Privacy Notice
Last Updated: September 5, 2023
Casio Computer Co. Ltd., a Japanese company whose registered office is located at 6-2, Hon-machi 1-chome, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-8543, Japan (hereinafter "Casio", "we", "us" or "our") takes the protection of your personal data extremely seriously. This Privacy Notice ("Privacy Notice") describes how Casio processes and protects the individually identifiable information ("Personal Data") collected and processed through our Virtual G-SHOCK inquiry form (the "Form"). The Form is provided on the website of third party service "NoteForms", and your Personal Data will be collected by us through NoteForms. Before using the Form, please see the Privacy Policy of
NoteForms: https://noteforms.com/privacy-policy.
This Privacy Notice consists of a "Summary Notice" (see below at section A.) and a "Detailed Notice" (see linked section B.).
A.Summary Notice
Scope of Applicability
This Privacy Notice exclusively applies to the collecting, using, storing, sharing and processing of your Personal Data when you submit an inquiry regarding the Virtual G-SHOCK services ("Services") to us through the Form provided by NoteForms.
Please read the following carefully to understand how we will process your Personal Data provided via your use of the Form.
If you are in the European Economic Area ("EEA") or the United Kingdom, please see the additional notice for EEA or the United Kingdom residents.
If you are in the United States, please see the specific Notice for United States Residents below. The remaining portions of this Notice, including the Detailed Notice section, do not apply to you – only the Notice for United States Residents applies to you and describes how your Personal Data will be collected, used, and disclosed.
How to Contact Us
If you wish to exercise your data subject rights or if you have any other questions concerning this Privacy Notice, you can:
Contact us at virtual-gshock@casio.co.jp; and
Contact our data protection officer ("DPO") at dataprotection@casio.co.jp.
If you are in the EEA, you can also contact our representative in the EEA and/or our EEA representative’s data protection officer at dataprotection@casio.de.
Processing of your Personal Data
(categories of Personal Data)
We process the following of your Personal Data collected during your use of our Form: (i) your email address, and the description of your inquiry; and (ii) any other information relating to any individuals which you have provided us in the Form. For more details see 1. of the Detailed Notice or click here.
Processing purposes
We process your Personal Data for the following purpose: providing you with the answer regarding you queries in connection with Services; preventing and detecting the fraud or other security incidents; and, complying with its legal or regulatory obligations.
For more details see 2. of the Detailed Notice or click here.
Legal justifications for the processing of your Personal Data
One of the key privacy law requirements is that any processing of Personal Data has to have a legal justification. Personal Data are processed only after you have given your consent, or if the processing of such data relies on another legal basis under the applicable laws.
For more details and the matching of purposes and corresponding legal justifications see 2. of the Detailed Notice or click here.
Data transfers and recipients
We use third-party service providers to provide services on our hehalf and we will share and transfer your Personal Data with them for the provision of the services. Within Casio and such recipients any access to your
Personal Data in relation to your use of the Form is restricted to those individuals who have a 'need to know' in order to fulfill their job responsibilities. We also share your Personal Data with governmental authorities, courts, external advisors, and similar third parties that are public bodies as required or permitted by the applicable laws.
For more details see 3. of the Detailed Notice or click here.
Cross-border data transfer
Some of the aforementioned recipients of your Personal Data are located or have relevant operations outside the country or region of your residence (namely, Japan and US). By way of entering into appropriate data transfer agreements or by other adequate means, we have established that all such recipients located outside the country or region of your regidence will provide an adequate level of protection for the Personal Data and that appropriate technical and organizational security measures are in place to protect Personal Data. Any onward transfer is subject to appropriate onward transfer requirements as required by applicable law.
For details see 3. of the Detailed Notice or click here.
Implementation of security measures
We provide appropriate security measures to protect your Personal Data, including establishment of necessary rules to protect Personal Data, conducting trainings to our employees and taking other appropriate organizational, physical and technical security measures.
For details of the security measures we take, please refer to 4. of the Detailed Notice or click here.
Retention periods for and deletion of your Personal Data
Your Personal Data are stored by Casio and/or our service providers, strictly to the extent necessary for the performance of our obligations to you respectively the performance of the service providers' obligations to us and strictly for the time necessary to achieve the Purposes for which the Personal Data are processed, in accordance with applicable data protection laws. When we no longer need to process your Personal Data, the Personal Data will be deleted and erased from the systems and/or records and/or steps will be taken to properly anonymize the Personal Data so that you can no longer be identified from the Personal Data unless we need to keep your information: to comply with legal or regulatory obligations to which we are subject; and/or with regard to a judicial action.
For more details see 5. of the Detailed Notice or click here.
Your statutory rights
You have a number of legal rights with regard to the processing of your Personal Data, each as per the conditions defined in applicable law. These rights may vary depending on where you are located and which data protection laws will apply to the relationship between you and us, but would typically include; (i) the right to have access; (ii) the right to obtain a copy of your Personal Data undergoing processing; (iii) the right to rectification; (iv) the right to erasure ("right to be forgotten"); (v) the right to restriction of processing; (vi) the right to data portability; (vii) the right to object; and (viii) the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority. You can exercise your rights by contacting us using the information described in 10. of the Detailed Notice or click here. Please refer any of your questions to virtual-gshock@casio.co.jp.
For more details see 6. of the Detailed Notice or click here.
Children’s Privacy
The Services are not aimed at or intended for children under age 13 and Casio does not knowingly collect or receive Personal Data from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected Personal Data relating to a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information from our records. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under age 13, please let us know by contacting us by using the information described in 10. of the Detailed Notice or click here.
Personal Data required to enter into a contract
You only have to provide Personal Data that is marked as mandatory in the respective forms during the use of the Form. Without such Personal Data, we cannot conclude the requested contract, or we will no longer be able to execute an existing contract and may have to terminate it.
Personal Data that are not marked as mandatory in the corresponding forms during the use of the Form do not have to be provided.
For details, please refer to 9. of the Detailed Notice, or click here.
Changes of the Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice are subject to change. You will be notified adequately of any such changes by publishing the changes on our website and/or inform you via email to your registered email address accordingly. Further, you will be notified adequately through further relevant privacy notices (e.g. for specific purposes) in case such is not covered by this Privacy Notice.
For more detail Notice,please read our B.Detailed Notice.