Privacy Notice

Last Updated: 15th January, 2024

Casio Computer Co., Ltd., a Japanese company whose registered office is at 6-2, Hon-machi 1 chome, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-8543, Japan (hereinafter "Casio", " we", "our" or "us") takes the protection of your personal data extremely seriously. This Privacy Notice ("Privacy Notice") describes how Casio processes and protects your personal data collected, used and disclosed when you use our services provided through the website of "Casio Teacher Members"("Service") in accordance with requirements of the Data Privacy Act 2012 of Philippines ("DPA") and the applicable personal data protection laws and regulations. As used in this Privacy Notice, "Personal Data" means any data, whether true or not, about an individual who can be identified from that data, or from that data and other information to which we have or are likely to have access, including data in our records as may be updated form time to time.

This Privacy Notice exclusively applies to the processing of your Personal Data when using this Service. This Privacy Notice shall not apply to the processing of your Personal Data when using the CASIO ID ("CASIO ID"), an account assigned by Casio for users to centrally store and manage master data and which can be used as an individual access to Casio’s various services or other application keys, solely and/or other apps Casio provides. Such processing is governed by other privacy notices, so when using CASIO ID with this Service, the privacy statement for CASIO ID applies to you additionally.

Please read the following carefully to understand how we will treat your Personal Data provided via your use of the Services.

1. How We Collect Personal Data

1.1 We would only collect, use and disclose your Personal Data that (i) you (or your authorized representative) have provided with written consent to the collection and usage of your Personal Data for the purposes set out in Section 2, or (ii) collection and use of Personal Data without consent is permitted or required by the DPA or other applicable laws.

1.2 The Personal Data may be furnished to us in forms filled out by you, email messages or telephone conversations. We may also keep a record or any contact you have with us. The Personal Data would be collected only for the purposes stated in Section 2.

1.3 We may collect Personal Data from you in various ways including the following:

• (i)CASIO ID Data
  This Service requires you to register and sign up for CASIO ID account before you can use the Service. You provide us with Personal Data including, your name, birth date, email address, country registered with your CASIO ID.
• (ii)Profile Data
  We collect and use your profile data registered by yourself with the Service, including school name, school type (public or private) and subject in charge.
• (iii)Device Data
  When you access or use the Service, we collect and use information about your device to which the Services are accessed (collectively, "Devices") including device identifier, model name, OS version.
• (iv)Setting Data
  When you access or use the Services, we collect and use your setting data of your Devices, such as date and time of usage and access to our Services, consent status about privacy, access to media storage of your Devices and subscription status of our newsletter service.

1.4 Automated technologies or interactions
As you use the Services with interaction of our website, we also automatically collect information by using the cookies during your use of the Services, specifically: your IP-address, host name, user agent, browser identification, referrer, and the date/time of your access to the website of the Services by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies. For more details about cookies, please see our Cookie Policy. The Cookie Policy shall consistitute an integral part to this Privacy Notice.

1.5 We may collect, disclose, share or use your Personal Data for any other purposes at any time when we are legally required or allowed to do so even without your consent (e.g. when necessary to comply with any laws and regulations applicable to us, to cooperate with relevant governmental authorities and agencies, or to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims).

2. Legal basis for and purpose of collect, use and disclose

2.1 We will process your Personal Data based on any of the following legal basis (unless such data processing will conflict with applicable laws and regulations) or any other grounds as permitted under applicable laws;

• (i)Contract. When we need to process your Personal Data to perform a contract we enter into with you;
• (ii)Legal Obligation. When we need to comply with a legal obligation;
• (iii)Legitimate Interests. When the processing of your Personal Data is necessary for the fulfilment of legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests; and
• (iv)Consent. When you have given consent for us to process your Personal Data. However, even if we did not obtain consent from you, we may process your Personal Data based on other applicable legal grounds only when we are legally required or allowed to do so. The withdrawal of your consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing performed based on the consent before your withdrawal.

2.2 We use your Personal Data for the following purposes ("Purposes"):

• (i)to verify your identity to make available the Services with your CASIO ID;
• (ii)to perform providing the Services you request or contract with you including the customer support services;
• (iii)to personalize and optimize the Services for you and to enhance the user experience of the Services;
• (iv)to analysis your usage and actions of the Services and the Services for statistical, marketing, profiling or other purposes for us to review, develop and improve the quality of and to promote sales of our products and services (including the Services);
• (v)to (a) send questionnaires to you by Casio, its affiliates, or its local distributors on behalf of Casio for design and improve our products or services (including the Services) customized to interests of consumers, and (b) as permitted by applicable law, send you information and advertisement (via targeted advertising and direct messages) by Casio, its affiliates or its local distributors about our products and services (including the Services which you have not yet used) and offering or benefits (including special events, promotions and campaigns held by Casio, its affiliates or its local distributors) which might be of interest to you; and
• (vi)to contact you concerning your queries, or for any security and fraud prevention purposes.

