Terms of Use

This terms of use (referred to as the “Terms of Use”) shall apply to the information providing website on the [https://bizpartner.panasonic.net/extranet/] (referred to as the “Website”) that Panasonic Connect and its subsidiaries (referred to collectively below as “the Company”) provide to you regarding the Company’s products/service. If you wish to use the Website, you must accept the Terms of Use by clicking the “Accept” button below. By clicking the “Accept” button, you are agreeing to be bound by the Terms of Use.

1.  Your Registration with the Website

    Your contact data and other details requested by Company during the registration process must be complete and accurate. If you register as a legal entity, an individual authorized to represent the legal entity must also be named.

 

2.  Responsibility for Log-in Data

    You agree to keep confidential and not to disclose to any unauthorized third party the log-in data, including the User ID and password.

    In addition, You shall be liable in accordance with statutory provisions for any use and/or other activity effected with your log-in data.

 

3.  Updating User Data

    You shall be obliged to keep your data, including your contact data, up to date. Should the data you provided change during the time you use the Website, you shall be obliged to correct such data in “My account” menu on the Website. Should you be unable to make such changes, please inform Company of your changed data via email or fax without delay.

 

4.  Copyright

    Copyright for the Website and all material appearing on it, including but not limited to texts, documents, images, specifications, data, software, etc., (referred to collectively below as "Content") belongs to the Company, the original author, or other entities.

    Duplication, public transmission, modification, deletion, or reproduction of Content from the Website without the authorization of the copyright holder, whether the Company, the original author, or another entity, is prohibited under copyright laws, and international conventions, except for the specific use permitted under those laws. You are therefore requested to contact the Company to obtain permission before making use of Content appearing on the Website. Please note that the Company may refuse to grant permission to use Content at its sole discretion.

    If use is made of Content with the permission of the Company, you are requested to display the copyright notice specified by the Company. Modification or deletion of the copyright notice without prior notice to the Company is prohibited.

 

5.   Trademarks, etc.

    Rights to the trademarks, logos, and product names appearing on the Website belong to the Company or to other entities. Usage of such trademarks, logos, and product names without authorization from the Company or the right holder is prohibited under trademark law, except for specific use permitted under trademark law or other laws. You are therefore requested to contact the Company to obtain permission before making use of trademarks, logos, and product names appearing on the Website.

 

6.   Disclaimer, Limitation of Liability

    CONTENT AND OTHER INFORMATION APPEARING ON THE WEBSITE (INCLUDING ALL CONTENT AND FUNCTIONS MADE AVAILABLE ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH THE WEBSITE) ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, WITH REGARD TO CONTENT AND OTHER INFORMATION APPEARING ON THE WEBSITE, THE COMPANY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER (1) FOR THE ACCURACY, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OF ANY CONTENT PUBLISHED ON OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE WEBSITE; OR (2) THAT THE SERVER THAT MAKES THE WEBSITE AVAILABLE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER COMPONENTS THAT MAY INFECT, HARM, OR CAUSE DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT OR ANY OTHER PROPERTY WHEN YOU ACCESS, BROWSE, DOWNLOAD FROM, OR OTHERWISE USE THE WEBSITE.

    IN NO EVENT WILL THE COMPANY OR ANY THIRD PARTY MENTIONED ON THE WEBSITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THOSE RESULTING FROM LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) ARISING OUT OF THE USE, INABILITY TO USE, OR THE RESULTS OF USE OF THE WEBSITE, ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO THE WEBSITE, OR THE MATERIALS OR INFORMATION OR WEBSITES CONTAINED AT ANY OR ALL SUCH WEBSITES, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY AND WHETHER OR NOT THE COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IF YOUR USE OF THE CONTENT, INFORMATION OR WEBSITES RESULTS IN THE NEED FOR SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION OF EQUIPMENT OR DATA, YOU ASSUME ALL COSTS THEREOF.

