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The primary duty and role of NHK Global Media Services, as a news affiliate of Japan's public broadcaster NHK, is to support its parent organization; it is moreover involved in a whole range of activities around the globe that place it at the forefront of the digital era. The firm handles various types of personal information in the course of its activities.
NHK Global Media Services occasionally draws upon personal data in order to provide its range of services and information. It therefore has an obligation to provide suitable and stringent safeguards when using such data.
The firm has always striven to protect privacy, but it has taken the additional step of drawing up a Compliance Program
concerning the protection of personal information, in the belief that the proper management of such data is essential
in the broadband age. The guidelines for protecting privacy are set forth below, and the firm has striven to make all
of its staff and relevant personnel familiar with them for the sake of retaining people's confidence.
Satoshi Hirata
President & CEO
NHK Global Media Services, Inc. (2009)
Personal information is information of a personal nature about clients, including names, ages, gender, telephone numbers,
e-mail addresses, postal addresses, and details about personal interests and enquiries lodged with NHK Global Media Services.
There is no requirement to provide an address or any other personal details when a person accesses the NHK Global Media
Services website, although an individual may be asked to give certain details in particular instances when expressing
an opinion or preference in questionnaires or prize competitions, or when seeking information from the firm. Any such
requirement and its purpose shall be clearly mentioned beforehand.
NHK Global Media Services shall make use of personal information about a client according to the methods and within the parameters accepted by the client:
NHK Global Media Services shall not disclose any private information about a client to any other party except in the following instances:
NHK Global Media Services shall designate an individual/s responsible for managing the personal information furnished
by a client. The designated individual/s shall take due care to prevent any loss, distortion, destruction or leaking of
such data, and shall promptly take all possible measures in the event of any mishap.
NHK Global Media Services shall disclose, correct, modify or erase personal information about a client when instructed
to do so by the said client after confirming his/her identity.
Some of the services provided on the NHK Global Media Services website involve cookies. The cookies are data sent from
the NHK Global Media Services web server to the WWW browser being used by the client. They can lodge details about any
accessed content into the browser, eliminating the need to log into the same content each time.
The cookies also enable NHK Global Media Services to provide information in suitable formats to clients, according
to their past viewing history. Although the firm's web server uses cookies to make things easier for clients in the aforementioned
manner, a client can set the browser in his or her computer so that it will not accept them. Refer to your browser software
instructions or contact the software firm on how to refuse cookies.
Security in the form of SSL (Secure Socket Layers) technology is provided for a number of pages in this website. This
security system is widely used in online communications to encode personal information. Please make use of the NHK Global
Media Services website in the knowledge that important personal information is being properly protected.
NHK Global Media Services makes analyses of the degree to which the content on its website is accessed, for the sake
of providing better services to its clients. The data on content access is used solely for statistical purposes.
NHK Global Media Services reserves the right to revise or add to the content on this page, to a reasonable extent, without
providing any prior announcement or notification to clients, as a result of such factors as changes to the services provided
by NHK Global Media Services, and developments in network technology.