Privacy Policy

General

Asahi Group of Companies (hereinafter referred to as "Asahi", “Company”, "we", "our" or "us" in this Privacy Policy), values your privacy and is committed to protecting your Personal Data (as defined in the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) entrusted to us.

As part of the relevant activities organized by Asahi and as a condition of your participation in the aforementioned activities you are requested to disclose certain Personal Data to us. This Privacy Notice is formulated in accordance with the requirements of the Act and sets forth how we collect, store and handle your Personal Data.

This Policy applies to information collected only directly through or from the Website. It does not apply to personal information collected from offline resources and communications, such as information you may send to us in a postal letter or give to us in a phone call. This Policy also does not apply to third-party online resources to which Asahi websites may link, as Asahi does not control third party content or its privacy practices.

Collection of your Personal Information

Asahi collects personally identifiable data, such as your e-mail address, name, address or telephone number, when it is voluntarily submitted to us at our website. Asahi also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your postcode/zip code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Asahi. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Asahi for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Asahi public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Asahi does not read any of your private online communications.

Asahi encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Asahi so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Asahi is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the website. We do not collect financial or other sensitive data/information from our users. Asahi will not collect any personal information about you through this website unless you have provided it to us voluntarily. If you do not want your personal information collected, do not submit it. However, we offer some services only to visitors who do register.

Your Consent

If you choose to provide personal information to Asahi, it shall be deemed that you consent to the collection, and you authorize us to process, use and disclose your personal information as described at the time of collection and as outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Use of your Personal Information

Asahi collects , processes and uses your personal information to operate the website and deliver the services you have requested. Asahi also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Asahi and its affiliates. Asahi may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

When you register with Asahi, we process and use your Personal Information to create a customized web experience for you and to improve our services. We may use Personal Information to:

1. Improve and administer our website and to ensure that content is relevant.
2. Statistically analyse user behaviour.
3. Develop products, for marketing purposes, and promotions internally at Asahi.

Asahi does not sell, rent or lease its visitor/customer lists to third parties. Asahi may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Asahi may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide services as specified between parties to Asahi and are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. Asahi shall not be held liable for any direct or indirect acts or omissions of any third party when using your personal data.

Asahi does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Asahi monitors the website and pages our visitors/customers visit within Asahi, in order to determine which Asahi services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Asahi to visitors/customers whose behaviour indicates that the visitors/customers are interested in a particular subject area.

Provided further, all voluntarily declared personal information posted by an individual in public areas on the website, such as chat rooms or bulletin boards is disclosed at the risk of the user and Asahi shall not be responsible or liable for any misuse of such voluntarily disclosed personal information by any visitors/customers.

The website will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

1. Conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Asahi or the site;
2. Protect and defend the rights or property of Asahi; and
3. Act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Asahi, or the public.

Social Media or Links to Third Party Websites

The Website may contain links to other third-party websites (example: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and etc) and microsites, whose privacy practices may differ from us. If you submit Personal Data to any of those sites, your Personal Data is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

We encourage you to review the privacy policy or statement of any site you visit. By clicking on or activating such links and leaving our websites, we can no longer exercise control over any data or information which you provide to any other entity and Asahi shall not have any liability to you. Any access to such other sites or pages is therefore entirely at your own risk. We are not responsible for the Personal Data policies (including Personal Data protection and cookies), content or security of any third-party websites linked to or from our websites.

Use of Cookies

The cookies used by the website are solely associated to anonymous users and their computers and do not provide personal data on users. Some cookies are used by third parties to provide Asahi with data on the effectiveness of its engagements and promotions. The cookies used by the website do not in any way collect personal data that could be used to identify a specific user. In addition, cookies are of a temporary nature, used solely to improve the efficiency of the last transmission, users may configure their browser to notify them of the reception of cookies and to prevent its installation on their computer.

Children

We do not intentionally collect personal information from children under the age of 18\. If you are under the age of 18, we advise that you speak with your parent or guardian BEFORE giving your personal information to Asahi website. If you are not sure you understand something in this section, you should ask your parent or guardian for their explanation/help.

We recommend that parents/guardians regularly check and monitor their children’s use of email and their on-line activities.

Please ensure that children do not provide us personally identifiable information online without asking parents’ consent /permission.

Parents can, at any point of time, check their child’s personal information and have it changed or deleted on-line. Alternatively, parents can also contact us to delete any of your child’s information by sending us a deletion request form by e-mail/ postal mail/ fax to the address given in contact details set out in the section ‘contact us’.

How We Protect Personal Information

We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect against unauthorized disclosure, use, alteration or destruction of the personal information you provide on this website. We use secure socket layer (SSL) technology to help keep the personal information you provide on this site secure.

Changes of Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page. Asahi encourages you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to be informed of how Asahi is protecting your information.

Contacting Us

Asahi welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or have suggestions, please contact us through info@asahisea.com. Please note that Asahi does not request Personal Information by sending e-mails. We only collect such information on our site. If you receive an e-mail purporting to be from us that solicits Personal Information, do not respond to it.