NICHIREI BIOSCIENCES INC.
Privacy Policy for California Consumer Privacy Act

Last Updated: December 20, 2023

If you are a California “consumer” within the meaning of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CCPA”), this Privacy Policy for California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA Policy”) applies to you.

1. Our Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information

A. Categories, Sources, and Purposes of Your Personal Information Collected or to Be Collected

The following is a list of the categories of personal information (as listed in the CCPA) that we may collect, and have collected during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this CCPA Policy.

• • Identifiers, including name, address, email address, and IP address
• • Personal information described in subdivision (e) of Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80, including bank account number
• • Commercial Information, including contract details and status of contract performance
• • Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information, including IP address and cookies
• • Geolocation Data, including geolocation information of employee’s device
• • Professional or Employment-Related Information, including company name, company contact information (including country, region, and phone number), salary, position, employee number, family information, qualification, and other related information
• • Sensitive Personal Information, including passport number and health checkup information

Business or Commercial Purposes. The following is a list of the business or commercial purposes for which the categories of personal information will be collected and used, or was collected during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this CCPA Policy:

• • Responding to inquiries
• • Improving website content and display
• • Developing and improving products and services
• • Executing and assisting in the fulfillment of contracts
• • Managing our operations and subsidiary operations
• • Sending advertisements and information about products and services
• • General labor management (including equipment management, and health care)
• • Governance, and performance management

Categories of Sources. The following is a list of the categories of sources from which personal information was collected during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this CCPA Policy.

• • Directly from you
• • Passively from your activities on our websites
• • From our affiliates or their directors or employees
• • From our directors or employees

Retention Period. We will retain your personal information that we collect for the period necessary to process such personal information, except to the extent that we are required by law to retain such personal information for a longer period of time, in which case we will retain such personal information for the period required by law.

B. Disclosure of Your Personal Information

(A) Sale or Sharing of Your Personal Information

We do not sell or share personal information and has not sold or shared personal information during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this CCPA Policy, including the personal information of minors.

(B) Disclosure of Personal Information for a Business Purpose

The table below describes: (i) the categories of personal information (as listed in the CCPA) that we may have disclosed for our business purposes during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this CCPA Policy; and (ii) the categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed such personal information for our business purposes during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this CCPA Policy.

Business or Commercial Purpose. The following is a list of the business or commercial purposes for which personal information was disclosed during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this CCPA Policy:

• • Data analytics
• • Review of contract details and assistance with contract execution (including contact)
• • Group company management
• • Improving web site content and services
• • General labor management (including equipment management, and health care)
• • Governance, and performance management

C. Use or Disclosure of Your Sensitive Personal Information

We do not use or disclose your sensitive personal information for purposes other than those specified in the CCPA. In addition, we do not collect or process your sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.

2. Your Rights and Requests

If you are a California consumer, you have certain choices regarding your personal information, as described below:

Ⅰ. Access: You have the right to request, twice in a 12-month period, that we disclose to you the following information we have collected, used, disclosed, sold and shared about you:

• (Ⅰ) The categories of personal information we collected about you;
• (Ⅱ) The categories of sources from which we collected such personal information;
• (Ⅲ) The business or commercial purpose(s) for collecting such personal information about you;
• (Ⅳ) The categories of third parties to whom we disclosed such personal information;
• (Ⅴ) The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you; and
• (Ⅵ) The categories of personal information we disclosed for a business purpose with regard to you, and the categories of third parties to whom such personal information was disclosed for a business purpose.

Ⅱ. Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete certain personal information we collected from you.

Ⅲ. Correction: You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.

How to Submit a Request. To make an access, deletion, or correction request (described above), please contact us by any of the following means:

Toll-free telephone number: 888-372-1642
Contact form: Please click here

Verifying Requests. To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with your deletion or correction request.
Upon receiving an access, deletion, or correction request from you, we will first verify your identity by requiring you to submit your name and e-mail address, and by matching the information you provide with what we already have on file.

If you use an authorized agent to make an access, deletion, or correction request on your behalf, we may require the authorized agent to provide proof that you gave the agent signed permission to submit the request. Also, we may require you to either (1) verify your own identity directly with us (as described above) or (2) directly confirm with us that you provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request.

Additional Information. If you choose to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment by us. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may charge a reasonable fee to comply with your request.

3. Changes to this CCPA Policy

We may change this CCPA Policy from time to time. The date of “Last updated” at the top of this page states when this CCPA Policy was last updated; any changes will become effective upon us posting the revised California Policy.

We will post a prominent notice on the site to notify you of any significant changes to this CCPA Policy and indicate the date it was most recently updated.

4. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this CCPA Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us via our inquiry form ( URL : https://nichireibiosciences.com/contact/).

5. Use of Google Analytics

This website （nichireibiosciences.com） uses Google Analytics, a service of Google LLC, to gain insight into how the website is used. Cookies are stored in web browsers that access this website, so that these web browsers can be identified. Google LLC collects, records and analyzes usage history data for this website, and we receive the results of this analysis from Google LLC to ascertain website usage history. The information from this website that Google Analytics collects, records and analyzes does not include any information that identifies the individuals who have accessed the website and we don’t permit Google LLC to use the information in order to improve Google services or products. In addition, such information is managed by Google LLC based on its privacy policy. Please see the Google Analytics website for an explanation of its terms of service, and the Google LLC website for an explanation of its privacy policy.

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