Privacy Policy

Narishige Group's Privacy Policy

1. Definition of personal information

   Personal information, which the Narishige Group (hereinafter referred to as "we") newly collects or already keeps, refers to the information that includes such as individual's name, affiliation name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address, and can identify the individual.

   It also includes the information that can identify an individual in conjunction with other information.

2. Collection of personal information

   When we ask you to provide your personal information, we will specify and inform you of the purposes of its use and the scope of provision of your personal information to third parties. On top of that, we will ask for your consent to collect your personal information.

   In addition, we will not collect your sensitive personal information unless your explicit consent is obtained in advance or when permitted by laws and regulations.

   Basically, we do not collect personal information from minors.

3. Use of personal information

   We use the personal information collected from our customers for the following purposes.

   • To provide information to customers

     Such as sending catalogs, exhibition invitations, campaign flyers, or other direct mails

   • To improve our products and services

     Such as analysis of customers' needs and requirements, product planning and marketing activities, product maintenance improvement, request for cooperation of product monitors and confirmation of monitoring status, or response to custom-made products

   • For other legitimate purposes

     Such as confirmation and shipment of orders for normal and sample products, handling of product complaints, or performing of after-sales services

   In addition, if there is a need to use your personal information beyond the consented scope of the purpose of use, we will obtain your consent again in advance.

4. Management of personal information

   We will properly manage to handle the personal information obtained from you and make maximum efforts to prevent them from like leakages, losses, and errors. When the use of personal information completed and there are no reasons to keep them, those will be disposed of appropriately based on our deletion policies.

5. Provision to third parties

   We will not disclose, deposit or provide your personal information to third parties, except in the following cases.

   • When your consent is given in advance
   • When provision is permitted by laws and regulations

   In addition, we may jointly use your personal information within our group companies when necessary for our businesses.

   Our group companies include NARISHIGE SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT LAB., NARISHIGE INTERNATIONAL USA, INC., NARISHIGE INTERNATIONAL LTD., NARISHIGE INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD., NARISHIGE CO., LTD., NARISHIGE LIFEMED CO., LTD., NARISHIGE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., and SHINSHU NARISHIGE CO., LTD.

6. Inquiries

   If you request disclosure, correction, or suspension of use of your personal information, we will promptly respond to your request by about one month. However, when such a request is made, we would verify your identity in an appropriate manner in order to prevent personal information leakage due to unauthorized disclosure requests.

   If you have any questions on your personal information or on our policies, please contact us below.

   	Japan	Overseas
   Contact	Narisige Customer Support Center	NARISHIGE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED（UK）
   Phone	+81(0)3-3308-8232	+44 (0) 20 8 699 9696
   Mail	privacy@narishige.co.jp	privacy@narishige.co.jp

7. Management systems

   We will comply with laws and regulations in Japan and overseas regarding personal information protection, as well as our internal rules for personal information protection management systems, and continuously review and improve our management systems.

8. Transfer to other countries

   We may transfer your personal information collected by us to countries other than the country in which the information was originally collected. If we transfer your personal information to other countries, we will protect them appropriately in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.

9. Change of the Policy

   We may change this Privacy Policy time to time. If the privacy policy is changed, we will post it on this website (narishige.co.jp, narishige-group.com) for you to learn more about the changes.

10. Handling of cookies

    On our websites, there are some pages that use cookies. The cookie is a small file and sent to your computer and recorded in its hard disk when you browse our websites. Cookies are used to make browsing more convenient when you visit our group sites again. But cookies do not identify you personally.

    If you see a pop-up asking you for our use of cookies on our websites, please select "Accept" if you can grant our use of cookies. Even if you do not grant it, you can still browse our websites. You can also disable the use of cookies in your browser settings, delete all cookies on the device you use, and set your browser to prevent cookies from being stored.

11. SSL encrypted communication technology

    SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is s security measure that encrypts and communicate data over the Internet. We use SSL to protect your personal information.

Narishige Group
Revised on April 1, 2022