Privacy Guidelines

In principle, you may use most of the services provided through websites run by Yokogawa Test Solutions Corporation (hereinafter referred to as "YTS") or on the Internet, without disclosing your personal information. For specific services, however, you may be asked to provide your personal information, in which case YTS or our partners shall be required to keep such information confidential. Furthermore, YTS is fully aware of the importance of safeguarding the privacy of such information when handling electronic information. In some cases, YTS may subcontract the management of a specific website, whole or a part thereof, to an outside firm that YTS judges to be trustworthy. The personal information of each individual user is protected also in these cases under YTS's rules of handling personal information.

Personal information mentioned herein and defined by YTS refers to information of all kinds related to each individual person --the name, residential address, mailing address, employer's name, department name, phone number, opinions, and so on --that is electronically transmitted to YTS by users.

In order to make your website browsing more efficient or to provide follow-up services after website browsing, YTS 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 or providing services
• allowing user access to limited-entry areas of this website as appropriate
• other cases

YTS occasionally hires other companies to provide limited services on its behalf, including packaging, mailing and delivering purchases, answering user questions about products or services, sending postal mail and processing event registration. YTS will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

In all cases, YTS will expressly state why such information is necessary, so that you may provide the information at your own discretion. YTS will not disclose personal information provided by users to any party, other than YTS itself or YTS's affiliates or business partners, without prior permission from the users, except in cases where YTS 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, YTS 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, YTS may disclose personal information in case such 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, YTS itself, and/or YTS's affiliates.

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

YTS will accept, to a reasonable extent, such possible user requests as making corrections or deletions to personal information presented by users.

YTS 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 websites.

In some cases, this specific website may contain other notices about the use and the information practices applicable.

Circumstances may arise where, whether for strategic or other business reasons, YTS decides to sell, buy, merge or otherwise reorganize businesses in some countries. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal information to prospective or actual purchasers, or receiving it from sellers. It is YTS's practice to seek appropriate protection for information in these types of transactions.

Please be aware that in certain circumstances, it is possible that personal information may be subject to disclosure pursuant to judicial or other government subpoena, warrant, or order.

This website may contain links to other websites. YTS is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those other websites.

For queries and inquiries about the personal information protection policy of YTS, please contact us.