SHINNIHON KAGAKU MFG., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as "the Company") recognises that the appropriate protection of information that can identify an individual — such as the name, address and telephone number of customers, business partners and others with whom the Company has dealings (hereinafter referred to as "personal information") — is a matter of importance. Conscious at all times of its social responsibility, and in order to conduct its business activities in compliance with the laws and regulations concerning personal information, the Company establishes the following basic policy.

1. When acquiring personal information, the Company shall specify the purpose of use as far as possible and shall acquire that information by lawful and fair means.
2. The Company shall use the personal information it acquires within the scope of the stated purpose of use, limited to what is necessary for its business. Should it become necessary to use personal information beyond that scope, the Company shall obtain the consent of the data subject (the individual to whom the personal information belongs), except where permitted by law.
3. The Company shall appoint a personal information protection manager to oversee the handling of personal information, and shall endeavour to manage it appropriately so that unauthorised access to, or the loss, alteration or leakage of, personal information does not occur.
4. The Company shall not provide personal information to third parties except with the consent of the data subject or where permitted by law. Where personal information is provided to a third party, the Company shall impose an obligation to manage that information by contract or other means, and shall endeavour to prevent leakage or onward provision by that third party.
5. Where a data subject requests the disclosure, correction, addition or deletion of their own personal information, the Company shall respond promptly and within reason.
6. The Company shall comply with the laws, regulations and other rules relating to the protection of personal information, and shall continuously review and endeavour to improve its efforts in the items set out above.
7. By making this policy thoroughly known to its officers and employees (including contract staff, part-time staff and workers dispatched from staffing agencies), the Company shall endeavour to foster a corporate culture in which every individual recognises the importance of this policy and puts it into practice.

Purpose of collecting personal information. Where you provide personal information, it may in principle be used only for the purposes of providing or improving the products, services and related information of SHINNIHON KAGAKU MFG., LTD., and of responding to your enquiries. (Where a purpose of use is stated individually, the information shall be used in accordance with that stated purpose.) Where the Company intends to use personal information for any other purpose, it shall state that intention in advance, at the time the personal information is provided.

Access logs. The Company’s website records information about visitors in the form of access logs. These logs record such items as the IP address, the type of web browser and operating system, and the date and time of access. They are used for the maintenance and administration of the website and for statistical analysis of usage, and are not used in conjunction with personal information. Please be assured that these access logs are not used to identify the personal information of individual customers.

Protection of personal information on linked sites. The Company’s website may contain links to websites other than its own. The Company can accept no responsibility whatsoever for the protection of personal information or for the content of websites other than its own.

SHINNIHON KAGAKU MFG., LTD.
Nobuaki Akimoto, President
Established 20 February 2010