Westlake Akishima is pleased about your visit to our website and your interest in our company.
The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data that can be used to identify you personally. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please refer to our privacy policy listed below this text.
Further Privacy Information is available on our Westlake Data Privacy page, which contains information for California Residents, Job Applicants and Business Partners.
A. Information about the controller
Responsible for the website of www.westlake-akishima.com is:
I. Name and contact details of the responsible body
Westlake Akishima
2-3-27 Shibakoen, Minato-ku
Tokyo
105-0011 Japan
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or wish to exercise any of your rights as described, you can contact us at: privacy@westlake.com
B. Information about the processing of personal data
I. Informational use of the website
In the case of the purely informational use of the website, the browser used on your end device will, for technical reasons, send certain information to the server of our website, for example your IP address. We process this information to provide the content you have accessed on the site. To ensure the security of the IT infrastructure used for the provision of the website, this information is also stored temporarily in a so-called web server log file.
To provide the search functions of our website, data that you enter into our search functions is temporarily processed on our web server.
II. Use of online contact forms
On the website, we offer you the opportunity to contact us via contact forms. We process the information provided by you in the contact forms to process your request. If necessary, we also store the information as evidence for the possible assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims or for the fulfillment of statutory, especially commercial and tax, storage requirements.
When using the contact forms on the website, the browser used on your end device will, for technical reasons, send certain information to the server of our website, for example your IP address. We process this information to provide the contact forms on the Web and to ensure the security of the IT infrastructure used to deliver the form.
II. Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
This website is hosted by an external service provider (host). Personal data collected on this website are stored on the servers of the host. These may include, but are not limited to, IP addresses, contact requests, metadata and communications, contract information, contact information, names, web page access, and other data generated through a web site.
The host is used for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing customers and in the interest of secure, fast, and efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider.
Our host will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil its performance obligations and to follow our instructions with respect to such data.
We are using the following host:
Amazon Web Services (Japan) provided by Westlake Corporation, Inc.
IV. Use of third-party plug-ins (for example, social media plug-ins or online map service plug-ins)
The website includes so-called third-party plug-ins that allow you to use third-party functionalities offered on the website. The plug-ins are integrated on the website via a so-called “2-click solution”. With this solution, the respective plug-in is not activated directly when the website is called, but only when you activate the activation button for the respective plug-in.
If you activate a third-party plug-in, you use a functionality offered by the provider of the respective plug-in on its own responsibility, which is only optically embedded in the presentation of our website. When activating the respective plug-in, the provider of the respective plug-in may possibly receive personal data from you. In addition, when the plug-in is activated, the provider of the particular plug-in may use cookies or similar technologies. We have no knowledge of the specific purposes, content and storage duration as well as the need for consent of the cookies or similar technologies used by the provider of the plug-in. Specific information on this can be found in the additional information provided by the respective third-party provider (see below).
Below you will find more detailed information:
1.Processing of personal data by providers of third-party plug-ins
The 2-click solution ensures that your Internet browser initially does not connect to servers of the provider of the respective plug-in when the website is accessed. When the website is called up, the provider of the respective plug-in cannot collect any personal data from you via the respective plug-in. The respective plug-in is activated only when you activate the button provided for activating the respective plug-in. As a result of the activation, a connection is made to servers of the provider of the respective plug-in. This allows the provider of the respective activated plug-in to collect personal data from you. Activation of the respective plug-in is technically comparable to clicking on a link to an external website, with the difference that the content called up does not appear in a new window / tab of your Internet browser but optically embedded in our website. The data exchange initiated by you through the activation and use of the plug-in takes place exclusively between your Internet browser and the servers of the provider of the respective plug-in. If you activate a third-party plug-in, you are therefore using a functionality offered by the provider of the respective plug-in, which is optically embedded in the presentation of our website.
When activating the respective plug-in, the provider of the respective plug-in (comparable to calling an external website via a link) can receive in particular your IP address as well as the address (URL) of the website from which you are activating. In addition, the provider of the respective activated plug-in can receive information from any cookies of the respective provider stored in your internet browser. The provider of the respective plug-in can thus at least receive the information that our website was called up under the IP address assigned to you at the time of the call by activating the respective plug-in. If you are registered as a user with the respective third-party provider, the provider of the respective plug-in can generally also assign the received data to your user account. We point out that we have no knowledge of the data collected specifically by the provider of the respective plug-in. In addition, we have no knowledge of the specific purpose of processing the data collected by the provider of the respective plug-in or other details of the data processing of the respective provider. In particular, we do not know whether the respective provider processes the data collected solely for the purpose of providing the functionality of the respective plug-in (eg for the sharing of specific content or the submission of comments) or, for any other purpose (eg Formation of user profiles or for the personalization of advertising).
2. Information about the social media plug-ins used
LinkedIn plug-in
This website uses functions of the LinkedIn network. The provider is LinkedIn Incorporation, Mountain View, California, United States of America.
Any time you access a page of this website that contains functions of LinkedIn, a connection to LinkedIn’s servers is established. LinkedIn is notified that you have visited this website with your IP address. If you click on LinkedIn’s “Recommend” button and are logged into your LinkedIn account at the time, LinkedIn will be in a position to allocate your visit to this website to your user account. We have to point out that we as the provider of the websites do not have any knowledge of the content of the transferred data and its use by LinkedIn.
