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Privacy Policy
Yamaha Motor Co.,Ltd. (herewith referred to as YMC) operate Web sites with the following domain name:
waverunner-fan.com
Recognizing the importance and necessity of protecting personal information YMC has set policy guidelines for the proper management and protection of personal data we receive from the customers in the course of our business activities. It is our intention to disseminate these guidelines that make up our Privacy Policy to all our management and employees so that we can use the personal data from the customers to provide them with even better and more complete services.
This Privacy Policy addresses the purposes for which and methods by which we use personal data provided by the users of our Web sites when registering for the various services offered on our sites as well as the measures taken to protect this data. Furthermore, the policies are subject to the following provisions.
Our Privacy Policy will be posted on our Web sites so that it can be viewed by our customers at all times.
Our Privacy Policy will continue to be revised in accordance with amendments to Japanese laws and regulations as well as changes in our own corporate policies.
When revisions are made in our Privacy Policy, YMC will post those items of change on our Web sites in a way that the customers can be aware of them.
1.Purposes for Collecting Personal Data
2.Management of Personal Data
3.Customer Involvement in Their Personal Data (release, correction, deletion, etc.)
4.Technical and Managerial Measures for the Protection of Personal Data
1. Purposes for Collecting Personal Data
Personal data is defined as information from which a specific individual's name, date of birth, telephone numbers, address, e-mail address, etc., can be identified (including information that can easily be used to identify a specific individual by cross-referencing with other available data).
There is no need to gather personal data from people who simply access and view the contents of our Web sites. However, it may be necessary to have people who wish to make use of various services offered on our Web sites input certain personal data that is recorded on our Web site.
Personal data about the customers that is thus recorded can be used for the following purposes:
To help develop higher quality products and services which bring greater satisfaction to the customers, or for gathering customer opinions for that purpose.
To help develop new services or richer contents for our Web sites, or for gathering customer opinions for those purposes.
To supply the customers with news about our Web sites or our company's products and services and notices about things like events.
To send to the customers goods which they request.
To respond to inquires from the users.
It should also be noted that there are cases in which we process compiled personal data from the customers in a way that specific individuals cannot be identified and then supply the revised data to companies in the YMC and our affiliated companies. In addition, there are cases where we release data that has been processed so that no individuals can be identified when that data is necessary for such purposes as releasing corporate business information, accounting processing and research or marketing survey uses.
About Access Log File
Access log file will be used with regard to our Web site's user trend analysis, website management, and vast population statistical information collections. The log file records statistical website user information of the individual web pages that have been accessed, the times of each visit, what domains visitors come from, visitor's transaction trends, browser and operation system, etc. YMC will be able to collect such information; however, those information will not be used to collect identifying a specific individual.
2. Management of Personal Data
As a rule, we do not release personal data gathered from the customers on our Web sites to third parties outside YMC. However, there are some exceptional cases where personal data is released if it is logically determined that such release is necessary for one of the following reasons.
Cases where the customer has agreed beforehand to releasing the data.
Cases where there is a legal edict demanding that the data be released.
Cases where a user has violated the rules of our Web site use and it is deemed necessary to release the data in order to protect the rights, assets, services, etc., of YMC or YMC employees.
Cases where it is deemed necessary to release the data in order to protect human life, health or property and it is difficult to secure the permission of the user beforehand.
Cases where there is a need to release the data for improvement of public health and safety or the edification of children and it is difficult to secure the permission of the user beforehand.
Cases where it is necessary to cooperate in the lawfully valid work (investigations, etc.) of national government or local public officials or those commissioned by them and there is reasonable concern that seeking the permission of the user beforehand would be detrimental to said work.
Cases where it is necessary for comply with demands made to YMC or Webmasters of our Web sites by public agencies.
3. Customer Involvement in Their Personal Data (release, correction, deletion, etc.)
Customers who register their own personal data on our Web sites have the right to verify, correct, make additions to or delete that data.
If customers wish to make a request to YMC to view their own personal data (name, date of birth, telephone number, address) on record, they may do so according to procedures set down by YMC. In such a case, YMC will release that customer's data for him/her to view, except in the following cases.
Cases where there is reasonable concern that such release could be a threat to the life, health, property or other interests of the customer or any third person or party.
Cases where there is reasonable concern that such release would be highly detrimental to the normal and proper business operations of YMC.
Cases where such release would be (or possibly be) in violation of the law.
Cases where it cannot be confirmed that the request is from the customer himself/herself.
In the case where there are errors in the contents of a customer's personal data held by YMC, that customer has the right to request the verification, correction, making of additions or deletion of his/her own personal data according to procedures set down by YMC. After prompt investigation of the facts involved, YMC will then make the desired corrections, additions or deletions based on the results of said investigation.
4. Technical and Managerial Measures for the Protection of Personal Data
In the handling of personal data about the customers, our Web sites take the following measures to ensure that the data is securely kept without being subject to loss, theft, leaking, alteration or defilement.
On our Web sites, all pages in which customers can input personal data are protected by SSL (*2) so that our users can be assured of the security of their data transmissions.
The personal data and other information supplied by the customers through our Web sites is never released outside YMC except in those ways specified in the rules of this Privacy Policy.
On our Web sites, the utmost efforts are taken to ensure that no loss, theft, leaking, alteration or defilement of our customers' personal data occurs as a result of hacking, similar actions or computer viruses.
To ensure that no loss, theft, leaking, alteration or defilement of our customers' personal data occurs, we regularly back up our data and make use of the latest anti-virus vaccine programs.
*2: SSL is the acronym for Secure Socket Layer, a highly effective communications security system developed by the U.S. company Netscape Communications. This system prevents third parties from intercepting or altering personal data by maintaining it in coded form. Presently, this system is widely used by sites involved in online sales which require the transfer of vital information like credit card numbers. When accessing the site through a standard browser like Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, the SSL function operates automatically, so no special settings are required.