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This Privacy Policy is issued by
Panasonic Industry Co., Ltd.
1006, Oaza Kadoma, Kadoma-shi, Osaka 571-8506, Japan
The Panasonic Industry Group of Companies consists of Panasonic Industry Co., Ltd., headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, as well as a number of Affiliates can be found here https://holdings.panasonic/global/corporate/about/group-companies.html

In this Privacy Policy, when we refer to “Panasonic Industry”, “we”, “us” or “our”, this means the relevant company/companies (in the case of joint controllers) in the Panasonic Industry Group that is/are responsible for processing your Personal Data. For Personal Data gathered via this website, this is Panasonic Industry Corporation.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, "Personal Data" consists of any information about an individual from which that person can, directly or indirectly, be identified. When we combine other information (i.e. information that does not, on its own, identify an individual) with Personal Data, we treat the combined information as Personal Data.

Depending upon your use of this website/our Services, see Section 4 below, and your cookie choices, see Section 11 below, Panasonic Industry collects and processes some or all of the Personal Data set out in the table below, using the methods and channels also set out in the table.

We process your Personal Data in the context of the activities and for the purposes set out in the table below and rely on one or more of the following the specified legal bases:

• Performance of a contract: Where we need to perform a contract which we are about to put in place or have put in place with you as a party, or (at your request) take steps before putting such a contract in place (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR);
• Legal obligation: Where we need to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR);
• Legitimate interests: Where we are acting in our legitimate interests, provided that they are not overridden by your fundamental rights (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). We assess our legitimate interests for processing your Personal Data and balance them against any potential impact on you. Where we rely on our legitimate interests you have the right to object to such processing at any time under the conditions set out in the GDPR; for more information on our legitimate interests or our balancing test please contact us by using the communication means set out in Section 14 below;
• Consent: Where we rely on your consent we will ask for it separately (6(1)(a) GDPR).

Please note that Panasonic Industry does not base any decision solely on automated processing including profiling that significantly affects you or has legal effects for you (Art. 22 GDPR).

We will not disclose your Personal Data to third parties for their own independent marketing or business purposes, unless you have given your explicit consent to do so. However, we may have to disclose your Personal Data to the following entities for the purposes we collected it as set out in Section 4 relying on the legal bases specified therein:

1. Panasonic Group of Companies

   We may need to transfer your Personal Data within the Panasonic Group of Companies to provide the Services you require or any other services/assistance you request. All companies within the Panasonic Group are required to follow the privacy practices set forth in this Privacy Policy, or another privacy policy that they may notify to you and to process your Personal Data in accordance with the applicable privacy and data protection laws and regulations.

2. Service Providers

   We use third party service providers who provide information technology and system administration services to us and help us to administer certain activities and services on our behalf and they will operate only in accordance with our instructions as data processors.

3. Channel Partners

   If you have contacted us regarding a potential sales opportunity, we may provide your Business Contact Data and Identity Data to our approved channel partners in order for to them to follow up the request for contact and further qualify your requirements.

4. Third parties when required by Law or to Protect our Business and Services

   We will disclose your Personal Data to comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or other government agencies; 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); to protect the health and safety of our colleagues and others with whom we have contact; or to protect the rights or property of Panasonic, including enforcing any terms or agreements governing the use of our Services.

5. Other Parties in Connection With Corporate Transactions

   We may disclose your Personal Data to a third party or within the Panasonic Group of Companies as part of a 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. Third party competition providers

   We may disclose your Personal Data to third party sponsors of sweepstakes, contests, free prize draws, competitions and similar promotions. These third party providers will be identified to you prior to when you enter into any competition, sweepstake, prize draw or similar promotion.

7. Other Parties With Your Consent or At Your Direction

   We may share Personal Data about you with third parties when you consent to or request such sharing.

