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At Ajinomoto North America, Inc. we recognize that privacy is important. This Policy
applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by Ajinomoto North
America, Inc. or its affiliates(collectively, “AJINA”). AJINA adheres to
the US safe harbor privacy principles of Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Security,
Data Integrity, Access and Enforcement. If you have any questions about this Policy,
please feel free to contact us through our website.
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1. Information we collect and how we use it:
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We offer a number of services that do not require you to register for an account
or provide any personal information to us. In order to provide our full range of
services, we may collect the following types of information:
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Information you provide - When you sign up for a Web Site Account or other AJINA
service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal information
(such as your name, email address and an account password). We may combine the information
you submit under your account with information from other AJINA services or third
parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality
of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out
of combining such information.
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AJINA cookies - When you visit AJINA, we may send one or more cookies - a small
file containing a string of characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies
your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user
preferences and tracking user trends, such as how people search. Most browsers are
initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all
cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some AJINA features
and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
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Log information - When you use AJINA services, our servers automatically record
information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs
may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser
type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies
that may uniquely identify your browser.
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User communications - When you send email or other communication to AJINA, we may
retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your
requests and improve our services.
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Links - AJINA may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether
these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of
our services, customized content and advertising.
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AJINA only processes personal information for the purposes described in the applicable
Privacy Policy and/or privacy notice for each specific service. In addition to the
above, such purposes include:
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Providing our products and services to users, including the display of customized
content and advertising
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Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services
and products offerings
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Ensuring the technical functioning of our network
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Developing new services.
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AJINA processes personal information on our servers in the United States.
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2. Choices for personal information
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When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you
to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner different
than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior
to such use.
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If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described
in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, we will offer you an effective
way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will
not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described
in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, unless we have obtained your
prior consent.
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You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which
case AJINA may not be able to provide those services to you.
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3. Information sharing
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AJINA only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside
of AJINA in the following limited circumstances:
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We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive
personal information
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We provide such information to our parent company subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted
businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our
behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on
our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality
and security measures
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We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such
information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation,
legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms
of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect,
prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect
against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of AJINA, its users or
the public as required or permitted by law
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If AJINA becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some
or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred
and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
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We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information,
such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or
how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not
identify you individually.
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4. Information security
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We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to
or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
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We restrict access to personal information to AJINA employees, contractors and
agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve
our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may
be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they
fail to meet these obligations.
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5. Data integrity
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AJINA processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected
and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice.
We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we
only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve
our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we
process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update
or correct their personal information whenever necessary.
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6. Accessing and updating personal information
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When you use AJINA services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access
to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate
or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained
by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify
themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before
processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably
repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize
the privacy of others, or for which access is not otherwise required.
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7. Enforcement
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Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or AJINA's
treatment of personal information by contacting us through this web site. When we
receive formal written complaints at this address, AJINA's will contact the complaining
user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory
authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints
regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between AJINA and
an individual.
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8. Changes to this policy
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Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will post
any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide
a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of
Policy changes).
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If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel
free to contact us any time through this web site.
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