(Enactment Date) July 23, 2024
This Privacy Policy sets forth the policy of SHIMA SEIKI MFG., LTD (hereinafter referred to as the “Shima Seiki”) to comply with when handling personal information obtained from general users (hereinafter referred as the “General User Information”) and the yarn company’s related parties (hereinafter referred as the “Yarn Company's Related Parties Information”) through the Company's yarnbank service business activities (hereinafter referred to as the “Service”). In addition to this Privacy Policy, the Comprehensive Privacy Policy (https://www.shimaseiki.com/privacy/) that applies to all groups of the Company and SHIMA SEIKI Online Services Privacy Policy (https://online-services.shimaseiki.com/privacypolicy/en/) shall also apply to the general users and the yarn company's related parties who use the Services. However, if this Privacy Policy differs from the Comprehensive Privacy Policy or SHIMA SEIKI Online Services Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy shall prevail.
Article 1. Collection of the Service-related Information
Shima Seiki will collect the Service-related Information through a lawful and fair method. The General User Information that may be collected by Shima Seiki will include, among others, the name and email address of a General User, and name of the organization that such General User belongs to, and such General User’s country and industry, as well as the information collected through the records of the viewing of Color Books and adding of Color Books as a favorite, and download of the Yarn Data and simulations using the Yarn Data.
The Yarn Company's Related Parties Information that may be collected by Shima Seiki will include, among others, the name and email address of a Yarn Company’s Related Parties, name of the organization that such related parties belong to, and such related parties’ country and industry.
Article 2. Use of the General User Information
Shima Seiki will use the General User Information for the following purposes:
(1)Providing, improving and enhancing the Service;
(2)Providing the General User Information to the Yarn Companies
(3)Addressing comments and requests from the General Users; and
(4)Soliciting, advertising or otherwise conducting marketing for Shima Seiki’s design systems and flat knitting machines as well as solution providing services.
Article 3. Use of the Yarn Company’s Related Parties Information
Shima Seiki will use the Yarn Company’s Related Parties Information for the following purposes:
(1)Providing, improving and enhancing the Service;
(2)Addressing comments and requests from the Yarn Companies; and
(3)Soliciting, advertising or otherwise conducting marketing for Shima Seiki’s design systems and flat knitting machines as well as solution providing services.
Article 4. Provision of the Service-related Information to Third Parties
(1) Shima Seiki will not provide the Service-related Information to any third party without obtaining prior consent from the relevant person, except where the provision thereof is permitted by laws and regulations or set forth in this Privacy Policy.
(2) Shima Seiki will provide the Service-related Information to its subsidiaries (without regard to whether or not they are consolidated subsidiaries), contracted distributors and contracted agents in order to solicit or otherwise conduct marketing for Shima Seiki’s design systems and flat knitting machines as well as solution providing services.
(3) Shima Seiki will provide the logs collected as a result of the use of the features below by a General User, as well as the domain name of the General User’s email address and name of the organization that the General User belongs to, and the General User’s country and industry, to the Yarn Companies that registered the relevant Color Books and Yarn Data for the purpose of sales activities and product development of such Yarn Companies. In such case, any email address which will allow an individual person to be identified will not be provided by Shima Seiki to any Yarn Company.
(i)Viewing of the Color Books; (ii)Adding of any Color Book as a favorite; (iii)Simulations using the Yarn Data.
(4) In addition to the preceding paragraph, Shima Seiki will provide the logs collected as a result of the use of the features below by a General User, as well as the General User’s email address, name, and name of the organization that the General User belongs to, and the General User’s country and industry, to the Yarn Companies that registered the relevant Color Books and Yarn Data for the purpose of sales activities and product development of such Yarn Companies.
(iv)Download of the Yarn Data;
(5) Upon request of a General User, Shima Seiki will provide the relevant Yarn Company the General User Information, including an email address, together with a message from the General User.
Article 5. Management of the Service-related Information
(1) Shima Seiki will endeavor to keep the Service-related Information accurate and up to date to the extent necessary for its purposes of use, and delete the Service-related Information upon completion of the purposes of use.
(2) Shima Seiki will take appropriate information security measures against unauthorized access, computer viruses or the like in order to prevent any loss, destruction, falsification, disclosure or the like of the Service-related Information.
Article 6. Subcontracting of the Handling of the Service-related Information
(1)Shima Seiki may outsource to a third party, in whole or in part, the handling of the collected Service-related Information.
(2)Shima Seiki will appropriately manage the subcontracted third party through execution of a contract concerning the handling of the Service-related Information or through other means.
Article 7. Disclosure, Correction, Suspension of Use and Deletion of the Service-related Information
Requests can be made to Shima Seiki concerning the Service-related Information with regard to notification of the purposes of its use, disclosure thereof, correction, addition or deletion of any particular thereof, suspension of its use, deletion thereof, or suspension of provision thereof to a third party (collectively, the “Disclosure”).
For the relevant procedures, please contact the Service Desk for Complaint and Consultation Concerning Personal Information. However, please note that there may be some cases where the Disclosure is not possible due to the relevant provisions of laws and regulations or the like.
Service Desk for Complaint and Consultation Concerning Personal Information
SHIMA SEIKI MFG., LTD.
Personal Information Protection Manager: Mitsuhiro Shima, Representative Director
Contact address: 85 Sakata, Wakayama 641-8511, Japan.
Tel: +81-73-474-8210