北里微生物資源ライブラリー

Privacy Policy

I. Basic premise

Kitasato Microbial Library (KML) treats the acquired information appropriately within the limits of the purposes, such as an improvement of the website.

II. Scope of information acquisition

  1. We automatically collect and store Internet domain names, IP addresses, MIN (Mobile Identification Number),only used at the "Contact Us" corner, information about access to the website (i.e., the date and time you access the website and the pages you visit) and so on. Use of cookies (information transmitted from the server to the user's browser and stored on the user's computer in order for the server to identify users) is limited to the purposes to figure out the accurate number of accesses and to improve convenience of the browser display function.
  2. At the "Contact Us" corner, we request you to write your name, an E-mail address, etc. What is for answering you.

III. Purposes of use

  1. The information acquired in II-1. We will be used as a reference for the smooth operation of the service provided by the website.
  2. Your name, e-mail address, etc. collected in II-2. We will be used to reply.

IV. Limitations on use and provision

Except in cases of legal disclosure requests, cases of illegal access, threats and other unlawful acts or other special reasons, the information acquired will not be used by ourselves for any purposes other than those described in III., nor will it be provided to any third party. However, statistical information regarding access to the website or information on users' attributes may be made public.

V. Measures to ensure security

We are taking the measures necessary to manage acquired information appropriately to prevent the leakage, loss or destruction of acquired information. The operation of the website may be contracted out, in which case the contractor will take necessary measures necessary to manage acquired information appropriately to prevent the leakage, loss or destruction of acquired information.

VI. Scope of application

This privacy policy applies only to the website.

VII. Acknowledgment

This study was supported, in part, by funds from Quality Assurance Framework of Higher Education from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan.