Anritsu Group Privacy Policy

What does this Privacy Policy apply to?

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use your personal data in compliance with all applicable laws.

When is this Privacy Policy applicable?

This Privacy Policy applies to all your personal data collected by Anritsu, whether through Anritsu websites or otherwise communicated to us. For example, by phone or in writing obtained through postal mail or e-mail, or by any other means. If the domestic laws and regulations of your locale requires so, this Privacy Policy may be supplemented by such laws and regulations.

Anritsu websites or applications may contain links to the websites of our partner networks and/or affiliates. Please note that, these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.

We wish to help you make informed decisions, so please take a few moments to read the sections below and learn how we may use your personal data.

• How will we use your personal data;
• For what purposes do we collect and/or use your personal data;
• When and why will we share or transfer personal data within Anritsu Group Companies and with other organizations;
• How will we retain your personal data;
• The rights and choices you have when it comes to your personal data; and
• How to contact us.

How will we use your personal data?

We may collect personal data that you provide us with through various channels, including websites, social media platforms, events, telephone contacts, email or otherwise.

Such personal data may include:

• identification information (e.g. first name, surname, date of birth);
• contact details (e.g. postal address, e-mail address, phone number);
• job title/position in your company, if you are acting in a professional manner; and
• records of correspondence/transaction records with Anritsu and responses to our surveys.

We may also collect your personal data by automatic means, including cookies and other tracking devices. For more information, please see “Additional provision to website privacy” below, which applies to the website “www.takasago-ss.co.jp/en/”. With respect to other websites, please refer to each website directly.

We may obtain your personal data from external sources, for example from third party companies or publicly available sources. This Privacy Policy applies to any items of the personal data obtained from such external sources and, whenever possible, we will inform you of the source from which we have obtained such personal data.

For what purposes do we collect and/or use your personal data?

We will utilize your personal data for the following purposes:

Generally, the legitimate interests pursued by us in relation to our use of your personal data is the efficient performance or management of (i) your online use, and/or (ii) our business relationship with you. Where the above tabulated types of use state that we rely on our legitimate interests for a given purpose, we are of the opinion that our legitimate interests will not be overridden by your interests and rights or freedoms, given (i) the regular reviews and related documentation of the processing activities described herein, (ii) the protection of your personal data by our data privacy processes, (iii) the transparency we provide in relation to our processing activities, and (iv) the rights you have in relation to the processing activities.

When and why will we share or transfer personal data within Anritsu Group Companies and with other organizations?

• We may share your personal data with or transfer such data to:
  • other entities within Anritsu Group for internal administrative purposes and to develop, improve, sell, offer, install, provide after services, repair and maintain, market and promote Anritsu products (including systems and software) and services relating to our business purposes, to provide useful information regarding our products (including systems and software), services and activities relating to our business purposes and for research and questionnaire purposes relating to the above services;
  • our trusted third party service providers to perform a range of business services on our behalf, such as IT services including server providers and CRM vendors;
  • third parties that may offer products or services in relation to our own products and services including distributors, agents, and maintenance service providers; or
  • judicial authorities, state agencies or public bodies, upon request and to the extent permitted by law.

  In all cases, we will only share or transfer your personal data on a “need-to-know” basis to fulfill the purposes defined above. Moreover, we will enter into an agreement with the relevant third party on how to handle your personal data as necessary and appropriate to fully protect your personal data.

• We will not disclose or provide personal data to a third party other than for the above purposes or unless the following criteria applies:
  • Your consent has been voluntarily provided;
  • In a manner where personal data is no longer identifiable such as a statistical data base;
  • It is requested under local laws and/or regulations;
  • For the protection of human life, physical well-being or property and it proves difficult to obtain consent from you;
  • In cases where there is a need to cooperate with a central government organization or a local government, or a person entrusted by them to perform the affairs prescribed by laws and regulations, and when there is a possibility that obtaining your consent would interfere with the performance of the said affairs; or
  • For use among the group companies of the individual data.
• We may share or transfer personal data internationally:
  We may share or transfer personal data globally as necessary for Anritsu Group Companies worldwide to pursue the purposes described herein. The destinations may include countries or regions that, in opinion of an authority having jurisdiction over your country or region, do not offer an adequate level of data protection. If so, we will take reasonable safeguard measures to ensure the level of data security which is included in the SCCs under the GDPR.

How will we retain your personal data?

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described herein. However, in some circumstances, we may keep your personal data for a longer period of time in order to satisfy legal, accounting or reporting requirements.

We delete personal data without unreasonable delay when such retention is no longer necessary.

The rights and choices you have when it comes to your personal data

• Under certain circumstances, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data:
  • Right to access
    This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it upon your request.
  • Right to correct
    This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
  • Right to erasure
    This enables you to request that we delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us to continue to process it. You also have the right to request that we delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local laws. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
  Right to object
  
  • This enables you to object where we are relying on legitimate interests (or those of a third party) but there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms.
    You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
    In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
  • Right to restrict
    This enables you to request that we suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you require us to retain the data, even though we no longer require it, as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
  • Right to data portability
    We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to conclude a contract with you.
  • Right to withdraw
    This enables you to withdraw your consent if the legal basis of the processing was your consent. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.
    Please note that, if you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
• Once we confirm that your request to exercise one of your rights is being communicated from you, we will answer you within a timely manner and reasonable scope.
• Please note that, deletion or termination of usage of part or the entirety of the personal data may hinder us from providing you satisfying services.
• Please also be aware that, we may not be able to delete or terminate usage of the information we possess under certain legal requirements.

Supervisory Authority

You always have the right to approach the competent data protection authority with your request or complaint.

How to contact us?

Contact Information

• Please use the inquiry form (Contact Us) for any inquiries on your personal data or any questions regarding the Privacy Policy.
• As a general rule, an answer to an inquiry will be in writing.
• For certain information, we may ask you to fill out our corresponding forms. In these circumstances, we will send such forms to you, so please fill them out and send same back to us.

※Additional provision to website privacy

Tracking Technologies

We gather certain information automatically and store it in the log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, clickstream data, landing page, and referring URL. To collect this information, a cookie may be set on your computer or device when you visit our website. Cookies contain a small amount of information that allows our web servers to recognize you. We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, and/or clear gifs to record your preferences. We may also automatically collect information about your use of features of our services, about the functionality of our services, frequency of visits, and other information related to your interactions with the services. We do not track your use across different websites and services. Our cookies are session cookies and have a limited life.

ANRITSU CORPORATION, its group companies, and our partners, use technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags, and scripts, to analyze trends, administer the website, tracking users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual and aggregated basis.
We use Google Analytics to analyze our website. Please take a moment to see how data is collected and processed in the following link. www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. TAKASAGO, LTD. also uses Lucky Orange (www.luckyorange.com/) and uSonar (usonar.co.jp/) as an outside partner.

Links to Other Websites

This website may contain links to other sites. These links are provided as a convenience to persons who visit the site. If you choose to use the services provided by those sites, be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy policies of each and every website that you visit, as the privacy policies of those sites may differ from ours.

Webforms

We use webforms on this site. These forms require users to give contact information such as home address, company name, department, e-mail address, name, and phone number. Contact information from the registration form is used only to send material or to provide services relating to marketing/events/new products/services for which it was collected and will not be sold to any third party.

Privacy Statement Revisions

We may change this Privacy Statement at any time and for any reason. We encourage you to review this Privacy Statement each time you visit the website.
If we make a significant change to our Privacy Statement, we will post a notice on the homepage of our website for a period of time after the change is made.

Established: October 1^st, 2023