Introduction
Totachi Industrial Co. Ltd., Japan, along with its wholly owned subsidiaries, is dedicated to safeguarding your privacy. In this Privacy Statement ("Statement"), "we" refers to Totachi Industrial Co. Ltd., Japan, and its wholly owned subsidiaries, while "you" refers to the individual or entity using any Totachi-branded public website (the "Sites").
This Statement outlines the measures we take to protect the personal data collected on our Sites. It details the types of personal data we collect, the purposes for which we use this data, your choices regarding the use of your personal data, our security measures, and how you can review and correct your data.
By accessing our Sites, you agree to the data collection and usage practices described in this Statement.
Data Collection
In most cases, you can visit our websites without providing any personal data. However, certain pages may request personal data to deliver a service or fulfill a transaction you have requested.
The personal data we collect may include:
- Contact Details: Your name, title, company/organization name, email address, telephone and fax numbers, and physical address.
- Company and Job Information: Information about your company and your job position.
- Marketing Preferences: Your preferences regarding email marketing.
- Financial Information: Credit card numbers, bank or customer account information, and for credit requests, Social Security Number or other national/tax identification number, zip code, and date of birth.
- Legal Compliance Information: Your nationality and country of residence to determine eligibility under export control regulations and comply with other legal reporting requirements.
- Product and Service Inquiries: Your inquiries about and orders for our products and services, and information to help us identify and contact you about products and services that may interest you.
- Job Applicant Data: Professional and educational history you may submit with a job application.
- Contest and Event Data: Information for contest entries and event registrations.
- Feedback: Your feedback about our products and services, including our websites.
While you are not required to provide this information, choosing not to may limit our ability to provide the requested service or complete your transaction.
Data Collected by Automated Means.
We collect certain data about all visitors to our websites, including pages viewed, bytes transferred, links clicked, and other actions taken within our websites. On websites where you log in, we may connect this information with your identity to determine your potential interests in our products and services. This information may also be used to enhance or improve our security measures.
Additionally, we collect standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as:
- Internet Protocol (IP) address
- Browser type and capabilities
- Browser language
- Operating system
- Date and time of access
- Referring website (the website from which you linked to our Sites)
This automated data collection helps us understand how visitors use our websites and assists in improving the user experience.
Our Use of Cookies and Web Beacons
In most instances, you can visit our websites without providing any personal data. However, on some pages, we may request personal data to provide a service or complete a transaction you request.
The personal data we may collect includes:
- Contact Details: Your name, title, company/organization name, email address, telephone and fax numbers, and physical address.
- Company and Job Information: Information about your company and your job position.
- Marketing Preferences: Your preferences regarding email marketing.
- Financial Information: Credit card numbers, bank or customer account information, and for credit requests, Social Security Number or other national/tax identification number, zip code, and date of birth.
- Legal Compliance Information: Your nationality and country of residence to determine eligibility under export control regulations and comply with other legal reporting requirements.
- Product and Service Inquiries: Your inquiries about and orders for our products and services, and information to help us identify and contact you about products and services that may interest you.
- Job Applicant Data: Professional and educational history you may submit with a job application.
- Contest and Event Data: Information for contest entries and event registrations.
- Feedback: Your feedback about our products and services, including our websites.
You are not required to provide this information. However, if you choose not to, we may not be able to provide you with the requested service or complete your transaction.
Data Collected by Automated Means
We collect certain data about all visitors to our websites, including the pages they view, the amount of data transferred, the links they click, and other actions taken on our websites. For websites where you log in, we may associate this information with your identity to better understand your potential interests in our products and services. This information is also used to enhance our security measures.
Additionally, we gather standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and capabilities, language preferences, operating system, the date and time you access the Sites, and the website from which you linked to our Sites.
Our Use of Cookies and Web Beacons
Cookies are small text files that a website transfers to your hard drive or device to store and sometimes collect information about your usage of websites. This includes time spent on the Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan websites (the “Sites”), pages visited, language preferences, and other traffic data.
We use this information for various purposes:
- Security: To protect your data and our websites.
- Navigation: To facilitate ease of movement around the Sites.
- Display Information: To show information more effectively.
- Personalization: To store data such as your preferences and personalize your experience.
- Recognition: To recognize your computer and assist your use of the Sites.
We also gather technical and statistical information to improve the design and functionality of the Sites, understand how they are used, and resolve questions about them. In some cases, we may use information collected through analytics cookies or advertising cookies to target advertising at website visitors or make advertising messages more relevant to you.
Types of Cookies:
First-Party Cookies: Transferred directly by Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan.
Third-Party Cookies: Transferred on our behalf by selected partners and service providers.
Session Cookies: Temporary cookies that are deleted once you close your browser.
Persistent Cookies: Remain on your device even after your browser is closed to recognize your device when you browse the internet again.
What Cookies Do We Use?
Strictly Necessary Cookies: Enable you to navigate the Sites and use their services and features. Without these, the Sites may not function properly.
Functional Cookies: Provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They help us see usage patterns and analyze traffic to improve the Sites.
