POLICY

Quality Policy

Mitani Shoji has established its quality policy below to continuously meet customers’ expectations and fulfill its social responsibility by maintaining and improving the quality of its products and services.

1. We will accurately understand the needs of our customers and keep providing products and services that are trusted by, and satisfactory to, them.
2. We will strive to cultivate human resources from the long-term perspective for quality improvement and maintenance.
3. We will set quality goals and continuously improve the quality management system to accomplish this quality policy.
4. We will comply with all applicable laws as well as internal regulations while improving our quality assurance activities.
5. We will develop our quality management system in conformance with all requirements, thoroughly share and enforce it among all employees, and maintain and improve it through concerted efforts.
6. We will periodically revise the quality policy in order to maintain its suitability and adequacy.

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Environmental Policy

In keeping with our corporate philosophy to contribute to society through work, Mitani Shoji Co., Ltd. is committed to facilitating its activities to improve and protect the environment with a view to playing its role in enhancing the earth’s well-being, preserving natural resources, and preventing environmental pollution while reducing environmental impacts through our commercial activities, products, and services.

1. In terms of our business activities, we will set specific environmental objectives and goals and particularly work on conserving energy, reducing industrial waste, and recycling while constantly paying attention to environmental aspects and striving to prevent pollution, to the extent that is technologically and economically possible.
2. We will conduct our environmental protection activities while complying with all applicable environmental laws and regulations as well as any other requirements to which the company has consented.
3. We will monitor the status of relevant progress being made at EMS conferences, etc., revise our goals as needed, and strive to make continuous improvements in accordance with our environmental management system.
4. We will thoroughly disseminate and enforce our environmental initiatives among all our employees and strive to improve their individual mindsets concerning environmental protection through environmental education, etc.

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This Privacy Policy is intended to clarify our policy on handling, collecting, and using customers’ personal information on the Mitani Corporation website (hereinafter referred to as “this website”). When using this website, we ask that you please provide us with your personal information upon fully understanding this Privacy Policy.

1.USAGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

• (1) This website may ask you to enter your personal information when you submit an inquiry, place an order, request a quotation, or apply for other services.
• (2) The term “personal information”, as used in this Privacy Policy, refers to information that can be used to identify an individual, such as a customer’s name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. At Mitani Corporation, we believe that protecting personal information in compliance with laws, regulations, and other relevant norms will enable customers to have peace of mind when using this website and, furthermore, allow us to earn the trust of society.
• (3) On this website, we strive to protect personal information based on the following basic policy. This policy ensures that personal information is collected, used, and presented appropriately.　
  ・We appropriately store and dispose of personal information.
  ・We comply with laws, regulations, norms, etc. related to personal information.
  ・We strive to realize continuous improvement for the protection of personal information.

2.USAGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

This website strictly limits the use of personal information we receive from you for purposes essential for providing the services you voluntarily subscribe to and for enhancing your convenience when using this website.

3.USE OF COOKIES

• (1) This website uses persistent cookies to record the identification symbol of the web server you are accessing. Cookies are saved on your PC and are necessary for your PC to record the information needed to communicate with the web server.
• (2) There is a risk that malicious site operators could illicitly view cookies; however, in preparation for such risk, this website does not include information such as addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, credit card numbers, and other information that could impart damage to individual customers if it became known by malicious site operators.

4.ACCESS LOG

This website records the visitors’ information as access logs. The recorded information includes the IP address, access date and time, etc., of visitors, but does not contain any private information that could identify any individual. Access logs are used for managing this website and analyzing usage conditions and are not used for any other purpose.

5.ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION (SSL)

This website uses SSL (encrypted communications) when receiving customer information for inquiries, quotation requests, order applications, etc. SSL encrypts the information you enter before it is sent. We are working to prevent problems such as loss, falsification, leakage, or unauthorized access to customer information and to ensure the safety of our customers.

6.PROVISION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES

This website will not provide your personal information to third parties without your permission. However, since we outsource certain operations to outside contractors, we may disclose your personal information to such contractors to the extent deemed necessary for the performance of these operations upon obligating those contractors not to use the information for any other purpose. In addition, this website may disclose your personal information when required to do so by the laws and regulations of the countries in which we operate.

CHANGE OF PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy may be subject to change without notice if we deem it necessary to make improvements. By using any of the services on this website that require the provision of personal information after the Privacy Policy has been changed, you will be deemed to have agreed to the changes.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Please contact the following for corrections, changes, or other inquiries regarding the personal information you have provided.

146 Otojomenocho, Shimotoba, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto 612-8386, Japan
TEL：+81-75-623-3571 (Main)
FAX：+81-75-623-3561
Mitani Shoji Co., Ltd.

CSR Policy

1.Statutory Compliance

• ① Mitani Shoji and its employees shall, in good faith, comply with the international code of conduct, the laws of each country where we operate, and the company’s own regulations and rules while refraining from engaging in any unjust acts, in order to facilitate the company’s business activities with integrity.
• ② Mitani Shoji and its employees shall not engage in any acts that negatively affect their normal transactional relationships with business partners, including over-the-top service, provision and reception of gifts, provision of financial and other benefits, etc.
• ③ Mitani Shoji and its employees shall not engage in any acts that are in conflict with the company’s interests, including transacting with any of the company’s competitors, business partners, or other companies while seeking to make personal gains. Our employees shall also perform their duties in a clean and sincere manner while clearly distinguishing between their professional and personal lives.
• ④ Mitani Shoji and its employees shall not engage in any insider trading based on information we become privy to at work or in any other acts that could be suspected as insider trading.

