Bridgestone Corporation ("Bridgestone") is committed to protecting your personal information.
With this site, Bridgestone may have the opportunity to receive your personal information through your inquiries on products, promotional programs, or questionnaires etc.. Bridgestone believes that it is an important responsibility to protect all of your personal information.
To better protect your privacy, Bridgestone provides the following policies that apply to this site. Bridgestone will prevent any leakage, misuse or alteration of your personal information to the best of our ability.
What is personal information?
The types of personal information include your name, address, age, telephone number, e-mail address, any information that personally identifies you, or any information that is specific to you.
How we collect your personal information
When Bridgestone collects the personal information you submit to this site, Bridgestone clearly indicates the purpose of this, and does so within necessary limitations. If you prefer not to provide your personal information to Bridgestone, you can refuse the submission of your own accord. However, please note that by refusing to submit your personal information, you may not be able to utilize some of the services on this site that require submission of personal information. Bridgestone automatically receives your IP address, cookie information or information on any web pages that you review, and records this information onto our server. Such gathered information may be used to customize our site contents, which you review and improve our site contents.
How we use your personal information
Bridgestone only uses your personal information within the specific purpose that is indicated to you. We will inform you beforehand if an occasion arises where we would like to use your personal information beyond the purpose originally indicated to you. If you do not agree with this, you can refuse the usage of your personal information.
Non-disclosure of your personal information to third parties
Bridgestone does not disclose, transfer or lend the personal information you submit to our site to any third parties. Notwithstanding this obligation shall not apply to the following:
1. When we obtain your permission.
2. When we find it necessary to disclose it to Bridgestone-affiliated companies, subsidiaries, distributors or agencies in order to answer any inquiries from you.
3. When we find it necessary to disclose information to other companies Bridgestone hires that have a confidentiality agreement with Bridgestone in order to implement what was indicated to you.
4. When such information is processed into non-personally-identifiable information as a statistical data.
5. In case of urgent circumstances to protect people's life, body or property.
6. In case of being required to disclose such information by law.
"COOKIES"
Cookies are small pieces of information which are issued to your computer when you visit this website to store and track information about your use of this website. Such information is used to do internal research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behaviour to better understand, protect and serve you. The system on this website uses Cookies to recognize your browser and can provide functions such as storing your access information until your next site visit.
You may set up your browser not to receive new Cookies, to arrange a warning to appear on the screen when Cookies are received or to void the cookie functions (please refer to "help in your browser's toolbar). However, if you do so, you may not be able to utilize some functions on this site. To fully utilize this website, we recommend that Cookies are enabled.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY
We employ reasonable procedural and technical safeguards to protect your personal data against loss or theft as well as unauthorized access and disclosure to protect your privacy, including encryption and “firewall” safeguards. We treat personal data as an asset that must be protected and take reasonable steps to protect your personal data against misuse by both users inside and outside the Bridgestone.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website or emails may contain links to other websites, whose data protection and privacy practices may differ from ours. We are not responsible for the content and privacy policies of these other companies and we encourage you to consult their privacy policies before using their websites.
INQUIRIES OR AMENDMENT OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you would like to inquire, make any corrections or request deletion of your personal information, please contact Bridgestone’s Data Protection Officers.
REVISION OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY
INQUIRIES OR AMENDMENT OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you would like to inquire, make any corrections or request deletion of your personal information, please contact Bridgestone’s Data Protection Officers.
REVISION OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Bridgestone reserves the right to update this Policy from time to time as we expand our services. Where applicable, policy revision notices will be posted on our website to inform you of an update. Your use of the website after such revision notices shall be deemed acceptance of the updated Policy.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Should you have any feedback or enquiry relating to your personal data, please contact Bridgestone’s Data Protection Officers at: -
Email: jeehee@bridgestone-korea.co.kr
Alternatively, you may contact our Data Protection Officers through our main line at 02-3210-2480