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| Name | Type | User consent |
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| Terms of Use | Site policy | All users |
| Privacy Notice | Privacy policy | All users |
| Cookie Policy | Other policy | All users |
Summary
This e-learning service (“Services”) has been operated by Panasonic Holdings Corporation (collectively, "Company") or its agent. Your access and use this Services will be deemed as acceptance by you of the following terms of use.
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1. Copyright
Copyright in the Services and all material on it, including but not limited to text, photographs, images, software, music, audio video clips, and any other copyrighted material (collectively, "Content") belongs to the Company, the original author, or other entities (collectively, "Author").
Duplication, public transmission, distribution, modification, deletion, or reproduction of Content (collectively, “Use”) without the authorization of the Author is prohibited under Japanese copyright law, international conventions and other copyright laws.
2. Disclaimer, Limitation of Liability
CONTENT AND OTHER INFORMATION APPEARING ON THE SERVICES (INCLUDING ALL CONTENT AND FUNCTIONS MADE AVAILABLE ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH THE SERVICES) ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, WITH REGARD TO CONTENT AND OTHER INFORMATION APPEARING ON THE SERVICES, THE COMPANY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER (1) FOR THE ACCURACY, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OF ANY CONTENT PUBLISHED ON OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICES. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COMPANY BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER OR ANY DAMAGES, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE USE OF THE DOCUMENTS HEREIN OR YOUR ACCESSING, BROWSING IN AND USE OF THIS SERVICES.
; OR (2) THAT THE SERVER THAT MAKES THE SERVICES AVAILABLE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER COMPONENTS THAT MAY INFECT, HARM, OR CAUSE DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT OR ANY OTHER PROPERTY WHEN YOU ACCESS, BROWSE, DOWNLOAD FROM, OR OTHERWISE USE THE SERVICES.
The Company reserves the right to change or discontinue any or all elements of the Services, including its structure, terms and conditions, the Content and information therein without prior notice.
3. Prohibited Acts
You will not do the following acts in using the Services
Acts that give, or are likely to give, detreat or damage to the Company or third parties
Acts that defame, or are likely to defame, the Company`s products or services
Acts that defame, or are likely to defame, the Company`s officers or employees
Acts that hurt, or are likely to hurt, the Company`s credit or quality such as being contrary to public order or morality
Criminal acts or acts that may be led to , or are likely to be led to criminal acts
Acts that violate, or are likely to violate, laws, statutes or ordinances
Acts that cause, or are likely to cause, misunderstandings any partnership or cooperative relationship between you and the Company, or cause, or are likely to cause, misunderstandings that the Company recognizes, guarantees, supports or recommends the linked site
Acts that hurt the appearance of this Services, such as frame link
Other acts that the Company deems inappropriate
4. Linking to the Services
When linking to the Services, you are requested to comply with the following requirements.
Especially, you are requested to comply with the “Prohibited acts” provided in Article 4 above and “Requirements” provided below. In addition, you may freely link to the Services on your Services.
The Services linking to the Services shall be operated by its operator at its own risk, and the Company doesn’t have any relationship to the Services linking to the Services. You are requested to follow the terms of use of the Services linking to the Services, when you access to the Services linking to the Services.
The company shall not be responsible for any loss, damage, complain or claim (including the claim for damages from third party), as a result of your access to the Services linking to the Services.
The Company makes no representation and warranty, either expressed or implied, regarding the content of the Services linking to the Services. In addition, the Company does not intend to imply any special relationship between the Company and the Services linking to the Services, nor to imply that the Company endorses or recommends the products or services of those companies or persons.
Requirements
The Company may change, stop and delete its information and URL of the Services without prior notice. You are requested to maintain the URL or other information of this Services at your own risk. The company shall not be responsible for any loss, damages, or troubles incurred by the Services linking to the Services, the manager or viewers of the Linking Services, or third party as a result of your linking to this Services ,
When linking to the Services, you are requested to specify the name of the Company as an owner of the linked page.
