Hattori Law has stipulated the following personal information protection policy for the personal information treatment. Hattori Law will comply with this policy as well as the Act on the Protection of Personal Information of Japan (hereinafter referred to as the “Personal Information Protection Act”) and other related legislation.
Hattori Law will specify the purposes of use of Personal Information, and acquire Personal Information in the scope necessary with appropriate manner.
Hattori Law will use Personal Information only within the scope of the purposes stated below unless separately notified or announced, or except otherwise permitted by law or ordinances.
Personal Information acquired for one purpose included in any of the items set forth below may be used for any of the other purposes included in the same item.
Hattori Law will take all necessary and appropriate measures to prevent disclosure, loss, impairment and any other mistreatment of Personal Data. In order to ensure the safe management of Personal Data, Hattori Law will supervise its attorneys, other professionals and staff as necessary and appropriate. When outsourcing the handling of Personal Data, all or in part, Hattori Law will take all necessary and appropriate measures to supervise all outsourced service providers.
Hattori Law will not provide Personal Data to any third parties without the prior consent of the principal identified by the relevant Personal Data or unless permitted by law or ordinances.
There may be cases where members of Hattori Law jointly use Personal Data, such as names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and all other items that are held by members of Hattori Law. In such cases, the person responsible for management of Personal Data is Hattori Law.
With respect to any Personal Data held by Hattori Law, if the principal identified requests any of the items below, Hattori Law will first check that the request is actually being made by or on behalf of the principal, and upon the check, Hattori Law will respond to the request in accordance with the provisions of the Personal Information Protection Act.
(i) Notification of the purpose of the Personal Data use;
(ii) Disclosure to the principal of the relevant Personal Data that enable identification of the principal;
(iii) Correction or deletion of, or addition to, the relevant Personal Data that enable identification of the principal; or
(iv) Abandon of use, erasure or discontinuation of the provision to third parties of the relevant Personal Data.
In the case of any inquiry regarding this Personal Information Protection Policy or any treatment thereunder, please contact through Contact Us.
Hattori Law may modify this Personal Information Protection Policy if necessary, and such modification will be posted on this website.