 

    7. Prohibited Activities

    Any activities on and/or in connection with the Website that violate applicable law, third-party rights or the principles of the protection of minors shall be prohibited. In particular, the following activities shall be prohibited;

    - Uploading, distributing, offering and marketing contents of a pornographic nature, that violate laws for the protection of minors, data protection law and/or any other law, and/or fraudulent contents, service and/or products.

    - The use of Content by which other users or any third party are insulted or defamed.

    - The unauthorized use, provision and distribution of Content, Websites and/or products protected by law or subject to third-party rights (including but not limited to copyrights, trade secrets, property, privacy, or any other rights and privilege of Company or third parties).

    - Use your ID and password for any unlawful, dishonest or fraudulent purpose.

    In addition, when upload your own contents to the Website as well as when you communicate with other users, the following activities shall be prohibited, irrespective of whether any law is violated or not;

    - The distribution of junk or spam mails as well as of chain letters.

    - The distribution of insinuating, offensive, sex-related, obscene or defaming contents and/or communications as well as of contents and/or communications that are suitable to support or promote racism, fanaticism, hate, physical violence or unlawful acts (in each case express or implied).

    - Harassment of other users, e.g. by initiating repeated personal contacts without or against such other user’s reaction as well as the promotion and support of such harassment.

    - To request other users to disclose password or personal data for commercial or illegal purpose.

    - The distribution and/or public disclosure of contents available on the Website to the extent such disclosure is not expressly permitted by the relevant author or unless such contents are expressly provided as a functionality on the Website.

    - Any action that is suitable to negatively affect the smooth operation of the Website, in particular to generate excessive traffic shall also be prohibited.

    - Transmit any data, send or upload any material that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designated to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

    - Include a link to all or part of the Website in any creation, publication or operation of other internet sites or resources.

    In case of any suspected illegal and/or punishable act, Company shall be entitled and may be obliged to verify your activities and to implement suitable legal measures. This may include forwarding the facts to the public prosecutor’s office.

    The Company shall be entitled to temporarily or permanently block your access to the Website if there are indications showing that you violate or violated these Terms of Use and/or applicable law or if the Company is legitimately interested in blocking such access. When deciding on blocking your access to the Website, the Company shall take your legitimate interests into consideration.

 

8.   Modification and Termination

    Company reserves the right to modify the Content of the Website with or without notice to you, and/or amend or terminate the Website at any time.

    Company may, in its sole discretion, amend the Terms of Use at any time by displaying notice on the Website. By continuing to use the Website after such display, you shall agree to the Terms of Use as amended.

 

9.   Confidentiality

    You agree to (i) keep in confidence all the information obtained as a result of your use of the Website (referred to as the “Confidential Information”), (ii) not make use any of Confidential Information, without Company’s prior written consent, unless permitted, and (iii) not disclose or divulge them to any third party. Promptly upon termination of the agreement between you and Company regarding your use of the Website, you agree to return the Confidential Information or destroy them and provide Company with a written statement certifying that all of them have been destroyed.

 

10.   Indemnification

    You agree to compensate Company for any and all damages arising out of your breach of the Terms of Use.

 

11.   Non-Assignment

    You agree not to assign, transfer or give as a security the right to use the Website, or other titles, rights or obligations.

 

12.   Severability

    Should any provision of the Terms of Use be or become ineffective, this shall not affect the legal effectiveness of the remaining provisions hereof. Such ineffective provision shall be deemed replaced by an effective provision which comes as close as possible to the parties’ economic intent.

 

13.   Privacy Policy

The Company recognizes the importance of protecting personal information. The Company properly manages and uses the personal information collected through your use of this Website based on the Website Privacy Policy.

●Website Privacy Policy

*The above Privacy Policy applies to this Website which is operated by Panasonic Connect. For other websites operated by its affiliates or subsidiaries, please confirm the privacy policy of each company.

 

14.   About cookie

This Website uses cookies and similar tools to improve its performance and enhance your user experience and by continuing to use this Website without changing your settings, you consent to their use. To find out more about the cookies we use or how to change your settings, please see our Cookie Policy.

