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Bridgestone Corporation (“Bridgestone”) is
committed to protecting your personal information.
With this site, Bridgestone has opportunities to receive your personal information
through your inquiries on products, any promotional programs or questionnaires.
Bridgestone believes that it is an important responsibility to protect any
of your personal information.
To better protect your privacy, Bridgestone provides the following policies
that apply to this site. Bridgestone prevents any leakage, misuse or alteration
of your personal information to the best of our ability.
What is personal information?
The types of personal information include your name,
address, age, telephone number, e-mail address, any information that personally
identifies you, or any information that is specific to you.
How we collect your personal information.
When Bridgestone collects the personal
information you submit to this site, Bridgestone clearly indicates its purpose,
and so does within its necessary limitation.
If you prefer not to provide your personal information to Bridgestone, you
can deny the submission on your own decision. However, please note that by
denying your personal information submission, you may not be able to utilize
some of the services on this site that require the submission of your personal
information.
Bridgestone automatically receives your IP address, cookie information or
information on any web pages that you review, and records this information
onto our server. Such gathered information may be used to customize our site
contents, which you review and improve our site contents.
How we use your personal information.
Bridgestone only uses your personal information within the specific purpose
that is indicated to you. We will inform you beforehand if an occasion arises
where we will need to use your personal information beyond the purpose originally
indicated to you. If you do not agree, you can deny the usage of your personal
information.
Non-disclosure of your personal information to third parties.
Bridgestone does not disclose, transfer or lend the personal information you
submit to our site to any third parties. Notwithstanding this obligation shall
not apply to the following:
- When we obtain your permission.
- When we find it necessary to disclose it to Bridgestone-affiliated companies,
subsidiaries, distributors or agencies in order to answer any inquiries
from you.
- When we find it necessary to disclose information to other companies Bridgestone
hires that have confidentiality agreement with Bridgestone in order to
implement what was indicated to you.
- When such information is processed into non-personally-identifiable information
as a statistical data.
- In case of urgent circumstances to protect people’s
life, body or property.
- In case of being required by law to disclose.
Use by visitors under the age of 18:
Bridgestone is also committed to protecting personal information of any site
visitors who are under the age of 18. Bridgestone recommends guardians to review
the web site when site visitors under the age of 18 accesses to this site.
If you are under the age of 18, please provide your personal information with
the consent of your guardian.
A word on “Cookies”.
“Cookies” are IDs consisting of alphabets
and numbers that this site sends to your computer hard drive through your
web browser. The system on this site uses Cookies to recognize your browser
and can provide functions such as storing your access information until your
next site visit.
You can set up the browser not to receive new Cookies,
to arrange a warning to appear on the screen when Cookies are received or
to void the cookie functions (please refer to “help” in your browser’s
toolbar).
If you do so, you may not be able to utilize some functions on this site. To
fully utilize this site, we recommend you the set up that Cookies can be received.
A word on security.
When you submit your personal information on this site, we will use SSL (Secure
Sockets Layer) or other equivalent methods in order to protect transmission
of data.
Inquiries, corrections or deletion of personal information
If you would like to inquire, make any corrections or request deletion of
your personal information, please place your request by clicking on “Contact
Us.”
Revision of this privacy policy.
Bridgestone may revise our privacy policy for this site. Any major policy
revisions will be posted on our site in an easy-to-find and timely manner.
Responsibility control and contact for inquiries
Bridgestone has assigned a person in charge and a service
contact to handle any inquiries you may have about this site. Please place
your questions or opinions by clicking on “Contact
Us.”
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