The operator of the website has a legitimate interest in being as visible as possible on social media. If a respective declaration of consent has been obtained, the data shall be processed exclusively on this basis. This declaration of consent may be revoked at any time.
For further information on this subject, please consult LinkedIn’s Data Privacy Declaration at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy..
3. Information about third-party plug-ins used
Google Web Fonts
To ensure that fonts used on this website are uniform, this website uses so-called Web Fonts provided by Google. When you access a page on our website, your browser will load the required web fonts into your browser cache to correctly display text and fonts.
To do this, the browser you use will have to establish a connection with Google’s servers. As a result, Google will learn that your IP address was used to access this website. The website operator has a legitimate interest in a uniform presentation of the font on the operator’s website. If a respective declaration of consent has been obtained (e.g., consent to the archiving of cookies), the data will be processed exclusively on this basis. Any such consent may be revoked at any time.
If your browser should not support Web Fonts, a standard font installed on your computer will be used.
For more information on Google Web Fonts, please follow this link: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and consult Google’s Data Privacy Declaration under: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
C. Information about the use of cookies
I. General information about cookies
Cookies are small text files containing information that can be placed on the user’s device when visiting a website via the browser. When the website is called up again with the same device, the cookie and the information stored therein can be retrieved.
First- and Third-Party-cookies – Depending on where a cookie comes from, so-called first-party and third-party cookies can be distinguished:
| First-Party-cookies | Cookies set and called by the operator of the website as controller or by a processor assigned to it. |
| Third-Party-cookies | Cookies set and accessed by other controllers, other than the operator of the website, who are not acting as processors on behalf of the operator of the website. |
Transient and persistent cookies – Depending on the validity period, so-called transient and persistent cookies can also be distinguished:
| Transient cookies
(session-cookies) |
Cookies that are automatically deleted when you close your browser. |
| Persistent cookies | Cookies that remain stored on your device after closing the browser for a certain period of time. |
Consent-free and consent-requiring cookies – Depending on their function and purpose, the use of certain cookies may require the consent of the user. In this respect, cookies can be differentiated according to whether their consent requires the consent of the user:
| Consent-free cookies | Cookies whose sole purpose is to carry out the transmission of a message via an electronic communications network. |
| Cookies that are strictly necessary for the provider of an information society service that was explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to be able to provide this service (“essential cookies”) | |
| Consent-requiring cookies | Cookies for all purposes other than those mentioned above. |
III. Management of the cookies used on this website
Absolutely necessary cookies cannot be deactivated via the cookie management function of this website. You can always deactivate these cookies in your browser at any time.
Management of cookies via browser settings
You can also manage the use of cookies in the settings of your browser. Different browsers offer different ways to configure the cookie settings in the browser.
However, we would like to point out that some features of the Website may not work or may not work properly if you generally disable cookies in your browser.
D. Information about your rights
You have a number of legal rights in relation to the personal information that we hold about you under the Applicable Laws. These rights would typically include the following, but please note that rights which you can exercise are limited to those permitted under the Applicable Laws.
I. Right to information
The right to information about your personal data processed by us and certain other information (such as those given in this privacy policy).
II. Right to rectification
If your personal information is incorrect or incomplete, you have a right to rectification.
II. Right to deletion
On the basis of the so-called “right to be forgotten”, you can request the deletion of your personal data, unless there is a retention obligation. The right to cancellation is not an unqualified right. We may, for example, continue to process your personal information if such processing is necessary to comply with our statutory obligations or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
IV. Right to restriction of processing
This right includes limitation of use or manner of use. This right is limited to specific cases and exists in particular if: (a) the data is incorrect; (b) the processing is unlawful and you reject the deletion; (c) we no longer need the data, but you need the information to assert, exercise or defend your rights. If processing is restricted, we may continue to store but not use the data. We keep a list of those persons who have exercised the right to limit processing in order to ensure this restriction.
V. Right to objection
You may object to the processing of your personal data if it is processed on the basis of legitimate interests.
You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, object to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out on the basis of legitimate interest; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions.
VI. Right to revoke consent
If the processing is based on a consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The revocation of consent does not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation. We will inform you of this before submitting your consent.
E. Further Information
I. Use of site by children
The Website contains information that may be of interest to children, but Westlake does not seek through the Website to gather personal information from or about persons under the age of 17. We are committed to complying with applicable laws and requirements, such as the United States’ Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
II. Storage Period for Personal Information
We retain your personal information for the period necessary for purposes of processing such personal information, except to the extent that we are required by law to retain the personal information for a longer period, in which case we retain it for the period required by law.
III. Security
In order to prevent dissipation, loss, alteration, leakage, or any other breach of your personal information, we strive to protect personal information by (i) establishing our internal rules, (ii) appointing a person who is in charge of managing personal information for each department processing personal information, (iii) implementing security measures in accordance with the internal rules, (iv) enlightening and educating our employees to thoroughly understand the internal rules, and (v) supervising third parties to whom we disclose personal information.
F. Status and Modification of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective April, 2024
Due to technical advances and / or due to changed legal and / or regulatory requirements, it may be necessary to adapt this privacy policy.