Privacy Policy

• What user information is collected?
• Cookies
• What about the information requested during registration?
• Emails from the RIKEN RESEARCH website
• Your privacy is important to us
• Linking to and from the RIKEN RESEARCH website

What user information is collected?

RIKEN RESEARCH collects only the domain name, and not the email address, of visitors to the website, and any additional information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registration. RIKEN RESEARCH also collects aggregate and user-specific information on the pages consumers access or visit. The collected information is used for internal review, to improve the content of web pages and to notify consumers about updates to the website. The information is not sold or traded with other organizations for commercial purposes.

Cookies

We use cookies to record session information and to track a user's path through the RIKEN RESEARCH website. This enables us to respond to any problems with our service.

What about the information requested during registration?

When registering at the RIKEN RESEARCH website, we need information from you that identifies you personally. This information includes your location and general interests. We use some parts of your personal information (such as your username and password) to operate certain functions within RIKEN RESEARCH website. We need your email address in order to send you confirmation of your user identity and password.

RIKEN RESEARCH ensures that your personal information is stored securely in our database.

Emails from the RIKEN RESEARCH website

When registering on the RIKEN RESEARCH website, you may be offered the option to receive:

• Periodic email alerts about the latest published highlights.
• Occasional news from RIKEN RESEARCH. You may opt out of this service at the registration stage, or any time thereafter, by following the instructions at the bottom of the alert, or by logging in and modifying your account preferences.

Your privacy is important to us

We strive to do everything we can to protect the privacy of our users. We do not sell or exchange personally identifiable information with any third parties. From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes on our website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, we recommend that you review this privacy statement periodically, as RIKEN RESEARCH may update it from time to time.

If you would like to ensure that you are not contacted by us as a result of having used our site, please email us at rikenresearch@riken.jp.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at rikenresearch@riken.jp. We will be sure to address your concerns.

Linking to and from the RIKEN RESEARCH website

Please contact us at rikenresearch@riken.jp if you would like to link to or from our site, and we will be pleased to advise you about our policies. Please provide full details of your site and how the linking will be used.