Chapter 1: All customers
AIPHONE CO., LTD. (the “Company”) recognizes the importance of the personal information of individuals, including our customers, and handles such personal information in accordance with the following policies.
The Company shall collect, hold and utilize the personal information that it already holds and/or collects hereafter within the purposes described below:
*1 The contents of calls between you and the Company’s Customer Support Center (i.e. Service Reception Section and Customer Support Section) may be recorded in order for the Company to understand exactly what your concerns are and to avoid missing any of your requests.
The Company shall endeavor to keep personal information accurate and up-to-date, and shall take appropriate safety measures to prevent or correct, as necessary, any illegal access to, or leakage, loss or destruction of personal information.
The Company may outsource the handling of personal information to a third party when utilizing personal information for the purposes of utilization. In such case, the Company shall assess and select a third party, enter into a confidentiality agreement, and oversee the third party as necessary.
The Company shall not disclose the personal information of a person to any third party without such person’s consent. However, the Company may provide personal information to a third party in cases where:
The Company may, based on the collected personal information, create statistical data which shall be processed in a manner that cannot identify any individual. The Company may use such statistical data without limitation.
With respect to the personal information provided by a person to the Company, the Company will, based on laws and regulations concerning personal information protection, appropriately respond to such person’s request for disclosure, correction, suspension of use, or deletion of his/her personal information or opinions, inquiries, complaints or consultations. To submit a request, etc., please contact the department to which you provided personal information or any branches or business offices near you, or please contact the inquiry desks below.
Inquiry Desk for Personal Information
Support Desk for Personal Information Disclosure Requests
For shareholder information stated in the Company’s shareholder registry, please contact the Stock Transfer Agent Department, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation, which is the Company’s transfer agent.
Please note that the Company will confirm the identity of the person making the inquiry or request for disclosure, etc.
The Company may revise this privacy policy as necessary to protect personal information and to comply with the laws and regulations, guidelines and other rules concerning personal information protection. In order to implement such policy, the Company shall establish a personal information protection management system, and shall implement and maintain the same through intra-company training and internal audits. Furthermore, the Company shall continuously improve the personal information protection management system in order to respond to various changes, including, without limitation, changes in personal information and how to handle such information and the environment surrounding the Company.
Tomio Suzuki
President (Representative Director)
AIPHONE CO.,
LTD.
Enacted: August 1, 2011
Revised: May 19, 2023
Chapter 2: Customers residing in the EEA or the UK
The following terms as used in this Privacy Policy shall have the meanings set forth below:
1. We may collect and process the Data Subject's Personal Data in the following cases :
Where we collect and process Personal Data from a child who is under 16 years of age or who has not reached the age limits under the laws of a Member State, we will process that data appropriately.
We will retain Personal Data for the period necessary for us to fulfill the respective processing purpose, unless a longer retention period is required by applicable laws.
In the event of a merger, corporate reorganization, civil rehabilitation, acquisition, joint venture, assignment, transfer, sale or disposition of all or any portion of our business (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings), etc., we may transfer any and all Personal Data to the relevant third party based on our prevailing legitimate interests.
Disclosures or sharing of Personal Data as described above may involve transferring Personal Data out of the EEA and the UK. For each of these transfers we make sure that we provide safeguards of an adequate level of protection to the data transferred, including without limitation by entering into Standard Contract Clauses as defined by the European Commission decisions 2001/497/EC, 2002/16/EC, 2004/915/EC and 2010/87/EU, as necessary, or by transferring Personal Data based on the rules of the GDPR, the UK GDPR and the DPA.
We process Personal Data in a manner that ensures such data appropriate security (including protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction damage, etc.) using appropriate technical or organizational measures to achieve this.
Data Subjects are entitled to the following rights with regard to our processing of your Personal Data:
contact: aiphone_gdpr@aiphone.co.jp
This section highlights how we collect, process and use your Personal Data when you are using our Website.
We collect and use your Personal Data when you are accessing and interacting with our Website. If you visit our Website without providing Personal Data via registration or in any other way, only the internet connection data that your browser transmits to our server will be processed. This information contains Personal Data only to a limited extent. The processed data includes information on:
We process this information in order to enable you to use our website (e.g. by adapting our website to the needs of your device) as well as to generate comprehensive demographic data to create anonymous statistics on the use of our website. This data is not merged with other data sources.
The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6(1)(b) of the GDPR and the UK GDPR, as we need this data for the provision of our Website, and Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR and the UK GDPR, as we have a legitimate interest in ensuring the stability and security of our Website.
