As Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, a company registered in Japan (collectively, "Mitsubishi Materials", "we", "our", "us") provide data subject ("you") with our services (including operating our website (https://www.mmc.co.jp, including its subdomain and its subdirectories (collectively, "our website", "this website"))), we collect, store, use, generate and transfer (collectively, "process") personal information about you. When we process your personal information, we respect your right of privacy and undertake to comply with applicable data protection laws in each country, including the Act on the Protection of Personal Information of Japan (the "APPI"). Below is our privacy policy on how we process and protect your personal information.
We may provide further details required by applicable data protection laws in appendix(cies). In the event of a conflict between this privacy policy and the appendix(cies), the appendix(cies) shall control to the extent of such conflict.
In addition, each of our business divisions may establish its own privacy policy with a defined scope of application as below. In the event of any conflict between such individual privacy policy and this policy, the provisions of the individual privacy policy shall prevail with respect to the conflicting parts.
Metals Company Website:
Metalworking Solutions Company Website:
We, Mitsubishi Materials, are in charge of processing your personal information on this website.
We collect the following categories of your personal information:
We collect your personal information directly from you in a variety of contexts, including:
We may also indirectly collect personal information from third parties, including Google, which is the provider of web analytics services about the usage of the website (Google Analytics) or from Geolocation Technology, which is the IP geolocation database provider.
There may be circumstances in which your provision of personal information to us is required, including where it is necessary to enter into and perform agreements with us and where it is pursuant to obligations under applicable laws or regulations. If you do not provide us with information that is so required or the information that you provide to us is inaccurate, it is possible that you will not be able to use the website's services, including the My Page function, making inquiries, and registration to our events.
We process your personal information described above for the following purposes (Within the scope necessary for each purpose, including provision to respective recipients in section 9 below.):
We usually don't collect sensitive categories of your personal information (e.g., racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, health data), as defined under applicable data protection laws and regulations. If we cannot avoid collecting sensitive categories of your personal information, we will take the necessary measures according to applicable laws and regulations to obtain consent, etc. from you.
We usually don't collect personal information for persons under the age of 16(except when acquired as employee family information). If we need to collect the personal information of a child, we will take the necessary measures according to applicable laws and regulations such as obtaining the consent of the parent or legal guardian.
Cookie is a small text file that our website sends to your terminal device for the purpose of keeping certain records. Local storage is likewise structured such that information is stored on your terminal's browsers in order to keep certain records.
By using cookies, etc.:
Where applicable laws and regulations require us to obtain your consent to our setting cookies, etc., we request you to provide such consent.
We retain your personal information described above as long as it is necessary for the purposes described above and consistent with applicable laws and regulations. In order to determine the appropriate term for the retention of personal information, we will give consideration to the volume, nature, and confidentiality of the personal information, the potential risk of damage from improper use or disclosure of the personal information, the purposes of us processing the personal information and whether those purposes can be achieved another way, and the applicable legal requirements. We destroy or delete your personal information collected when we no longer need it, in accordance with applicable data protection laws and our established procedures.
As shown in the table below, we disclose certain categories of your personal information in so far as necessary for the purposes described above to the respective recipients.
Categories of personal information to be disclosed | Recipients |
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Your personal information and details on inquiries | The Group Companies and/or local distributor(s) who we need to share your personal information with to respond to your inquires - you can see the Group Companies in each region at Group Companies | Corporate | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation. |
Your personal information retained in our website access log | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation and our contractor that assists us in operating our website |
Where the respective recipients are data processors who process data on behalf of us, we make sure that such data processors have in place appropriate data protection measures by virtue of data processing contracts between such processors and us in compliance with applicable data protection laws.
We may share your personal information with third parties in the following circumstances:
We may transfer personal information to countries outside Japan, including the United States and countries where our group companies are located. In this case, we request you to give us consent thereto, or otherwise take appropriate data protection measures as required by applicable data protection laws.
We appoint a person in charge of data protection in each department which processes personal information, keep personal information accurate and up to date, and take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. We establish internal rules for processing personal information, ensure our employees, including directors, officers, full-time and part-time employees, and temporary workers, and other relevant personnel are informed of the rules, and implement, maintain and continuously update the rules.
Provided that certain conditions provided by the applicable data protection regulations are met, you have certain rights permitted by applicable data protection regulations with your personal information as set out in applicable data protection laws. The examples of such legal rights are:
If you make such request, we will respond to your request within a reasonable time period as set out in applicable data protection laws.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, or if you have any inquiries about your rights, please contact us using the contact information in section 14 below.
You have the right to make complaints about prosessing of personal information by us to the supervisory authority concerned directly.
For further information and inquiry, please contact:
Compliance&Risk Management Dept.
Legal&Compliance Div.
E-Mail : ml-pilaw@mmc.co.jp
Inquiry form URL : https://www.mmc.co.jp/corporate/en/contact/
If we amend this policy (including its appendix(cies)), we are able to amend the policy in whole or in part, or add to it, by notifying you by posting on the website, sending emails to you, or by some other methods that we determine to be appropriate (where there is a required method under applicable laws or regulations, pursuant to that method). In such case, the amended policy will be applied from the earlier of the date on which you first access the website after receipt of the notification and the date specified on the notification. If there are other necessary procedures under applicable laws of regulations, we will perform those procedures.