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Privacy Policies

Global Basic Policy on Personal Data Protection

To ensure the safe and appropriate management and use of personal data obtained from Customers (defined below) in the course of business activity (hereinafter "Personal Data"), the Sharp Group* (hereinafter "SHARP") stipulates a Global Basic Policy on Personal Data Protection as below, striving at all times to maintain the security of Personal Data.

1. SHARP recognizes that it is a corporate social responsibility to handle Personal Data properly and respects all rights for Personal Data of customers, consumers, business partners and employees etc. (hereinafter "Customers"). SHARP strictly observes the laws related to the protection of personal information, guidelines established by the government, other regulations and contractual obligations.

2. SHARP has established a management framework to protect Personal Data assigning a person in charge at each of its relevant divisions. SHARP will take appropriate measures to protect Personal Data and thereby establish information security measures commensurate with the importance of the Personal Data in order to protect it from the leakage, tampering, loss, external penetration of information systems, or other damage.

3. SHARP provides education and training for personal data security to all directors, officers and employees on a regular basis to maintain effective management framework of personal data protection.

4. SHARP collects Personal Data only for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes which are clearly communicated to Customers. SHARP utilizes Personal Data only for such purposes and takes measures not to be used for any other purposes which are not stated. SHARP does not disclose or provide Personal Data provided by Customers to third parties except with the consent of Customers or when there is a legitimate reason.

5. SHARP does not collect sensitive information of Customers defined under the applicable laws and regulations in each region without the consent of Customers, except as permitted under the relevant laws.

6. While maintaining the accuracy of Personal Data and keeping it up-to-date, SHARP strives to prevent unauthorized access to Personal Data or the leakage, tampering, loss, or damage of Personal Data and continually enhances and remediates issues with information security management.

7. SHARP responds to enquiries from Customers concerning Personal Data or requests from Customers for disclosure of Personal Data sincerely and without delay.

* The Sharp Group is comprised of Sharp Corporation, its subsidiaries, and other affiliated companies in which Sharp Corporation holds a controlling interest.

Established: May 25th 2018

Chief Information Officer
Sharp Corporation

Privacy Notice for Business Partners

1. About this notice

We will process your personal data in compliance with every applicable law and any laws that replace them in the future (including the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ("GDPR")).

In this notice, we provide information based on such laws related to processing your personal data. This notice sets out the basis on which any persona l data that you provide to us, or that we obtain about you from other sources, will be processed by us. Please take the time to read and understand this notice.

2. Information about us

For the purpose of data protection law, Sharp Corporation ("we", "us" and "our") is a data controller in respect of your personal data. And we are committed to respecting your privacy.

(a) Our main office address: 1 Takumi cho, Sakai ku, Sakai City, Osaka 590 8522, Japan

(b) Our phone number: +81-72-282-1221

(c) Our inquiry form; https://global.sharp/support/agreement.html

3. Definitions

In this notice:

(a) your "personal data" means any data which relates to you and from which you can be identified. It may include contact details, other personal information, or photographs;

(b) our "affiliates" means our subsidiaries; and

(c) "processing" means any activity or operation that i s carried out in respect of your personal data, such as collecting, storing, using, transferring or deleting it.

4. How we collect your personal data and what personal data we collect

We will collect and process the following personal data about you (collected through communications including: writings, face-to-face-discussion, phone calls, e-mails, or otherwise). Such information generally includes your name, contact data (e mail, phone number), company name, address, position and all other personal data which is required to enter into a contract with you and to communicate with you.

In some circumstances, we may be provided such personal data relating to you by the organisation you represent or the organis ation that otherwise employs or engages you "Business Partners"). This information is necessary in order for (i) the relevant business we provide you or Business Partners or (ii) the relevant business services to be provided to us by Business Partners.

There may be circumstances where the provision of business services to us results in us collecting other types of personal data from you, or us being provided other types of personal data about you from Business Partners. If so, then we will protect such personal data to the same high standards explained in this policy and take any additional steps necessary to ensure we process such personal data in accordance with applicable laws.

5. Purpose and legal basis of processing personal data

We use the personal data that we hold about you for the following purposes:

Establishing and maintaining relationship with Business Partners, Marketing

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is:

  • performance of a contract or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract in accordance with Art.6 (1)(b) GDPR; or
  • where the processing of your personal data is necessary for the pursuance of our legitimate interests in accordance with Art.6 (1)(f) GDPR (e.g. establishing a business relationship, marketing and networking).

We do not process your "sensitive data" (information about your race, ethnic origin, religion, physical or mental health, political opinions, sexual life, any actual or alleged criminal offences, and genetic and biometric data).

