KYOCERA Industrial Tools Corporation ("Kyocera", "we", "our" or "us") understands that personal information is important information constituting privacy and believes that ensuring thorough protection of such information is our social responsibility. When handling personal information, Kyocera will comply with laws and regulations regarding personal information and undertake the following:
1. Appointment
Kyocera appoints a person in charge of personal information protection. Kyocera also appoints a person who handles personal information for each department and has them perform appropriate management, thus striving to protect personal information.
2. Strengthening of employee education
Kyocera provides all persons who handle personal information with activities to raise their awareness thereof and in-house education on compliance with laws and regulations and other norms concerning the protection of personal information.
3. Acquisition of personal information
When obtaining personal information, Kyocera clarifies the purpose of use, obtains information within an appropriate scope, and does not use the information for any purpose other than the intended one.
4. Provision of personal information
Kyocera does not provide the personal information of data subjects ("data subjects") to third parties without their consent, except in the following cases:
- The provision of personal information is necessary to protect the life, body, or property of an individual and it is difficult to obtain his/her consent.
- Personal information is provided to an outsourcee to the extent it is necessary to achieve the purpose of use. In such a case, Kyocera makes arrangements with the outsourcee for protecting personal information and request they properly handle the personal information that we provided, thus making every effort to protect personal information.
- The provision of personal information is based on laws and regulations
- A business is passed on through a merger, spin-off, business transfer, or other corporate reorganization
5. Management and protection of personal information
To prevent the loss, tampering, corruption, and leaking of personal information, Kyocera improves our internal regulations and implements reasonable safety measures, thus striving to protect personal information.
6. Inquiries about, corrections, deletions, etc. of personal information
When Kyocera receives inquiries about personal information or requests for corrections, deletions, etc. of the same by data subject, we respect the intention and take any necessary measures within reason to complete the request.
7. Establishment of a point of contact
Kyocera establishes a point of contact for responding to inquiries about the handling of personal information.
8. Conducting audits
Kyocera conducts regular audits of our internal efforts to protect personal information.
9. Review and improvement
Kyocera improves the operations of Basic policies and internal rules as appropriate in response to changes in laws and regulations, the social environment, etc.
