Privacy Policy relating to Specific Personal Information

Ⅰ Handling of specific personal information

NTT FINANCE will use its best efforts to protect your specific personal information that NTT FINANCE retains (including when NTT FINANCE retains individual numbers only) in accordance with the following policies and pursuant to the provisions of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information ("APPI") and the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures ("Individual Number Act (Number Use Act))," as well as the guidelines of the ministries, agencies, and industries with jurisdiction over specific personal information and the "NTT Group Information Security Policy" (collectively, the "Protection Regulations").

1. Extent of specific personal information collection

NTT FINANCE collects your specific personal information only by legal and fair methods.

2. Maintaining specific personal information accuracy

NTT FINANCE will use its best efforts to ensure that your specific personal information that NTT FINANCE retains is accurate, complete and up-to-date.

3. Amendment, etc. of specific personal information

NTT FINANCE will promptly amend or delete any incorrect specific personal information upon a request for information disclosure from the pertinent individual.

4. Use of specific personal information

NTT FINANCE will use the specific personal information that NTT FINANCE retains for the purpose of conducting the following administrative tasks set forth in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations:

  • administrative tasks pertaining to the preparation of payment reports of compensation, fees, monetary amounts stated in contracts, and monetary awards;

  • administrative tasks pertaining to the preparation of payment reports of real estate usage fees, etc.;

  • administrative tasks pertaining to the preparation of payment reports of consideration for the acquisition of real estate; and

  • administrative tasks pertaining to the preparation of payment reports of the sale or purchase of real estate or real estate loan brokerage fees.

In the case where NTT FINANCE directly receives any written specific personal information, etc. from the pertinent individual, NTT FINANCE shall expressly state the purpose of use thereof on such occasion, except in the cases that fall under any items of Article 21, paragraph 4 of the APPI; provided, however, that this shall not apply if the case falls under item 1 or item 2 of Article 18, paragraph 2 of the APPI, the content of which is replaced with Article 30, paragraph 2 of the Individual Number Act (Number Use Act).

5. Provision of specific personal information to third parties

NTT FINANCE will not provide any specific personal information that NTT FINANCE retains to a third party. However, in the cases provided for in each item of Article 19 of the Individual Number Act (Number Use Act), NTT FINANCE may provide any necessary specific personal information to a related third party or be provided with any necessary specific personal information from a related third party without obtaining the consent from the pertinent individual in advance.

6. Joint use of specific personal information

NTT FINANCE will not jointly use any specific personal information that NTT FINANCE retains with any particular person.

7. Security control measures for specific personal information

NTT FINANCE appropriately implements as follows organizational, human, physical and technical security control measures when handling your specific personal information. In addition, when outsourcing the handling of specific personal information, NTT FINANCE supervises the subcontractors (including any subsequent subcontractors or the like) to ensure that they manage your specific personal information appropriately and make improvements as necessary.

  • 1 Organizational security control measures

    NTT FINANCE implements organizational security control measures which include the development of an organizational structure such as a committee on information security and a person in charge of information security management in each organization, the establishment of internal rules and regulations and the implementation of operations based on these rules, and periodic audits on the status of operations.

  • 2 Human security control measures

    NTT FINANCE provides our employees, etc. with sufficient education and training on information security, and requires them to sign a written pledge to comply with the appropriate handling of specific personal information when engaging in business activities.

  • 3 Physical security control measures

    NTT FINANCE implements physical security control measures related to information system installation and work locations as well as physical protection of equipment and software, etc., including access controls for buildings and floors where your specific personal information is handled, theft prevention measures, and measures against destruction of customers' specific personal information due to fire, lightning strikes, etc.

  • 4 Technical security control measures

    NTT FINANCE implements technical security control measures such as access management, including authentication, authority management and control, and recording when accessing your specific personal information, countermeasures against unauthorized software and viruses in our systems, countermeasures by means of encryption and clarification of responsibilities when your personal data is transferred, transmitted, and received, and information system monitoring.

Ⅱ Procedures for disclosure, amendment, and cessation of use, etc. of specific personal information

NTT FINANCE has prepared documents which you can use to request the disclosure, amendment, or cessation of use of your specific personal information. Please download, print, and submit the documents from [ this website (link) Link Icon ] to the address below.

The information subject to the request of disclosure, amendment, or cessation of use is as follows:

  • the information stated in the payment reports of compensation, fees, monetary amounts stated in contracts, and monetary awards;

  • the information stated in the payment reports of real estate usage fees, etc.;

  • the information stated in the payment reports of consideration for the acquisition of real estate; and

  • the information stated in the payment reports of the sale or purchase of real estate or real estate loan meditation fees.

When making such request, you are required to submit a copy of one of the following official documents on which your current address is stated in order to verify your identity:

  • a copy of your driver's license (please also attach a copy of the back side if your current address is written on the back side);

  • a copy of your passport (within its validity period; please send the full page showing your face photo (includes the page showing your face photo and the adjoining page) and the page showing your address);

  • a copy of your health insurance card (with your insurance identification code and number blanked out), and either an official copy of your residence record (juminhyo) (either an official copy that does not state your individual number or registered domicile or an official copy with your individual number and registered domicile blanked out) or a utility charge receipt or bill; or

  • a copy of your residence card or special permanent resident certificate (a certificate of alien registration is acceptable during the period in which such certificate of alien registration is deemed to serve as a residence card or special permanent resident certificate), and a copy of either your passport or a utility charge receipt or bill.

The disclosure fee is 1,000 JPY (including consumption tax).

Contact address for inquiries regarding the disclosure of specific personal information and the like:
Legal Division, General Affairs and Personnel Department, NTT FINANCE CORPORATION
Shinagawa Season Terrace 14F, 1-2-70 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0075, Japan

Ⅲ NTT Group information security policy

The NTT Group information security policy is available at the following URL.