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DATA PROTECTON – INDUCTION

JSC Connecting Japanese (“We”) care about your personal data and ensuring that you are informed about how we use of it. We are committed to protecting your data and respecting your privacy, and to managing any information you share with us in line with data protection laws.

This notice explains how we use and share your information by providing a general description of why we collect your information and what we use it for. We explain the steps we take to protect any information you provide when using our website and services and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

You can contact us for data protection issues by filling a form at 「お問い合わせ」’Contact us’ on our website. If you have concerns about the use of your personal data please contact us in the first instance. If you remain dissatisfied, you may wish to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office to discuss your concern.

WHY & WHAT WE COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

We may collect and process information about you in order to carry out our services. Information may be collected by us on an online or paper form, by email or telephone or in person. We may collect details of your visits to our website, including but not limited to traffic data, location data, weblogs, operating system, browser usage, the resources that you access and other communication data.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We will use the information you provide in a manner that conforms to the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018.

We will process your information for the following purposes:

  • To allow us to be able to communicate by electronic means, post, telephone
  • For the service you requested, and to monitor and improve our performance in responding to your request
  • To ensure that we meet our obligations, to prevent and detect fraud or crime
  • Where necessary to protect individuals from harm or injury or for the law enforcement requirements
  • To process financial transactions including grants
  • For purposes related to the delivery of internal audit and risk management, the delivery of surveys
  • To allow the statistical analysis of data so we can plan the provision of services
  • To process and respond to requests for information under the General Data Protection Regulation/Data Protection Act 2018
  • To process and respond to complaint made to us

HOW LONG AND WHERE WE KEEP YOUR DATA

We will keep your information for no longer than is necessary. It depends on the purpose that we collect your data for, including the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. We are based in the UK and we store all our data within the European Economic Area (EEA).

INFORMATION SHARING

We will disclose your information to other people and organisations where it is necessary, either to comply with a legal obligation, or where permitted under the General Data Protection Regulation/Data Protection Act, e.g. where the disclosure is necessary for the purposes of the prevention and/or detection of crime. This includes any disclosure to statutory regulators such as the Office of the Scottish Information Commissioner and the Information Commissioner’s Office.

We may disclose information when necessary to prevent risk of harm to an individual.

We do not and will not sell, rent or trade your personal information.

In general, we do not transfer personal data outside the EEA. However, we may process your information overseas on occasion, such as when using web services that are hosted outside the EEA but only when we are satisfied that both the party that handles the data and the country where it is processing it provide appropriate safeguards for personal privacy.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have a number of rights relating to your personal data, including:

  • You have the right to be provided with clear, transparent and easily understandable information about how we use your personal data and your rights; this is why we are providing you with this privacy notice
  • You can request to access your personal data
  • You have the right to object to us processing your personal data.

We try to ensure that any information we hold about you is correct. There may be situations where you find the information we hold is no longer accurate and you have the right to request that this is corrected. You are legally entitled to request access to any information about you that we hold, and a copy. This is known as a subject access request. If you have further enquiry on this topic you can contact us by filling a form at 「お問い合わせ」’Contact us’ on our website.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY NOTICE

We will continually review and update this privacy notice in accordance with changes in our services and feedback from service users, as well as to comply with changes in the law. It is advisable that you review this page periodically to make sure you are happy with the terms of this policy. We will not, however, use your personal information in a different manner materially without your agreement than what was stated at the time it was collected.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

We are committed to ensuring that your personal information is as secure as possible. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect. We provide training to staff who handle personal information and treat it as a disciplinary matter if they misuse or do not treat your personal information properly.

While we make every effort to use commercially acceptable means to protect your information we cannot guarantee its absolute security as no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is completely secure.

USING OUR WEBSITE

We use technologies to improve our website and provide a better user experience. The personal data we collect from you for this purpose include:

  • Your Internet Protocol (IP) address, and details of which version of web browser you used
  • Information on how you use the site, using cookies and page tagging techniques

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

If you proceed to opt-in to Analytics cookies to help us improve our website and services the data will be automatically anonymised before being used for this purpose.

SOCIAL MEDIA

We offer a share page widget on our web pages for Facebook. This allows you, the visitor, to easily share information that you are interested in with your friends, family and social networks. The site may set a cookie when you are logged into their services. We have no control or liability over these cookies set, so you should check with the relevant third party’s cookie policy for more information.

LINK TO OTHER SERVICE PROVIDERS

The policy only applies to our websites, systems and processes and to our services we provide. If you leave our website via a link or otherwise or use the service not provided by us, you will be liable to the policy of the subsequent service/website provider. We have no control over the policy or terms of their service/website and we recommend you to check their policy before continuing to access their service/website.