if it has already been filled in. 1 year
_hjDoneTestersWidgets First party Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor submits their information in the Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the same form does not re-appear if it has already been filled in. 1 year
_hjIncludedInSample First party Hotjar cookie. This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels. 1 year
_hjMinimizedPolls First party Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site. 1 year
_hjMinimizedTestersWidgets First party Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site. 1 year
BizoID Third party Statistics for LinkedIn ads 6 months
lang Third party Language session
lidc Third party Used for routing 1 day
_session First party Login session 1 day
OMR_USER_LANG First party Store user language 1 year
tracking_enabled First party Store if tracking accepted in cookie bar 10 years
tracking_id First party Store tracking id (if tracking accepted) session
PREF Third party Remember basic preferences, e.g. language, format of search result and how to display information 8 months
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Third party Track visitor views of youtube videos embedded in BIS webpages 8 months
YSC Third party Optimize streaming performance / update user video counter session
_gcl_aw First party Stores ad click information 3 months
_gcl_dc First party Stores ad click information 3 months
nQ_cookieId First party Albacross cookie to identify user 1 year
nQ_visitId First party Albacross cookie to identify user session 1 year
stat_track_u_id First party Personyze cookie to identify user 1 year
_stat_track_s_id First party Personyze cookie to identify user session session
driftt_aid First party This is the anonymous identifier token. It is used to tie the visitor on your website with the profile within the Drift system. This allows Drift to remember the information that this site visitor has provided through the chat on subsequent site visits.Personyze cookie to identify user session. 2 years
driftt_sid First party This is the session identifier token. It is used to tie the visitor on your website with a current website session within the Drift system. This is enables session-specific features, such as popping up a messaging only once during a 30 minute session as to prevent a disruptive experience. 30 mins
driftt_wmd First party This cookie marks when the Drift welcome message has been interacted with. It is used so the welcome message is not displayed subsequently. 2 years
DFTT_END_USER_PREV_BOOTSTRAPPED First party This cookie marks when the Drift site visitor has been created within the Drift system. This allows subsequent page visits to be faster because the site visitor does not have to be registered in our system again. 2 years
DFTT_LEAD_HAS_PREV_IDENTIFIED First party This cookie marks when the Drift site visitor has provided their email address to Drift. This allows the Drift widget to process this site visitor as a known visitor rather than anonymous. Although this is a marker for PII it does not relate directly to the email address that has been captured, that identifier is handled by the driftt_aid cookie. 2 years

How to manage cookies

If you do not want our website to store cookies on your computer or mobile device, you can change your browser settings. You can adjust your setting so that you receive a warning before certain cookies are stored. Another option is to adjust your settings so that your browser refuses most of our cookies or only certain cookies.

Please be aware that if you do not want to accept any cookies, we cannot guarantee that our website will function properly. It may be that several functions will be unavailable to you or that you will even be unable to view certain parts of the website.

Please note that you will have to change your settings for each browser and device you use. The procedures for changing your settings and cookies differ from browser to browser. If necessary, use the help function on your browser or click on one of the links below to go directly to the user manual for your browser:

There are also software products available that can manage cookies for you.

Changes to the policy

We may change this cookie policy from time to time. If a fundamental change is involved that requires us to inform you about this, or if the change is in any other manner relevant to you, we will ensure that information is provided to you well in advance of the change actually taking effect.

Contact and queries

If you have any questions about the cookies used on our website, please contact us and indicate the nature of your query.