Linking to the Services is not permitted in any of the following cases:
The Services that defame, or are likely to defame, the Company`s officers or employees
The Services that hurt, or are likely to hurt, the Company`s credit or quality such as being contrary to public order or morality
The Services that Criminal acts or acts that may be led to , or are likely to be led to criminal acts
The Services that violate, or are likely to violate, laws, statutes or ordinances
If it is appeared that your Services breaches each provision above, or if the Company requests deletion of the links to the Services, you shall stop using and delete the link of the Services.
5. Applicable Laws and Court of Jurisdiction
The Terms of Use on this Services shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Japan without reference to its conflicts of law rules.
Any claims or disputes between you and the Company arising out of or in connection with the Services shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Osaka District Court of Japan.
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This Privacy Notice is intended to tell you how we use any information we collect about you (called Personal Data as defined below) and what your rights and our obligations are in relation to the processing of your Personal Data, in accordance with the European data protection legislation and, as from 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”).
This Privacy Notice applies to the use of our e-learning service (collectively, our “Services”) and will apply whether you access our Services using a computer, mobile phone, tablet or other devices.
If you are a California resident, additional privacy notice applies to you, in accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act. Please see CCPA Appendix which is located last section.
Please see further information on our privacy practices:
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1. Information about us
This Privacy Notice is issued by Holdings Corporation on behalf of ourselves and the Panasonic Group of Companies. The Panasonic Group of Companies consists of Panasonic Holdings Corporation, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, as well as a number of Affiliates who can be found here
https://holdings.panasonic/global/corporate/about/group-companies.html#renketsu
In this Privacy Notice, when we refer to “Panasonic”, “we”, “us” or “our”, this means the relevant company/companies (in the case of joint controllers) in the Panasonic Group that is/are responsible for processing your Personal Data. For Personal Data gathered via this website, this is Panasonic Holdings Corporation. Where several Panasonic companies are jointly responsible for the processing of your Personal Data, you can exercise your rights against the company issuing this Privacy Notice.
2. What is Personal Data?
For the purposes of this Privacy Notice, "Personal Data" consists of any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual (such as you). For example, information which identifies you may consist of your name, e-mail address, an online identifier (e.g. cookies and your IP address). Information which does not identify you on its own but that we link to you also qualifies as Personal Data.3. What Personal Data does Panasonic collect about you?
A. Personal Data you provide directly about yourself
Some Services we offer enable/require you to directly provide us with Personal Data relating to you.
To create your account for the service, we ask you to provide certain Personal Data, including your name, email address, your company name and division.
When you contact us or interact with us via email, telephone or in person, we may collect Personal Data about you, such as your name, phone number, email
address and contact preferences.
III. Message boards and forums
Our services have message boards, forums, bulletin boards, functionality, and similar features ("Community Postings") through which you can post information, messages and other materials. When you disclose any Personal Data through such services we recommend you to be very careful as this may become public information and be available to other users.
We collect information about your use of our Services and other means, or your use of our online applications. For example, we collect:
4. On which legal basis do we process personal data?
We are not allowed to process Personal Data if we cannot rely on a valid legal ground. Therefore, we will only process your Personal Data when:
I. we have obtained your prior unambiguous consent;
II. the processing is necessary to perform our contractual obligations towards you or to take pre-contractual steps at your request;
III. the processing is necessary to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations;
IV. the processing is necessary to protect your vital interests or those of another natural person; or
V. the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests except where they are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. Examples of such ‘legitimate interests’ include:
I. to benefit from cost-effective services (e.g. we may opt to use certain platforms offered by suppliers);
II. to protect the security of our IT systems, architecture and networks; and
III. to meet our corporate and social responsibility objectives.
5. Why do we use your Personal Data?
We may use the Personal Data we collect for the following purposes:
I. Create an Account/Log in for our Services – to enable you to create a profile on our Services;
II. Provide our Services – to provide our Services or any specific feature that you may request, including to enable us to fulfil our obligations under any contract with you (such as providing e-learning service);
