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| Koganei Corporation (hereinafter referred
to as Koganei) considers it an important social
responsibility to properly protect personal information
related to its customers (hereinafter referred to
as Personal Information).Also, in order to enable
our customers to use the Koganei's Web Site (hereinafter
referred to as this Site) with confidence, we inform
customers who have registered with this Site of
Koganei's policy regarding the handling and protection
of personal information of said customers. |
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Registration of Personal
Information |
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Our customer will be requested to register his/her
Personal Information with this Site in any of the
following cases: |
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When a customer purchases a Koganei commodity; |
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When a customer makes a request for materials
such as a catalog of Koganei's commodities; |
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When a customer uses a service provided
through Koganei Information Content; or |
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When a customer applies for subscription
to the Koganei Electronic Mail Magazine. |
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In any of the above-mentioned cases, the customer
is requested to register his/her Personal Information
including the customer's name, e-mail address and
other necessary data. Please note in advance that
if a customer does not register his/her Personal
Information, he/she will be able to use this Site
but may not be able to access some of the pages
or use some of the services of Koganei for which
the registration of Personal Information is required. |
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Control of Personal Information |
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Koganei will exercise all due diligence in controlling
Personal Information.In addition, Koganei will implement
appropriate control so as to maintain Personal Information
in an accurate and up-to-date condition and prevent
any unauthorized access, loss, destruction, alteration,
disclosure, re-provision or any similar acts related
thereto (except for the cases set forth in the section
4. Disclosure of information to a third party herein). |
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Purpose of use of Personal
Information |
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Personal Information registered by our customers
will be treated as confidential and used for the
purpose of facilitating the relationship between
our customers and Koganei.Any information related
to our customers, orders from our customers or commodities
purchased by our customers will not be used at any
time for any other purpose than to provide Koganei's
services or information to the relevant customers. |
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Disclosure of information
to a third party |
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In principle, Koganei will not disclose Personal
Information of any customer to a third party unless
it has obtained, the prior approval and consent
of the relevant customer as a principal to do so.However,
in any of the following cases, Koganei may be allowed
to disclose the Personal Information of its customers: |
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Use to facilitate the external commissioning
of work In the event that Koganei is to commission
part of the work to an outside contractor
or similar for the purpose of processing data
or providing commodities, services, documents,
information or similar to its customers, implementing
a campaign or questionnaire survey, or conducting
an audit, Koganei may be allowed to entrust,
provision or perform a similar act related
to the Personal Information under the strict
control of Koganei and within the minimum
scope necessary to perform such part of the
work. |
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Use in compliance with the law In the case
where Koganei is forced to disclose Personal
Information to a third party by any court,
administrative agency or competent authority
based on public grounds or for reasons in
the public interest, Koganei may disclose
Personal Information if it has no legitimate
reason to refuse to disclose it and has difficulty
in obtaining the approval of the relevant
customer. |
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Use in the case where Koganei determines
that disclosure of Personal Information is
necessary |
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Security |
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Koganei will protect the Personal Information
of its customers using the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
Protocol and at the same time, retransmit Personal
Information to a server in a secure environment
in a server-hosting company contracted with Koganei
to strictly control Personal Information. |
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Use of cookies |
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Part of this Site contains some pages for which
cookies are used in order to enable our customers
to use this Site more conveniently.Please note in
advance that if a customer has changed the setting
for use of cookies with the browser and refused
to use cookies, he/she may not be able to use all
or part of the services. |
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What is a cookie? |
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A system by which the provider of a Web Site can
make data to be temporarily written and saved in
a visitor's computer through the Web browser.It
is possible to have information related to users,
the date and time of the last visit to the site
and number of visits to the site kept recorded in
a cookie.Cookies are used for the purpose of identifying
users and are utilized as one form of technology
for certification systems and personalization systems
and to customize services through www for each user. |
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Revision of Policy for
Protection of Personal Information |
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Koganei carries out control and use of Personal
Information in compliance with Japanese laws and
regulations.Koganei may revise the Policy for Protection
of Personal Information reflecting any change in
any applicable law or regulation in Japan in order
to further ensure the protection of Personal Information
or for other reasons.In the event that any revision
has been effected, the contents of the revision
will be exposed on this Site. |
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| Effective
date: July 1, 2002 |
