Privacy Policy

Policies to Protect Personal Information

Niterra Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “Niterra”) and Niterra’s group companies (hereafter comprehensively referred to as “our Group”) recognize the importance of personal information, have established a Privacy Policy and strictly comply with this Policy in order to ensure proper acquisition, use, and safe management.

1.Personal Information

In this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” refers to any information provided by customers of Niterra and any other parties involved in Niterra’s business activities (including business partners, shareholders, employees, etc.; hereinafter referred to as the "party concerned") including name, date of birth, age, occupation, address, telephone number, e-mail address, IP address, cookies, ID, and any other information by which the party concerned may be identified.

2.Appropriate Acquisition of Personal Information

Our Group acquires personal information of the party concerned by appropriate and fair means to the extent necessary for the business implementation of our Group.In this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” refers to any information provided by customers of Niterra and any other parties involved in Niterra’s business activities (including business partners, shareholders, employees, etc.; hereinafter referred to as the "party concerned") including name, date of birth, age, occupation, address, telephone number, e-mail address, IP address, cookies, ID, and any other information by which the party concerned may be identified.

3.Purpose of Use of Personal Information

Our Group uses Personal Information of the party concerned only for the purposes notified to the party concerned at the time of acquisition or the following purposes of use:

  1. Provision and maintenance of products and services that our Group deals in (hereinafter the “Products, etc.”);
  2. Planning, development, manufacturing, sales, and installation of the Products, etc.;
  3. Provision of product information, material, sample concerning the Products, etc., and provision/guidance of campaigns and various events;
  4. Research and analysis of surveys, etc. concerning the Products, etc.;
  5. To respond to inquiries, feedback, and requests from customers;
  6. Business contacts with business partners, and maintenance and establishment of business relations;
  7. Sending notices of calling of the shareholders meetings, etc., services for paying dividends, exercise of the shareholder’s rights in accordance with the laws and regulations, and performance of obligations to the shareholders by Niterra;
  8. Employment of employees and management of personnel; and
  9. Welfare benefits for employees, etc.
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4. Collection of personal data when visiting our website

When using our website for purely informational reasons, i.e. when you do not register or transfer any other data to us, then we only collect the personal data which your browser transfers to our servers. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data which is technically required to be able to show you the website and ensure stability and safety:

  • IP address
  • Date and time of the request
  • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Content of the request (concrete page)
  • Access status / HTTP status code
  • Amount of data transmitted respectively
  • Website the request came from
  • Browser
  • Operating system and its interface
  • Language and version of the browser software.

In addition to the previously mentioned data, use of our website will save cookies onto your computer. Cookies are small text files which are saved onto your hard drive by the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the site that placed the cookie (in this case, by us). Cookies cannot execute any programs or transfer viruses to your computer. They serve to make the internet offer generally more user-friendly and effective.

Use of cookies: 
1. This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functioning of which are explained below: 

- Persistent cookies (see b).
2. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser.

Name of cookie

__utma and __utmz

Function

Save accepted language selection and cookies

Duration

30 days

Google Analytics:
Cookies are used to collect anonymous data about the duration, course and source of visits.

3. You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and for example, refuse the acceptance of third party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.

5. Joint Use of Personal Information

Niterra may, within the extent of the purpose of use stipulated in 3., use jointly with our Group companies any information concerning name, address, place of work, job title, purchase history and tendency (however, Personal Information of shareholders shall be excluded); with respect to Niterra’s employees, Niterra may jointly use information concerning personal history, family structure, and face photos in addition to the above-mentioned information.

