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KIYOHARA & CO., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as “KIYOHARA”) is aware of the importance of personal information, and in order to have people use the Company’s website with peace of mind, it will strive to appropriately protect personal information, based on the policy stated below.
Please note that domestic affiliated companies, overseas affiliated companies, and sites to which links are made from the Company’s website are not subject to this policy.
For the policies of each affiliated company and sites to which links are made, please make an inquiry with the relevant company.

• About personal information

  Personal information refers to information that makes it possible to identify individuals or information that is specific to individuals, such as addresses, names, ages, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses that are provided to KIYOHARA through the Company’s website.

• Management of personal information

  1. KIYOHARA will stipulate regulations for protecting personal information, and will strive to appropriately manage personal information according to those regulations.
  2. KIYOHARA will strive to appropriately manage personal information, prevent things such as unauthorized access to or leaks, loss, or damage of personal information, and ensure security.

• Use of personal information

  The Company will use personal information for the purposes stated below. Except for reasons that are allowed under personal information protection laws and other laws and ordinances, personal information will not be used beyond this scope, unless the relevant person has agreed.

  1. Things such as work-related communication with customers, performance of agreements, and requests for performance
  2. Responding to inquiries or requests
  3. Research related to preferences and markets, and collection of opinions
  4. Information provision for things such as the Company’s product information and business plans
  5. Information about things such as exhibitions and other events
  6. Other purposes that are incidental to the purposes of use stated above

  In the event that we are provided provision of personal information, we will clearly indicate its purpose in advance. Personal information that we have been provided will be used only for its clearly indicated purpose, and will not be used for any other purpose without obtaining the relevant person’s agreement. If you do not want to provide personal information, it will be possible to refuse provision of personal information, based on your own judgment. Please understand in advance that in such event, you may become unable to use services on the Company’s website.

• Non-disclosure to third parties

  Except in cases that fall under any of the items below, KIYOHARA will not disclose or provide to a third party personal information that has been provided to us.

  1. A case in which the relevant person has agreed
  2. A case in which provision to an affiliated company etc. of KIYOHARA can be recognized as necessary in order to appropriately reply to an inquiry
  3. A case in which personal information will be provided, within the scope necessary for accomplishing a clearly indicated purpose, to a work consignee or a cooperating company that has concluded a confidentiality agreement with KIYOHARA

• Changes of registered information

  If a person has requested something such as a change, confirmation, correction, or deletion of his or her personal information that he or she has registered, KIYOHARA will handle the matter by using an appropriate method, only if the Company can confirm that the person who made the request is the relevant person or a person who was entrusted the necessary authority by the relevant person.

• Changes of the privacy policy

  We will reconsider and improve the content of each of the clauses stated above in a manner that is appropriate in accordance with things such as changes in laws and ordinances that should be followed concerning the handling of personal information.