Personal information
Protecting personal information is a core Smart Partners value. This privacy statement describes how Smart Partners collects and uses the personal information you provide on our Web sites: www.smartpartners.co.jp. It also describes the choices available to you regarding Smart Partners use of your personal information and the steps you can take to access this information and to request that we correct or delete it.
You can also contact us by email at [email protected]
Cookies
A “cookie” is a small text file that a Web site can place on your computer’s hard drive in order, for example, to collect information about your activities on the site or to make it easier to use certain site functions. The cookie transmits this information back to the Web site’s computer. Many users do not know that “cookies” are being placed on their computers when they visit Web sites. If you want to know when this happens, or prevent it from happening, you can set your browser to warn you when a Web site attempts to place a “cookie” on your computer.
We use cookies on our Web sites in the following ways:
When you send us an email using the form on the Contact page we use a cookie to display your Inquiry ID.
We also use cookies to analyze how visitors, in the aggregate, use our Sites, in order to make our Sites as useful as possible for them. We do not use cookies to collect or store personally identifiable information.
Information automatically collected by our Site
Our servers automatically collect certain non-personally identifying information, such as your computer’s IP address, the type of browser in use, and pages viewed, when you visit our Sites. We use this information to understand how visitors navigate through our Sites, to enhance your experience while using our Sites, and to make the materials we post as valuable to visitors as possible. We do not link this information to personally identifiable information.
Personal Information Sharing
We will share your personal information with third parties in the ways that are described above in this privacy statement. We will also share your personal information if we are required to do so by law, or if we believe that doing so is necessary in order to conform to the law, cooperate with law enforcement agencies, comply with legal process served on Smart Partners, or otherwise protect Smart Partners’s legal rights. From time to time we employ service providers to perform various functions involving personal information on our behalf. These service providers are prohibited from using this personal information for any other purpose.
Access to your Personal Information
Smart Partners will provide you reasonable access to your personally identifiable information, at no cost to you, within 30 days of your access request. If we cannot provide access within the 30-day period, we will tell you when we will provide access. In the unlikely event that we cannot provide you access to this information, we will explain why we cannot do so. To request access to your personally identifying information, contact us by email at [email protected] or by writing us at the following address: Tokyo-to, Koto-Ku Takabashi 7-5 Usubane Bldg. Japan 135-0005.