Morinaga Co., Ltd. (henceforth be referred to as “Morinaga” below) hereby informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information acquired and preserved from our customers, based on the Personal Information Protection Law.
Privacy policy of morinaga.co.jp
Morinaga will collect and keep the personal information mentioned below.
Your personal information will only be used for the purposes mentioned below, and your additional consent is required for usage outside of the items listed below.
Morinaga implements “Guidelines of Personal Information Protection”, “Rules of the Usage of Personal information”, “Instructions of the Usage of Personal Information” and other rules to cope with the Personal Information Protection Law and all related codes and
acts.
We actively train and inspire our staff in order to raise awareness of the importance of
personal information protection.
Morinaga has assigned staff responsible for managing your personal information, and to avoid the leakage of personal information acquired.
We install monitoring and defender systems to prevent any illegal invasion to our system.
Periodical maintenance and other reasonable security procedures are taken to ensure the safety of our system.
We will always continue to modify and improve our organization and strategy towards protection of personal information.
Third parties may be involved in promotion activities of Morinaga, and chances are that these parties will take over the responsibility of personal information management and usage, fully or partially. Morinaga will make every effort to ensure that the third parties involved in such activities can manage and protecting your personal information with care and will draft the clause of personal information protection into the contracts signed with such partners.
We also require our third party partners to conduct certain procedures to prevent personal information from leakage or unlawful usage.
Except for the previously mentioned purposes, Morinaga will never reveal or provide your personal information to other third parties without your consent. However, based on the reasons below, Morinaga owns the right to reveal or provide your personal information without your prior agreement:
All requests from you or your representatives regarding the revealing, changing, or terminating the usage of your personal information will be dealt by us in a reasonable timeframe and necessary range.
Items below can be revealed under proper request:
(1) Name, (2) Address, (3) Phone number, (4) e-mail address, (5) Gender, (6) Date of birth, (7) Purpose of usage
Please complete the proper application form and mail it to the address below with the words “Application for revealing personal information enclosed” marked in red on the envelope.
Personal Information Management Group, Morinaga Co., Ltd.
5-33-1, Shiba, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 108-8403 Japan
When submitting a request, please fully complete form A (application), prepare documents or papers listed in B (proof of identity of yourself or your representative) and send it together inside one envelope to the previously mentioned address.
[When the application is submitted by the person in question]
[When the application is submitted by a representative on your behalf]
[When the application is submitted by a minor, or the legal representative of an adult ward]
It is required that individuals requesting to notify the usage or to reveal the personal information pay the fees of returning mail with the standard below.
Please include an empty envelope with 800-yen stamp attached together with the application form and necessary documents and send it to the address mentioned. Your application will be handled, and the response from us will be sent to you via the empty envelope enclosed.
We will inform you if you did not attach the stamps with your empty envelope. If we do not receive the stamps, your application will be discarded.
We will send our response to your application by letter to the address stated in the application form and on submitted the legal documents. Please note that we might not be able to send a response to you if the address on your legal papers and your application form do not match.
Personal information acquired via the above-mentioned request process will only be used for this specific purpose.
The copy of your, as well as all other involving parties’ legal documents, will be discarded with extra care after your request has been properly handled.
If you have any questions or inquiries related to above personal information policies, you may either send an e-mail to our customer service center or a letter to Personal Information Management Group mentioned previously.
This policy is modified as shown below, and the modified clauses will be taken into effect on April 1, 2020.
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