Date of Effect: January 12th, 2009
Synon, Inc. President / CEO Minoru Tanaka

General
Synon, Inc., (hereinafter “Synon”) keeps your personal information to provide you with each service.
Synon takes protecting your privacy very seriously and we make all efforts to provide secure, reliable service for you.
Synon observes laws and ordinances related to the personal information, and delivers an appropriate management of your personal information.

1. Personal Information Collection
Synon respects the personal information of customers, and will not engage in false or otherwise illegal measures in collecting personal information.
Other than the personal information provided by you, we may obtain your information by a fair means from any third party who rightfully possesses your information.

2. Personal Information Use
Synon uses your personal information in a necessary sphere for the purposes below. In the event we use the personal information for purposes not listed below, we will seek your prior approval.
1. To answer your questions as well as for forwarding materials
2. To perform any work you request
3. To manage your account (for your use of Synon’s goods and services)
4. To provide you with information on seminars and on all kinds of products and services

The following circumstances are excluded from the above.
1. In the event we are required by law to disclose information about you by public facilities such as
police facilities and courts.
2. When we determine it is necessary to protect the rights, interests, reputation and credibility of
Synon, another customer, or a third party.
3. Disclosing statistical data for the purposes of offering statistical information by processing the
information in such a way that individuals cannot be identified, and from accumulating or
analyzing such personal information.
4. In the event that disclosure or offer is permitted by statute.

3. Safe Management of Personal Information
Synon takes necessary measures to ensure the safe management of your personal information, and for the prevention of damage, loss, or leak of the personal information we deal with.

4. Security
Synon enforces appropriate security measures to ensure safety of information in relation to our customers and takes precautions to safeguard against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, and alternation.

5. Coverage
There are times when we may introduce other domain’s websites to help us provide useful information and services. This privacy policy will not apply to the website link. We recommend that you confirm the policies and plans relating to protection of personal information of the individual websites, in the event you access the respective websites.

6. Cookies
Synon may use “Cookies”, known as a technique to identify a customer’s computer, to retain login, login status, etc., to make it more convenient for you to use our services again. Cookies are not something that are an infringement on your privacy, and will not have any negative effect on your computer.
In the event that a cookie is invalidated or deleted, certain features of Synon’s services may not be available.

7. Entrustment of Personal information
In the event that Synon entrusts all or part of the personal information to a third party, we will perform a thorough investigation on the third party in question, and we will exercise the necessary and appropriate supervision over the third party’s safe management of the entrusted personal information.
There area also times when we may entrust the handling of personal information in the event that Synon executes our duties on consulting, privacy mark application and ISMS applications together with the third party.

8. Non-provision of personal information to a Third party
Synon does not provide your personal information to a third party without your prior consent unless otherwise stipulated by law such as Private Information Protection Law.

9. Limitations on guarantees and liabilities
Synon shall not bear any responsibility on the personally identifiable information as a result of disclosing the personal information to third parties by your own by using functions of our services or by other means. Furthermore, Synon is not responsible for any damages you suffer from using any kinds of information acquired through some other company, which is outside of the coverage of this privacy policy.

10. Applicable Law
It is agreed that, regarding this privacy policy the laws of the country of Japan will be binding.

11. Personal information disclosure, correction, etc.
Synon will quickly disclose your personal information when we receive such request directly from you. Synon will not disclose information if Synon cannot confirm your identity.
If the content of your personal information has mistakes, and if you request Synon for a correction, addition or deletion, Synon will quickly communicate your demands after investigation.
In the event we cannot confirm your identity, these demands shall not be answered. We would politely ask that if you have inquiries regarding the above demands, or Synon’s treatment of personal information, that you please contact us using the information below.

Contact: Synon,Inc.
E-mail: contact@synon.co.jp

12. Changes to this policy
Synon will continue to make efforts to improve and review our security of personal information, and along with that we will observe the applicable rules with regard to our treatment of all of our customers’ personal information.
When Synon makes revisions to the above policy, all of the revisions will be posted on the website, and shall be effective from the time they are so posted.