Privacy Policy
M&Partners IP, P.C. (hereinafter referred to as “our firm”) establishes this Privacy Policy as follows. We strive to protect personal information by implementing appropriate systems for the protection of personal information and by educating and informing our personnel regarding the importance of personal information protection.
Management of Personal Information
Our firm endeavors to keep personal information accurate and up to date, and takes necessary and appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, loss, damage, alteration, leakage or similar incidents involving personal information. Such measures include the maintenance of security systems, development of management frameworks, and education of personnel.
Purpose of Use of Personal Information
Personal information received from clients, prospective clients and other relevant parties will be used for communications from our firm, guidance regarding our services, responses to inquiries, and the sending of emails, documents and other materials.
Prohibition of Disclosure or Provision to Third Parties
Our firm appropriately manages personal information received from clients and other relevant parties, and will not disclose such personal information to any third party except in the following cases:
- where the consent of the person concerned has been obtained;
- where disclosure is made to a contractor or service provider to the extent necessary for our firm to provide the requested services; or
- where disclosure is required by laws or regulations.
Security Measures for Personal Information
Our firm takes necessary and appropriate security measures to ensure the accuracy and security of personal information.
Requests for Disclosure, Correction or Deletion
If a person wishes to request disclosure, correction, deletion or other handling of his or her own personal information, our firm will respond appropriately after confirming the identity of the person making the request.
Disposal of Confidential Documents
With respect to documents generated within our firm that are to be disposed of, our firm uses two methods depending on the level of confidentiality: business-use shredding and document dissolution processing with a certificate of completion.
Copies of application documents and other documents submitted to patent offices, courts or other governmental authorities that have already been made public may be disposed of by shredding. In contrast, internal documents received from clients and other confidential documents contained in closed matter files are disposed of by dissolution processing.
Access Analytics Tools
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Users may refuse the collection of such data by disabling cookies in their browser settings. Please refer to your browser settings for details. For further information, please see the Google Analytics Terms of Service.
Compliance with Laws and Review of this Policy
Our firm complies with Japanese laws and regulations and other applicable norms relating to the personal information held by our firm. We also review the content of this Policy from time to time and endeavor to improve it as necessary.
Contact
For inquiries regarding the handling of personal information by our firm, please contact:
M&Partners IP, P.C.
Fifth Hase Building, 637 Suiginya-cho,
Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8411, Japan
TEL: +81-75-353-7707
FAX: +81-75-353-7708