Nikkei BP's Personal Information Protection Policy

1. Nikkei Business Publications complies with applicable laws, ordinances, and regulations pertaining to personal information protection.
2. Nikkei Business Publications lays down a compliance program in conformity with "Requirements for compliance program on personal information protection (JIS Q15001)", abides by the compliance program when collecting, using, and providing personal information, and handles it with utmost care.
3. Nikkei Business Publications takes actions to prevent and correct such illicit acts as unauthorized access to, and loss, destruction, falsification, and leakage of, personal information.
4. Nikkei Business Publications uses the personal information that it collects only within the scope of purposes specified in its private policy.
5. Nikkei Business Publications continually reviews the compliance program and makes proper modifications where necessary.

Seiichi Ooteru
President & COO
Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.

Nikkei Business Publications uses the personal information that it collects for the following purposes. In all cases we will abide by our compliance program and handle the information with utmost care under this privacy policy.

• When we may ask for and use your personal information...
• We do not disclose your personal information to a third party...
• We strictly administer your personal information...
• How you can correct, update or remove your registered personal information...
• Please note
• How we use cookies and your IP address
• Cookies from a third party
• Our Personal Information Administrator
• Contacts
  
  

When we may ask for and use your personal information...
---- In order to confirm or send the merchandise/services that you ordered/registered

• To confirm the purchase of magazines, books and other merchandise that you ordered, and to deliver them
• To confirm your application for attendance to our exhibitions and seminars, and to send the admission tickets
• To confirm your application to our e-mail news services, and to deliver them
• To confirm your registration with our membership services, and to provide you with our services
• To settle and confirm your payment for the merchandise and services that you ordered
• To send you information regarding renewal of your subscriptions to our periodicals
• To ask for information on your behalf to the companies/organizations advertising in our magazines
• To send rewards for the survey to which you responded
• To send prizes for the sweepstakes to which you applied

We may change your registered personal information in case there are changes in the information that may affect the delivery of our merchandise or our invoicing, such as the name of municipality, postal code, name of financial institution or the expiration date of your credit card.
-- In order to provide and improve the merchandise and services that you use, and to develop new services

• To improve our merchandise, services, and the contents of our websites for your greater satisfaction
• To tailor our merchandise, services and the contents of our websites to your individual needs
• To survey the satisfaction level of the information and merchandise that you ordered
• To publish as survey results aggregate statistics based on the analyses of personal information
• To understand how our services are being used and to improve our services and develop new services

-- In order to send information that are relevant to the merchandise and services that we provide

• To send information on our periodicals, books, digital contents, membership services and other merchandise
• To ask for your participation in our surveys and our events, and to report back to you on the results
• To understand how our merchandise, services, and websites are being used, and to send you information and survey results of companies/organizations that we believe to be of value to you, including Nikkei BP and its group companies

We may relate your personal information to other information that Nikkei BP and its group companies administer. For example, we may compare your personal information with information in our periodicals administration system to see if you are our subscriber.
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We do not disclose your personal information to a third party...
Without your express permission, we will not disclose your registered personal information to a third party.

Even when we are sending you information from companies/organizations other than Nikkei BP and its group companies that we believe to be of value to you, we will not disclose or provide your personal information to such companies/organizations without your permission.

In the cases that you requested other companies/organizations, via Nikkei BP, to provide information or services; or if you are buying merchandise, making applications, making contacts, asking for intermediation from such companies/organizations; or if you have applied for attendance to exhibitions or seminars that are related to other companies/organizations; or if you requested Nikkei BP to obtain information from our advertisers on your behalf, we may disclose and provide your personal information to such companies/organizations.

We may share your personal information with financial institutions when settlement of payment is required after you placed an order for merchandise or used a paid service. The purpose is to confirm your bank account or the validity of your credit card. We may disclose your personal information when we are obliged to do so by law, or when we have reason to believe that your personal information is necessary to protect and defend the rights/properties/security of you and Nikkei BP.
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We strictly administer your personal information...
We handle your personal information that we collect in a secure manner under our compliance program and under strict administration.
From time to time we may decide to entrust a third-party company, which we deem to be trustworthy and with whom we have signed a confidentiality agreement, to administer your personal information. In such cases as well, your personal information will be protected under the compliance program of Nikkei BP.
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How you can correct, update or remove your registered personal information...
We administer your personal information as accurately as possible and in the most up-to-date manner. Upon your request, we will disclose your registered information, and add, correct, update or remove your personal information from our database. Please note, however, that we may not be able to provide some of our products and services if you remove your personal information.

To correct and update your registered information regarding delivery of our periodicals, please contact Nikkei BP Fulfillment Services (phone: 03-5696-1111, Mon-Fri 9:00-17:00 on weekdays only) or use the inquiries page of our website.

To correct, update or remove your registered information regarding Nikkei Passport Service (e-mail news services, membership web services), which is one of our membership services, please visit the member exclusive page.

Regarding other merchandise and services, please follow the individual instructions.
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Please note...
Some of our websites offer chat rooms, forums, message boards, news groups, and e-mail exchanges. Please note that any information that you disclose at your own will in these areas will become public information.

Our websites have links to other third-party sites. Please note that we cannot bear the responsibility for protection of your personal information or for the content on such linked websites.
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How we use cookies and your IP address...
We may use your IP address recorded on our service log files mainly for the following purposes:

• To find and to solve problems with our server
• To administer our websites

Our websites may use cookies. A cookie is small-sized data that a website sends to your browser, which may then be stored in a file on your hard disk drive. Use of cookies allows us to record which pages of our websites you visited. In a member exclusive site, we may combine cookies with your registered personal information when providing you with our services. We use cookies mainly for the following purposes.

• To keep track of your shopping cart
• To save you from having to re-enter your password each time you access our membership services
• To improve the contents of our websites and e-mail services for your greater satisfaction and to tailor information to your individual needs
• To provide you with services of your interest
• To make sure that you won't see the same advertisement repeatedly and to show you advertisements that may be of value to you

Information collected through the use of cookies may be published as aggregate user statistics. Such statistics will not contain information that allows individual users to be identified.

You can set your browser so that your computer will refuse receipt of cookies or alarm you when cookies are sent to you. Some of our services, however, may be limited in their extent or may not be used at all without cookies.
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How we use cookies from a third party...
We use, in part, measuring systems from third-party companies in order to manage our websites or to measure the traffic. Some advertisements that are shown on our websites or in our e-mail magazines may use, in part, ad distribution servers of third-party companies.

These third-party companies may use cookies in order to distribute advertisements more efficiently, to measure the effect of advertisements or to measure traffic. In such cases as well, we will conduct preliminary research to make sure that all cookies conform to our usage standards – that is, individual users will not be identified.

You can set your browser so that your computer will refuse to accept ad distribution cookies or delete the stored cookies. Although this will have no effect on viewing the contents of our websites, you may have to see the same advertisement repeatedly or experience advertisements that spread on your computer monitor.
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Our Personal Information Administrator
Mr. Kiyoshi Otani
Executive Managing Director
Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.
1-17-3, Shirokane, Minato-ku
Tokyo 108-8646 Japan

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Contacts
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policy, please click here.
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