Performance Cookies: Allow us to count visits and traffic sources to measure and improve Site performance.
Targeting Cookies: Used by advertising partners to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites.
Social Media Cookies: Set by social media services to enable you to share our content and track your browser across other sites.
Cookies Set in the Past: Data from our analytics cookies can be deleted, but prior data collection may still be used. However, the disabled cookie will no longer collect information.
Web Beacons: Our Sites may contain electronic images known as web beacons—single-pixel gifs—that allow us to count users who have visited pages or opened promotional emails. They help us determine the effectiveness of our communications.
How Do I Manage Cookies?
You can choose whether to accept cookies. Information about cookies on the Sites, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, can be found in “Manage Cookie Preferences.”
Adjusting Browser Settings: Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser settings to decline cookies or notify you when a cookie is being placed. Note that disabling cookies may affect your experience on our websites. Browsers also allow you to delete existing cookies, which means your stored settings will be lost.
Do Not Track Signals: Some browsers enable a “do not track” setting. While this setting sends a signal to websites, it differs from declining cookies. Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan does not respond to these signals at this time. If this changes, we will update this Privacy Statement.
Global Privacy Controls (GPC): Some browsers offer a GPC signal to restrict data usage collected by cookies. While our Sites recognize GPC signals, we do not currently respond to all "do not track" signals.
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to understand website usage. Google Analytics collects data such as how often users visit and what pages they view. Google may use this data to personalize ads on its network. Google Analytics' data collection can be opted out of here.
Opting Out of Interest-Based Advertising: While Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan does not deliver third-party ads on our websites, we advertise on other sites. Review those websites' privacy policies to understand their practices. You can opt-out of targeted advertising from NAI or EDAA member ad networks through the following:
- Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA)
- Network Advertising Initiative (NAI)
- European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA)
Mobile Devices: Limit interest-based advertising on your device by adjusting the privacy settings, such as "Limit Ad Tracking" for iOS or "Opt-out of Customized Ads" for Android.
Our use of personal data
We will use personal data only for the purposes set forth below:
Services and Transactions: We use personal data to deliver services or execute transactions you request, such as providing information about Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan products and services, processing orders, answering customer service requests, facilitating use of our websites, and more. To offer you a more consistent experience while interacting with Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan, information collected by our websites may be combined with information we collect by other means.
Website Improvement: We may use data about you to improve our websites (including our security measures) and related products or services. This may include making our websites easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information or by customizing our websites to your particular preferences or interests.
Marketing Communications: With your permission, we may use personal data to inform you of products or services available from Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan. When collecting information that might be used to contact you about our products and services, we give you the opportunity to opt-out from receiving such communications. Each email communication we send includes an unsubscribe link allowing you to stop delivery of that type of communication. If you elect to unsubscribe, we will remove you from the relevant list within 10 business days.
Employment Applications: In connection with a job application or inquiry, you may provide us with data about yourself, including your educational background, résumé or curriculum vitae, and other information, including your ethnicity where required or permitted by law. We may use this information throughout Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan, its subsidiaries and affiliates, and its joint ventures for employment consideration. We will keep the information for future consideration unless you direct us not to do so. We may also use analytics software to review submitted applicant data and publicly posted professional profiles to identify additional potential applicants for positions across the company and its affiliates. Such analytics software typically generates a general numeric indicator of an individual’s potential fit for both applied-for postings and other posted roles. However, hiring decisions are not made automatically by the software nor by Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan recruitment personnel acting in exclusive reliance upon such scores.
Where we reference that we use your personal information in connection with a request, order, transaction, or agreement (or preparing for the same), or to provide you with services that you requested (such as a website), we do this because it is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you.
Where we reference that we use your personal information in relation to marketing, improvement or development of our products or services, for reasons of safety and security, or regulatory requirements other than in connection with your agreement or request, we do this on the basis of our or a third party’s legitimate interests, or with your consent.
Disclosure of personal data
Except as described below, personal data that you provide to Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan via our websites will not be shared outside of Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan, its subsidiaries, affiliates, and joint ventures without your consent.
Disclosure to Service Providers: Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan contracts with other companies to provide services on our behalf, such as hosting websites, sending out information, processing transactions, and analyzing our websites. We provide these companies with only the elements of personal data they need to deliver those services. These companies and their employees are prohibited from using personal data for any other purposes.
Disclosure in Connection with Transactions: In connection with certain transactions, we may disclose some or all of the personal data you provide to financial institutions, government entities, shipping companies, or postal services involved in fulfilling the transaction.
Disclosures in Connection with Acquisitions or Divestitures: Circumstances may arise where, for strategic or other business reasons, Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan decides to sell, buy, merge, or otherwise reorganize particular businesses. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal data to prospective or actual purchasers or receiving it from sellers. Although it is Totachi's practice to seek protection for information in these types of transactions, we cannot guarantee that any entity receiving such data from Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan in connection with one of these transactions will comply with all the terms of this privacy statement.
Disclosure on Collaborative Websites: Some of our websites promote collaboration among registered users with respect to a particular area or topic. On those websites, we may share your username with other participants to label comments or suggestions you make as yours. We do not share your name, contact details, or other personal data with other users of these collaborative websites.