6. Disclosure of personal data to recipients

We may share your personal data with recipients in the situations described below:

(a) Internal Use for us: Employees of us or our affiliates who are authorised and need to access these data.

(b) Affiliates: We share your personal data with our affiliates for internal administrative purposes and uses that are consistent with this Notice.

(c) Service Providers: We share your personal data with third-party service providers who perform services, such as providing data servers, logistics services and payment services on our behalf.

(d) Business Partners: We may share your personal data with business partners, such as customers or suppliers to the extent this is required for conducting and/or acquiring business with these partners (e.g., exchange of contact details).

(e) Legal Process and Safety: We may disclose your personal data to legal or government regulatory authorities as required by applicable law. We may also disclose your personal data to third parties as required by applicable law in connection with claims, disputes or litigation, when otherwise required by applicable law, or if we determine its disclosure is necessary to protect the health and safety of you or others, or to enforce our legal rights or contractual commitments that you have made.

(f) Business Transfers: Your personal data may be disclosed as part of a corporate business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets, and could be transferred to a third party as one of the business assets in such a transaction. It may also be disclosed in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership.

7. Transfers of personal data outside the European Economic Area

The personal data that we collect from you or provided by Business Partners may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us, for our affiliates or for one of our suppliers.

Where we transfer your personal data outside the EEA, we will ensure that:

(a) the recipient destination has been subject to a finding from the European Commission that it ensures an adequate level of protection for the rights and freedoms that you possess in respect of your personal data; or

(b) the recipient enters into standard data protection clauses with us that have been approved by the European Commission.

You can obtain more details of the protection given to your personal data when it is transferred outside the EEA (including a copy of the standard data protection clauses which we have entered into with recipients of your personal data) by contacting us in accordance with the information about us above.

8. Storage limit of personal data

We will retain the personal data that we collect about you as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer period is demanded by applicable laws.

9. Your rights

(a) Access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability
Subject to the statutory requirements, the fulfilment of which must be assessed on a case-by-case basis, you have the following rights:

  • Request from us access to your personal data pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR
    You have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you are being processed, and, where that is the case, access to the personal data and certain related information.
  • Request from us rectification of your personal data pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR
    You have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you without undue delay, and to complete any incomplete personal data.
  • Request from us erasure of your personal data pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR
    You have the right to obtain from us the erasure of personal data concerning you without undue delay, when certain legal conditions apply.
  • Request from us restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR
    You have the right to obtain from us the restriction of processing of personal data, when certain legal conditions apply.
  • Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR
    You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without our hindrance, when certain legal conditions apply.

(b) Right to object
Subject to the statutory requirements, the fulfilment of which must be assessed on a case-by-case basis, you also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.
Where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes (see section 5 above), you have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing pursuant to Art. 21 (2) GDPR.

(c) Right to lodge a complaint
If you have any complaints regarding our privacy practices in the EEA, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority (i.e., supervisory authority).

10. Contacts

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy notice are welcome. Please contact us using the information about us above.

Established:26th May 2020

Chief Information Officer

Sharp Corporation

Sharp Global Website Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

At Sharp Corporation (“we”, “us”, “Sharp”), we take your privacy seriously. The following privacy policy outlines who we are as a data controller, what data we collect on our websites, how and why we collect it, and your rights to control that data.

As a responsible organization, we have implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection of any personal data (e.g. name, address, email, phone number) processed through this website (https://global.sharp/) and any other personal data obtained additionally through the subsequent communication with you, in order to meet the applicable data protection laws, regulations and guidelines. However, Internet-based data transmissions may in principle have security gaps, so absolute protection may not be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transfer personal data to us via alternative means, e.g. by telephone.

Section A) Who We Are as a Data Controller

2. Name and Address of the Data Controller

The data controller is:

Sharp Corporation

1 Takumi-cho, Sakai-ku, Sakai City, Osaka 590-8522, Japan

Phone: +81-72-282-1221

As a data controller we are responsible for deciding how we hold, use and keep personal data secure. It also means we are responsible for responding to requests you make in relation to how your personal data is used. If you have any questions about the way your personal data is processed, you can contact us on these details:

Section B) Why and How We Use Your Data

3. Collection of personal data and general information

We will collect personal data when you set up an account with this website, purchase products or services from this website, complete forms we provide to you through this website, make a report or notification about our products or services through this website, contact us by phone, email or communicate with us directly in some other way.

We collect the following types of personal data from you:

Contact details: information that allows us to contact you such as your name, email address, telephone number and addresses associated with your account, order or query.

