Privacy policy

 1.Basic concept

he National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (referred to below as ‘NARO’) collects information on users of the NARO website (referred to below as ‘our website’) to the extent necessary for the efficient operation of services provided on our website (provision of information and acceptance of enquiries, comments, etc). The information collected by our website is only used for the purposes outlined in Section 4.

 2.Extent of the information collected and stored

1. Our website collects and stores the following information as an access log: your internet domain name, IP address and the pages of our website you visit.
2. Our website requests that you to fill in your name and e-mail address when you use the mail form to send various questions or comments. Our website also collects optional information such as your address, occupation, and telephone number.
3. When you wish to be mailed printed NARO publications, our website requests that you to fill in your name, address, company name, section name, post code and telephone number.
4. There are cases, such as registration for public events, trainings, and seminars, in which our website requires that you submit your name, address, occupation and telephone number.

 3.Use of cookies

Our website may use a technology called a ‘cookie’ to provide user-friendly services for our visitors. The cookie is a mechanism by which our web server saves a small text file to the user’s computer through a web browser, to store temporary information. This function does not allow to collect any information which can be used to identify individuals.

 4.Purposes of use

1. We use your information collected on 2.-1. as references for the safe and efficient operation of services provided on our website.
2. We use your information collected on 2.-3. to mail printed publications that you have requested to the correct address.
3. We use your information collected on 2.-3. to mail printed publications that you have requested to the correct address.
4. We use your information collected on 2.-4. only in cases where it is necessary to perform our operation smoothly, such as at our public events.

 5.Limitations of use and provisions

At NARO, we use the information collected on our website only for the purposes described in Section 4. We do not provide the information to a third party, except in cases where a request has been made to disclose collected information by law, where unlawful acts such as illegal access and threats have occurred, and where there are other special reasons. However, statistically processed data concerning access information to our website may be released to the public.

 6.Security measures

NARO takes the necessary security measures for the proper administration of collected information, such as the prevention of leakage, deletion and alteration of information.

 7.Extent of the policy application

This privacy policy is only applied to this website (http://www.naro.affrc.go.jp/ and the lower directories; and https://form.affrc.go.jp/naro/ and the lower directories).

 8.Other

NARO may revise the privacy policy above as necessary.