We offer additional services on our website (e.g. contact forms, newsletter and brochure requests). When you use these services, we ask you for further Personal Data such as your name or e-mail address. Mandatory information is always marked as such. Without this Personal Data, we may not be able to provide you with the requested service or answer any queries you may have. In the following, we will inform you about the respective data processing operations and legal bases.
We use social-media plugins from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. The providers of these services can communicate with you via the plugins and collect information about your visit to our website. This processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR and the UK GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in increasing your user experience and optimizing our Services.
Facebook - Our Website uses social plugins operated by Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook").
The social-media plugins are being used to create user profiles in order to store information about you. This information may include, for example, content viewed, websites visited, online networks used, communication partners and technical information (device information, metadata). This may also include location data if you have given your consent in the collection of such data. The collection of data is being carried out across the devices. Additionally, if you use the social network facebook.com, the collected data can be assigned to your Facebook user profile. We generally only receive access to aggregated information about the interaction with our ads and can use the aggregated data to provide our marketing campaigns to the relevant interest groups. Please note that you can find further information about Facebook's privacy policies at [https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy]. You may object to your data being captured by Facebook and used in the above-mentioned way. You can change your user-based advertising settings here: [https://de-de.facebook.com/ads/settings]. You can also prevent Facebook from installing the respective cookie by adjusting your browser settings.
These processing operations are based on Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR and the UK GDPR as we have a legitimate interest in an attractive presentation and simplification of the use of our online offers. Please find further information on the data processing under [http://twitter.com/privacy].
You can change your privacy settings on Twitter in the account settings under [http://twitter.com/account/settings.
The social-media plugin notifies LinkedIn of which specific page of our Website is being visited. If you click the LinkedIn Recommend Button while you are logged in to your LinkedIn account, you can post the contents of our website via your LinkedIn profile. This enables LinkedIn to associate your visit to our website with your LinkedIn account.
The data processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR and the UK GDPR as we have a legitimate interest in an attractive presentation and simplification of the use of our online offers.
For further details about LinkedIn's data processing and your rights and preferences, please refer to LinkedIn's privacy policy under [http://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy].
We process your personal data to provide our products and/or services, including software.
Customers, administrators and/or installers of our products and services, please visit the following URL for our privacy statement.
https://www.aip-info.net/legal/privacy/
Last updated on the 1st March, 2024
Chapter 3: Customers residing in California, USA
This privacy policy for California residents (“CA privacy policy”) supplements our privacy policy, explains how we, AIPHONE CO., LTD. and AIPHONE CORPORATION collect, use, disclose and protect personal information of California residents and any information related to it ("personal information"). In the event of a conflict between this CA privacy policy and our privacy policy, this CA privacy policy controls. Certain terms used in this CA privacy policy have the meanings defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act, including as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (the “CCPA”), and its regulations (collectively “CCPA”).
1-1. The CCPA states you have the right to request us to disclose the following information regarding your personal information we collect, use, disclose, sell and share.
1-2. You can exercise your above-mentioned right, unless you have exercised the right twice within the preceding 12 months. We endeavor to respond to you within 45 days of receiving a verifiable request. If you intend to exercise such rights, please refer to section 8.
1-3. We use your information (unique personal identifiers, such as name, postal address and email address) to verify your request.
1-4. We have collected the following categories of personal information relating to the respective users in the preceding 12 months from the following sources for the following purposes:
Categories of Personal Information | Sources | Purposes |
---|---|---|
"Identifiers" that identifies or could be, directly or indirectly, associated with an individual such as building ID, building number, building name, residential number, residential ID, residential name, intercom device ID, intercom device serial number, intercom device name, smartphone ID, smartphone number and smartphone name | ・Setting by installers, property managers or you ・From your device |
・To provide smartphone integration services ・To provide maintenance and technical support services |
"Electronic information" such as device display language, smartphone type, smartphone OS type, and other information necessary for providing smartphone integration services including IoT client certificate and endpoint type | ・Setting by installers, property managers or you ・From your device |
・To provide smartphone integration services ・To provide maintenance and technical support services |
"Audio and Visual information" such as voice and image data | From your device | ・To provide smartphone integration services ・To provide maintenance and technical support services ・To improve the quality of products and user experience with the smartphone integration services (Research and Development) |
"Internet or other electronic network activity information" such as cloud server communication logs, intercom device operation logs, smartphone application operation logs and door release logs | From your device | ・To provide maintenance and technical support services・To improve the quality of products and user experience with the smartphone integration services (Research and Development) |
Categories of Personal Information | Sources | Purposes |
---|---|---|
"Identifiers" that identifies or could be, directly or indirectly, associated with an individual such as Internet Protocol address and your device ID | From your device | ・To enable you to use our website (e.g. by adapting our website to
the needs of your
device) ・To generate comprehensive demographic data to create anonymous statistics on the use of our website |
"Electronic information" such as your device type/name, your browser type/version, your operating system (including language settings), your screen resolution and your internet service provider | From your device | ・To enable you to use our website (e.g.