Purchase and account history: records relating to the products and services which you have purchased.

Personal data in reports and notifications you submit to us: if you submit information to us about our products and services through our website we will collect any personal data you include.

Records of your discussions with us: when you contact us, whether by email or phone, we will keep a record of this. We also record calls with our customer support team so that we can keep up with training and ensure a good quality of service for you.

How you use our website: Our website collects a series of general data and information when a user or automated system calls up the website. This general data is stored in the server log files. We may collect (1) the browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrers), (4) the sub-websites, (5) the date and time of access to the Internet site, (6) an Internet protocol address (IP address), (7) the Internet service provider of the accessing system, and (8) any other similar data and information that may be used in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.

We do not draw any conclusions about the user from the website data. Rather, this information is needed to (1) deliver the content of our website correctly, (2) optimize the content of our website as well as its advertisements, (3) ensure the long-term viability of our information technology systems and website technology, and (4) provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack. Therefore, the controller analyses anonymously collected data and information statistically, with the aim of increasing the data protection and data security of our enterprise, and to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.

4. Legal basis for the processing

We limit the collection of personal data to only that which is absolutely necessary to carry out our legal or business obligations. In some cases however the provision of personal data may be partly required by law (e.g. tax regulations), is needed as part of contractual negotiations, or as part of providing a service. The non-provision of the personal data would have the consequence that the contract or service with the data subject could not be provided or concluded, therefore is considered Legitimate Interest for processing.

Below, we describe:

  • the purposes we collect your personal data for;
  • the categories of personal data we process for that purpose;
  • the legal basis that allows us to process your personal data; and
  • how long we will keep your personal data for.

Purpose of processing

Categories of data processed

Legal basis of processing

Data Storage Period

Provide our services to
you and maintain your
account

All the personal information we collect

Fulfilment of a
contract between us

Duration of the contract

Deliver products to you

Contact details

Fulfilment of a
contract between us

Duration of the contract

Answer your queries or complaints

All the personal information we collect

Fulfilment of a
contract between us

Duration of the contract

Investigating misuse of your account, fraud and debt collection

All the personal information we collect

Protection of your vital interests

Legal obligation

Duration of the contract

Maintain and improve our products and services

All the personal information we collect

Legitimate interest  (Improvement of our services)

Duration of the contract

Direct marketing

(ex. Products and services that we have determined may be of interest to you)

Contact details

Purchase and account history

Personal data in reports and notifications you submit to us

Records of your discussions with us

Consent

Duration of the contract

Before you provide personal data, you can contact our Data Controller provided in section 2 who can clarify whether the provision of the personal data is required by law or contract, whether there is any obligation to provide the personal data, and the consequences of non-provision.

5. Your consent

Where the legal basis for us processing your personal data is that you have provided your consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time. You will not suffer any detriment for withdrawing your consent. If you withdraw your consent, this will not make processing which we undertook before you withdrew your consent unlawful.

You can withdraw your consent by contacting the Data Controller provided in section 2.

6. Who has access to your personal data

We share your personal information with the following:

  • Our staff: Your personal data will be accessed by our staff but only where this is necessary for their job role.
  • Companies in the same group of companies as us: For the purpose of providing a service to you.
  • Partners and Dealers: For the purpose of answering queries you have about products and services not directly provided by Sharp
  • Delivery companies: To deliver products that you have ordered from us.
  • Credit reference agencies: So that we can verify your identity, and to provide information on missed or late payments or other activity which may affect your credit score.
  • Other service providers and advisors: Such as companies that support our IT, help us analyse the data we hold, process payments, send communications to our customers, provide us with legal or financial advice and help us deliver our services to you.
  • The government or our regulators: Where we are required to do so by law or to assist with their investigations or initiatives, including the Information Commissioner’s Office.
  • Police and law enforcement: To assist with investigation and prevention of crime.

We do not disclose personal information except as set out above. We may provide other third parties with statistical information and analytics but we will make sure that the information is aggregated and no one can be identified from this information before we disclose it.

7. Transfer of personal data

To ensure that your personal data is secure, we will only transfer your information to any Countries outside Japan with your permission, where we will ensure that suitable safeguards such as appropriate agreements and mechanisms are in place.

8. Cookies

Our webpages use “cookies”. Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser.

Many Internet sites and servers use cookies. These contain a so-called cookie ID, which is a unique identifier of the cookie. It consists of a character string through which Internet pages and servers can be assigned to the specific Internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This allows visited Internet sites and servers to differentiate the individual browser of the user from other Internet browsers that contain other cookies. A specific Internet browser can be recognized and identified using the unique cookie ID.