Disclosure for Other Reasons: We may disclose personal data if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with legal requirements or with legal process served on us, to protect and defend our rights or property, or in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of any individual.
International Transfers of Personal Data
We may transfer personal information collected through the Sites to, and store such information in, countries other than the country from which it was initially collected or the countries from which individual site visitors may access the Sites. The countries to which we may transfer such information, including the U.S. and other countries where our subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, or business partners maintain facilities, may have different data protection laws than the countries from which the information was initially collected or from which individual site visitors access the Sites.
By choosing to use the Sites and submit personal data to us, you consent to the transfer of such information outside of your country.
To the extent required by applicable law, when we transfer your personal information to recipients in other countries, we will take measures to protect that information. For example, where necessary to protect personal information transferred between our subsidiaries or to our suppliers or other third parties, we implement Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the EU Commission and use similar contractual clauses to comply with requirements in other jurisdictions.
Personal data retention
Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan is committed to protecting the security of personal data. While no security measure can guarantee against compromise, we use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal data you provide on computer systems with limited access that are located in secure facilities. When you move around a site to which you have logged in, or from one site to another using the same login mechanism, we verify your identity through an encrypted cookie placed on your machine. When you place an order with us, view account information, or provide financial information, we protect the transmission of such data using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption.
For sites requiring a login, it is your responsibility to ensure the security of your password and not reveal this information to others. If you are sharing a computer, always log out before leaving a website to prevent subsequent users from accessing your data.
Security
Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan is committed to protecting the security of personal data. While no security measure can guarantee complete protection, we use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help safeguard data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal data you provide on computer systems with limited access, located in secure facilities. When you navigate a site to which you have logged in, or move from one site to another using the same login mechanism, we verify your identity through an encrypted cookie placed on your device. When you place an order with us, view account information, or provide financial information, we protect the transmission of such data using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption.
For sites requiring a login, it is your responsibility to ensure the security of your password and not reveal this information to others. If you are sharing a computer, always log out before leaving a website to prevent subsequent users from accessing your data.
Links to Other Websites
Our websites may contain links to other websites, including those of other companies, professional organizations, government entities, and publications. These websites operate independently from our Sites, and we do not control and are not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices of these other websites. You should review the privacy statements of any linked websites to understand how they protect and use personal data.
Children
The Sites are general audience sites. Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan does not seek to gather personal data from or about persons 14 years or younger through these Sites. If one of our websites is directed at children, we will include an additional privacy statement notice specifically for children.
Reviewing Personal Data
In many cases, you can immediately review and correct personal data provided through our websites by visiting the page where you initially provided the data.
You may also submit requests to review and correct personal data collected through the Sites or address any inquiries or concerns you may have regarding personal data by contacting our Global Privacy Office using the information provided in the How to Contact Us section of this Privacy Statement, including by sending an email.
To help protect your privacy, we take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access to your information. You can help us keep your data accurate by notifying us of any changes to your mailing address, phone number, or email address.
Your Rights
To the extent provided by the law of your jurisdiction, you may have the right to:
- Access certain personal information we maintain about you.
- Request that we update, correct, amend, erase, or restrict your personal information.
- Opt-Out of the sale or sharing of your data for marketing purposes.
- Request a Portable Copy of the personal information about you that we maintain.
- Appeal Determinations made with respect to your requests to exercise rights you may have under locally applicable laws.
Where provided by law, you may withdraw consent you previously provided to us or object at any time to the processing of your personal information on legitimate grounds relating to your situation. We will apply your preferences going forward as appropriate.
To exercise these rights, please contact us via one of the means specified in the How to Contact Us section of this Privacy Statement.
To help protect your privacy, when we are contacted by individuals seeking to exercise their rights under applicable privacy laws, we take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access to your information.
If you believe our processing of your personal information is not compliant with applicable data protection laws, you can lodge a complaint with our Global Privacy Office by sending a letter or an email to the Global Privacy Office at the addresses provided in the How to Contact Us section of this Privacy Statement. Complaints related to our processing of personal information within the European Union or our compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may be directed to our Data Privacy Officer for the European Region, Simon Owens, at the mail and email addresses provided for the Global Privacy Office. Depending on your location, you may also have the right to file a complaint with a government regulator if you are not satisfied with our response. The name and contact details of the Data Protection Authorities in the European Union can be found here.
Residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia seeking to exercise rights afforded to them under their respective state privacy laws can learn more about those rights and the contacts that may be used to submit requests to exercise those rights in our United States Supplemental Privacy Notice.
How to Contact Us
If you have any inquiries about this privacy statement or how we manage personal data, please reach out to us via the provided contact link
Changes to This Privacy Statement
Totachi Industrial CO., LTD., Japan may update this privacy statement periodically. When updates are made, the "effective" date at the top of the privacy statement will be revised. We recommend checking this page regularly to stay informed about the latest privacy terms. Your continued use of the site after any changes are posted signifies your acceptance of those changes.