Privacy Policy
SHOTOKU believes that data privacy and protection are important issues.
At SHOTOKU, we are committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about the collection and processing of personal data.
This Privacy Policy describes SHOTOKU’s practices in connection with information that SHOTOKU collects through online and offline activities.
SHOTOKU may collect your business contact information such as name, business contact details, position or title from offline registration form that SHOTOKU collects via events or other promotions.
Controller of the Personal Data
- SHOTOKU Corporation (hereinafter referred to as “SHOTOKU”)
- Means of contact: This website (shotoku.co.uk)
Purposes of Processing for the Personal Data
- To respond to inquiries.
- To respond to requests (such as by providing materials or information, or returning verification results).
- To introduce or relay information about companies (SHOTOKU Group companies, SHOTOKU distributors, etc.) that deal with SHOTOKU products, services, and solutions.
- To provide information or publicity materials about SHOTOKU products, services, and solutions.
- To provide information about events such as exhibitions.
- To conduct surveys and analysis, and analyze website access trends so as to improve products and services.
- To contact customers.
Sharing of Personal Data
SHOTOKU will share personal data with SHOTOKU Group Companies and/or SHOTOKU distributors in case it is necessary to fulfil Purposes of Processing for the Personal Data described above.
Overseas Transfer of the Personal Data
SHOTOKU manages and operates this inquiry site in the United Kingdom.
- Your personal data will be sent to the United Kingdom when you agree to the submission of personal data entered into forms such as for contacts and inquiries.
- SHOTOKU manages the personal data with which it is entrusted through the appropriate implementation of security measures such as access identification and authentication, restrictions on access, authority management, record-keeping, protection against illegal software, and safe procedures for transferring and transmitting data.
Categories of the Personal Data
Personal data includes name, occupation, organization name, e-mail address, telephone number, postal address, residential country or area, inquiry categories, inquiry subject, inquiry details, access logs, cookies and other information collected upon your visit to this website.
Period for Which the Personal Data Will Be Stored
Personal data may be stored for as long as necessary to achieve the stated purpose for using it.
Rights of the Data Subject
You have the right with regard to the personal data which you provide as follows:
By offering various Internet-related products, services, and solutions, SHOTOKU Corporation (“SHOTOKU”) contributes to society as a global leading company which realizes an “information society friendly to humans and the earth” through innovation.
In working toward the realization of such a society, SHOTOKU recognizes that the protection of personal information is its social responsibility, and has established a policy for the protection of personal information. Efforts are constantly being made to implement and maintain the policy. This privacy policy sets forth our principles as follows:
- The right to request from the controller access to and rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing concerning the data subject
- The right to object to processing concerning the data subject
- The right to data portability: The right to receive the personal data, which the data subject has provided to a data controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to transmit those data to another data controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided (SHOTOKU)
- The right to withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal
- The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, if it exists, in the country or region that the data object belongs.
Statutory or Contractual Requirement Concerning the Provision of the Personal Data
Provision of the personal data is not a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract, and you are not obliged to provide personal data. However, if you choose not to provide personal data, it may not be possible to respond to some inquiries.
Non-existence of Decision-making Based Solely on Automated Processing
The access log for this website undergoes analysis, however, we do not make decisions that might affect you based solely on automated processing of the personal data that you provide, including profiling, in order to analyze or predict your likes and dislikes or personal behavior.
Parental Consent
If you are under the age of 16, please make sure you provide your personal data to Shotoku ONLY AFTER obtaining consent given or authorized by the holder of parental responsibility over you.
Security of Processing the Personal Data
Recipients of the personal data implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk.
Cookies
- What are cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. The cookie helps to distinguish you from other users of Shotoku’s Website and they are used for many things, such as remembering when you’ve visited a site before and your language preferences.
The information SHOTOKU collects by using cookies also permits SHOTOKU to analyze traffic patterns on our site. This can enable SHOTOKU over time to provide you with a better experience on its Website by improving the content and making it easier to use.
While a cookie enables a Web server to identify the computer of a visitor, it cannot identify the visitor unless they input their personal information. Depending on the browser used, a visitor may change the settings to turn off the cookies. However, if the visitor does so, all or part of the services on the site may become unavailable. - Functionality/Essential cookies
These cookies are necessary to provide you with services available through SHOTOKU’s Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like secure login accounts, may not be possible. - Analytical/Performance cookies
These cookies are used to collect information about how you use our site. They allow SHOTOKU’s Website to improve and provide the most relevant information to you. SHOTOKU uses Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics, which are a web analytics service to collect and report website traffic. - Targeting cookies
These cookies are used to record your visit to SHOTOKU’s Website to deliver content that best suits your interests. SHOTOKU may use these cookies for marketing purposes such as targeted advertising/offers, and promotional campaigns. - Social Plugin cookies
These cookies create a link between your visit to SHOTOKU’s Website and the social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. These cookies allow such social media platform providers to know that you have visited SHOTOKU’s Website. - How to manage cookies
If you disagree to the use of cookies, you can deactivate and/or delete cookies through your browser. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies, you may not be able to access or use all the functionalities of SHOTOKU’s Website.
For further information about how to do so, please refer to your browser settings ‘help’ / ‘tool’, ‘option’, or ‘edit’ section.
You can exercise your choice in allowing for cookies to be placed on your computer or to opt-out of cookies by using online tools, such as http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html if you are located in the US, or http://www.aboutads.info/choices/if you are located in Europe.
The above websites are not SHOTOKU’s Websites and SHOTOKU is not responsible for their content.
Statistical tools
On SHOTOKU’s Websites, there are pages where a tool is generally used to perform statistical analyses of user behavior. Information collected by this statistical tool is generally used to improve SHOTOKU’s Websites.