1. General Policy
We are
fully aware that private information of our customers is extremely important.
When handling private information, we shall ensure that all of our officers and
employees comply with applicable laws related to private information to respect
our customers and thus live up to their expectations.
2. Compliance with Applicable Laws
We are
fully aware that private information of our customers is extremely important.
When handling private information, we shall ensure that all of our officers and
employees comply with applicable laws related to private information to respect
our customers and thus live up to their expectations.
3. Information Collection and Use
We collect and store certain information from or about our customers that can be used to uniquely contact, identify, or locate our customers including, but not limited to, the customers' name, home or business address, phone number, email address, location, or zip code, and other contact information ("Personal Information"). Furthermore, since an external online payment service (PayPal) is used, we may collect the customers’ payment information including credit card information, e-money information and other information regarding payment method.
We use
Personal Information of customers and other individuals for the following
purposes:
- to
provide products or services requested by the customer, including product
sales, repair and inspection, after-sales service, and catalogue distribution
(Personal Information includes such information necessary to understand the
requirements of the customer such as a customer's purchase history and repair
history),
- to
enable response to customer requests including customer inquiry history
(including the collection of customer inquiries for the purpose of improving
the our responsiveness) as a reference to determine customer requirements for
products, planning, development, advertisement, sales, and service activities
of Unipulse Group (This personal information will include answers to
questionnaires given at the time of purchase, the customer satisfaction survey,
and the customer's inquiry history),
- to
offer product information, our information, service, information, and other
related information of Unipulse Group, e.g. the sending of a catalogue, new
product information, books, magazines or a mail magazine,
- to
introduce exhibitions and seminars and to correspond with them after the event,
- to
develop and maintain smooth relations with business partners and related
entities as a reference in the recruitment of an individual where the personal
information is provided by an inquirer or an applicant to us,
- to
send necessary documentation to shareholders including notification of the
General Shareholders' Meeting, and to administer dividend payments or other
actions as required by the laws and regulations as defined by Personal Data
Protection Law and other applicable laws and regulations Communication with,
reporting to, inquiries into or other contact with competent governmental
authorities required for the execution of business.
4. Handling of Personal Information
Where
a customer is required to provide us with Personal Information, the purposes
for which that information is to be used shall be designated in advance.
- We
shall not use Personal Information for any purpose other than those indicated
here or those for which the customer’s consent has been obtained.
- We
shall not deposit or provide to any third-party Personal Information provided
by a customer excluding cases where there is consent by the customer and where
there is a request involving legal obligations from a judicial or
administrative agency according to law. Provided however, acquired Personal
Information may be disclosed and offered to sub-contractors within the limited
scope necessary to achieve the purpose for which the information is being used.
In such a case, a confidentiality agreement shall be signed by the third party
and we shall strictly monitor and supervise the handling of the Personal
Information by the third party.
- Notwithstanding
the provisions in the preceding, acquired Personal Information may be shared
and used within the Unipulse group in order to attain the usage purposes
described in above section. Personal Information that may be shared within the
group means: names, addresses, telephone numbers, mail addresses, purchase
histories, repair histories, inquiry history and content, and request content.
We are responsible for protecting the Personal Information that is shared and
used by Unipulse group.
- Acquired personal information will be processed in such a way that specific individuals cannot be identified through pseudonymization, masking, or other means once the originally planned purpose of use has been completed.
- Even
where there is consent, we shall work out an arrangement with the applicable
third party regarding the protection of Personal Information to make reasonable
preparations for the protection of such information when depositing or
providing Personal Information to a third party.
- We
shall take reasonable safety measures to protect Personal Information provided
by a customer from its loss, destruction, illegal leakage outside of us,
tampering, and illegal access. In the event of a leakage of Personal
Information received from a customer, we shall properly notify Personal Data
Protection Commission Singapore (PDPC) and/or the individual customer of the
possible leakage, according to the circumstances. While we have taken
reasonable steps to secure the Personal Information our customers provide to us,
please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or
impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any
interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is
vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we
cannot guarantee complete security if our customers provide Personal
Information.
- Where
there is any of the following requests from a customer on his/her own Personal
Information, we shall respect the intention of the customer and take necessary
action within the reasonable range when we determine that it is necessary to
accept such requests.
A) Confirmation
of registered Personal Information.
B) Correction,
updating or deletion of registered Personal Information.
C) Withdrawal
of part or all of the use of Personal Information.
5. Statistical Data
The
acquired Personal Information may, provided that particular individuals cannot
be identified, be processed and used as statistical data.
6. Transfer Personal Information to Japan
If our
customers provide their Personal Information with us from outside Japan, please
be aware that the customers' Personal Information may be transferred to, stored
or processed in Japan, where our servers are located and our central database
is operated. The data protection and other laws of Japan might not be as
comprehensive as those in the country of our customers, but we shall take steps
to protect privacy of our customers.
7. User's Request to Discontinuance of the Collection and Use of Personal Information
Our
customers may require us to discontinue the collection or use of the all or a
part of the Personal Information and promptly upon such request we shall
discontinue such collection or use.
8. Change of Privacy Policy
We may
change this Policy at any time and from time to time. When we make changes to
this Privacy Policy, we will notify our customers by revising the effective
date. The most recent version of the Policy is reflected by the version date
located at the bottom of this Policy. Access to and use of our customers this
website means our customers agree to the terms in this Privacy Policy. We
encourage our customers to refer to this Privacy Policy periodically so that
our customers understand our current privacy policy.
9. Contact Us
If our customers have inquiries or comments about this Privacy Policy as well as inquiries to DPO (Data Protection Officer), please contact us at:
Unipulse Corporation
9-11 Nihombashi Hisamatsu-cho,
Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0005
ug@unipulse.co.jp