●Cookie Policy

 

15.   Exports

    You agree to comply with all the export laws and regulations applicable to your use of the Website. In no event shall Company be bound by any terms and conditions that contravene any export laws, regulations or other restrains of any relevant countries including but not limited to Japan. All orders are subject to obtaining of any required license under the said relevant laws.

    You agree NOT to use the Content for “Military Purpose”, and NOT to sell, lease, provide or otherwise dispose of the Content, both overseas shipments and domestic shipments, to any dealers or customers who may make use of the Content for “Military Purpose”. For the purpose of this Article, “Military Purpose” means the design, development, manufacture, use or stockpiling of any weapons, including, without limitation, nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, biological weapons and missiles.

    You shall not export, directly or indirectly, to any of the countries against which any economic sanction is imposed under resolutions approved by the Security Council of the United Nations, so far as the Content remains the prohibited subject whose export to such countries is prohibited thereunder.

 

16.   Governing Law and Jurisdiction

    The Terms of Use shall be governed by the laws of Japan without regard to its conflict of laws rules, and any claim related to the Terms of Use, or arising out of your use of the Website will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Japan.

 

< End of the Terms of Use>

Last modified: April 6, 2022 

Your Privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy is intended to tell you how we use personal information we collect about you on this website.

This Privacy Policy only applies to the personal information that you provided to us or that are collected through your use of this websites, bizpartner.panasonic.net/extranet, operated by Panasonic Connect (the “Websites”). If you provide your personal information in Panasonic individual services or use other websites operated by its affiliates or subsidiaries, they have their own privacy policies or notices.  Please review the individual privacy policies or notices when you use Panasonic individual services or other websites.

Please click on the links below for further information on our privacy practices on this Websites:

1. Information about us

2. What is Personal Information?

3. What Personal Information do we collect about you?

4. On which legal basis do we process Personal Information?

5. Why do we use your Personal Information?

6. To whom and where do we disclose your Personal Information?

1. Third party recipients of the Personal Information
2. International Transfer of Personal Information

7. What do we do to keep your Personal Information secure?

8. What are your rights and how can you exercise them?

9. How long do we store your Personal Information?

10. Third party links and products on our Websites

11. Cookies

12. Children’s Personal Information

13. Changes to this Privacy Policy

14. Contact Us

 

 

1. Information about us

This Privacy Notice is issued by Panasonic Connect Co., Ltd. ((hereinafter, "we", "us" or "our"). Personal data collected through this website and our services is managed by us.

2. What is Personal Information?

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, "Personal Information" consists of any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual (such as you). For example, information which identifies you may consist of your name, address, telephone number, and online identifier (e.g. cookies and your IP address). Information which does not identify you on its own but that we link to you also qualifies as Personal Information.

 

3. What Personal Information do we collect about you?

A. Personal Information you provide directly about yourself

Some Websites we offer enable/require you to give us your Personal Information.

1. Essential cookies 

These cookies are essential to make our website work or to provide necessary functions relating to the services you request or to enable communications. They allow us to provide you with a seamless internet experience. We also use them for security purposes.  

 

2. Performance cookies 

These cookies analyze, how you use our website to improve the way our website works for you and for others visitors to our website. They enable us (and our third party service providers) to recognize and count the visitors and see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. We use them to understand which pages are popular with visitors. This helps us to improve how our website works by, for example, ensuring that you can easily find what you are looking for and to overall enhance visitors’ experience on our website. 

 

3. Functional cookies 

These cookies allow us to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They enable the website to remember settings and choices you have made like e.g. your preferred language so that you do not have to do this over and over again when you visit our website. 

 

4. When you communicate with us

When you contact us or interact with our customer support representatives, we may collect Personal Information about you, such as your name, mailing address, phone number, email address and contact preferences, and we may also collect information about our products or devices you own, such as their serial numbers and date of purchase. We also may create logs/reports that are useful in diagnosing product or application performance related issues, and capture information relating to the issue.  We use this information to provide you with customer and product support.