2.3 During the period you use the Services, your Personal Data may be processed and used in the form(s) of printed documents and/or electronic files or otherwise by us and the parties prescribed in Section 6 and 7.

3. Management of your Personal Data

3.1 We have taken steps to protect your Personal Data in an appropriate manner. We collect, use and disclose (including cross-border transfer) the Personal Data to the extent permitted or required under the DPA and applicable laws and guidelines. In addition to this Privacy Notice, we follow our "Privacy Policy".

3.2 Safeguarding and respecting the confidentiality of your Personal Data is important to Casio. We will use our best efforts to protect your Personal Data to prevent unauthorised access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, disposal or similar risks.

3.3 Your Personal Data provided to us is stored on secure servers which are password protected where applicable, and can only be accessed by authorised employees. Casio also has security measures in place to protect against unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, disposal or similar risks of your Personal Data under our possession or control. However, please note that, to the fullest extent permitted by the applicable laws, we will not be held liable or responsible for any loss, misuse or alteration of your Personal Data that may be caused by third parties.

4. Storage Location

The Personal Data is transmitted to and stored in a server operated by us and our service providers, which server may be located outside of your country.

5. Cookies

This website uses cookies. A "cookie" is used to provide services to the customer and identifies the computer being used by the users; however it cannot be used to identify the actual customer unless the customer inputs personal data on our websites. Information about you obtained through a "cookie" is used for the purpose of making our Services more convenient for users of the Services. You may disable "cookie" in browser; however this may restrict the use of the Services provided by Casio. For further information please read our cookie policy – which you will find here https://world.casio.com/cookie/.

6. Data sharing

6.1 In accordance with applicable data protection laws, including Japanese law in connection with the framework of joint use, we share your Personal Data with our affiliates and its local distributors in your country or region. The categories of Personal Data that is shared are your name, email address, school name, school type and subject in charge. The purposes of sharing are the same as the Purposes stated in (iv) and (v) of Section 2 hereof. Each entity is responsible for the management of your Personal Data which it collects from you in accordance with its own plivacy policy.

6.2 We may disclose your Personal Data to any judicial or governmental authorities, courts, external advisors, and similar third parties, if so requested by them, in accordance with any applicable laws, rules or regulations.

7. Service Providers

7.1 We may make use of third-party vendors to process your Personal Data on our behalf ("Service Providers ").
Service Providerss may include our affiliates, local distributors, service partners, service providers and subcontractors as necessary to process for accomplishment of the Purposes. "Processing" means the carrying out of any operations or set of operations in relation to personal data, including, amongst others, (i) recording, (ii) holding, (iii) organization, adaptation or alteration, (iv) retrieval, (v) combination, (vi) transmission, and (vii) erasure or destruction.

7.2 You acknowledge and consent that we may make use of such Service Providers to process your Personal Data for the Purposes set out in Section 2 or for any other purposes lawfully permitted under the DPA and/or the applicable laws.

8. Cross-border transfers

In the event that we transfer your Personal Data overseas, we will ensure that our affiliate, local distributors, Service Providers above are located outside the country where you live will provide a standard of protection to your Personal Data so transferred that is comparable to the protection in accordance with the applicable personal data protection laws. In relation to your Personal Data which we may transfer to us in Japan from time to time, we have taken appropriate steps to ensure that such recipients are bound by legally enforceable obligations to provide such comparable standard of protection to the applicable personal data protection laws.

9. Non-mandatory

You are NOT obligated in any way to provide your information to us. However, if your Personal Data necessary for the Services is not provided to us, you may not receive the Services in whole or in part.

10. Third Party Services

Our Services may contain links to other services, websites and resources that are operated or provided by third parties with different privacy practices. We have no control over and do not take any responsibility for these third party services and websites, and their Personal Data handling practices. You are encouraged to review the personal data policies of the services and websites you choose to visit which are linked from our Services.

