How we use your personal information
TEKKO SHIMBUN CORP. (“We”) respects the privacy rights of our users (“you”) and is strongly committed to protecting your personal information (as defined below), appropriately treating your information.
Personal Information
Personal Information for the purpose of this Privacy Policy is the information of yours (such as name, birthday, and others) and that can identify you as an individual. Even though it is impossible to identify you only by the information, personal information includes the information that can as a result identify you when combined with other information easily.
Controller of Your Personal Information
The person below shall be responsible for controlling your personal information.
TEKKO SHIMBUN CORP.
Chief Privacy and Information Protection Officer
E-mail：contact@japanmetaldaily.com
The purpose of collecting your personal information
We (including group companies) collect and use your personal information for the purpose listed below;
1. For internal communication to provide our products and services
2. To improve our products and services, enhance service experiences, and develop new products and services
3. For recruitment
4.To respond to your inquiries and communicate with you
5.To send our reports, latest information, news, and survey (including advertisement)
6. For sharing between our group companies to provide best services to customers
7. To comply with applicable laws which order us to disclose for appropriate reason.
Modification of your personal information
We shall always modify, add, and delete your personal information we collect in the prescribed way.
Disclosure of your personal information to third parties
Basically, we do not disclose your personal information to third parties without your consent. But we may disclose even without your consent under applicable laws in the situation below;
1. When you adversely affect the rights of others in our reasonable discretion
2. When needed to protect life, body, or property and it is difficult to get your consent
3. When needed to improve public health sanitation and especially promote the sound growth of children, moreover, it is difficult to get your content
4. When we have to cooperate with national government organization, local government, and/or delegated entities in order to help them fulfill the object prescribed by the applicable laws, moreover, taking your consent may disrupt fulfillment
5. When we are ordered to disclose your personal information by court, public prosecutor’s office, police, bar association, or organizations having equivalent power and authority
6. When you express disclosure or providing to the third parties
7. When allowed to disclose or provide by applicable laws
8. When, in our reasonable discretion, needed to provide you with services
Definition of the third parties
In any following circumstances, the entities getting personal information shall not be included as the third parties;
1. When we delegate all and/or some parts of treatment of personal information to the extent necessary for fulfilling our objectives
2. When your personal information is provided for business succession due to merger and acquisition or other reasons
3. When sharing your personal information between us and/or our group companies
Disclaimer
We are not responsible for acquisition of your personal information by others in any following situations;
1. When you provide specific companies with your personal information by yourself using functions of our site and/or other means
2. When you provide your personal information by yourself at other web sites linked from our site and then your personal information is used
Delegating your personal information to other companies
We may delegate all and/or some parts of treatment of personal information to other companies. In that case, we carefully select the company in terms of whether or not our standard of privacy policy is satisfied and we delegate treatment of your personal information after concluding Non-Disclosure Agreement. We appropriately monitor how the delegated company treat personal information.
Use of statistical data
We shall make data of how you use the Service and statistical data modified not to identify specific person. In addition, without any limitation we shall utilize them. In this case, copyright shall belong to us.
Controlling of personal information
We endeavor to take safety measures to prevent risks such as unauthorized access, losing your personal information, destruction, falsification, and/or disclosure constantly from both the technical and institutional aspects. We, of course, comply with Act on the Protection of Personal Information, norms and customs of business, and public order and morality.
Modification to this Privacy Policy
We often endeavor to review and improve this Privacy Policy. Without any prior notice, we shall change the Privacy Policy.
Point of contact for Privacy Policy
TEKKO SHIMBUN CORP.
E-mail：contact@japanmetaldaily.com
Enacted: December 1, 2008
Last updated: February 8, 2021
TEKKO SHIMBUN CORP.