Privacy Policy

I. Rules on Handling of Personal Information

Sysmex sometimes asks You* to provide Your personal information in various aspects of its business activities.
Sysmex will make its best efforts to appropriately manage and protect personal information by complying with relevant laws, regulations, and guidelines, including the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, (hereinafter, the “relevant Laws and Regulations”) and Sysmex’s internal rules (hereinafter, the “Internal Rules”) and by establishing this Privacy Policy (hereinafter, “this Policy”), as follows.
 
For the processing of personal information subject to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), please also refer to “GDPR Privacy Policy.”

* In this Policy, the terms “You” and “Your” refer to Sysmex’s customers and business partners, visitors to the hospitals which are Sysmex’s customers (e.g., patients), shareholders, job applicants, and its officers and employees (“Officers and Employees”).

1. Acquisition of Personal Information

Sysmex will appropriately obtain personal information in accordance with the relevant Laws and Regulations, and the company’s Internal Rules. If Sysmex needs to obtain information designated by law as special care-required personal information, Sysmex will, in principle, obtain such information with Your consent.

2. Purposes of Use

Sysmex will identify, as comprehensively as possible, each purpose of use of personal information, in accordance with the relevant Laws and Regulations, and Internal Rules, and will handle such personal information within the scope of that purpose. Sysmex will also notify or disclose, and if necessary, expressly present the identified purpose of use to You those concerned, in accordance with the relevant Laws and Regulations and Internal Rules. The purposes of use to be disclosed by Sysmex are as stated in “II. Purposes of Use of Personal Information.”

3. Information Security and Erasure of Personal Information

Sysmex will handle personal information in a manner that assures appropriate security. Sysmex will also keep personal information accurate and up-to-date to the extent necessary for use and will erase such personal information as and when the information is no longer required.

4. Provision to Third Parties

Sysmex will not provide any of Your personal information to any third party (including any overseas third party) without Your prior consent, unless expressly required to do so under the relevant Laws and Regulations. In cases where Sysmex provides Your personal information to any third party, Sysmex will take necessary and appropriate measures to ensure that the personal information is appropriately handled by the third party.

5. Outsourcing

Sysmex sometimes outsources acquisition, use, and other processing of personal information to contractors. Sysmex will supervise such contractors in a necessary and appropriate manner.

6. Disclosure, Correction, Deletion, or Suspension of Personal Information

If You wish that Your personal information held by Sysmex be disclosed, corrected, deleted, suspended, or otherwise processed, You can contact the contact point below. The contact person will promptly respond in accordance with the relevant Laws and Regulations after confirming that the information is Yours.

7. Cookies, etc.

Sysmex sometimes uses cookies, etc. collected from its websites. Sysmex uses such information to analyze Your trends and characteristics to be able to provide better services.
 
Sysmex uses Google Analytics provided by Google LLC to improve the quality of its websites. Google Analytics collects, records, and analyzes the browsing history of visitors to websites using cookies. For more information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data, please refer to the following websites:
 
 
You may disenable the cookie capabilities of Your own browser software. However, if You do so, You may become either partially or entirely unable to use the services of the websites concerned. Sysmex will adjust the validity of cookies depending on its websites.

8. Safety Management Measures

Sysmex will take appropriate safety management measures to appropriately manage and protect personal information. In addition, it will exercise necessary and appropriate supervision over its officers and employees, and contract service providers (including, but not limited to, subcontract service providers, etc.) handling the personal information.

II. Purposes of Use of Personal Information

1. Personal Information of You and Sysmex’s Business Partners

  • Responses to inquiries
  • Communication and regular information provision from Sysmex
  • Negotiation of transactions and performance of contracts
  • Entry/exit control for Sysmex facilities
  • Reviewing and analysis for the purposes of product and service quality improvement through customer satisfaction surveys, etc.
  • Investigation and record-keeping under the relevant Laws and Regulations, and notification and reporting to public offices

2. Personal Information of Visitors to the Hospitals which are Sysmex’s Customers (e.g., Patients)

  • Research conducted by Sysmex alone or collaboratively with hospitals or research institutions such as universities.
  • Review of and analysis for product and service quality improvement through responses to product failures, etc.
  • Investigation and record-keeping under the relevant Laws and Regulations, and notification and reporting to public offices
  • Implementation of tests or analysis for medical institutions and reporting of their results

3. Personal Information of Shareholders

  • Stock management, including data preparation under a relevant law or regulation
  • Responses to exercise of rights by shareholders under the Companies Act
  • Fulfillment of obligations under the Companies Act and other relevant laws and regulations
  • Delivery of business reports and other materials to be distributed
  • Promotion of exercise of voting rights
  • IR activity-related information provision