Through the use of cookies, we can provide our website users with more relevant services and content that would not be possible without the cookie setting. Find out more information about our Cookie Policy.

9. Profiling

Profiling involves the analysis of personal data (e.g. digital behaviour such as pages visited, links clicked, downloads) in an automated way, to identify or predict behaviour in website users.

We do not currently use profiling on our website. If we start any profiling activity, we will notify you specifically that we are using profiling.

10. Registration and Website Enquiry Forms

Certain users can register on our website with personal data via a registration form, for example for our partner portal service or for our online training service. This personal data (e.g. name, email address, date and time of registration) is captured to provide them with this service, verify their identity, and provide them with a secure log in to a protected web environment. It also enables Sharp to provide access or deny access due to misuse of service.

Users can also submit personal information by submitting a general enquiry (e.g. a sales or service enquiry) via a form. In doing so, the personal data transmitted is automatically stored via email to the recipient contact at Sharp. Such personal data is transmitted on a voluntary basis and is stored for the purpose of contacting the data subject to fulfil their enquiry. Additionally, consent can sometimes also be given on the forms for other forms of communication e.g. marketing. This consent is freely given via an opt-in mechanism (see Section 10 below).

This data may also be passed on to Sharp group companies and partners to fulfil the enquiry if it relates to a different area of the business than the one the user selected when submitting the enquiry. It may also be passed to third parties for example Sales CRM systems, Service CRM systems or Marketing Automation platforms, however in this case Sharp remains the data controller.

11. Sales and Marketing Communications

As a Sharp website user you also have the opportunity to provide personal data to register for specific sales and marketing programmes, for example to express interest in a product or service, subscribe to email newsletters, or register for events. We inform our users, customers and business partners regularly about our products, services and promotions through sales and marketing communications. Users are given the option to consent to receiving these communications via various channels, and are given the option to opt-out of these communications at every practical opportunity. Service communications for existing customers (such as billing/ contract information) is considered Legitimate Interest and as such these communications form part of providing the service. In the case of marketing communications they may only be received by the data subject if (1) they have a valid e-mail address, phone number or postal address and (2) they register for the marketing communication.

During registration for marketing communications, we also store the IP address of the computer system assigned by the Internet service provider (ISP) and used by the data subject at the time of the registration, as well as the date and time of the registration. The collection of this data is necessary in order to understand the (possible) misuse of the e-mail address of a data subject at a later date, and it therefore serves the aim of the legal protection of the controller.

The personal data collected as part of a registration for a marketing communications programme will only be used to send our specific communication, unless otherwise stated in the consent form. We use third party platforms such as marketing automation providers and Sales CRM systems to process this data in some cases. All third party providers have GDPR compliant Data Protection Agreements with Sharp and the data is fully controlled and owned by Sharp. The consent to the marketing communications programme or storage may be terminated by the data subject at any time. Each communication we send contains a link to remove consent (in the case of electronic communications), alternatively you can remove consent by contacting the Data Controller, whose details are set out in section 2.

12. Tracking & Analytics

Marketing Tracking

Our marketing communications can sometimes contain so-called tracking pixels. A tracking pixel is a miniature graphic embedded in e-mails, landing pages etc., which are sent in HTML format to enable log file recording and analysis. This allows a statistical analysis of the success or failure of online marketing campaigns. Based on the embedded tracking pixel, the controller may see if and when a marketing communication and specific content was viewed or downloaded by a data subject, and may use this information to re-target users with more specific/ relevant content the next time they visit their digital properties. You can remove your consent to this either through the consent management link in each electronic communication, or by contacting the Data Protection Officer.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to track, report and optimize our website performance (e.g. number of visitors, where they came from, what pages they visited). This is tracked by us at an aggregate level and not on an individual level.

The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, United States.

We use Google Analytics with the anonymizer function (the application "_gat. _anonymizeIp"). This means the IP address of the user is abridged by Google and anonymized when accessing our websites from your located country.

When a user accesses our site from a Google search (whether through an organic search listing or a paid-for digital advertisement), Google Analytics places a cookie on the user’s computer/ device. This enables Google to track what happens after they click on the link and hit our website. In the case of paid-for digital advertising, we pay Google based upon the number of clicks or impressions, so this also ensures accurate reporting and billing, and helps with the prevention of click-fraud. Google gathers personal information from the user, such as the IP address, access time and location. With each visit to our site, such personal data will be transmitted to Google in the United States of America. This personal data may be stored by Google in the United States of America, and they may pass this on to third parties.

Section C) Your Rights to Control Your Data

Rights of the data subject (“you”).

