Privacy notice pursuant to the regulation on the protection of personal data

FKK Corporation (hereinafter the “Company”) has drafted this privacy notice pursuant to Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI) and other applicable Japanese laws and regulations with regard to the processing of personal data, in order to advise you on the purposes and modalities of processing of the personal data that you may provide during the navigation of this website (hereinafter the “Website”).

We would like to point out that this privacy notice refers exclusively to the Website and not to third-party websites that the User may access via links herein.

CATEGORIES OF DATA PROCESSED

Information systems and software procedures used to operate the Website acquire, during the normal course of their operation, some personal data whose transmission is implicit in the use of internet communication protocols. This concerns information that is not collected in order to be associated with specific identified data subjects, but, by their own very nature, could, through processing and association with data held by third parties, allow users to be identified. This category of data includes IP addresses or computer domain names used by users who connect to the Website, URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) addresses of requested resources, the time of the request, the method utilised to submit the request to the server, the size of the file obtained in reply, the numerical code indicating the status of the response from the server (success, error, etc.) and other parameters related to the user’s operating system and computing environment. These data are only used to obtain anonymous statistical information on Website usage and to check the Website’s proper operation, and are deleted immediately after having been processed.

The optional, explicit and voluntary sending of e-mail to the addresses indicated in this Website entails the subsequent acquisition of the sender’s address, which is necessary in order to reply to the request, and any other personal data contained in the message. Specific aggregated information will be provided or displayed in the sections of the Website dedicated to particular services on request and will, in that case, be subject to the data subject’s consent.

Pursuant to Japanese law, the Company advises users on the use of navigation cookies on this website (hereinafter the “Website”).

We would like to point out that this privacy notice refers exclusively to the Website and not to third-party websites that the User may access via links herein.

PURPOSE OF AND LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING, NATURE OF THE PROVISION OF DATA AND CONSEQUENCES IN CASE OF REFUSAL

The Company will process your data in order to facilitate navigation and to provide the services that you may request via the forms that have been placed on the Website for that purpose. Aside from what has been specified regarding navigation data and technical cookies, in the sections of the Website that are there to provide services at your request you are free to provide your personal data for the purposes mentioned in the related privacy notices; if you do not provide such data, it may not be possible for us to provide the requested service.

PERIOD OF RETENTION OF THE DATA

The personal data that are collected through the use of the Website are processed for the time that is strictly necessary to fulfil the purposes for which they are collected or, after such time, for the period of time provided for by the current legislation.

SCOPE OF THE DISCLOSURE OF DATA AND CATEGORIES OF RECIPIENTS

Exclusively for the aforementioned purposes, all data collected and processed may be disclosed to internal persons who have been authorised to process them while carrying out their duties, or to external persons to whom it may be necessary to disclose the data. Such recipients, where they process data on behalf of the Company, will be appointed as data processors by virtue of a specific contract or other legal deed.

TRANSFER OF DATA TO A THIRD COUNTRY AND/OR AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION

RIGHTS OF THE DATA SUBJECTS

You have the right to ask our company to grant you access to your personal data and to rectify them, if they are incorrect, to erase them or to restrict their processing, provided that the requirements are met, and to obtain the portability of the data which you have provided only if they are subject to automated processing based on your consent or on the contract. You also have the right to withdraw the consent given for the processing purposes which require it, without prejudice to the lawfulness of the processing until the moment of withdrawal. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority, the Data Protection Authority.

PERSONS INVOLVED IN PROCESSING

The data controller is FKK Corporation, with its registered office in 11 Tsutsumisoto-cho Kisshoin Minami-ku, 601-8399 Kyoto, JAPAN; you may contact the controller by using the contact form on the contact page.

DATA PROCESSOR/DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

The Data Processor/data protection officer is FKK Corporation.

Last update: January 2025

This Privacy Notice may be amended. You are, therefore, advised to check this web page regularly and to take into account the most recently updated version of the privacy notice published therein.