In today's computerized society, the importance of information has increased more and more and we recognize that information, such as names, addresses and phone numbers, (hereafter referred to as personal information) identifying individuals is especially important to our customers and employees and must be handled appropriately.
We strongly believe that the appropriate use and protection of personal information is our social responsibility and fundamental to realizing our business concept.
FBC is actively applying and enforcing the Privacy Policy of FBC to ensure that related employees handle personal information appropriately.
Recognizing that the protection of personal information is its social responsibility, FBC promotes the implementation of the following procedures:
1. FBC makes efforts to protect personal information through employee education and through the assignment of a person charged with protecting personal information at each of its relevant divisions.
2. FBC makes efforts to protect, through the adoption of reasonable technical measures, personal information stored in automated systems from such risks as unauthorized access, loss of information, tampering, and disclosure.
3. FBC uses customer-provided personal information only for proper purposes, including, but not limited to, entering into contracts with customers, developing better products and services, and providing useful information to customers.
4. FBC does not share customer-provided personal information with third parties other than its contractors, business partners, or successors of related businesses of FBC, except where there is just cause.
5. When asking its customers to provide FBC with personal information, FBC, in principle, provides information on the purpose for which the personal information is being collected, the scope of the third parties with which the personal information may be shared, and who/where to contact for customer inquiries.
6. When providing customer-provided personal information to third parties, FBC, except under special circumstances, makes efforts to protect, by obligating the third parties through contract, the personal information from such risks as disclosure or further transmission from the third parties.
7. When asked by customers for the confirmation or correction of customer-provided personal information, FBC responds to such requests to the extent reasonable. Please contact the designated person or place for customer inquiries.
8. FBC abides by the laws and regulations of Japan pertaining to the protection of personal information and continues to review and make efforts to improve FBC's privacy policy.
Personal information means information that identifies specific individuals or addresses information that is identifiable from one or a group of two or more information of the individual such as name, birth date, age, gender, home address, telephone number, family composition, hobby, preferences, e-mail address, workplace, work title, work address, work number, credit card number, bank account number and various numbers or character sequence attached to the individual, information on purchased goods, products and services, information on pages visited, information on complaints, consultation and inquiry, etc. And data subject refers to the individual that can be identified by the above-mentioned personal information.
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We may use "Cookies" in our website to help us provide better customer services. However, we never use "Cookies" for the purpose of identifying your personal information.
A "Cookie" is a piece of data that is interchanged between the web server that runs the homepage and your browser. A cookie may be stored on your computer as a file. A cookie enables the web server to record which pages of the website your computer visited, but the web server cannot identify you unless you enter your personal information.
You can set your browser to refuse to receive cookies or to alert you when you are sent cookies (please refer to the description of your browser for more details). However, refusing cookies may cause some of the service we provide at the website to not function properly.
Request for customers
Part of services we provide can be used without requesting your personal information. However, please keep in mind that there are some services that require your personal information.
Please keep in mind that we are not responsible for securing the safety of your personal information in websites linked from our website.
In order to achieve better privacy protection, we may reserve the rights to update our privacy policies stated on this page according to the revisions made in laws and regulations, government and ministerial ordinances and other criteria in Japan. Please check back to this page regularly for the most recent updates.
Questions regarding the contents of this page should be addressed to the following email address.
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