Sato & Partners (“S&P”) has established the following personal information protection policy for the treatment of personal information within S&P (“Privacy Policy”).  S&P will comply with this policy as well as the Act on the Protection of Personal Information of Japan (“Personal Information Protection Act”) and other related legislation.

S&P will specify the purposes of use of Personal Information, and acquire Personal Information in the necessary scope and appropriate manner.

S&P will use Personal Information only within the scope of the purposes stated below unless separately notified or announced, or except otherwise approved by law or ordinances.

• provision of legal services;
• activities of S&P, or the like;
• responding to various types of inquiries, or the like;  and
• other purposes incidental to those mentioned above

S&P will take measures that are necessary and appropriate to prevent leakage, loss, impairment and any other mistreatment of Personal Information.  In order to ensure the safe management of Personal Information, S&A will supervise its attorneys and staff as necessary and appropriate.  When outsourcing the handling of Personal Information, all or in part, S&P will supervise all outsourced service providers as necessary and appropriate.

S&P will not provide Personal Information to any third parties without the prior consent of the principal identified by the relevant Personal Information or unless authorized or approved by law or ordinances.

With respect to any Personal Information held by S&A, if the principal identified requests any of the items below, S&P will first verify that the request is actually being made by or on behalf of the principal, and upon verification, S&P will respond to the request in accordance with the provisions of the Personal Information Protection Act.

1. Notification of the purpose of use of the Personal Information;
2. Disclosure to the principal of the relevant Personal Information that enable identification of the principal;
3. Correction or deletion of, or addition to, the relevant Personal Information that enable identification of the principal; or
4. Discontinuation of use, erasure or discontinuation of the provision to third parties of the relevant Personal Information.

In the case of any inquiry regarding this Privacy Policy or any treatment thereunder, please contact the following:

inquiry＠law-sandp.com

S&P may amend or modify this Privacy Policy as necessary, and any such amendment or modification will be posted on this website.