Entegris Global Cookie and Similar Technologies Notice
• Introduction
• Terms used in this Cookie Notice
• What’s a Cookie?
• What are “Similar Technologies”?
• Are Cookies & Similar Technologies part of my personal data/personal information?
• Strictly Necessary Cookies
• Analytics Cookies
• Advertising Cookies
• How do I Disable/Enable Cookies?
• Browser-Based Privacy Signals
• Can you Delete Cookies & Similar Technologies?
• Cookies that have been set in the Past
• Further Information
Introduction
Entegris websites and applications use cookies and similar technologies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with an optimized experience when you interact with our websites and applications and allows us to make continual improvements to our websites and applications. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device used to visit this website. We also use similar technologies that help us understand the use of our websites and applications. This Global Cookie and Similar Technologies Notice (“Cookie Notice”) provides you with information about the cookies and similar technologies we use and how to control them on our websites and applications. Where required by applicable law, we’ll only use non-essential cookies and similar technologies after you’ve provided your consent through our cookie preference tool. For more information about how we use the personal data/information we collect through cookies, please see our Privacy Policy.
Terms used in this Cookie Notice
“Affiliate Marketing Partner” — an affiliate marketing partner is a website operator who can send traffic to our website using links from another website. The affiliate marketing partner is paid an agreed commission for the referral by Entegris.
“First-Party and Third-Party Cookies”— whether a cookie is “first-party” or “third-party” refers to the domain placing the cookie. First-Party Cookies are those set by us through the website displayed in your browser’s address bar. Third-Party Cookies are set by a domain other than us. If you visit our website and another entity sets a cookie through our website, this would be a Third-Party Cookie.
“Persistent Cookies” — these cookies remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie or until the user deletes them.
“Session Cookies”— these cookies allow us to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser. Session cookies are created temporarily, and once you close the browser, the session cookies are deleted.
“Performance Cookies” – these cookies are also known as “analytics cookies” and collect information about how visitors use our website. This information is aggregated to provide us with insights into how the website is being used.
What’s a Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie, to develop a record of the user’s online activity. Cookies on this website may be delivered in a first-party context (set by the Entegris website) or third-party context (set by the third-party cookie domain) and may also be set in association with emails you receive from us.
Cookies help us enhance your experience when using the website. They also help us understand how people use our website, such as which pages are most popular, so that we can make continuous improvements and deliver an optimum experience.
What are “Similar Technologies”?
Functions usually performed by a cookie can be achieved by other means. This could include, for example, using certain characteristics to identify devices so that visits to a website can be analyzed. Examples include HTML5 local storage, fingerprinting techniques and technologies like scripts, tracking pixels and plugins.
Entegris may use these technologies to help us understand our websites and applications through the eyes of our end users. This software helps us troubleshoot bugs, support our customers, build better user experiences, and support our marketing efforts. It may record any of the following information:
- Usage patterns such as clicks, mouse movements, scrolling and typing. Usage patterns illuminate areas of a website or app that are confusing or underused, allowing our web designers to improve our customer experience and build better features.
- Technical specifications such as browser, device type, operating system, viewfinder size, script errors and IP address. Because bugs and errors are often particular to a specific web browser or device type, this information helps developers build and ship fixes faster.
- Navigation information such as pages visited, referrers, URL parameters and session duration. Knowing the most popular pages and sources of referral traffic helps us improve the quality of content.
- Personal data/information such as full name, employer (if applicable), IP address, home country, state and zip/postal code. Account information helps us understand your unique experience and troubleshoot any problems you may be having. Note that some of this information will only be collected by us if you enter it into a web form on our site, rather than automatically through cookies and similar technologies.
Where required by applicable law, we’ll only use non-essential technologies after you’ve provided your consent through our cookie preference tool.
Are Cookies and Similar Technologies part of my personal data/information?
“Personal data,” “personal information” and “personally identifiable information” have become common terms used across jurisdictions around the world and are used in various statutes and regulations in different contexts and are assigned different meanings. For example, under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA), the term “personal information” refers to any information that “identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.” The CCPA includes a non-exhaustive list of data types that fall within that definition. That list includes “unique personal identifiers,” a term which itself is defined as including “cookies” that are used to “recognize a . . . device that is linked to a consumer or family, over time and across different services.” In this context, certain cookies will be considered “personal information” for the purposes of the CCPA.
