Privacy Policy

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.

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1. PERSON IN CHARGE

We, Mitsubishi Materials, are in charge of processing your personal information on this website.

2. WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT?

We collect the following categories of your personal information:

[Customers personal information]

  • Basic personal information to identify and contact customers, including name, gender, date of birth, email address, phone number, FAX number, residential address, company name, department customers belong to, title, and name of educational institution if customers are a student;
  • Interaction with our website, including Cookie, browsing history, Internet Protocol address (IP address), login history, the country to which customers' IP address corresponds and customers' account information to use My Page function, etc. in our website, including user ID and password;
  • Details of customers' inquiries and subsequent interaction with us; and
  • Other personal information that we collect to achieve the goal stated in section 4.

[Personal information on shareholders, investors and analysts or their officers and employees]

  • name, residential address, phone number, email address, number of shares he/she held, date of acquisition of shares, and other personal information that we collect to achieve the goal stated in section 4.

[Personal information on officers and employees of the companies of Mitsubishi Material Group(the "Group Companies")]

  • name, date of birth, gender, residential address, phone number, email address, face photo, family composition, income, property information such as account numbers, passport information, health insurance card information, driver's license information, employee number, department/qualifications/title/career of the employer, performance review, information about health insurance, questionnaire information, and other personal information that we collect to achieve the goal stated in section 4.

[Personal information on applicants for recruitment]

  • name, date of birth, gender, residential address, phone number, email address, face photo, family composition, residence status information, passport information, qualifications, educational background, career, title, duties, and other personal information that we collect to achieve the goal stated in section 4.

3. HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND WHAT IS THE RESULT OF YOU NOT PROVIDING PERSONAL INFORMATION, ETC.?

We collect your personal information directly from you in a variety of contexts, including:

  • When you enter into contracts with us;
  • When you make inquiries;
  • When you interact with our website;
  • When you register to attend exhibitions of our products, other marketing events, or recruiting events, or register accounts to use My Page; and
  • When you provide personal information to us directly.

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.

4. PURPOSE

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.):

[Customers' personal information]

  • Operating sales and marketing activities (including marketing activities using analysis of your pursuits, interests, and needs);
  • Processing customers' transaction;
  • Operating our supply chain management;
  • Improving the quality of our products, services, contents of our website, and customers' experience with our website(including improving quality using analysis of customers' pursuits, interests, and needs);
  • Developing (including planning and development using analysis of customers' pursuits, interests, and needs) our new products and services;
  • Responding to customers' inquiries;
  • Managing and protecting customers' account;
  • Personalizing (including the analysis of customers' pursuits, interests, and needs) information we provide to customers about our services and products based on customers' interaction with our website;
  • Detecting, investigating and/or preventing unauthorized, fraudulent or illegal activity; and
  • Exercising our rights or fulfilling our obligations; and
  • Exercising our legitimate business.

[Personal information on shareholders, investors and analysts or their officers and employees]

  • Exercise of rights and performance of obligations under the Companies Act or other related laws and regulations;
  • Implementation of measures to provision of facilities to shareholders;
  • Implementation of measures to facilitate relationships with shareholders, investors and analysts including invitations for IR sessions;
  • Shareholder management under applicable laws and regulations including preparation of shareholder-related records;
  • Exercising our rights or fulfilling our obligations; and
  • Exercising our legitimate business.

[Personal information on officers and employees of the Group Companies]

  • Business communication, personnel changes, evaluation of personnel, provision of welfare benefits, education and training;
  • Exercising our rights or fulfilling our obligations; and
  • Exercising our legitimate business.

[Personal information on applicants for recruitment selection]

  • Announcement of events and provision of information related to our recruitment activities, and liaison to applicants;
  • Information management for applicants and processing recruitment selection;
  • Examination of recruitment selection;
  • Analysis and other activities to improve our recruitment activities;
  • Employment procedures, providing event information, and personnel management after employment;
  • Exercising our rights or fulfilling our obligations; and
  • Protecting our legitimate business.

5. SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

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.

6. PERSONAL INFORMATION OF CHILDREN

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.

7. COOKIES, etc.

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.:

  1. Your terminal devices (e.g. browsers) remember your preferences (e.g. language used), activities (e.g. login status), and product information registered on your list on our website, so that we can deliver a personalized and better user experience on our website (essential cookies, etc.); and
  2. We can keep track of your interaction with our website, giving us useful and important insight for improving our website and delivering personalized information that is more likely to be of your interest (performance cookies, etc.).
  3. By using advertising partner companies, we can keep track of your browsing history on the Internet and deliver personalized advertisements that are more likely to be of your interest (advertising cookies).

Where applicable laws and regulations require us to obtain your consent to our setting cookies, etc., we request you to provide such consent.

8. RETENTION (how long do we retain your personal information?)

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.

9. DISCLOSURE (who do we share your personal information with?)

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
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:

  • Sharing personal information in connection with the transfer of all or part of our assets, including the sale, merger, acquisition;
  • Sharing personal information when required by law or government orders;
  • Sharing personal information with third parties when necessary to protect the life, body, or property of us, you, or third parties, as permitted by applicable data protection regulations;
  • Sharing personal information with your consent: and
  • Sharing personal information in other cases permitted by applicable data protection regulations.

10. CROSS BORDER DATA TRANSFER

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.

11. HOW DO WE KEEP SECURITY OF YOUR DATA?

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.

12. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

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:

  • Right to access - You have the rights to make an inquiry, to review and to request us for copies of your personal information we hold;
  • Right to rectification - You have the right to request us to correct any of your personal information we hold which you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request us to complete your personal information we hold which you believe is incomplete;
  • Right to erasure - You have the right to request that we erase your personal information, under certain conditions;
  • Right to restrict processing - You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information, under certain conditions.
  • Right to object to processing - You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information, under certain conditions.
  • Right to withdraw consent - You have the right to withdraw your consent where the legal basis for the handling of your personal information is consent. When you have withdrawn your consent, the effect of treatment performed prior to your withdrawal of consent is not impacted.
  • Right to data portability - You have the right to require to transmit the personal information to third parties, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
  • Right not to be the subject of automated individual decision-making - You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

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.

13. COMPLAINT

You have the right to make complaints about prosessing of personal information by us to the supervisory authority concerned directly.

14. INQUIRY

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/

15. AMENDMENT OF THIS POLICY

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.