 

5. Subscriptions and newsletters

Where you subscribe to our promotional communications and newsletters, we will collect Personal Information including your email address. We will only provide such subscription services to you in accordance with applicable laws and where you have expressly requested us to do so.

 

B. Information about your use of the Services

We may collect information about your use of the Websites. For example, we collect:

1. Product/device information - such as unique device identifiers, IP address, operating system details, and settings of the device you use to access the Websites;
2. Log information - such as the time and duration of your use of the Websites, search query terms you enter through the Websites, and any information stored in cookies that we have set on your device (such as your pc, mobile phone or tablet).

 

4. On which legal basis do we process Personal Information?

We are not allowed to process Personal Information if we cannot rely on a valid legal ground. Therefore, we will only process your Personal Information when:

1. We rely on our legitimate interests for processing personal data collected through our first-party essential cookies. 

 

2. All other non-essential cookies will only be used with your consent. 

 

3. the processing is necessary to perform our contractual obligations towards you or to take pre-contractual steps at your request;
   • When you communicate with us.
   • Subscriptions and newsletters
   • Product/device information
   • Log information

 

5. Why do we use your Personal Information?

We may use the Personal Information we collect for the following purposes:

 

1. Essential cookies 

To make our website work or to provide necessary functions relating to the services you request or to enable communications. They allow us to provide you with a seamless internet experience. We also use them for security purposes. 

 

2. Performance cookies 

To improve how our website works by, for example, ensuring that you can easily find what you are looking for and to overall enhance visitors’ experience on our website. 

 

3. Functional cookies 

To remember settings and choices you have made like e.g. your preferred language so that you do not have to do this over and over again when you visit our website. 

 

When you communicate with Panasonic Connect/Subscriptions and newsletters/Product/device information/Log information

 

1. Create an Account/Log in on our Websites - to enable you to create a profile on our Websites and to enable you to log in to such Websites;
2. Registering products/devices - to register you or your device or product for any of our Websites;
3. Provide our Services - to provide our Services or any specific feature that you request, including to enable us to fulfil our obligations under any contract with you. We will show individual privacy policies or notices for each Service where appropriate;
4. Surveys - to ask for your opinions or comments on our Websites and to conduct other surveys;
5. Advertising - for advertising, such as providing customised advertisements and sponsored content and sending you promotional communications;
6. Analysis Purposes - for assessment and analysis of our market, customers, products, devices and Websites;
7. Statistics - to create anonymous, aggregated statistics about the use of our Websites. This anonymised data may be shared with third parties;
8. Service Improvement - to develop and improve new and existing our products and Websites, recommendations, advertisements and other communications and learn more about your preferences;
9. Customer Support Services - to provide customer support services for your product or device, or to deal with any other support queries you may have;
10. Security - to protect our customers (e.g. to prevent spam or attempts to defraud users of our Websites); to operate and maintain the security of our Websites (e.g. to prevent or stop an attack on our systems or networks); or to protect the rights or property of us, including enforcing any terms or agreements governing the use of our Websites;
11. Updates - to communicate with you, including communicating with you about your account, profiles or transactions with us, giving you important information about our Websites, sending you notice about any material changes to our Privacy Policy;
12. Corporate Transaction - to manage corporate transactions involving our company including reorganisation, merger, transfer, sale, joint venture, assignment or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock, including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceeding.

 

6. To whom and where do we disclose your Personal Information?

We will not disclose your Personal Information to third parties for their own independent marketing or business purposes without your consent. However, we may disclose your Personal Information to the following entities:

1. Third party recipients of the Personal Information

We may disclose your information to the following entities:

1. Panasonic Affiliates

We may need to transfer your Personal Data within the Panasonic Group of Companies to provide the Services you require or any other services/assistance you request. All companies within the Panasonic Group are required to follow the privacy practices set forth in this Privacy Notice, or another privacy policy that they may notify to you and to process your Personal Data in accordance with the applicable privacy and data protection laws and regulations.

