Privacy Guidelines

Your privacy is important to us and to protect it, we have created these privacy guidelines to keep you informed about our online information practices.

For specific services, however, you may be asked to provide your personal information, in which cases Yokogawa Philippines, Incorporated (YPI) shall be required to keep such information confidential. Furthermore, Yokogawa Philippines is fully aware of the importance of safeguarding the privacy of such information when handling electronic information. In some cases, Yokogawa Philippines may subcontract the management of a specific Web site, whole or a part thereof, to an outside firm that Yokogawa Philippines judges to be trustworthy. The personal information of each individual user is protected also in such cases under Yokogawa Philippines rules of handling personal information.

Personal information mentioned herein and defined by Yokogawa Philippines refers to information of all kinds related to each individual person: name, residential address, mailing address, employer's name, department name, phone number, opinions, and so on… that is electronically transmitted to Yokogawa Philippines by individual users. In order to make your web site browsing more efficient or to provide follow-up services after web site browsing, Yokogawa Philippines may ask users to provide personal information in the case of:

- online user registration
- requesting catalogs
- answering questionnaires
- registering subscriptions to newsletters or the like
- ordering products
- downloading information
- other cases

In all cases, Yokogawa Philippines will expressly state why such information is necessary, so that you may provide the information at your own discretion. Yokogawa Philippines will not disclose personal information provided by users to any party, other than Yokogawa Philippines itself or Yokogawa's business partners, without prior permission from the users, except in cases where Yokogawa Philippines provides its commissioned trader with such information necessary for a trade to be executed.

However, in cases where a settlement needs to be made for using pay services or purchasing products, Yokogawa Philippines may exchange personal information with firms, including without limitation, financial institutions, in order to check the validity of bank accounts and/or credit cards. Likewise, Yokogawa Philippines may disclose personal information in cases where disclosure is mandatory under applicable laws or is reasonably judged to be essential in order to protect and safeguard the rights, property and safety of other users and/or Yokogawa Philippines itself.

For the purpose of product development, identification of business needs, and sales promotion, Yokogawa Philippines may use personal information, personal opinions, and the like presented by users, though such use shall be limited only to Yokogawa Philippines itself and Yokogawa Philippines business partners.

Yokogawa Philippines site may contain links to other sites such as sales affiliates, a particular event’s website in which Yokogawa Philippines is participating with, and the like. While we try to link only to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices employed by other sites.

We maintain strict administrative safeguards to protect your personal information from unauthorized or inappropriate access. Restricted access to personal data is given to designated Yokogawa Philippines staff to be able to respond to your inquiry or request.

Please check this privacy policy periodically to inform yourself of any changes. Yokogawa Philippines reserves the right to modify or supplement this privacy policy at any time.

Yokogawa Philippines may use the IP addresses of users recorded in the system, in order to explore the cause of or solution to any problem arising in servers, or to administer its Web sites.

For queries and inquiries about the personal information protection policy of Yokogawa Philippines, Incorporated (YPI) please contact us.