4. Personal Information of Job Applicants and Internship Applicants

  • Recruitment and internship selection information and procedures
  • Responses to inquiries and document requests
  • Reviewing and analysis of recruitment and internship selection activities
  • Post-recruitment employment management procedures

5. Personal Information of Officers and Employees (including ex-Officers and ex-Employees) and Members of Their Families

  • Management of human resources/labor,  payment of salary/remuneration, evaluation, skills development, welfare, etc.
  • To practice workplace safety for the management of health and safety as well as prevention of infectious diseases at work
  • Allocation, relocation, and other employment management matters
  • Communication, etc. with labor unions, health insurance societies, and pension funds
  • Investigation and record-keeping under the relevant Laws and Regulations, and notification and reporting to public offices
  • Communication in the event of an emergency

III. Shared Use of Personal Information

1. Intra-Group Shared Use

Sysmex shares Your personal information for use among Sysmex and its group companies (including group companies based in foreign countries) in accordance with its Internal Rules.
Sysmex will make its best efforts to ensure that an appropriate level of personal information protection is maintained in handling personal information within group companies and to ensure that each group company handles personal information at the same level of protection.
 
(1) Items and Purposes of Use of  Shared Information
Personal Information of You and Sysmex’s Business Partners Purposes of Use
Name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, etc.
  • Responses to inquiries
  • Communication and regular information provision from Sysmex
  • Negotiation of transactions and performance of contracts
  • Entry/exit control for Sysmex facilities
  • Reviewing and analysis for the purposes of product and service quality improvement through customer satisfaction surveys, etc.
  • Investigation and record-keeping under the relevant Laws and Regulations, and notification and reporting to public offices

Personal Information of Officers and Employees (Including Ex-Officers and Ex-Employees) and Members of Their Families
Purposes of Use
Name, address, age, date of birth, gender, telephone number, e-mail address, and other data required for human resources management
  • Communication regarding business matters
  • Management of human resources/labor, evaluation, skills development, welfare,  health and safety, etc.
  • Allocation, relocation, and other employment management matters
  • Investigation and record-keeping under the relevant Laws and Regulations, and notification and reporting to public offices
  • Communication in the event of an emergency

Personal Information of Job Applicants Purposes of Use
Name, address, age, date of birth, gender, telephone number, e-mail address, and other data required for human resources management
  • Recruitment information and procedures
  • Responses to inquiries and document requests
  • Post-recruitment employment management procedures
  • Reviewing and analysis of recruitment selection activities

(2) Scope of Shared Use
Sysmex group companies 
 
(3) Company Responsible for Shared Use
Sysmex Corporation

2. Common Use at Labor Union

(1) Items and Purposes of Use of Information Shared for Common Use
Personal Information of Officers and Employees (including ex-Officers and ex-Employees) and Members of Their Families Purposes of Use
Name, address, age, date of birth, gender, telephone number, e-mail address, and other data required for achieving the applicable purpose of use
  • Conveyance of information, such as the union’s activity policies, requirements, and collective bargaining results, to union members 
  • Conducting of questionnaire surveys as a reference for activity policies and plan development
  • Conducting of union activities, including communication with union members

(2) Scope of Common Use
Sysmex Union
 
(3) Company Responsible for Common Use
Sysmex Corporation

IV. Contact Point

(1) Sysmex Contact Point for Personal Information
Please direct any questions, etc. regarding the handling of personal information by Sysmex to the following contact point: 
 
Department in charge: General Affairs Department, Sysmex Corporation
Address: 1-5-1, Wakinohama-kaigandori, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 651-0073, Japan

Contact

(Include “Regarding personal information” in the subject line)
 
Sysmex may require confirmation of Your contact information and other details before responding to Your request. Sysmex will make its best efforts to respond within a reasonable period. 
 
(2) Authorized Personal Information Protection Organization of Which Sysmex Is a Target Entity
Sysmex is a target entity of the Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association of Japan, an authorized personal information protection organization under the Personal Information Protection Act. The Federation deals with complaints and consultations regarding the handling of personal information by its target entities.
 
<Contact Point for Inquiry>
Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association of Japan “Personal Information Protection Center”
MFPR Nihonbashi Honcho Building, 3-7-2 Nihonbashi-honcho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0023
TEL: 03-5843-6494
Reception hours: 10:00 am. to 4:00 p.m.
(Excluding Saturdays, Sundays, year-end and new year holidays, and other prescribed national holidays)

V. Amendment of Privacy Policy

This Policy was revised on April 1, 2022. Sysmex will review this Policy as appropriate to improve the protection of personal information. If such a review requires amendments to this Policy, Sysmex will publish an amended version of this Policy on this website.