Privacy Policy

Haimurubushi Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “the Company”), placing top priority on earning the trust of the public, investors, and employees, strictly complies with all laws, ordinances, regulations and other provisions concerning privacy. To ensure the appropriate use and management of personal information, the Company implements and follows a Privacy Policy as follows.

1．Basic stance

To implement this policy, the Company stipulates internal regulations and frameworks governing the handling of personal information and anonymized information (hereinafter “personal information, etc.”). The Company thoroughly notifies and informs employees of the Company (directors, full-time employees, contract employees, rehired employees, temporary employees, etc.), contractors, and related parties of these regulations and frameworks, and maintains and improves them to ensure that they function appropriately.

2．Appropriate management

(1) The Company makes every effort to keep the personal information in its possession accurate and up to date, within the scope necessary for its intended use.
(2) The Company takes appropriate safety measures to prevent the loss, unauthorized disclosure, damage, tampering, etc. of the personal information, etc. and takes corrective action as necessary.

3．Disclosure of purposes of use, etc.

(1) The Company obtains personal information by fair and lawful means only. When acquiring details necessary for the intended use of personal information, the Company discloses this information at the time of acquisition or publishes it on its website, etc.
(2) When acquiring personal information indirectly, the Company discloses the details necessary for the intended use of the personal information on its website, etc.

4．Compliance with purposes of use

(1) The Company uses personal information only within the scope of the intended use, based on appropriate procedures.
(2) If the Company wishes to use personal information outside the scope of the intended use, the Company notifies individuals of that use in advance and confirms the individuals’ consent to that use.

5．Provision to third parties

The Company may provide the personal information to other Group companies, partners, etc., through procedures required by laws, ordinances or other norms.

6．Supervision of contractors

When the Company contracts the handling of personal information, etc. to others, the Company supervises such handling appropriately to ensure the safe management of personal information, etc.

7．Disclosure, correction, etc. of personal data held

When an individual requests the disclosure, correction, cessation of use, etc. of personal information held by the Company, the Company responds promptly to the request, following confirmation of the individual’s identity.

8．Handling of anonymized information

(1) When the Company produces or provides anonymized information, the Company discloses the items required under laws, ordinances and other norms.
(2) The Company undertakes measures for the safe management of anonymized information as stipulated in its internal regulations.

Created: October 1, 2005

Revised: October 14, 2009

Revised: November 1, 2010

Changed: May 1, 2017

Posted: October 1, 2017

Haimurubushi Co., Ltd.

Notes:

1. From time to time the Company may revise its Privacy Policy as published on its website, etc., to improve its protection of personal information or to changes in laws, ordinances or other norms. For this reason, the Company regularly requests that users confirm the Privacy Policy.

2. For information on how personal information is handled on the Haimurubushi website and the purposes for which it is used, please refer to “Handling of Personal Information.”