2.Labor

• ① All employees shall be able to work in a safe and healthy manner in all of the company’s workplaces.
• ② No acts shall be committed that discriminate against people or harm their personal dignity based on their gender, age, place of birth, nationality, race, ethnicity, beliefs, religion, physical characteristics, disability, etc.
• ③ No child labor or forced labor shall be allowed in the company’s business activities.
• ④ All risks of human rights violation shall be addressed in the company’s business activities in consideration of their effects on human rights.
• ⑤ All types of harassment (including but not limited to sexual harassment, power harassment, and harassment in connection with pregnancy, childbirth, childcare leave, nursing care leave, etc.) shall be eliminated from the workplace and be prevented from keeping the work environment at the company to deteriorate.
• ⑥ The privacy, individuality, and diversity of all employees shall be respected, while a healthy work-life balance shall be promoted.

3.Ethics and Human Rights

• ① The human rights of all people involved in the company’s business activities shall be respected.
• ② No speech or act shall be committed that discriminates, harasses, defames, teases, or otherwise causes unpleasant emotion to any person based on their race, nationality, beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, social status, family lineage, occupation, disability, etc., nor shall such speech or act be concurred with or overlooked.
• ③ Individual differences shall be mutually recognized, while diverse sets of values and conceptions shall be utilized.
• ④ No acts shall be committed that are or may be suspected as the formation of a cartel, abuse of superior bargaining position, product tying, other unjust transaction restriction, or unfair transaction method.

4.Safety and Health

• ① Safety shall be secured at all times, while the workplace shall be optimized so that all employees can work with peace of mind, and their health shall be maintained.
• ② Compliance with all applicable industrial safety and health laws, other requirements, and internal regulations shall be ensured.
• ③ The company shall systematically plan and implement employee education, training, etc., on industrial safety and health in an effort to improve their awareness of the topic. It shall also facilitate their self-initiated activities to promote the creation of a comfortable work environment and prevent injuries and physical and mental illnesses.
• ④ Safety and health goals and action plans shall be formulated and implemented to make continuous improvements on identified issues while periodically revising them.

5.Environment

• ① At all work locations, activities shall be facilitated to prevent public hazards and environmental pollution, conserve resources and energy, reduce industrial waste, promote recycling, and protect biological diversity and ecosystems.
• ② In all business activities, consideration shall be given to their effects on the environment at all times while complying with all applicable environmental laws and regulations and actively tackling environmental issues.

6.Quality

A company-wide structure of quality improvement activities shall be established while conducting quality analysis, improvement guidance, and periodical internal audits to achieve further quality improvement and continuously facilitate comprehensive quality improvement activities.

7.Information Security

• ① The company and its employees shall strictly protect all information that is handled in their operations and refrain from divulging, inappropriately disclosing, or using for unintended purposes any such information.
• ② The company and its employees shall properly handle and protect all personal information.

8.BCP

• ① All risks of emergency events shall be identified, monitored, and prepared for, including natural disasters, virulent contagious diseases, conflicts, internal accidents, infrastructure or labor issues, etc., so that the company’s supply of products to its customers will not be disrupted by them.
• ② If an emergency event occurs, the damage shall be minimized while swiftly implementing recovery measures and communicating appropriate information to all interested parties (employees, business partners, shareholders, and local communities).

9.Conflict Minerals

• ① No conflict minerals shall be used that are causing human rights violations, environmental destruction, etc., and used as the source of funding by armed insurgents.
• ② Request shall be made for all suppliers to abstain from using any conflict minerals.
• ③ If use of any conflict mineral is found, a request to take corrective action shall be immediately made. If no improvement is deemed likely, the company’s transaction with the supplier shall be terminated with the consent of the customers.

10.Management Structure

A review shall be conducted on whether this CSR policy is being complied with and properly implemented, while proper actions shall be taken to deal with specified risks.

Representation to Eliminate Anti-social Forces

Article1:The company represents that it currently does not fall under the following items below and guarantees and warrants that it will not fall under them in the future.

• ① That it is not an organized crime group, a member or associate member of an organized crime group, a private enterprise or group affiliated with an organized crime group, a corporate racketeer, a crime group conducting its operations under the pretext of social campaigns or political activities, a crime group specializing in intellectual crimes, or any other type of anti-social force (hereinafter collectively referred to as “anti-social force(s)”, including such case where information is provided by police that it qualifies as an anti-social force).
• ② That none of the company’s officers or employees is an anti-social force. Also, none of the company’s shareholders or any other party that effectively controls the company is an anti-social force.
• ③ That none of the company’s officers or employees is, directly or indirectly, through a third party, engaged in an act of violence, fraud or intimidation, operational disruption, or other unlawful act.
• ④ That none of the company’s officers or employees is involved with an anti-social force by providing funding or any other benefit, etc.
• ⑤ That none of the company’s officers or employees is using an anti-social force or has a relationship with an anti-social force that should be socially condemned.

Article2:The company shall cooperate with any investigation that is conducted by any of its business partners having an importantly interested relationship with the company to verify the company’s status concerning the paragraphs of Article 1.

Article3:The company shall have all its contractors and suppliers conform to the paragraphs of Article 1.

Article4:If the company is determined to be, or could be, in violation of any of the paragraphs of Article 1, it shall immediately notify all its business partners with whom it has importantly interested relationships.