2. Service Providers

We use third party service providers to help us to administer certain activities and services on our behalf, such as fulfilling sending emails and text messages (such as SMS), providing advertisements, analysing usage of our Websites, tracking effectiveness of our marketing campaigns, allowing users to connect to their social network and providing customer support services. We share Personal Information about you with such third party service providers solely for the purpose of enabling them to perform services on our behalf and they will operate only in accordance with our instructions. Here are examples of third party service providers we use:

1. Email Service Providers?   Cloud services are used to assist us in sending emails to you in accordance with your marketing preferences;
2. Analytics Service Providers?   Analytics providers are used to assist us in understanding the usage of our Websites, to enable us to improve our Websites. The analytics providers we currently use are Google Analytics .For further information, see our Cookie Policy.
    

3. Third parties when required by Law or to Protect our Websites

We will disclose your Personal Information to comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or other government agencies; to protect our customers (e.g. to prevent spam or attempts to defraud users of our Websites); to operate and maintain the security of our Websites (e.g. to prevent or stop an attack on our systems or networks); or to protect the rights or property of us, including enforcing any terms or agreements governing the use of our Websites.

4. Other Parties in Connection With Corporate Transactions

We may disclose your Personal Data to a third party or within the Panasonic Group of Companies as part of a reorganisation, merger, transfer, sale, joint venture, assignment or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock, including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceeding.

5. Other Parties With Your Consent or At Your Direction

We may share Personal Information about you with third parties when you consent to or request such sharing.

 

2. International Transfer of Personal Information

The Personal Information that we collect from you may be stored and processed in your region, or transferred to, stored at or otherwise processed outside your region, including but not limited to Japan or in any other country and where Panasonic Group or its Affiliates, subsidiaries or service providers maintain facilities.

Where we transfer your Personal Information outside your region, we will ensure that suitable safeguards such as appropriate agreements and mechanisms are in place to help ensure that our third party service providers provide an adequate level of protection to your Personal Information.

 

7. What do we do to keep your Personal Information secure?

We have put in place appropriate physical, technical and organisational measures to keep the Personal Information we collect in our Websites secure. These measures take into account:

1. the state of the art of the technology;
2. the costs of its implementation;
3. the nature of the Information; and
4. the risk of the processing.

 

The purpose thereof is to protect against accidental or unlawful destruction or alteration, accidental loss, unauthorized disclosure or access and against other unlawful forms of processing.

However, please note that although we take appropriate steps to protect your Personal Information, no website, product, device, online application or transmission of Information, computer system or wireless connection is completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information.

 

8. What are your rights and how can you exercise them?

1. What are your rights?

We will collect, store and process your Personal Information in accordance with your rights under any applicable laws.

Your rights include the right to access a copy of your Personal Information, the right to request the correction or the update of any inaccurate Personal Information and the right to object to the processing of your Personal Information under the conditions set out in applicable laws.

You also have the right to request the erasure of your Personal Information, and where you have consented to the processing of your Personal Information, you have the right to withdraw such consent at any time (without this withdrawal affecting the lawfulness of the processing prior to such withdrawal). In addition, you also have the right to data portability in certain cases. This is the right to request the return of the Personal Information you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to request the transmission of such Personal Information to a third party, without hindrance from us and subject to your own confidentiality obligations.

 

2. Exercising your rights

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us by using any of the communication means described in the individual Privacy Policy or Notice in each Service you provide your personal information.

 

3. Complaints

If you are not satisfied with how we process your Personal Information, you may contact us using any of the communication means described in the individual privacy policies or notices or alternatively you may file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority, in addition to your rights outlined above.

 

9. How long do we store your Personal Information?

We will retain your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes for which your Personal Information has been collected as outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required by law. When your Personal Information is no longer required for the purpose it was collected or as required by applicable law, it will be deleted to you in accordance with applicable law.

