Tomoegawa Europe B.V. (“the Company”) complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable laws and ordinances, including related laws enforced in the Netherlands (“Privacy Laws and Ordinances”), in handling the personal information collected from you, as well as collects and uses personal information appropriately.
This Privacy Notice explains the types of personal information the Company gathers from you, why the Company uses personal information and its legal grounds, businesses that share personal information with the Company, storage of personal information, security measures taken by the Company, the rights you can exercise regarding the use of personal information by the Company, how changes may be made to this Privacy Notice, and who to contact at the Company.
The definition of the terms used in this Privacy Notice is as follows.
| Tomoegawa Group | Companies which TOMOEGAWA CORPORATION has 50% or more of direct or indirect voting rights (excluding holding companies) |
| Personal information | Means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person which will be used by the Company. |
| GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation |
| Use | Means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal information, whether or not it is performed by automated means. The operations refer to collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction. |
| Company’s website | https://www.tomoegawa.nl/ |
| You | Means users who provide personal information to the Company, etc. through the inquiry form on the Company’s website or another method, pertaining to the products and services of the Company, etc. or the recruitment activities of the Company, etc. |
| Adequacy decision | Means that the European Commission recognizes that a specified third country, territory, international organization, etc. ensures an adequate level of protection of personal information. |
| Cookie | A system by which information about the user who accesses the Company’s website is temporarily recorded on the user’s device. This technology allows the Company to collect data, such as the history of the user’s visit to the website and history of the user’s activity on the website. |
The Company may collect your personal information in a variety of situations, including receiving inquiries or orders from you regarding the Company’s products and services. The Company collects the following personal information:
・Name of your group or organization, your address, your name, your contact information such as e-mail address
・History of access of the Company’s website (including name of internet service provider, access date and time, and IP address). The Company’s website uses cookies.
The Company does not collect sensitive personal information, such as genetic and health data.
The Company will use the personal information it collected from you on the following legal grounds and for the following purposes:
・The Company needs to handle the information to implement a contract to which it is a party, or the Company needs to handle the information to execute procedures based on your request prior to concluding a contract:
For example, the Company will use your personal information for delivering the Company’s products (including product samples), providing services, or for purposes related to the payment of the Company’s products and services.
・The Company needs to handle the information for legitimate interests pursued by the Company or a third party:
For example, the Company will use your personal information for providing information on the Company’s products, services or exhibits, responding to complaints regarding the Company’s products and services, for the Company’s marketing activities, or for responding to people who have applied for jobs with the Company.
Notwithstanding the above, the Company may use your personal information if the Company gathers your information based on your consent, or if the Company needs to handle the information in order to comply with its legal obligations.
If the Company uses your personal information for purposes other than the above, it will provide additional information related to such purposes.
Your personal information that the Company collected will be shared within the Tomoegawa Group and among its partner businesses in order to support the above purposes. For example, your personal information will be shared when the Tomoegawa Group or its partner business directly delivers to you the Company’s product that you ordered, or when the Company and t