The security of your Personal Data is of greatest importance to Panasonic Industry. We have put in place a range of appropriate physical and technical measures as well as robust policies and processes. The purpose thereof is to safeguard your Personal Data and to protect it against accidental or unlawful destruction or alteration, accidental loss, unauthorized disclosure or access and against other unlawful forms of processing. These measures take into account the state of the art of the technology, the costs of its implementation, the nature of the Personal Data, and the risk of the processing.
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 a globally valid Policy, and further standards and guidelines. The program and all its parts follow a strong yearly Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) 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 information.

What are your rights?

Your rights under the GDPR include, the right to be informed, the right to access a copy of your Personal Data, the right to request the rectification or the update of any inaccurate Personal Data we hold, and the right to request erasure of your Personal Data.
You also have the right to obtain restriction of the processing of your Personal Data, the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data at any time under the conditions set out in the GDPR, and the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing.
In addition, you 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.
You also have the right to not provide consent and, where you have consented to our 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.
Your rights are further specified in Art. 7 and Chapter 3 of the GDPR and other applicable data protection legislation.

Your rights related to Marketing Communication

Where permitted under applicable law, we process your Business Contact Data, Identity Data, Marketing and Communications Data, Product/Device/Application Data and Profile and Usage Data for marketing communication purposes to send you correspondence by post, email, telephone and/or text message (such as SMS) related to Panasonic products, devices and other Services in accordance with your marketing preferences.
You have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data for these purposes. If you object and request us to stop processing your Personal Data for marketing purposes, we shall stop processing your Personal Data for those purposes.
You also may opt-out from receiving electronic communications from us. If you don’t want to receive marketing communication from Panasonic, please click "Unsubscribe" from any marketing or promotional email you receive from us.

Exercising your rights

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, then please contact us by using the communication means set out in Section 14 below.

Complaints

If you are not satisfied with how we process your Personal Data, then please contact us by using the communication means below in Section 14 or alternatively file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority:

• EEA/EU authorities: Members | European Data Protection Board (europa.eu)
• United Kingdom (UK): Make a complaint | ICO

Your Personal Data may be stored and processed in the USA and may be transferred to, stored at or otherwise processed in any other country where Panasonic or its Affiliates, subsidiaries or service providers maintain facilities. We will ensure that your Personal Data remains protected in line with the requirements set out in the applicable data protection legislation.

Where we transfer Your Personal Data obtained from the European Economic Area ("EEA”) to recipients located outside of EEA we ensure that your Personal Data remains protected by transferring it only to countries that offer an adequate level of protection as recognized by the European Commission such as e.g. Japan and the United Kingdom and/or by using the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission and where required putting supplementary measures in place to afford your Personal Data with essentially the same level of protection it has in the EEA.

You may request additional information in this respect and obtain a copy of the appropriate safeguards we provide for through sending a request to the contact indicated in Section 14.

We will only retain your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it has been collected. This includes the purposes of fulfilling our contract with you, satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting, reporting obligation we are subject to and the establishment and defense of legal claims.

Please note that your account information will be deleted without prior Policy under the following circumstances.

1. There is no activity in your account for a period of two years or more. (Including downloading files and updating account information.)
2. Your account information is not correct. (In case the information such as name, place of work and telephone number does not exist.)

Our websites, applications and products may contain links to third party websites, plug-ins and applications such as YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook. These linked websites and applications are not under Panasonic's control and we are not responsible for their privacy practices or the content of any linked websites and applications. If you choose to use any third party website or application, Personal Data collected by the third party’s website or application will be controlled by the privacy policy of that third party. We strongly recommend that you take the time to review the privacy policies of any third parties to which you provide Personal Data.

For information on what cookies are, how Panasonic and other third parties use cookies and similar technologies, and for details of how cookies can be disabled, please see our

Our services and products are principally directed at business professionals. They are available for individuals of 16 years or older. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from or about children under the age of 16 without the consent of a parent or guardian. If we nevertheless become aware that Personal Information that relates to children under the age of 16 has been submitted to us without the consent of a parent or guardian, we will delete such information from our systems as quickly as possible or, where deletion is not possible, we will ensure that the Personal Information is not used for any purpose or disclosed to any third party.

