Cookie Policy
Change Vision, Inc.
Effective on April 1, 2022
This Cookie Policy explains how Change Vision, Inc. (“Company”, “we”, “us”, and “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our websites listed below. It explains how we collect and use information from and about you when you visit our Websites, create an account with us, or otherwise interact with us.
In some cases we may use cookies and other tracking technologies described in this Cookie Policy to collect Personal Information, or to collect information that becomes Personal Information if we combine it with other information. For more information about how we process your Personal Information, please read our Privacy Policy.
In which websites do we use cookies?
Here are the list of websites that we use cookies for which we call “Websites” in this Cookie Policy.
- http://astah.net/
- https://www.change-vision.com/
- https://members.change-vision.com/
- http://astahblog.com/
- https://ja.astahblog.com/
- https://astah.change-vision.com/ja/
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies and other technologies to improve our products, websites and your experience by understanding usage of our websites and the interests of our customers and determining whether an email has been opened and acted upon; and to present you with advertising relevant to your interests.
Measuring website usage
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our Websites. We do this to make sure it is meeting its visitors’ needs and to analyze using data to understand how we could improve the overall experience such as the navigation and quality of contents.
Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you stay the site, how you arrived and which element you click on. We do not collect or store your name or address and we do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Please read Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites for more information.
Providing a better experience
We collect access history of visitors to Change Vision Members site, by using information of IP address when users access our server located in Japan, information of device identification number of mobile terminals when visitors accessed by mobile terminals and the cookies technology in order to certify that the access is made by collect User, to investigate access history and usage status of visitors and also to provide visitors with optimum Services.
We use cookies in order to avoid inconvenience when visitors are repeatedly required to logon every time. Therefore, visitors approve that visitors cannot use their Services if visitors refuse cookies by the browser.
Marketing
We use cookies set by HubSpot to track, measure, and analyze data to implement the improvements of the overall experience of visitors in our Websites. We use the following cookies set by HubSpot:
| Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __hs_opt_out | 6 months | This cookie is to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again. |
| __hs_do_not_track | 6 months | This cookie is used to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot. |
| __hs_initial_opt_in | 7 days | This cookie is used to prevent the banner from always displaying when visitors are browsing in strict mode. |
| __hs_cookie_cat_pref | 6 months | This cookie is used to record the categories a visitor consented to. |
| hs_ab_test | at the end of session | This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page the viewers have seen before. |
| hs-messages-is-open | 30 minutes | This cookie is used to determine and save whether the chat widget is open for future visits. It is set in visitor's browser when they start a new chat, and resets to re-close the widget after 30 minutes of inactivity. If the visitor manually closes the chat widget, it will prevent the widget from re-opening on subsequent page loads in that browser session for 30 minutes. |
| hs-messages-hide-welcome-message | 1 day | This cookie is used to prevent the chat widget welcome message from appearing again for one day after it is dismissed. |
| __cfruid | at the end of session | This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider because of their rate limiting policies. |
| __cf_bm | 30 minutes | This cookie is set by HubSpot's CDN provider and is a necessary cookie for bot protection. Learn more about Cloudflare cookies. |
| __hstc | 6 months | 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). |
| hubspotutk | 6 months | This cookie keeps track of a visitor's identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission |
| __hssc | 30 minutes | This cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp. |
| __hssrc | at the end of session | Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. If this cookie does not exist when HubSpot manages cookies, it is considered a new session. |
| messagesUtk | 6 months | This cookie is used to recognize visitors who chat with us via the live-chat when it is available. If the visitor leaves our website before they're added as a contact, they will have this cookie associated with their browser. |
Please see Cookies set in a visitor’s browser by HubSpot for more information.
How you can control cookie
You have the right to decide whether to accept or block cookies.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept, reject and delete cookies at all times. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version.
Please note that if you block cookies on our Websites, it will navigate an impact upon the usability of webpages and certain functions and pages will not work in the usual way.
Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at info@change-vision.com or by post to:
Change Vision, Inc. (FUKUI Office)
3-111, Toiya-cho, Fukui-City, FUKUI, JAPAN 918-8231