The Public Relations Office, Overall Co-ordination Division, Minister’s Secretariat, the Ministry of Finance (hereinafter referred to as "the Office") collects information on users of the Official Website of the Ministry of Finance (www.mof.go.jp; hereinafter referred to as “the Site”) to the extent necessary for the efficient operation of the services provided on the Site (such as provision of information by the Site, sending of e-mails through the “E-mail Service” and the “E-mail Magazine delivery service,” and acceptance of various comments). Information acquired will be handled appropriately within the scope of the purposes of use.

(1)

The Office automatically collects and stores Internet domain names, IP addresses, information about access to the Site and so on. However, the Office does not use a cookie (information transmitted from the server to the user's browser and stored on the user's computer in order for the server to identify users).

(2)

When using the “E-mail Service” and/or “E-mail Magazine delivery service,” the users are requested to register their e-mail address.

(3)

At the “Feed Back” link, the Office may ask users to enter their name, address, occupation and e-mail address. The sender’s e-mail address is displayed to the recipient.

(1)

The information acquired in 2. (1) will be used as a reference for the efficient operation of the service provided by the Site.

(2)

The e-mail addresses collected in 2. (2) will be used for sending e-mails through the “E-mail Service” and/or the “E-mail Magazine delivery service.”

(3)

The comments and requests collected in 2. (3) will be used as a reference in future policymaking. Therefore, the comments may be forwarded to other offices within the Ministry of Finance or made public in a manner that would make it impossible to identify the senders of the comments (except for cases where the Site indicates in advance that the senders’ names, etc. will be published or where the senders consent to the publication of their names, etc.). The Office may use the e-mail addresses and telephone numbers to respond to and confirm inquiries. Such information may be forwarded to other related ministries depending on the content of the comments.

Except in cases of legal disclosure requests, cases of illegal access, threats and other unlawful acts or other special reasons, the Office does not use acquired information for any purposes other than those described in 3., nor will it provide acquired information to a third party. However, statistical information regarding access to the Site or information on users' attributes may be made public.

The Office is taking necessary measures for the appropriate management of acquired information to prevent any leakage, loss or destruction of acquired information.
The operation of the Site may be outsourced, but the organization to whom the information is outsourced will take necessary measures for appropriate management of acquired information.

If Information collected in services, such as “E-mail Service,” “E-mail Magazine delivery service,” and/or “Feed Back,” comes under the Section 3 of Article 2 of the Act for Protection of Personal Information Held by Administrative Organs (Act No.58, May 30, 2003), the users can request for disclosure of their own personal information in light of the Article 12 of Act No.58.
Users of the “E-mail Service” and the “E-mail Magazine delivery service” may cancel their registration anytime and also may change and revise the registered information anytime by canceling the old information and registering new information.

This privacy policy applies only to the Site. In the event the information is forwarded to related ministries, the information will be handled under the responsibilities of the respective ministries.

The Ministry of Finance may revise the privacy policy, in which case it will be announced on the Site.