It also is important that you check back often for updates to the Privacy Policy, as we may change it from time to time. The “Date last updated” Section at the top of this page states when this Privacy Policy was last updated and any changes will become effective upon our posting of the revised Privacy Policy.
We will provide additional policy to you if these changes are material by adding a statement to this website or by sending you a notification through any relevant Services or email.
We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access the Services or otherwise interact with us to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.It is important to us that the Personal Data we hold about you is accurate and up-to-date at all times. If any of the Personal Data we hold about you changes, please keep us informed.

If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing, or use of your Personal Data or if you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us
using any of the communication means described in the individual privacy policies or Policies in each service.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us by mail or form:
Global Marketing & Sales Division
Panasonic Industry Co., Ltd.
1006, Oaza Kadoma, Kadoma-shi, Osaka 571-8506, Japan
Inquiry email address : privacy_ids@gg.jp.panasonic.com

If you have questions about Data Protection in Europe, please contact us at:
Panasonic Business Support Europe GmbH
The Data Protection Officer
Hagenauerstrasse 43
D-65203 Wiesbaden
or by e-mail: Data_Protection@eu.panasonic.com

If you have any questions about Data Protection in the United Kingdom (UK), please contact us at:
UK Legal Department
Panasonic Business Support Europe GmbH (UK branch)
Maxis 2, Western Road,
Bracknell, Berkshire,
RG12 1RT
or by e-mail: UKLegal@eu.panasonic.com

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 you reflecting your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends among other things.

For the purposes of this CCPA Appendix, "Sensitive Personal Data" means (1) personal information that reveals: (A) your social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number; (B) your account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; (C) your precise geolocation;(D) your racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership; (E) the contents of your mail, email, and text messages unless we are the intended recipient of the communication; and (F) your genetic data; and (2)(A) the processing of biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying you; (B) personal information collected and analyzed concerning your health; and (C) personal information collected and analyzed concerning your sex life or sexual orientation.

The table below describes the categories of your Personal Data that we may collect, and has collected during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this CCPA Appendix. We will retain your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it has been collected. This includes the purposes of fulfilling our contract with you, satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting, reporting obligation we are subject to and the establishment and defence of legal claims.

Business or Commercial Purposes. We may collect or use, or have collected your Personal Data during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this CCPA Appendix for the following business or commercial purposes. We do not use or disclose your Sensitive Personal Data for purposes other than those specified in CCPA.

• Manage this website and our Services
  To securely provide and administer this website and our Services, this includes continuously improving its functioning, including monitoring performance of data centers and networks, maintaining the security of our infrastructure and Services, testing, reporting and troubleshooting.
• Creating an Account or Profile
  When you create an account or profile on a Panasonic Industry website or application, and register products or services there.
• Publish your comments on message boards and forums
  Some Panasonic Industry websites and applications have message boards, forums, bulletin boards, chat functionality, blogs, and similar features ("Community Postings") through which you can post information, messages and other materials.
• Publish your comments on message boards and forums
  Some Panasonic Industry websites and applications have message boards, forums, bulletin boards, chat functionality, blogs, and similar features ("Community Postings") through which you can post information, messages and other materials.
• Provide our Services
  To provide our Services or any specific feature that you request, including to enable us to fulfil our obligations under any contract with you (such as, any product or device warranty), providing customer support services and dealing with any other support query you may have (such as, complaint handling), and providing for staff training and informing.
• Update
  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 and sending you Policies about any material changes to our terms and conditions or polices, e.g. this Privacy Policy.
• Promotions, (online) games, prize draws, sweepstakes, cash back, competitions and similar activities
  To properly conduct and administer any of the above, including sharing your Personal Data with sponsors.
• Send Marketing Communications
  Provide customized advertisements, sponsored content, make recommendations based on your past activities on our Services and sending you promotional communications such as newsletters and sharing your Personal Data with a Partner should you contact us with a sales inquiry.
• Service Improvement and Surveys
  To develop and improve new and existing Panasonic products and Services, recommendations, advertisements and other communications and learning more about your preferences including asking you for your opinions on our products and Services and carrying out surveys. This also includes creating anonymous, aggregated statistics about the use of our Services
• Product recall
  In the highly unlikely circumstance that Panasonic Industry needs to recall any product, including for safety purposes, we need to contact you with instructions on how to return your product.
• Compliance and legal action
  Ensure administration, operation and compliance with all applicable laws and regulations and internal Panasonic industry policies and processed, as well as enforcement of legal rights and defence in the event of a legal dispute
• Machine Learning
  To automize business processes including invoicing and accounting, response to business communication.

