Protection of your personal information

１．We will not disclose to any third party any personal information that you provide to us when you purchase or reserve reports, make inquiries or contacts, register as a member, or cooperate in surveys, etc., without your prior consent. However, we may disclose your personal information in the following cases
（１）When disclosure is required by law
（２）When we have your prior consent.

２．We will use the personal information you provide to us when you purchase or reserve reports, make inquiries or contact us, register as a member, or cooperate in surveys only for our business and other communications, inquiries, and delivery of reports, and will not use it for any other purpose.

３．We shall strictly manage the personal information provided by customers to us when they purchase or reserve reports, make inquiries or contact us, register as members, cooperate in surveys, etc. We shall take reasonable security measures to protect customers’ personal information from loss, destruction, falsification, leakage, etc. in terms of technology and organization, including encryption during the transfer of information. We will take all reasonable security measures to prevent the loss, destruction, falsification, leakage, etc. of personal information, and will manage personal information in an accurate and up-to-date manner to prevent and correct any risks to personal information.

４．The Company may provide information (including business information and communications) to customers who have provided the Company with personal information, such as e-mail addresses, through e-mail newsletters and other methods. If a customer does not wish to receive such information, the provision of such information will be suspended if the customer so notifies us in accordance with our prescribed method. However, this does not apply to important communications necessary for service operation.

５．We may use cookie technology to collect information about your access history in order to improve the content of our website and the services we provide to better satisfy you and to provide you with the best possible service. You may change your browser settings to disable cookies, but please note that this may interfere with your ability to use all or part of the services on our web pages.

６．We may share personal information among our subsidiaries and other companies for the purpose of introducing “our products and services” to our customers and for sales promotion. The information subject to shared use is information obtained by the Company and the following subsidiaries after obtaining prior written consent directly from the person in question through the Web or by expressly indicating the necessary information from the person in charge: name, telephone and fax numbers, address, e-mail address, company/organization name, department name, work address, and contact information, gender, and date of birth. For the management of such personal information, we will conclude a contract including personal information protection management between us and the subsidiary company with which we share the personal information, and clarify the management responsibility of each company. The person responsible for the management of personal information to be shared is the leader of the Planning and Development Department of the Company.

●Subsidiaries of Seed Planning Inc. are the following companies（As of March 15, 2017）
SPI Information, Inc.
Digital Infact, Inc.