 

10. Third party links and products on our Websites

Our Websites may contain links to other third party websites that are not operated by us, and our Websites may contain applications that you can download from third parties. These linked sites are not under our control and as such, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any linked websites and online applications. If you choose to use any third party websites or applications, any Personal Information collected by the third party’s website or application will be subject to any existing privacy policy of that third party. We strongly recommend that you take the time to review the privacy policies of any third parties to which you provide Personal Information.

 

11. Cookies

This Websites uses cookies to store your preferences and settings and to analyse your browsing experience on our Websites. For further information on what cookies are, how we and other third parties use them, and for details of how cookies can be disabled, please see our Cookie Policy.

 

12. Children's Personal Information

We consider a child to by anyone under the age of 16, or such younger age as many be specified by applicable data protection laws. We do not knowingly collect or try to collect Personal Information from or about children without the consent of a parent or guardian. Where we do collect Personal Information from children, we will always use reasonable efforts to verify that consent has been given or authorised by the child's parent or guardian.

 

13. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. The “Last modified” at the top of this page states when the Policy was last modified and any changes will become effective upon our posting of the revised Privacy Policy.

 

14．Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing, or use of your Personal Information or if you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at:

Panasonic Connect Co., Ltd.
The Personal Data Protection Officer
Address：8-21-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan

 

<For residents of EEA>

If you have questions about Data Protection in Europe, please contact us at:

Panasonic Marketing Europe GmbH
The Data Protection Officer
Hagenauerstrasse 43
D-65203 Wiesbaden
or by e-mail: Data_Protection@eu.panasonic.com

Please note that Panasonic Marketing Europe GmbH acts as Representative of the data controller (Art. 27 GDPR) if you reside in a member state of the European Economic Area.

If you have any questions about Data Protection in the United Kingdom (UK), please contact us at:

UK Legal department
Panasonic Business Support Europe GmbH (UK branch)
Maxis 2, Western Road,
Bracknell, Berkshire,
RG12 1RT
or by e-mail: UKLegal@eu.panasonic.com

 

< End of the Privacy Policy>

 

Last modified: April 6, 2022

This Cookie Policy (Policy) provides you with information about the use of technologies that store or access information on your device like cookies, pixels, and plugins by Panasonic Connect Co., Ltd. having its main office at 8-21-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our”) when you visit our website. For convenience these technologies are all referred to as “cookies”.

This Policy explains what cookies are, which types of cookies we use and what our legal bases are. It also provides you with information on how your personal data (if any) is used, what your rights in relation to cookies are under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and how you can contact us if want to exercise your rights or have a complaint. This Policy lists which cookies are placed and used, for which purposes and for how long these cookies last. In addition, this Policy describes how you can manage and delete cookies.

 

Please click on the links below for further information on our privacy practices:

1. 1. What are cookies?
2. 2. Which types of cookies do we use and what are our legal bases?
3. 3. How do we and certain permitted third parties use cookies and process your personal data and what are your rights?
4. 4. Which cookies are placed and used by whom, for which purposes and how long do they last?
5. 5. How can you manage and delete cookies?
6. 6. Contact us
7. 7. Changes to this Policy

 

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files which are stored on your device when you visit our website and act as an identifier. They allow our website to recognize your device when it interacts with and returns to our website, particularly when you are using the same browser as you did when you last visited our website.

Depending on their function and purpose cookies are classified as essential, performance, functional and advertising cookies. For more information on this, please see section 2.

 

In addition, cookies are classified either as first party or as third party cookies. First party cookies are placed by us whereas third party cookies are placed by a third party website while you are visiting our website. For more information about the relevant third parties please see section 4.

 

Cookies can be either session or persistent cookies depending on their duration. Session cookies are temporary cookies that last only for the duration of your visit to our website and are deleted when you close your browser. In contrast, persistent cookies are created upon your visit to our website and remain on your device after you close your browser or restart your device until their set expiry date unless you delete them before the expiry date; they are active when you return to our website.