You have the following rights to control your data according to GDPR principles:

Right of confirmation – this means the ability to find out from us if we are processing data about you.

Right of access – this means the ability to see what data is being held about you (also called Subject Access Request). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

Right of rectification – this means the ability to change or alter any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you.

Right to erasure – this means the ability to be removed from our databases/ systems where: there is no good reason for us continuing to process it, you withdraw your consent, we are unlawfully holding your personal data or we should erase your data to comply with applicable EU laws. You have a right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing.

Right to restriction of processing – this means the ability to limit or suspend what personal data is processed.

Right to data portability – this means the ability to move the data to another supplier

Right to object – this means the ability to prevent your personal data being processed in a certain way or remove consent. There is a specific provision to be able to object separately to data profiling.

To exercise your rights to any of the above, please contact us to the address provided in section 2. Alternatively, there are other actions you can take as a user of our websites to limit the amount of personal data we may process:

Do not consent or remove consent:

  • Where we capture personal data on forms, we will be introducing opt-in boxes so that you can tell us if you want to hear from us for marketing purposes. If you don’t consent, you won’t hear from us, unless it’s related to the service we provide you.
  • Most marketing communications, especially electronic communications, where practical will provide the ability to opt-out of further marketing communications.

Prevent or remove web tracking:

  • Access our website using an anonymous/ incognito browser window

  • Deny the setting of cookies by adjusting your web browser settings:

  • Object to the collection of data by Google Analytics

  • We will always aim to help you when you wish to exercise your rights but in some instances we may have lawful grounds to reject your request.

  • We will investigate any request you make without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt of your request. That period may be extended by two further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of requests. We shall inform you of any such extension within one month of receipt of the request, together with the reasons for the delay.

  • In the event that we decide to not take action on the request, we will inform you of the reasons for not taking action.

  • Lodging a complaint with the supervisory authority: if you do not agree with a decision we make in relation to a rights request or believe that we are in breach of applicable data protection laws, then you can lodge a complaint with a data protection competent supervisory authority in your country.

13. Children's Personal Information

We considers a child to by anyone under the age of 16, or such younger age as many be specified by applicable data protection laws. We do not knowingly collect personal data from or about children without the consent of a parent or guardian. Where we do collect personal data from children, we will always use reasonable efforts to verify that consent has been given or authorised by the child's parent or guardian.

14. Updates to this Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in the way we process personal data (e.g. if we implement new systems or processes that involve the new uses of personal data) or to clarify information we have provided in this notice. Our changes will be in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

We recommend that you check for updates to this notice from time to time but we will notify you directly about changes to this notice or the way we use your personal data when we are legally required to do so.

Established:1st October 2018

Chief Information Officer

Sharp Corporation

Cookie Policy

This site (https://global.sharp/) , like many others, uses small files called cookies to help us find out more about how visitors are using our site and, in some cases, customize or optimize their experience. This policy outlines what cookies we capture and why, and what you can do to control them. You may change the settings of your browser to modify the permissions you give to us and third parties for the storing of and gaining access to cookies on your device.

How Can I Control Cookies?

You can at any time choose whether to allow us or third-parties (our analytics and AdTech partners, etc.) to set cookies which are not strictly necessary for the functioning of the website via the cookie banner or the Cookie Settings button provided on our website. In addition, you can control how cookies are used via your internet browser. You can usually find these settings in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, or you can use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.

You can also:

What are ‘cookies’?

‘Cookies’ are small text files that are stored by the browser (for example, Edge, Chrome or Safari) on your electronic device. They allow websites to store things like user preferences. You can think of cookies as providing a ‘memory’ for the website, so that it can recognize you when you come back and respond appropriately. Cookies can then be used to help understand how the website or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience.

We may use cookies or other tracking technologies to manage and measure the performance of advertisements displayed on other websites you are visiting by tracking your activities and your use of the services and functionalities.

How does Sharp's website use cookies?

A visit to a page on a Sharp website may generate the following types of cookie:

If you would like to contact us about cookies please contact to the address below.

Address:

Sharp Corporation

1 Takumi-cho, Sakai-ku, Sakai City, Osaka 590-8522, Japan

Phone: +81-72-282-1221

Established:26 December 2022

Chief Information Officer

Sharp Corporation

Privacy Policy for California Residents

With reference to the processing of personal information of Customers who reside in California, please read through the notice to be found via the following URL link which describes the rights of California residents and our obligations under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). Should there be any conflict between the above-mentioned Privacy Policy/Policies and this Privacy Policy for California Residents, the latter shall prevail.

URL: https://policies.sharpusa.com/Privacy-Policy

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