Categories of Sources. The following is a list of the categories of sources from which your Personal Data was collected during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this CCPA Appendix:

• From you directly, if you choose to share this information with us.
• Automated, through our use of technologies set on your product, device or our application.
• Automated, through our use of cookies and similar technologies set on your product, device or our application, if you consented to our usage on beforehand; please visit our Cookie Policy for more information [https://industrial.panasonic.com/ww/cookies-policy and https://www3.panasonic.biz/ac/e/cookies-policy/index.jsp].

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.

A. What are your rights?

B. Exercising your rights (right to know, right to delete, and right to correct)

C. Exercising your rights (right to opt-out)

If you wish to exercise the right to opt-out under the rights of A(1) above, please contact us via the link below.

Via the webpage for exercising the right to opt-out
“Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information.”

We will respond to your requests to opt-out as soon as feasibly possible, but within 15 business days.

We do not process opt-out preference signals.

We have disclosed your Personal Data to third parties for business purposes during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this CCPA Appendix. The following is the list of the categories of Personal Data which we disclosed, and the categories of the third parties to which we disclosed Personal Data.

Business or Commercial Purposes. The following is a list of the business or commercial purposes of the disclosure above.

• Provide our Services
  To provide our Services or any specific feature that you request, including to enable us to fulfil our obligations under any contract with you (such as, any product or device warranty), providing customer support services and dealing with any other support query you may have (such as, complaint handling), and providing for staff training and informing.
• Send Marketing Communications
  Provide customized advertisements, sponsored content, make recommendations based on your past activities on our Services and sending you promotional communications such as newsletters and sharing your Personal Data with a Partner should you contact us with a sales inquiry.
• Service Improvement and Surveys
  To develop and improve new and existing Panasonic products and Services, recommendations, advertisements and other communications and learning more about your preferences including asking you for your opinions on our products and Services and carrying out surveys. This also includes creating anonymous, aggregated statistics about the use of our Services.

We have not and will not sell your Personal Data to any third party.

We have shared your Personal Data with third parties. The following is the list of the categories of Personal Data and the categories of the third parties with which we shared Personal Data during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this CCPA Appendix.

Business or Commercial Purposes. The following is a list of the business or commercial purposes of the disclosure above.

• Provide our Services
  To provide our Services or any specific feature that you request, including to enable us to fulfil our obligations under any contract with you (such as, any product or device warranty), providing customer support services and dealing with any other support query you may have (such as, complaint handling), and providing for staff training and informing.
• Send Marketing Communications
  Provide customized advertisements, sponsored content, make recommendations based on your past activities on our Services and sending you promotional communications such as newsletters and sharing your Personal Data with a Partner should you contact us with a sales inquiry.
• Service Improvement and Surveys
  To develop and improve new and existing Panasonic products and Services, recommendations, advertisements and other communications and learning more about your preferences including asking you for your opinions on our products and Services and carrying out surveys. This also includes creating anonymous, aggregated statistics about the use of our Services.

For the purposes of this CCPA Appendix, “share” means sharing, 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 a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising, whether or not for monetary or other valuable consideration.

Our services and products are principally directed at business professionals. They are generally not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not sell or share Personal Data of anyone under the age of 16.

You may contact us with questions or concerns about this CCPA Appendix and your choices and rights under CCPA at: