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Taiyo International General Privacy Notice

United States

Last Updated: May 2023

This Privacy Statement sets out how we at Taiyo International Inc. use, disclose, and protect the personal information that we collect from or about you as a visitor to our websites or a consumer of our products or services, or other instances where this Privacy Statement is provided to you. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information.

Before submitting personal information to us or using our websites, please review this Privacy Statement carefully. Taiyo International may supplement this Privacy Notice depending on which products or service you use or where you live. If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, or Utah, please review your additional state-specific information below. If you are located outside the United States or Puerto Rico, please review the applicable Privacy Statement for your jurisdiction.

In our processing we comply with the requirements of privacy legislation. That means, among other things, that:

we clearly state the purposes for which we process personal data. We do this by means of this privacy statement;
we aim to limit our collection of personal data to only the personal data required for legitimate purposes;
we first request your explicit consent to process your personal data in cases requiring your consent;
we take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data and also require this from parties that process personal data on our behalf;
we respect your right to access your personal data or have it corrected or deleted, at your request.

If you have any questions, or want to know exactly what data we keep of you, please contact us.

Information We Collect About You

What personal information do we collect about you?

We may collect or receive personal information for a number of purposes connected with our business operations which may include the following:

1.1 Contact – Through phone, mail, email and/or webforms

The following categories of data are collected:

A first and last name
A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
An email address
A telephone number
IP address

Retention period

We retain this data upon termination of the service for 12 months. Data can be deleted sooner upon request.

1.2 Payments

The following categories of data are collected:

A first and last name
Account name or alias
A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
An email address
A telephone number
IP address
Financial information such as credit card number

Retention period

We retain this data upon termination of the service for 12 months. Data can be deleted sooner upon request.

1.3 Registering an account

The following categories of data are collected:

A first and last name
An email address

Retention period

We retain this data until the service is terminated.

1.4 Newsletters

The following categories of data are collected:

A first and last name
An email address

Retention period

We retain this data upon termination of the service for 12 months. Data can be deleted sooner upon request.

1.5 To support services or products that a customer wants to buy or has purchased

The following categories of data are collected:

A first and last name
A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
An email address
A telephone number

Retention period

We retain this data upon termination of the service for 12 months. Data can be deleted sooner upon request.

1.6 Compiling and analyzing statistics for website improvement.

The following categories of data are collected:

IP address
Internet activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement
Geolocation data

Retention period

We determine the retention period according to fixed objective criteria: Encrypted data is stored in third-party Analytics software without any identifying characteristics. Data retained indefinitely.

1.7 To sell or share data with a third party

The following categories of data are collected:

A first and last name
A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
An email address
A telephone number

Retention period

We determine the retention period according to fixed objective criteria: Your personal information will never be sold for profit. Information submitted through forms may be transferred through or stored in third party systems for marketing automation and email marketing purposes if consented to. This information can be immediately deleted upon request.

1.8 Deliveries

The following categories of data are collected:

A first and last name
A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
A telephone number

Retention period

We retain this data until the service is terminated.

Sharing with Other Parties

Sharing with other parties

Depending on how you use our site, your data may be sent through third party platforms.

We only share or disclose this data to other recipients for the following purposes:

1. Email Marketing

Purpose: Email Marketing

Country or state in which this service provider is located: United States

The following categories of data are shared:

A first and last name
A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
An email address
A telephone number
IP address

2. Marketing Automation

Purpose: Marketing Automation

Country or state in which this service provider is located: United States

The following categories of data are shared:

A first and last name
A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
An email address
A telephone number
Additional form responses regarding the specific services you’re interested in

3. Website Analytics

Purpose: Website Analytics

Country or state in which this service provider is located: United States

The following categories of data are shared:

IP address
Internet activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement
Geolocation data

We may share personal information for the purposes of providing targeted and cross-context behavioral advertising. We do not knowingly sell or share for targeted advertising purposes personal information about children under 16 years old.

Information Disclosure Practices

We disclose personal information if we are required by law or by a court order, in response to a law enforcement agency, to the extent permitted under other provisions of law, to provide information, or for an investigation on a matter related to public safety.

If our website or organisation is taken over, sold, or involved in a merger or acquisition, your details may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchasers and will be passed on to the new owners.

Please see the “Sharing with other parties” tab to learn more about the information that may be disclosed.

Why we Collect Your Personal Information

Why do we collect your personal information?

We collect your personal information to improve our products and services, optimize your experience with our website, manage our relationship with you, and for other internal business purposes. We describe these purposes for collection in more detail below, as well as the categories of personal information we collect to achieve each purpose.

Improving Websites, Products, and Services

This includes managing the quality of our products and services; analyzing information from external sources such as Google, Facebook, TikTok, and others; performing analytics and understanding the preferences of our customers; and conducting market research to gain insights and feedback on current and new product ideas.

Managing Our Relationship With You

Providing our products and services to you; granting you access to our sites and facilities; responding to your requests and managing your account and preferences; communicating with you, including sending you transactional and administrative messages as well as promotional information about Taiyo International products/services and co-branded offers and offers; inviting you to submit feedback, reviews and/or testimonials about our products and services, participate in research, or attend events; and for other purposes that may be detailed prior to the time your information is collected.

Managing and Improving Internal Processes

Managing our network and information systems security; managing our workforce effectively; and preparing and performing management reporting and analysis, including analytics and metrics.

Complying With Law and Legal Purposes

Following applicable laws and regulations; responding to lawful requests from competent public authorities; telling you about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies; exercising or defending Taiyo International against potential, threatened or actual litigation; and protecting Taiyo International’s or your vital interests, or those of another person.

The specific information we collect can be found in the “Information we collect about you” tab.

We only use and disclose your sensitive personal information for the following purposes: performing services or providing goods reasonably expected by an average consumer; detecting security incidents; resisting malicious, deceptive, or illegal actions; ensuring the physical safety of individuals; for short-term, transient use, including non-personalized advertising; performing or providing internal business services; and verifying or maintaining the quality or safety of a product, service or device.

Cookies and Other Technologies

How we use cookies and other technologies

Our website uses cookies.

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a server. Cookies and similar technologies allow our websites and mobile applications to load content, remember your preferences, keep you signed into your account, save your shopping cart, and provide a more personalized experience. They also let us generate information about website traffic and trends, and to verify your viewing and/or receipt of communications.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies by configuring your browser settings. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our websites or any other websites that you visit.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google.

For more information about cookies, as well as the specific cookies we use, please refer to our Cookie Policy on our Opt-out preferences page.

Marketing Opt-Out Options

If you would like to opt out of receiving a promotional or marketing email from us, you may use the “unsubscribe” mechanism which included in each marketing message. If you opt out of marketing, we may still contact you with transactional communications or information that pertains to our relationship with you.

You can also learn to opt out of cookies in the Cookies and Other Technologies tab.

Data Protection and Security

How do we protect your personal information?

We are committed to the security of personal data. We take appropriate security measures to limit abuse of and unauthorized access to personal data. This ensures that only the necessary persons have access to your data, that access to the data is protected, and that our security measures are regularly reviewed.

The transmission of information via the Internet or a mobile phone network connection may not be completely secure, and you understand that we cannot guarantee the security of the personal information you transmit to us. You are fully responsible for taking precautions and providing security measures best suited for your interactions with us and your intended use of our products and services. Please be careful whenever sending personal information to us via email. Email is not always a secure means of transferring information.

How Long We Keep Your Personal Information?

We retain your personal information to provide our products and services, interact with you, run our business, comply with our legal obligations, and defend potential claims or actions. In determining how long we keep your personal information, we may consider the nature and sensitivity of your personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information, and applicable legal requirements.

The specific length we keep your personal information will vary depending on the type of information. More details can be found in the “Information we collect about you” tab.

Children’s privacy statement

Children’s privacy statement

Some Taiyo International products may be used by children, but they are not specifically designed and/or formulated for children, and marketing is not targeted to them. We do not knowingly market to or capture personal information from minors under 18 years of age. If Taiyo International learns that a child under the age of 18 has used our services or submitted personal information without parental consent, we will take all reasonable measures to delete the information as soon as possible and to not use such information for any purpose, except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or others as required or allowed by law.

Do Not Track & Global Privacy Control

Our website does not respond to and does not support the Do Not Track (DNT) header request field.

We are working on getting this implemented in the near future and will adjust our privacy statement accordingly.

Accessing and Modifying Your Data

If you have any questions or want to know which personal data we have about you, please contact us. Please make sure to always clearly state who you are, so that we can be certain that we do not modify or delete any data of the wrong person. We shall provide the requested information only upon receipt of a verifiable consumer request. You can contact us by using the information below. You have the following rights:

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data

You may submit a request for access to the data we process about you.
You may object to the processing.
You may request an overview, in a commonly used format, of the data we process about you.
You may request correction or deletion of the data if it is incorrect or not or no longer relevant, or to ask to restrict the processing of the data.

Data Requests

For the most frequently submitted requests, we also offer you the possibility to use our data request form.

California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you may have the following rights with respect to the personal information we process about you:

Right to know what personal information is being collected about you

A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that collects personal information about the consumer disclose to the consumer the following:

The categories of personal information it has collected about that consumer.
The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.
The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.
The categories of third parties with whom the business shares personal information.
The specific pieces of personal information it has collected about that consumer.

The right to know whether personal information is sold or disclosed and to whom

A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that sells the consumer’s personal information, or that discloses it for a business purpose, disclose to that consumer:

The categories of personal information that the business collected about the consumer.
The categories of personal information that the business sold about the consumer and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, by category or categories of personal information for each third party to whom the personal information was sold.
The categories of personal information that the business disclosed about the consumer for a business purpose.

The Right to equal service and price, even if you exercise your privacy rights

A consumer shall have the right to request that a business delete any personal information about the consumer which the business has collected from the consumer.

A business that receives a verifiable request from a consumer to delete the consumer’s personal information pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section shall delete the consumer’s personal information from its records and direct any service providers to delete the consumer’s personal information from their records.

A business or a service provider shall not be required to comply with a consumer’s request to delete the consumer’s personal information if it is necessary for the business or service provider to maintain the consumer’s personal information in order to:

Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a good or service requested by the consumer, or reasonably anticipated within the context of a business’s ongoing business relationship with the consumer, or otherwise perform a contract between the business and the consumer.
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity.
Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act pursuant to Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) of Title 12 of Part 2 of the Penal Code.
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the businesses’ deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, if the consumer has provided informed consent.
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
To enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with the expectations of the consumer based on the consumer’s relationship with the business.
Comply with a legal obligation.
Otherwise use the consumer’s personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which the consumer provided the information.

Right to opt-out

You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you. For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.

Financial incentives

Selling of personal data to third parties

A list of the categories of personal information we have sold to a third party in the preceding 12 months:

Internet activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement

A list of the categories we have disclosed for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months:

Internet activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement

Privacy Rights for CO, CT, NV, UT, and VA Residents

Privacy rights for residents of Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, Utah, and Virginia Residents

If you are a resident of Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, or Virginia you may have the following rights:

Right to data portability

When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance. You may exercise this right no more than two times per calendar year.

Residents of Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, Utah, and Virginia may also have the following rights:

Right to opt-out

You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.

Under state law this concerns the following purposes:

targeted advertising;
the sale of personal data; or
profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.

If you live in Colorado, Connecticut, or Virginia, we will obtain your consent prior to processing your sensitive information for certain purposes, and you can withdraw your consent at any time. If you are a resident of Utah, you have the right to opt out of certain types of sensitive information processing.

For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.

Information for visitors from outside the United States or Puerto Rico

Information for visitors from outside the United States

The information in this privacy statement is intended for individuals in the United States and Puerto Rico. If you are located outside of the United States or Puerto Rico, please refer to the privacy statement specific to your country.

Furthermore, our collection of websites is intended for North America specifically. If you live outside of North America, we do our best to conform to the privacy expectations of your country.

Third party links

Third party links

Our websites may ocassionally provide links to separate websites or mobile applications that are not owned or controlled by us. Except as described above regarding our service providers, we do not control what information third parties track or collect. Any access to and use of such third-party websites and services is not governed by this Privacy Statement but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those third parties. We are not responsible for the information practices of such third parties.

How we update this Privacy Statement

How we update this Privacy Statement

The privacy statement may be updated as needed. Any changes become effective immediately when the revised Statement is posted. When we post modifications to this Privacy Statement, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this web page. If the changes are material, we will take steps to try to notify you in advance of such changes taking place. If you object to any modification, notify us that you do not agree, stop using our services, and do not provide us with any further personal information.

Contact information

How to contact us about privacy issues

Please contact us if you need more information about our privacy policy or if you would like to raise a privacy concern.

The owner of this website is:

Taiyo International, Inc.
1601 Utica Ave South, Suite 109
Minneapolis, MN 55416 USA
Email: sales@taiyoint.com
Phone number: 763-398-3003

Disclaimer

Taiyo International, Inc. is committed to keeping our websites up to date and accurate. Should you nevertheless encounter anything that is incorrect or out of date, we would appreciate it if you could let us know. Please indicate where on the website you read the information. We will then look at this as soon as possible. Please send your response by email to: sales@taiyoinc.com.

We are not liable for loss as a result of inaccuracies or incompleteness, nor for loss resulting from problems caused by or inherent to the dissemination of information through the internet, such as disruptions or interruptions. When using web forms, we strive to limit the number of required fields to a minimum. For any loss suffered as a result of the use of data, advice or ideas provided by or on behalf of Taiyo International, Inc. via this website, Taiyo International, Inc. accepts no liability.

Responses and privacy inquiries submitted by email or using a web form will be treated in the same way as letters. This means that you can expect a response from us within a period of 1 month at the latest. In the case of complex requests, we will let you know within 1 month if we need a maximum of 3 months.

Any personal data you provide us with in the context of your response or request for information will only be used in accordance with our privacy statement.

Taiyo International, Inc. shall make every reasonable effort to protect its systems against any form of unlawful use. Taiyo International, Inc. shall implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to this end, taking into account, among other things, the state of the art. However, it shall not be liable for any loss whatsoever, direct and/or indirect, suffered by a user of the website, which arises as a result of the unlawful use of its systems by a third party.

Taiyo International, Inc. accepts no responsibility for the content of websites to which or from which a hyperlink or other reference is made. Products or services offered by third parties shall be subject to the applicable terms and conditions of those third parties.

We are continuing to improve our websites to conform to WCAG 2.1 level AA guidelines. These guidelines are internationally recognized agreements on accessibility, sustainability, interchangeability, and findability of websites.

All intellectual property rights to content on this website are vested in Taiyo International, Inc. or in third parties who have placed the content themselves or from whom Taiyo International, Inc. has obtained a user license.

Copying, disseminating and any other use of these materials is not permitted without the written permission of Taiyo International, Inc., except and only insofar as otherwise stipulated in regulations of mandatory law (such as the right to quote), unless specific content dictates otherwise.

If you have any questions or problems with the accessibility of the website, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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