III. Statistics – to create anonymous, aggregated statistics about the use of our Services.
IV. Customer Support Services – to provide customer support services for our Services, or to deal with any other support queries you may have (such as complaint handling);
V. Legal Obligations – to comply with our legal obligations under European Member States laws or under European Union law;
VI. Security – to protect our customers (e.g. to prevent spam or attempts to defraud users of our Services); to operate and maintain the security of our Services (e.g. to prevent or stop an attack on our systems or networks); or to protect the rights or property of Panasonic, including enforcing any terms or agreements governing the use of our Services;
VII. Updates – to communicate with you, including communicating with you about your account, profiles or transactions with us, giving you important information about your products, devices, application or other Services, sending you notices about any material changes to our Privacy Notice;
VIII. Corporate Transaction – to manage corporate transactions involving our company, including reorganization, merger, transfer, sale, joint venture, assignment or other disposition of all or any portion of Panasonic's business, assets or stock, including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceeding.
6. To whom and where do we disclose your information?
A. Third parties recipient of the Personal Data
We may disclose your information to the following entities:
I. Service Providers
We use third party service providers to help us to administer certain activities and services on our behalf, such as emails. We share Personal Data about you with such third party service providers solely for the purpose of enabling them to perform services on our behalf and they will operate only in accordance with our instructions. Here are examples of third-party service providers we use:
a. Email Service Providers – Cloud services from Moodle WorkPlace are used to assist us in sending emails to you;
b. Analytics Service Providers – analytics providers are used to assist us in understanding the usage of our Services, to enable us to improve our Services. The analytics providers we currently use are Google Analytics. For further information see the Cookie section of this Privacy Notice.
II. Third parties when required by Law or to Protect our Services
We will disclose your Personal Data to comply with applicable Member State or European Union law or respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or other government agencies.
III. Other Parties in Connection With Corporate Transactions
We may disclose your Personal Data to a third party (or other Panasonic Affiliate) as part of a reorganisation, merger, transfer, sale, joint venture, assignment or other disposition of all or any portion of Panasonic's business, assets or stock, including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceeding.
B. International Transfer of Personal Data
The Personal Data that we collect from you may be stored and processed in your region, or transferred to, stored at or otherwise processed outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"), including but not limited to Japan or in any other country which do not offer an adequate level of data protection as recognised by the European Commission and where Panasonic or service providers maintain facilities.
Where we transfer your Personal Data outside the EEA, we will ensure that suitable safeguards such as appropriate transfer agreements and mechanisms (such as the EU Model Clauses) are in place to help ensure that our third party service providers provide an adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. You may request additional information in this respect and obtain a copy of the relevant safeguards upon request through sending a request to the contact indicated in section 8 below.
7. What do we do to keep your Personal Data secure?
A. General
Panasonic have put in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard the Personal Data we collect in connection with our Services. These measures take into account:
I. the state of the art of the technology;
II. the costs of its implementation;
III. the nature of the data; and
IV. the risk of the processing.
The purpose thereof is to protect against accidental or unlawful destruction or alteration, accidental loss, unauthorized disclosure or access and against other unlawful forms of processing.
However, please note that although we take appropriate steps to protect your Personal Data, no online application or transmission of data, computer system or wireless connection is completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data.
B. Encryption
All Personal Data you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any network communication carried out by our chosen third-party provider of payment processing services, e-learning co.,ltd. will be encrypted by using Secured Sockets Layer technology. You are responsible for keeping the account password confidential and we ask you not to share your password with anyone.
C. Other security measures
Information security, including the protection of Personal Data is organized in a global Panasonic Program called “Information Security Management” (ISM). The related aim, standards and implementation measures are organized in globally valid policy, standards and guidelines. All central European IT systems are externally assessed and fall under the information security management rules applicable under the ISO 27001 certification. The program in all its parts follow a strong yearly PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) approach to secure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of all data (including your Personal Data) for the whole information lifecycle from collection to destruction of such data.
D. Using social media and forum features
Certain Services include social networking, forum features. You should ensure that when using these features that you do not submit any Personal Data that you do not want to be seen, collected or used by other users.
8. What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
A. What are your rights?
Panasonic will collect, store and process your Personal Data in accordance with your rights under any applicable data protection laws.
Your rights under the GDPR include, the right to access a copy of your Personal Data, the right to request the correction or the update of any inaccurate Personal Data and the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data under the conditions set out in the GDPR.
You also have the right to request the erasure of your Personal Data and, where you have consented to the processing of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw such consent at any time (without this withdrawal affecting the lawfulness of the processing prior to such withdrawal). In addition, you also have the right to data portability in certain cases. This is the right to request the return of the Personal Data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to request the transmission of such Personal Data to a third party, without hindrance from us and subject to your own confidentiality obligations.
B. Exercising your rights
If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us by e-mail.
I. For residents in Europe
Panasonic Europe B.V.
Zweigniederlassung Deutschland Wiesbaden Office
The Data Protection Officer
Hagenauer Strasse 43
65203 Wiesbaden
Germany
or by e-mail: Data_Protection@eu.panasonic.com
II. For residents in United Kingdom
UK Legal department
Panasonic Europe B.V. (UK branch)
Maxis 2, Western Road,
Bracknell, Berkshire,
RG12 1RT
UK
or by e-mail: UKLegal@eu.panasonic.com
Global Promotion Section
Product Security Global Strategy Department
Product security Center
Industrial Solutions Company Panasonic Corporation Site #11B,2F
1006 Kadoma,kadoma City, Osaka 571-8506,japan
or by e-mail: prosec-elearning@ml.jp.panasonic.com
We will respond to your request without undue delay and no later than one month from receipt of any such request, unless a longer period is permitted by applicable data protection laws.
C. Complaints
If you are not satisfied with how we process your Personal Data, you may also file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority, in addition to your rights outlined above.
9. How long do we store your Personal Data
We will retain your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes for which your Personal Data has been collected as outlined in this Privacy Notice unless a longer retention period is required by law. When your Personal Data is no longer required for the purpose it was collected or as required by applicable law, it will be deleted and/or returned to you in accordance with applicable law.
10. Cookies
A. What are cookies?
Panasonic, as well as certain other third parties that provide content, advertising, or other functionality on our Services, may use cookies and other technologies in certain areas of our Services. Cookies are small text files which may be placed on your device when visiting our website. It can be read by the web server which put the cookie on your hard drive. We may use cookies to store your preferences and settings, help you with signing in, and to analyse your browsing experience on our website.
Please note that you can modify your browser so that it notifies you when cookies are sent to it. If you do not want to receive cookies, you may also refuse cookies altogether by activating the relevant settings on your browser. Please note that if you choose to refuse all the cookies, some features of the Services may not be accessible to you or not work properly. Finally, you can also delete cookies that have already been sent.
B. Further information on cookies
For further information on cookies and how Panasonic and other third parties use them, and for details of how cookies can be disabled, please see our Cookie Policy.
11. Changes to this Privacy Notice
Panasonic may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. The “Date last updated” mention at the bottom of this page states when the notice was last updated and any changes will become effective upon our posting of the revised Privacy Notice.
Where required by applicable law, we will request your consent to any such changes. We will provide this notice by email or by posting notice of the changes on the Panasonic website or through any relevant Services.CCPA Appendix
This CCPA Appendix complements Panasonic Privacy Notice and tells you what your rights and our obligations are in relation to the processing of your Personal Data in accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”).
If there is any discrepancy between the terms of this CCPA Appendix and those of Panasonic Privacy Notice, this CCPA Appendix will prevail.
We may change this CCPA Appendix from time to time. The “Date last updated” mention at the top of this page states when the CCPA Appendix was last updated and any changes will become effective upon our posting of the revised CCPA Appendix to the extent permitted by applicable laws.
Where required by the CCPA or other applicable law, we will request your consent to any such changes. We will provide the revised CCPA Appendix by email or by posting notice of the changes on our website or through any relevant Services.
