PRIVACY NOTICE

For personal data protection, Kubota Corporation, Japanese corporation (“Kubota” or “we” or “us” or “our”) establishes and implements this Privacy Notice to take the appropriate action to secure, store, and manage your personal data, acquired from you in this web interview.

1. Who is responsible?
Kubota is all responsible for the processing of your personal data acquired from you in this web interview form.

2. What sort of personal data is processed?
 When you answer the questions in this web interview form, the following types of personal data are collected and processed:
 The company name where you are belonging
 Your position in your company
 E-mail address, if you will answer this interview under logged in condition in Google account

3. Why is your personal data processed?
 Your personal data are processed for analyze the interview result to study the market needs of construction machinery and improve such machinery.
 
In addition we may also process your personal data to comply with a legitimate request from law enforcement or other authorities.

4. What makes the processing of your personal data legitimate?
 The data protection laws require us to precisely indicate to you which legal option we rely on to make the processing of your personal data legitimate. We need to clarify this for the purposes listed in section 3 above.
For the purposes indicated in section 3 above, the processing of your personal data is necessary for our legitimate interests, which in this case concern commercial interests which include the need to be able to improve construction machinery.

5. Recipients and transfers
Your personal data may be sent to the following categories of recipients:
 Yourself;
 Kubota;
 Kubota’s subsidiaries in the European Economic Area or EEA (which consists of the EU, Norway, Liechtenstein or Iceland);
 Service providers, such as Google LLC., who helps Kubota to provide this web interview form;
 Governmental, judicial and other competent bodies in case of a justified yet legally binding request.

For the purpose listed in section 3, your personal data are transferred to Japan on the basis of the Adequacy Decision under Article 45 of GDPR.

Where we share your personal data with service providers outside the EEA, we will put appropriate legal frameworks in place the standard contractual clauses in order to cover such transfers.

For more information, please address your questions to kbt.g.ceeu.inquiry@kubota.com.

6. How we hold and protect your personal data
The security of your personal data is important to us. We are committed to protecting your personal data. We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect your personal data against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use. These safeguards are intended to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your personal data. We periodically assess risks to your personal data and update our policies, procedures and technology accordingly.

Your personal data will be retained as long as necessary for the achievement of the purposes listed in section 3 above. Your personal data is processed only for such purposes.
We take measures to destroy or permanently de-identify your personal data if required by law or if the personal data is no longer required for the purposes for which we collected it.

7. Which rights do you have with regard to the processing of your personal data?
You have the right to request access to all personal data processed in this web interview form insofar it pertains to you.

You have the right to ask that any personal data pertaining to you which are inaccurate, are corrected free of charge. If a request for correction is submitted, such request must be accompanied of proof of the flawed nature of the data for which correction is asked.

You have the right to request that personal data pertaining to you will be deleted if they are no longer required in light of the purposes outlined above. However, you need to keep in mind that a request for deletion will be evaluated by us against:
 Overriding interests of Kubota or any other third party:
 Legal or regulatory obligations or administrative or judicial orders which may contradict such deletion.

Instead of deletion you can also ask that we limit the processing of your personal data if and when (a) you contest the accuracy of that data, (b)the processing is illegitimate or (c) the data are no longer needed for the purposes which are outlined above, but you need them to defend yourself in judicial proceedings.
 
You have the right to oppose the processing of personal data for the purposes in section 3, but you are required to explain your particular circumstances on which your request for opposition is based.

As explained earlier, if you wish to submit a request to exercise one or more of the rights listed in this section, each request addressed to us can be send via e-mail to kbt.g.ceeu.inquiry@kubota.com for all data subject rights matters.
An e-mail requesting to exercise a right will not be construed as consent with the processing your personal data beyond what is required for handling your request. Such request should clearly state and specify which right you wish to exercise and the reasons for it, if such is required. It should also be dated and signed, and accompanied by a digitally scanned copy of your valid identity card providing your identity.
Without prejudice to the allocation of responsibilities as outlined in section 1, we will promptly inform you of having received this request. If the request proves valid, we will notify you as soon as reasonably possible and at the latest thirty (30) days after having received the request.
If you have any complaint regarding the processing of your personal data by Kubota via this web interview form, you may always contract us via the e-mail address mentioned in the first paragraph of this clause. If you remain unsatisfied with our response, you may file a complaint with the competent data protection authority.

8. Updates to this notice
This Privacy Notice may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our personal information practices.