11. Your Statutory rights

11.1 The DPA and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (“IRR”) provide for the rights of the data subjects and instances where these may be duly exercised. Under the conditions set out in the applicable data protection law, you may have the following rights, which you may exercise by contacting us at the contact information indecated in Section 14 below:

• (i)Right to access: You have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not Personal Data concerning you is being processed, and, where that is the case, to request access to the Personal Data. The access information includes – inter alia – the contents and categories of your Personal Data concerned; sources from which Personal Data were obtained (if the data was not collected from the data subject); purposes fo processing manner by which such data were processed; information on automated process where the processed data will or is likely to be made as the sole basis for any dicision that significantly affects or will affect you; names and addresses of recipients to whom the Personal Data have been or will be disclosed; date when your Personal Data were last accessed and modified; period for which particular categories of information will be stored; and the designation, name or identity, and address of our Data Protection Officer (“DPO").
  However, this is not an absolute right, and the interests of other individuals may restrict your right of access.
• (ii)Right to rectification. You have the right to despute the inaccurate or error in your Personal Data and have us correct the same within a reasonable period of time. Depending on the purposes of the processing, you have the right to have incomplete Personal Data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement. In case of any significant change or amended to the information provided to you in this Privacy Notice, you shall be notified and given an opportunity to object and/or withdraw your consent. Such objection and/or withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to the objection and consent withdrawal.
• (iii)Right to Object. You have the right to object to the processing of our Personal Data where such processing is based on consent or legitimate interest. We will no longer process your Personal Data unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
  Moreover, if your Personal Data are processed for direct marketing purposes, where such processing is permitted without you prior consent, you have a right to object at any time to the processing of Personal Data concerning you for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. In this case, your Personal Data will no longer be processed for such purposes by us.
  Such a right to object may not exist, in particular, if the processing of your Personal Data is necessary to take steps prior to entering into a contract or to perform a contract already concluded.
• (iv)Right to Erasure or Blocking. You have the right to request for the suspension, withdrawal, blocking, removal, or destructions of your Personal Data from our filing system. This may include (but is not limited to) circumstances in which; (a) it is no longer necessary for us to retain your Personal Data for the purposes for which we collected it; (b) we are only entitled to process your Personal Data with your consent, and you withdraw your consent; or (c) you object to our processing of your Personal Data for our legitimate interests, and our legitimate interests do not override your own interests, rights and freedoms.
• (v)Right to Data Portability. You have the right to obtain from us a copy of your Personal Data and/or have the same transmitted to another entity without hindrance from us, in an electronic or structured format that is commonly used and allows further use by you. This right only applies to Personal Data which you have provided to us and we have processed and will process based on your consent or contract.
• (vi)Right to Damages. You have the right to be indemnified for any damages sustained due to inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, false, unlawfully obtained, or unauthorized use of their Personal Data, taking into account any violation of your rights and freedoms as data subject.

11.2 You can exercise your rights by contacting us through the information about us described in Section 14. When you wish to exercise your rights under Section 11.1 of this Privacy Notice above, please note that:

• (i)in order for us to provide any Personal Data, we will need to verify your identity and may first request further information;
• (ii)we may refuse you access to your Personal Data if it would affect the privacy rights of other persons or if it breaches any confidentiality that attaches to that data;
• (iii)we may also refuse your request where we are legally permitted to do so and give you such reasos;
• (iv)you should be aware that we may take a reasonable time to process your application for access as we may need to retrieve information from strage and review the information in order to determine what information may be provided; and
• (v)we may have to change you a reasonable administrative fee for retrieving your personal data.

11.3 You can lodge a complaint with us at the contact information indicated in Section 14 or with the data protection regulator in the country of your residence, the National Privacy Commission of the Philippines, if you think that any of your rights have been infringed by us or the processing of your Personal Data infringes the provisions of the DPA, IRR and/or the applicable data protection laws and regulations.

12. Retention period

12.1 Your Personal Data will be retained only for as long as necessary for accomplishment of the Purposes, or as allowed by law.

12.2 In the case where we receive unsolicited Personal Data via email or any other communication channels, the unsolicited Personal Data will not be retained and will be securely disposed of immediately.

13. Changes to this Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to modify and/or update this Privacy Notice at any time to ensure it is consistent with industry trends and/or any changes in legal or regulatory requirements. In case of any significant change or amendment to this Privacy Notice, we will notify you. Subject to any rights you may have at law, you agree to be bound by the prevailing terms of the Privacy Notice as may be modified and/or updated by Casio from time to time.

14. How to contact us

Should you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Notice (including any request to access, review, obtain a copy of, update, or delete Personal Data or cease further collection, processing or use thereof, withdraw your consent hereby, or exercise your rights under the applicable laws with regard to the processing of Personal Data), please contact us and/or our DPO at the following contact details:

Our Contact Information:
Company Name: Casio Computer Co., Ltd,
Address: 6-2, Hon-machi 1 chome, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-8543, Japan

Inquiry form: https://eduentry.casio-intl.com/philippines/s/createrecord/Inquiry_Philippines

DPO’s contact information:
Name: Data Protection Officer
Address: 6-2, Hon-machi 1-chome, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-8543, Japan
Email address: dataprotection@casio.co.jp
Phone number: +81-3-5334-4645

15. Governing Law

This Privacy Notice shall be governed in all respects by the laws of Philippines.