by adapting our website to the needs of your device) ・To generate comprehensive demographic data to create anonymous statistics on the use of our website |
"Internet and other electronic network activity information" such as date and time of your request, content of your requests, websites from which your system accesses our website (referrer URL) and web pages that are called up by your system via our website | From your device | ・To enable you to use our website (e.g. by adapting our
website to the needs of your device) ・To generate comprehensive demographic data to create anonymous statistics on the use of our website ・To analyze visitor’s preferences and activities on the website and to improve the performance of the website |
”Unique personal identifier or online identifier” such as cookies | From your device | ・To make Internet devices more efficient and user-optimized, such as
remembering
your choices when you revisit our website ・To analyze visitor’s preferences and activities on the website and to improve the performance of the website |
Categories of Personal Information | Sources | Purposes |
---|---|---|
"Identifiers" that identifies or could be, directly or indirectly, associated with an individual such as your name and e-mail address | ・From you via email or contact form
・From you based on opt-in consent to receive newsletters |
・To answer your requests or inquiries
・To send you newsletters |
"Any personal information described in subdivision (e) of Section 1798.80 of California Civil Code" such as telephone number and (postal) address | ・From you based on opt-in consent to receive newsletters
・From you via brochure requests |
・To send you newsletters ・To send you brochures |
"Professional or employment-related information" such as your company name | ・From you via email or contact form | ・To answer your requests or inquiries |
1-5. We have not sold or shared personal information to/with third parties in the past 12 months.
1-6. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.
1-7. We have not disclosed personal information to third parties in the past 12 months.
1-8. We may allow our service providers to process your personal information only when we have confirmed that they take appropriate measures to protect your personal information. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers to ensure that they can only use your personal information for purposes set forth in agreements with us as required in the CCPA. We may also share personal information with external auditors.
1-9. We may disclose and exchange information with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
1-10. We may also need to share some personal information with other parties, such as potential buyers of some or all of our businesses or during a re-structuring. Usually, information will be anonymized, but this may not always be possible. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations. We will not share your personal information with any third parties other than those described in this notice.
2-1. The CCPA states you have the right to request us to delete your personal information collected by us.
2-2. You can exercise your above-mentioned right, unless you have exercised the right twice within the preceding 12 months. We endeavor to respond to you within 45 days of receiving a verifiable request. If you intend to exercise such rights, please refer to section 8.
2-3. We use your information (unique personal identifiers, such as name, postal address, and email address) to verify your request.
3-1. The CCPA states you have the right to request us to correct inaccurate personal information about you.
3-2. You can exercise your above-mentioned right, unless you have exercised the right twice within the preceding 12 months. We endeavor to respond to you within 45 days of receiving a verifiable request. If you intend to exercise such rights, please refer to section 8.
3-3. We use your information (unique personal identifiers, such as name, postal address, and email address) to verify your request.
4-1. We do not collect, use or disclose your sensitive personal information.
5-1. The CCPA states you have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of the privacy rights conferred by the CCPA.
6-1. When you use an authorized agent to submit a request to know or a request to delete, we may require that you:
6-2. We may deny a request from an agent that does not submit a proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your own behalf.
7-1. If you would like to exercise your rights
mentioned in the section 1 to 4,
or if you have any questions or concerns about this CA privacy policy or the
information we hold about you, please contact us by email or Toll-free number
below.
e-mail: aiphone_ccpa@aiphone.co.jp
Toll-free Number: (800)692-0200
8-1. We may revise or update this CA privacy policy from time to time. Any changes to this CA privacy policy will become effective upon posting of the revised CA privacy policy via our website.
9-1. We process your personal data to provide our products and/or services, including software. Customers, administrators and/or installers of our products and services, please visit the following URL for our privacy statement. https://www.aip-info.net/legal/privacy/
Last updated: April 1, 2025