 

2. Which types of cookies do we use and what is our legal basis?

We use the following categories of cookies on our website:

 

2.1 Essential cookies

These cookies are essential to make our website work or to provide necessary functions relating to the services you request or to enable communications. They allow us to provide you with a seamless internet experience. We also use them for security purposes.

2.2 Performance cookies

These cookies analyze, how you use our website to improve the way our website works for you and for others visitors to our website. They enable us (and our third party service providers) to recognize and count the visitors and see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. We use them to understand which pages are popular with visitors. This helps us to improve how our website works by, for example, ensuring that you can easily find what you are looking for and to overall enhance visitors’ experience on our website.

2.3 Functional cookies

These cookies allow us to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They enable the website to remember settings and choices you have made like e.g. your preferred language so that you do not have to do this over and over again when you visit our website.

2.4 Our legal bases

We rely on our legitimate interests for processing personal data collected through our first-party essential cookies. These cookies are strictly necessary for our website to work and allow us to provide the visitors to our website with the services they request, to enable communications, or to comply with security obligations under the applicable data protection law.

All other non-essential cookies will only be used with your consent.

 

3. How do we and certain permitted third parties use cookies and process your personal data and what are your rights?

3.1 Cookies owned and placed by us

To the extent that our first-party cookies and the data we collect with them, qualify as personal data we determine the means and purposes of such processing and are the data controller as defined in the GDPR. Such processing takes place in accordance with our online Privacy Policy that applies in addition to this Cookie Policy. We encourage you to read our Privacy Policy where you can find more about e.g.:

- how we use and protect your personal data collected through cookies (if any);

- your data protection rights; if you are based in the EU/EEA these include the right to access your personal data and obtain a copy thereof, the right to request the correction or update of any inaccurate personal data, the right to object to or restrict the processing of your personal data under the conditions set out in the GDPR and the right to request the erasure of your personal data under certain conditions;

- if you are based in the EU/EEA how you can file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority, https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en;

- how long will we store/keep your personal data;

- to whom and where we disclose your personal data; and

- the existence of automated decision-making and, where this is the case, useful information on the underlying logic and the importance and consequences of the processing.

 

3.2 Cookies owned and placed by permitted third parties

On our website we have integrated links to third party websites, plug-ins and applications e.g. for marketing purposes and, for example, to allow you to easily share content in social media networks. We have no control over these third party websites’ use of those cookies and refer to their Privacy Policies for further information on how they use these cookies. For more information on the third parties please see section 4.

 

4. Which cookies are placed and used by whom, for which purposes and how long do they last?

The following table lists all cookies in use on our website. We will update this table as our website changes and evolves.

 

4.1. Essential cookies

 

4.2. Performance cookies

 

4.3. Functional cookies

 

5. How can you manage and delete cookies?

5.1. Except for essential cookies you can change your preferences and withdraw your cookie consent at any time by navigating to “cookie settings”.

5.2. You can manage and delete non-essential cookies by changing your browser settings. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser. Please bear in mind that if you block all cookies some features and services on our website might not be delivered to you and you will be served with advertising less tailored to your interests.

You can obtain information on how to manage and how to delete cookies for the most popular browsers by following these links:

- Chrome

- Edge

- Firefox

- Internet Explorer

- Opera

- Safari

For further information on how to manage and delete cookies, please visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/

 

6. Contact us

If you have any questions about how we as the controller of your personal data (if any) use cookies on our website or would like to exercise your rights, you can contact us at:

1006, Oaza Kadoma, Kadoma-shi, Osaka 571-8501, Japan.

Where personal data is processed through the use of first-party cookies, CCS determines the means and purposes of such processing and is the data controller as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679).

7. Changes to this Policy

We may from time to time make changes to this Policy which was first published on April 6, 2022. Changes to this Policy will be published on our website and will be effective as of the date of publication. This Policy was last updated in April 6, 2022.

If the changes materially alter how we use cookies, we will post a notice on our website and request your consent again for the use of cookies. Please check back frequently to any updates or changes to our Cookie Policy.