About the definition of personal information in the Kyoshin Group

In the Kyoshin Group, information of surviving “customers (inquirers and users of services provided by each group company, their families, managers of franchise business)” and “executives, employees (employees, temporary employees, associate employees, seconded employees) and their families and persons who intend to become or became executive or employees of the company (applicants for employment, etc. and retirees), “shareholders”, and “business partners” which is possible to identify the individual by the name, date of birth, other description included in the information, or a number attached to each individual, a symbol or other code, an image or a sound (which cannot be identified only by the information but can be easily compared with other information, including those that can be identified.) indicates the definition.

Our company shall use personal information within the appropriate scope, as stated below.

• ①We will provide advice on future learning methods based on the learning results, the contents of the instruction record, questionnaires, interview results, etc. In addition, in order to motivate students, we may post the names of top performers in the school and those who have passed the external institution test (such as the Japanese Language Proficiency Test) in the school.
• ②It may be used to give advice when deciding a career path based on learning results, etc., and also to help in future career guidance by collecting and analyzing entrance examination results.
• ③We will use it to know attendance, accounting information etc. and perform business processing. In addition, students’ seating charts may be posted in the classroom.
• ④Name of the school, department, name of the company which person have passed and person’s name, name of the person’s current school and experience will be posted or shown in in-school organ or advertising medium for those studied with us. Inform us if person would like it to be anonymous   due to family circumstance.
• ⑤ When posting personal information other than the information about passing (school or employment) described in ④ on brochures, leaflets, posters, websites, etc., we will explain the intention, content and method of posting and obtain the consent of the person concerned.
• ⑥We may provide the information about our service of the Kyoshin Group to customers who request information or made inquiries to us. In addition, we may inform our customers and their families about the information of our service during the period of enrollment, after graduation, and after leaving school.
• ⑦We may be able to provide guidance such as recruitment of instructors, part-time jobs, and recruitment of employees after graduating and after leaving school.

In order to carry out the necessary work within the scope of the purpose of use, we may provide necessary information to an external company and outsource the work. In this case, the Kyoshin Group will select a contractor who can handle personal information appropriately and manage and supervise it.

The Kyoshin Group will be responsible for managing the personal information provided, and will not disclose or provide personal data to any third party outside the Kyoshin Group unless one of the following cases applies:

The Kyoshin Group may jointly use your personal data within the range necessary to achieve the purpose of use as described in the below by each company and each service.

Providing personal information about yourself is voluntary. In addition, we have the right to request disclosure, the right to request correction and deletion, and the right to refuse the provision of use upon request. However, we may not be able to provide appropriate services if we have not been provided.

Handling of personal information on the website

1. 1.Communication encryption

　In principle, the Kyoshin Group website supports SSL (Secure Socket Layers) in order to send and receive data securely. SSL is an encryption technology that prevents the leakage of information exchanged between a browser and a web server.

3. 2.About the use of cookies

　The Kyoshin Group website uses some cookies for the purpose of improving customer convenience and statistically grasping the status of site browsing. Cookies are small pieces of data that are sent and received between your computer’s browser and the server in order to make browsing more convenient when you visit the Kyoshin Group website again. Cookies are stored in your browser and may be referred to by the server, but the file sent as a cookie from the Kyoshin Group website does not contain information that identifies an individual. Depending on the browser you are using, you can disable cookies in the settings, but please note that this may limit some services or may prevent the services from functioning properly.

4. 3.About access log

　The Kyoshin Group may record and collect information such as the IP address used to access the Kyoshin Group website and the type of browser you are using in the form of an access log. The access log does not identify an individual but is used for the purpose of managing the website and statistical processing of usage.