Please see further information on our privacy practices for residents in California:
1. What is Personal Data?
For the purposes of this CCPA Appendix, "Personal Data" means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. For example, Personal Data includes, but is not limited to, audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information or inferences drawn from other Personal Data to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends among other things.
2. What Personal Data do we collect about you?
Categories of Personal Data collected |
Categories of sources |
Business or commercial purpose(s) for collecting Personal Data |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Direct collection from you | To create service account and profile |
| E-mail address | Direct collection from you | To create service account and profile |
| Company name | Direct collection from you | To create service account and profile |
| Division | Direct collection from you | To create service account and profile |
| Product in charge | Direct collection from you | To create service account and profile |
| Information about your use of the Service | In direct collection from service provider | To create anonymous, aggregated statistics about the use of our services |
3. On which legal basis do we process Personal Data?
We process Personal Data of residents in California in compliance with the CCPA. If we are to use your Personal Data for purposes other than the purposes we notified on or before collecting your Personal Data, we will notify the new purposes to you and obtain your express consent.
4. What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
A. What are your rights?
(1) Your rights under the CCPA include, the right to know about your Personal Data that we collect, use, the right to request the deletion of your Personal Data.
(2) We will not unreasonably discriminate against you for exercising the rights such as the right to know about Personal Data information under the CCPA by using
methods including but not limited to the following:
I. Denying to provide goods or services to you
II. Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties
III. Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to you
IV. Suggesting that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services
B. Exercising your rights (right to know and right to request the deletion of your Personal Data)
If you wish to exercise the right to know or the right to request the deletion of your Personal Data under the rights of A(1) above, please contact us by using the following means in addition to the communication means described in Panasonic Privacy Notice.
Global Promotion Section
Product Security Global Strategy Department
Product security Center
Industrial Solutions Company Panasonic Corporation Site #11B,2F
1006 Kadoma,kadoma City, Osaka 571-8506,japan
or by e-mail: prosec-elearning@ml.jp.panasonic.com
We will confirm receipt of your requests to exercise your rights within 10 business days in the same manner in which the request was received and provide information about how we will process the request and the limit of our response. We will respond to requests to know and requests to delete within 45 days, and if we exceed the period, we will notify you and respond within 90 days from the day that we receive the requests. If we cannot verify your requests within the 45-day time period, we may not process your requests.
We will record your requests and store them for 24 months.
If you use an authorized agent to submit a request to know or a request to delete, the authorized agent is required to submit to us a written permission proving the authorized agent is permitted to do so and the authorized agent’s own identity verification document(s).
5. Disclosure of Personal Data
We have not and will not disclose your Personal Data to any third party for a business purpose.
6. Sale of Personal Data
We have not and will not sell your Personal Data to any third party.
For the purposes of this CCPA Appendix, “sell” means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, your Personal Data by us to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.
7. Children’s Personal Data
We do not sell Personal Data of anyone under the age of 16.
For the purposes of this CCPA Appendix, “sell” means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, your Personal Data by us to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.
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Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer, if you agree. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website, they help us to provide you with the best possible experience when you browse our website and also allow us to make improvements. Cookies improve your browsing experience by:
- Remembering settings, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you visit a new page.
- Remembering information you’ve given so you don’t need to keep entering it.
- Analysing how you use the website to improve the way it works for you, to make sure that you find what you’re looking for easily, and to ensure it meets your needs.
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1. What cookies we use and how we use them
Third party cookies
The following cookies are set by this e-learning system:
Cookie Name |
Purpose |
1st or 3rd party | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Registers
a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
1st Party | 2 Years |
| _gat | Used
by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. |
1st Party | Session |
| _gid | Registers
a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
1st Party | Session |
2. How to manage cookies
If you continue with your visit to this site, you consent to the use of our cookies. Alternatively, you have options to manage the cookies that you want to accept from this site which we have detailed below.
Browser settings:
Most browsers can be altered to prevent your computer from accepting cookies, although this may mean that some of the features of this site (and other sites) will not work properly and may restrict your user experience.
These settings will typically be found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.