Privacy policy

We have established our privacy policy in compliance with the Law on the Protection of Personal Information (Law No. 57 of May 30, 2003) and related regulations.
Our privacy policy applies to our online/offline handling of your personal information.
Our privacy policy applies to our online site https://www.yuasa-hara.co.jp.

1.Acquisition of your personal information

We obtain your personal information through lawful and fair methods to the extent necessary for attaining the purposes of using your personal information.

2.Purposes of using your personal information

We will use your personal information as our client (hereinafter “Client“) or as a person visiting our website or using our services (hereinafter ”Visitor“) in order to enable us to understand your needs as a Client or a Visitor and improving our services to you. We will only use your personal information for the following purposes and no other purposes without your prior consent:

1.Providing you with our services

• Giving notice related to our business
• Making questionnaires
• Sending newsletters and other law-related information
• Giving notice about lectures, seminars and other events
• Sending New Year’s cards and other letters
• Responding to your inquiries

2.Recruitment activities

Giving notice related to the submission of entry sheets for the recruitment of attorneys-at-law, patent/trademark attorneys, certified public accountants, clerks and interns

• Making questionnaires

3.Contractor for handling your personal information

We may use contractors for providing Clients and Visitors with our services. In such event we will share with such contractors your personal information as a Client or a Visitor. We will only select contractors for such purposes if they satisfy our stringent selection standards, and execute agreements on confidentiality, safe management of personal information, etc. with them and properly supervise them.

4.Providing a third party with your personal information

We will not provide a third party with your personal information as a Client or a Visitor unless you give us your prior consent or unless laws and related regulations allow us to do so.

5.Request for disclosure of your personal information

You as a Client or a Visitor may access your personal information held by us.
Please make a request via the Privacy Policy Desk if you wish to confirm your personal information held by us.
We will make our best efforts to promptly respond to your request after identifying you as a Client or a Visitor in our register.
We will inform you if we cannot comply with your request for any reason.

6.Request for revising your personal information

Please contact us according to the information provided in our emails, letters, etc. sent to you, if you as a Client or a Visitor in our register wish to revise your personal information held by us. We will promptly revise your personal information and give notice to you after identifying you as a Client or a Visitor in our register.

7. Method of terminating distribution

Please refer to the method of termination according to the information provided in our emails, letters, fax messages or telephone contacts to you and give notice to us by such method if you wish us to stop sending you any of them.

8.Tracking usage

We are tracking usage of our website by checking keywords input by you as a Client or a Visitor, how you use our website, which pages you access and which documents you read. We integrate such tracking data and use such as clues to further understand your acts as a Client or a Visitor and to recognize the characteristics and features you require from our website services to provide you with notices and information that are most likely to suit your needs. We will also use such data for the purpose of deciding upon the best method of providing you with our services and as a form of service contract with you.

9.Link to other sites

Our website may include a link to other websites. We are not responsible for the handling of your personal information at other websites linked to ours. We recommend you as a Client or a Visitor to confirm the protection policy of personal information at websites that collect your personal information when you move from our website to such sites.

10.Cookies

We use Cookies on our website. A Cookie is a computer code for identifying a person who accesses a website. When you as a Client or a Visitor start a session at our website, our website prepares a Cookie for identifying you as a Client or a Visitor and confirms your right of access. A Cookie does not keep the information that you input in our website but merely identifies you as a Client or a Visitor. A Cookie is necessary for enabling you to access the many features and contents of our website, but you may delete the Cookies any time from your computer.

11.Security

We use various security measures for securing the safety and confidentiality of your personal information as a Client or a Visitor. Your personal information is kept inside our firewalls and only our attorneys-at-law, patent/trademark attorneys, certified public accountants and other specialists and clerks who need to access your personal information to perform their duties are authorized to do so.

12.Notice of revision of our privacy policy

We regularly review our privacy policy and revise it if necessary. We will announce any important change in our privacy policy by putting a notification of it on our website. We may also send an email to that effect to your email address provided to us.

13.Contact regarding handling of your personal information

Please send us any questions, etc. about our handling of your personal information via the Privacy Policy Desk: privacypolicy@yuasa-hara.co.jp