TNT Co., Ltd. (henceforth TNT) adopts the following policy as its Personal Information Protection Policy, sets up a mechanism to implement it, and promotes personal information protection by making all its staff members understand the importance of protecting personal information and make utmost efforts to keep it sescure.
Specifically, we treat personal information in the following manner.
1. Purpose of using personal information
(1) In case personal information is not acquired directly in writing:
Customer information: used in order to provide customers with goods and services
Job seeker information: used for communication with applicants for posts and TNT’s employment management work
(2) In case personal information is acquired directly in writing:
Customer information: used in order to provide customers with goods and services
Business connection information: used in order to have business communications, to place and receive orders, and to send and settle bills
Employee information: used for personnel labor management, task management, health management and security management
Job seeker information: used for communication with applicants for posts and TNT’s employment management work
2. Providing personal information to third parties
TNT does not provide personal information to third parties except in the following cases:
(1) In case law and ordinance demand it
(2) In case it is necessary in order to protect someone’s life, safety or property, but is difficult to contact the person in question and get his/her permission
(3) In case it is necessary in order to promote public sanitation and children’s healthy growth, and is difficult to contact the person in question and get his/her permission
(4)In case it is necessary in order to cooperate with the national or municipal government offices or some organization commissioned by the government in their execution of particular work, and having the person in question’s permission may hamper the work
3. Outsourcing and personal information management
TNT hires subcontractors to handle part of its work. In outsourcing, we select firms or persons that are deemed to be reliable in handling personal information responsibly, and manage our customer personal information properly by binding our subcontractors to a contract that stipulates procedures for proper management and protection of personal information.
4. Request for personal information disclosure
Customers can contact TNT with regard to their personal information and make such requests as the following: to have themselves notified of the purpose of using their personal information, to have their personal information disclosed, to amend their personal information by adding to it or deleting part of it, to stop the use of their personal information or completely delete it, to request to stop providing their personal information to third parties, etc.
In such cases, TNT will confirm the identity of the person who has made the request and respond in reasonable time. For details of the procedure for making such requests, please refer to “Procedure for requesting disclosure of your personal information” on this website.
5. Optionality in providing personal information
Customers can decide whether or not to provide their personal information to TNT. However, if necessary pieces of information are not given to us, we may not be able to provide our services to customers properly.
6. About other ways to acquire personal information
Cookies are used for the website user’s easier access to TNT’s website on their second visit, and they do not violate privacy policies or exert harmful influence on personal computers.
TNT’s website employs Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption system where personal information is typed in. Moreover, firewall protection is applied to the contents of the website. Because of the nature of internet communication, however, please understand that such measures cannot guarantee perfect security.
7. Authorized personal information protection organization
TNT does not belong to any authorized personal information protection organization.