Basic policy
Quartz Crystal Industry Association of Japan ("the association" hereafter) believes that the fundamental activity of an enterprise should be based on a profound recognition of the significance of personal information in terms of privacy while the association is addressing itself to its safety control, and that this is its social responsibility. For this reason, in order to accomplish adequate protection of personal information, the association deals with its customers' personal information in accordance with the privacy policy shown below when its customers use this web site.

Acquisition of personal information
If the association requires the presentation of personal information from its customer at the time of his or her utilization of this web site, the association will define the needed points, the purpose of the utilization of the offered information, and others on each site of this web site. If a customer cannot agree with the defined points, the purpose of the utilization, etc., such a customer should abstain from disclosing his or her personal information. In such a case, however, it should be understood in advance that sufficient services may fail to be offered from this web site.

Utilization of personal information
Personal information offered by a customer will be utilized by the association within the scope of the association's needed points and the purpose of the utilization, etc., with which the customer has consented. If the association wants to utilize its customers' personal information beyond this scope, the association will previously let these customers know the purpose and the scope of their utilization in order to obtain their consent.

Utilization of cookies
For the reinforcement of the convenience of each site and the improvement of the contents on this web site, the association may use information from the cookie (information to be exchanged between the web site and a customer's web browser [Internet browsing software]) for the identification of the customer (web browser) and the recognition of the accessed page. On our web site, each customer's domain name is recorded from the cookie, but in all cases the information is never acquired to specify any e-mail address and such personal information. Any customer who wants to reject the reception of a cookie should make a setup in his or her web browser to reject the reception. If the reception of a cookie is rejected, however, it should be understood in advance that sufficient services may fail to be offered from this web site.

Disclosure of personal information to a third party
Except for the cases shown below, the association does not disclose to a third party the personal information that has been presented by its customers.

  • When the association obtains the consent of a customer in regard to the disclosure of personal information to the third party.
  • When disclosure is required based on laws and ordinances.

Safety measures against personal information
To introduce the technologies for assuring the customers for the secured presentation of their personal information and to realize the safe information management after the presentation of such information, the association makes every effort for the improvement of information security measures (prevention of information leakage, falsification, losing, malicious access, etc.). In this manner, the association will improve the quality of security in regard to the personal information of its customers.

Laws and ordinances, and the observance of other rules
In regard to the personal information presented by each customer through this web site, the association will observe the related laws and ordinances as well as other rules, which are applicable in Japan and other countries. According to variations in the related laws and ordinances as well as social environments, the association will properly improve its attitude of observance in regard to the protection of personal information.

Scope of application of this personal information protection policy
The policy of this personal information protection is applicable only to the personal information presented by its customers through this web site. This web site is interlinked with a variety of other web sites related to the association's cooperative servicing organizations, vendors, etc. (referred to as the associated sites hereafter). However, the association would like to declare that the association is not responsible for the handling of personal information by other web sites managed by third parties, inclusive of the associated sites.