Similarly, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) defines personal data as “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.” Information collected through a cookie may constitute “personal data.”
Cookies & Similar Technologies Used on our Website
Not all cookies & similar technologies are the same or have the same purpose. We use the following types of cookies on our website:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies
- Analytics Cookies
- Advertising Cookies
Cookies in each category may be first-party or third-party, depending on who places the cookie and for what purpose.
See also How do I Disable/Enable Cookies?
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are also referred to as “first-party essential cookies”. They’re essential to enable you to navigate the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website, identifying you when you sign into the website, and keeping track of your settings and practices. These cookies are strictly necessary for the website to function and can’t be switched off in our systems. They’re usually only set in response to actions made by you that amount to a request, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the website won’t work as a result. These cookies can’t be switched off in our cookie preference tool.
Analytics Cookies
These cookies are also referred to as “performance cookies” or “analytics cookies”, and may be set by us or by third parties. These cookies allow us or third parties to count visits, identify traffic sources and collect information about how visitors use our website. We do this so we can measure and optimize the user experience. For example, we can learn which pages visitors go to most often and if they get error messages from webpages. All information these cookies collect is aggregated for reporting purposes. Some analytics cookies may collect online identifiers that count as personal data/information under applicable law. If you don’t allow these cookies on the device you use to visit the website, we’ll not know when you’ve visited our website and won’t be able to monitor its performance.
Google Analytics cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. These cookies collect information in the aggregate to give us insight into how our website is being used. We anonymize IP addresses in Google Analytics, and the anonymized data is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the US. To learn more about Google’s privacy practices, please review the Google Privacy Policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can also download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Advertising Cookies
These cookies may be set through our site by us or 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. They may be based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you don’t allow these cookies, the advertising you see will be less targeted.
Some of these cookies may be set through our website by social media companies, such as Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn. We’ve added these services to the website to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. Cookies set through these services can track your browser across other websites and build up a profile of your interests, which can affect the content and messages you see on other websites you visit.
For more information about how a third party uses information collected through its cookies or similar technologies, please review that third party’s privacy notice.
How do I Disable/Enable Cookies?
You have the option to accept or reject non-essential cookies by modifying the settings in your browser and using the cookie banner on our website. You should be aware that you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our website if cookies are disabled.
To manage your cookie preferences through the banner, click on the banner, and you’ll be provided with options to manage your cookie preferences.
The tool will record when you have consented to our use of cookies and will ask for consent again annually to ensure users stay up-to-date with changes to our cookie and privacy policies. The consent tool specifically controls Advertising Cookies and Analytics Cookies set through our primary public websites. Strictly Necessary Cookies can’t be disabled, nor can the tool be used to block cookies on third-party websites linked from our website.
You can change or withdraw your consent to non-essential cookies at any time through our cookie preference tool.
To manage cookies in a web browser, use your browser’s privacy or cookie settings to adapt the browser to your preferences. If you use different devices, you’ll need to ensure that each browser is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.
Browser-Based Privacy Signals
Certain browsers and browser extensions allow you to communicate a privacy preference through a browser-based signal. Where required by applicable law, Entegris treats a recognized opt-out preference signal, such as Global Privacy Control (GPC), as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal data/information associated with the applicable browser or device.
Entegris recognizes the following browser-based signals:
(Each of these links open in a new window; please note we can't be responsible for the content of external websites.)
Can you delete Cookies & Similar Technologies?
You can easily delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser.
Google Chrome browser support: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
Microsoft Edge browser support: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/manage-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-view-allow-block-delete-and-use#delete-all-cookies
If you’re using another browser, select “cookies” in the browser’s Help function for information about how to find and delete cookies.
Cookies that have been set in the past
You can delete cookies stored on your browser, but deleting a cookie may not delete personal data/information previously collected through that cookie. If cookies are deleted, the information collected prior to the preference change may still be used as permitted by applicable law. However, we’ll stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information from your user experience.
When a user opts out of being tracked for marketing purposes, including targeted advertising, a new cookie may be placed to remember the user’s opt-out preference. Users who have opted out may still see this preference cookie in a web browser, but the cookie will be used to preserve the user’s preference rather than for targeted advertising.
Contact Us
If you want to exercise your data privacy rights or have questions about this Policy or Entegris’s privacy practices, contact us at: Entegris, Inc., Attention: Data Privacy, 129 Concord Road, Billerica, Massachusetts 01821, or contact us here.