  1. Scope of Parties of Joint UseDomestic group companies, excluding affiliates (please refer to this page for more details)
  2. Party responsible for management of the Personal Information Niterra Co., Ltd. Business management Dept. (refer to the following. For address and a representative, refer to the end of this document.)
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6. Provision of Personal Information to a Third Party

Our Group does not provide or disclose any Personal Information of the party concerned except when:

  1. consent of the party concerned to provide or disclose Personal Information is obtained;
  2. required by laws and regulations;
  3. entrusting handling of Personal Information of the party concerned within the extent necessary to achieve the purpose of use;
  4. using jointly; and
  5. Personal Information is provided as a result of the succession of business in a merger or otherwise
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7. Entrustment of Personal Information

Our Group may entrust the handling of Personal Information of the party concerned to the extent necessary to achieve the purpose of use; in this case, our Group shall appropriately appoint and supervise a trustee to ensure the safe management of Personal Information.

8. Management of Personal Information

In order to protect Personal Information held by our Group, our Group shall review the management system to prevent any leaks, falsification, loss, damage, and unauthorized access, and shall continue to make efforts to improve this system.
Additionally, our Group takes the following security measures for the handling of personal information of our customers.

  1. A responsible person for the handling of personal information shall be appointed.
  2. Employees who handle personal information and the scope of personal information handled by such employees shall be clearly defined.
  3. Training on the handling of personal information shall be provided to employees on a regular basis.
  4. Restrictions shall be placed in the areas where personal information is handled, including entry and exit control for employees and limitations on the equipment used.
  5. Access control shall be implemented to limit the scope of persons in charge and personal information handled.
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9. Other functions and the offer of our website

  1. Apart from the purely informational use of our website, we offer various other services which you can use if interested. For this you will generally need to give further personal data, which we use to provide the respective service and for which the previously mentioned principles for data processing apply.
  2. In some cases we contract external service providers to process your data. These are carefully chosen and contracted by us, are regularly monitored and are bound by our instructions.
  3. Furthermore, we can pass your personal data onto third parties when you take part in promotions or competitions, completing contracts or similar services which are offered by us in conjunction with partners. You can access further information about this when you provide us with your personal data or below in the offer description.
  4. If our service providers or partners are based in a state outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you of the consequences of this circumstance in the offer description.
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10. Revocation of consent to the processing of your data

  1. If you have consented to the processing of your data, this can be revoked at any time. Such a revocation influences the permissibility of the processing of your personal data after you have given it to us.
  2. In that we base the processing of your personal data on a balance of interests, you can object to the processing. This is the case if the processing in particular is not required for fulfilling a contact with you which is presented by us in the following description of the functions. Upon enacting such a revocation, we ask that you present reasons for which we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the case of your reasoned revocation of consent we will examine the circumstances and will stop or adapt the data processing or give you our overriding reasons, which are worth protecting, that we will continue the processing.
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11.Your rights

  1. You have the following rights in relation to us regarding your personal data:
    -Right to disclosure,
    -Right to amendment or deletion,
    -Right to restriction of processing,
    -Right to object to processing,
    -Right to data transmission.
  • 2.Additionally, you have the right to make a complaint to a data protection regulator about us regarding the processing of your personal data.
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12. Disclosure, Correction, Deletion, or Exercise of other Rights concerning Personal Information

Please use the following contact information for any inquiries regarding requests for disclosure, correction, deletion, and any other exercise of rights concerning Personal Information of the party concerned himself/herself held by our Group.

Business management Dept.
1-1-1 Higashisakura, Higashi-ku, Nagoya 461-0005
TEL: +81-52-218-6247 FAX: +81-52-963-6066

Contact Form

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13. Use of Google Analytics

Enables us to analyse how you use the website. The information gathered by the cookies about your use of the website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and saved there. In the case that IP anonymisation is activated on this website, in member states of the European Union or in other states signatory to the agreement via the European Economic Area, your IP address will be shortened by Google before this. The full IP address will only be transmitted to the Google servers in the USA and shortened there in exceptional cases. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, in order to compile reports of the website activities and to provide other services related to the use of the website and the internet to the website operator.

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14. Personal Information of Party Concerned Under 16 Years of Age

Personal Information of a party concerned who is under 16 years of age must be provided with the consent of a parent or custodian.

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15. Revision of Privacy Policy

Our Group may revise this Privacy Policy. Please check as needed.