At ACCESS, we are committed to respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains the collection, use, and disclosure of Your Personal Information by us. "Personal Information" means information such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address, telephone number, your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences or interests and favorites. Personal Information does not include aggregated information that, by itself, does not permit the identification of individual persons. For example, statistics about the use of our website (such as how many persons visited our site last month) is not Personal Information.
Submitted Information
You may be required to provide us with Personal Information about you when you use this website. We use your Personal Information to customize or improve the ACCESS products or services, to send you information or materials you have requested, to inform you of new products or services that we believe will be of interest to you, to otherwise conduct business with you, and for administrative purposes (such as to notify you about changes to this Privacy Policy). You may contact us to request a change to your Personal Information or your preferences regarding what types of communications you would like to receive from us. For example, in emails we send you, we generally provide a method for you to unsubscribe from future emails.
Browsing Information
When you use the ACCESS website or ACCESS software applications, our servers (which may be hosted by a third party service provider) may collect information indirectly and automatically (through, for example, the use of "cookies" or your "IP address") about your activities while visiting the site or using the application, including the web page that you just came from (whether that web page is on our site or not), which web page you go to next (whether that web page is on our site or not), and information about the browser you are using. We do not link browsing information to the Personal Information You submit to us. We use this browsing information for internal purposes such as to help understand how our website is being used and to improve it, and for systems administration purposes. Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your hard drive, not on our website. Cookies allow us to better understand how users use our website, which in turn helps us focus our resources on features that are most popular with our users. you are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, but in that case, some portions of our website may not operate properly. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. In some cases your IP address stays the same from browser session to browser session, but if you use a consumer Internet access provider, your IP address probably varies from session to session.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Although we may disclose aggregated information about the use of our website, that information does not contain Personal Information. Generally, we do not disclose your Personal Information to third parties. However, we may share your Personal Information with our contractors and service providers in order to maintain, enhance, or add to the functionality of our website. We may also share your Personal Information with our worldwide affiliates. In addition, if you opt in to our doing so at the time you submit your Personal Information, we may share some or all of Your Personal Information with our partners. If we share your Personal Information with our affiliates or partners, we will require such affiliates and partners to honor this Privacy Policy. If ACCESS becomes part of another organization (for example, through an acquisition or merger), that organization will possess the Personal Information collected by ACCESS and it will assume the rights and obligations regarding your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
We cannot fully ensure that your Personal Information will not be disclosed to third parties. For example, we may be legally obligated to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may circumvent our security measures to unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. Additionally, in the unlikely event we need to investigate or resolve possible problems or inquiries, we can, and you authorize us to, disclose any information about You to law enforcement or other government officials as we believe necessary.
Public Areas
"Public Areas" are those areas of the ACCESS website (including message boards) in which you may send communications that are publicly available to other parties. You should use caution regarding the information you voluntarily disclose in Public Areas. ACCESS does not control your disclosure of Personal Information in Public Areas or between you and other third parties.
Security
ACCESS has implemented and follows industry standard measures to protect against unauthorized access to and unlawful interception or processing of Personal Information. However, no Internet site can fully eliminate security risks.
Other Websites
The ACCESS website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of such websites prior to submitting your Personal Information on such websites.
We hope this Privacy Policy clarifies our procedures regarding your Personal Information. We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by sending the amended policy to the email address you provided to us or by posting the amended policy on our website. Such modifications will be effective on the date that we post the modified policy on our website. We encourage you to learn as much as you can about your privacy on the Internet.
Contact us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, you may contact us as follows;
By mail:
Sumitomo-Fudosan Sarugaku-cho Bldg. 2-8-8 Sarugaku-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0064 Japan
By Fax:
+81-3-5259-3599