Disclaimer

Disclaimer and Policies

Disclaimer

It shall be noted that the items described in the following clauses shall be out of our responsibilities. The visitors of this web site shall be considered to have agreed this disclaimer.

We do not take any responsibilities to any damages on the visitors, the third persons, and the third parties resulted from the use of this web site and the contents of this web site.
We do not take any responsibilities to the leakage, loss, third-party/person’s falsification of the information submitted to us and any damages on the visitors, the third persons, and the third parties resulted therefrom, although of course we strictly manage the submitted information.
We do not assure the security, accuracy, usefulness, currentness, legality, morality, and computer-virus-noninfectious of the information and services provided in this web site and any information and things that the visitors get through the e-mail and other medium sent by us. Thus, we do not take any responsibilities to any damages on the visitors, the third persons, and the third parties resulted from the information in this web site and any other medium.
We are not concerned in the information, services and any other things in any web sites linked in this web site, thus we do not take any responsibilities on them. The web sites and other medium linked in this web site shall be used on visitors’ responsibility under the rules of those web sites and medium.
We provide the links to the visitors for just visitors’ convenient and it is not to recommend the visitors the use and services of the linked web sites. Additionally, the links in this web site do not necessarily mean indicate that our office and the parties/persons of the linked web site are in the relation of cooperation and any other special relation.
We use the visitors’ individual information including telephone number, address, and e-mail address as visitors’ contact details. We do not take any responsibilities on any damages resulted from the change, typo, and any other errors of the abovementioned individual information.

Handling of personal information

Name of office and private information protection administrator

■Name of office that handles private information: Immigration Lawyer SUGITA International Office
■Private information protection administrator: Masakazu Sugita
■Contact information of private information protection administrator: info @ office-sugita.com (please delete the spaces before and after the “@”)

Purpose of use of private infomation

To answer the inquiries from clients.

Provision of personal information to third parties

Personal information we get is not be provided to third parties unless it is required under Japanese laws or request from public parties.

Outsourcing of personal information handling

We may outsource the handling of personal information.

Effects of client’s non-provision of personal information.

Client can choose if he/she gives us his/her personal information to us or not. If all or some personal information is not provided to us, it might be impossible to give client proper answers or we might refrain from giving answer to client.

Disclosure of personal information subject to disclosure and contact point for disclosure

In response to the request from the principal, we disclose personal information subject to disclosure, notice about the purpose of use of personal information, correct, add and delete personal information, stop to use personal information, erase personal information, and stop provision to third parties. Contact point for the request is same as the one of aforementioned private information protection administrator.

Acquisition of personal information with the measures that are not easily recognized by principal

We do not use the measures that are not easily recognized by principal, such as Cookie or web beacon, to acquire personal information.

Safe management of personal information

We take necessary and proper measures on acquired personal information, for safe management, to prevent and correct leakage, loss and damage. After we acquire client’s personal information through the contact form, we handle it strictly confidential.

Privacy policy

Please refer to “Privacy policy”.

Contact point for handling of private information

■Person in charge: Masakazu Sugita (President)
■Address: Room503, 1-3-10, Kamikizaki, Urawa-ku, Saitama-shi, Saitama pref., Japan
■E-mail: info @ office-sugita.com (please delete the spaces before and after the “@”)

Privacy policy

Immigration Lawyer SUGITA International Office, hereafter called “we”, sets its privacy policy, hereafter called “the policy”, as follows for handling of private information of client in the services provided in this WEB site, hereafter called “the service”.

Article1. Definition of personal information

Personal information shall stand for “personal information” set forth in Act on the Protection of Personal Information of Japan Article2.

Reference (external link): Act on the Protection of Personal Information

Article2. Measure to collect personal information

We may request client to provide us personal information, including the following information, so as to provide our client with proper services:

Name;
Address;
Telephone number;
E-mail address;
Bank account number;
Credit card number; and
Driver’s license number.

Additionally, we may acquire the information such as contract and settlement history that include client’s private information from our partners.

Article3. Purpose of collection and use of personal information

Our purposes to collect and use personal information is as follows:

To provide services;
To answer the inquiry from client (including identification of client);
To introduce our services to client via e-mail (only when client wants it);
To provide client with important or necessary information;
To identify the client who violates the terms of services or intends to use our service for illegal / unreasonable purpose, and to refuse the use of our service by such client;
To let client browse, change and delete his/her registered information and check the status of use;
To request client the payment of pay service; and
Other purposes accompanying to the above-listed purposes.

Article4. Change of purpose of use

We can change the purpose of use of private information only when purpose after change is reasonably recognized to have relationship between the one before change.
We shall inform client of the purpose after change with our designated way or announce on the WEB site about the purpose after change, when we change purpose of use of private information.

Article5. Provision of personal information to third party

1. We do not provide third parties with client’s personal information without client’s advance agreement other than the following cases unless Japanese laws and regulations including Act on the Protection of Personal Information apply;

cases in which there is a need to protect a human life, body or fortune, and when it is difficult to obtain a principal’s consent;
cases in which there is a special need to enhance public hygiene or promote fostering healthy children, and when it is difficult to obtain a principal’s consent;
cases in which there is a need to cooperate in regard to a central government organization or a local government, or a person entrusted by them performing affairs prescribed by laws and regulations, and when there is a possibility that obtaining a principal’s consent would interfere with the performance of the said affairs; and
cases in which we, in advance, notice or announce the following issues and we make notification to the Personal Information Protection Commission:
1. the fact that purpose of use of personal information includes provision of personal information to third parties;
2. list of data that are provided to third parties;
3. measures or means to provide personal information to third parties;
4. the fact that we stop providing third parties with personal information in response to principal’s request; and
5. means to accept principal’s request.

2. Regardless of the preceding paragraph, the destination of personal information shall not be considered as third party in the following cases:

cases in which personal data is provided accompanied by a personal information handling business operator entrusting a whole or part of the handling of the personal data within the necessary scope to achieve a utilization purpose;
cases in which personal data is provided accompanied with business succession caused by a merger or other reason; and
cases in which personal data to be jointly utilized by a specified person is provided to the specified person, and when a principal has in advance been informed or a state has been in place where a principal can easily know to that effect as well as of the categories of the jointly utilized personal data, the scope of a jointly utilizing person, the utilization purpose for the utilizing person and the name or appellation of a person responsible for controlling the said personal data.

Article6. Disclosure of personal information

1. We disclose personal information to the principal of the personal information when we are requested to do by the principal. Disclosure fee shall be JPY1,000 / request. It shall be noted that when one or more of the following situations are expected to arise as a result of disclosure of personal information, we may refuse to disclose some parts or whole parts of the personal information. In this case, we shall notify the principal of the personal information that we do not disclose the information.

Cases in which there is a possibility of harming a principal or third party’s life, body, fortune or other rights and interests
Cases in which there is a possibility of interfering seriously with the said personal information handling business operator implementing its business properly
Cases of violating other laws or regulations

2. Regardless of the preceding paragraph, we, in principle, do not disclose history and characteristic information and any other information excluding personal information.

Article7. Correction and delete of personal information

Client can request us to correct, add and delete his/her personal information with the procedure we designate when his/her personal information that we store include some wrong information.
We shall, without any delay, correct, add or delete the personal information in response to the request of the preceding paragraph when we judge that it is necessary to respond to the request.
When we have corrected, added or deleted or decided not to correct, add or delete personal information in accordance with the preceding paragraph, we shall notify it to the client.

Article8. Cease and erasure of personal information

We shall carry out, without delay, the necessary investigation when the principal of personal information requests us to cease or erasure of the personal information for the reason that our handling of personal information deviates the scope of the purpose of use or that personal information has been obtained through an injustice manner.
We shall, without delay, cease the utilization of personal information or erase personal information when judge that it is necessary to respond to the request in accordance with the result of the investigation of the preceding paragraph.
When we have ceased the utilization of personal information or erased personal information or decided not to cease the utilization of personal information or erase personal information in accordance with the preceding paragraph, we shall notify it to the client.
Paragraphs 2 and 3 do not apply in cases where cease or erasure of personal information requires a large amount of expenses or other cases where it is difficult to cease or erase personal information and when necessary alternative action is taken to protect a principal’s rights and interests.

Article9. Altering of privacy policy

The contents of this privacy policy can be altered without notification to client unless otherwise provided by Japanese laws or regulations or other policies.
Altered privacy policy shall come into effect when it is placed on this WEB site unless otherwise provided by us.