Website Terms of Use

By using this Website, you are deemed to have agreed to the following terms:

1. Kohshin Electric Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the “Company” or “we” (including its other forms)) may revise these Terms of Use without prior notice, in which case, the Terms of Use after such revision shall apply.

2. We have prepared the information posted on this Website with the utmost care, but do not guarantee the following:

   • 1) That all the information posted is correct, free from any computer virus or other harmful effects, safe, useful, suitable for specific purposes and functional; and
   • 2) That the information posted is always up-to-date.

3. The Company may suspend server operations, change the information, or discontinue or suspend the provision of information without prior notice.

4. The Company shall not be liable for the following damage:

   • 1) Any direct or indirect damage arising as a result of your use of this Website;
   • 2) Any direct or indirect damage arising as a result of your use of any website which you access via a link; or
   • 3) Any direct or indirect damage arising as a result of us suspending server operations, changing the information, or discontinuing or suspending the provision of information without prior notice.

5. When you use any website of an affiliated company of the Company linked from our Website, the terms of use of such linked destination shall apply.

6. The links on the Website do not imply that the linked destinations are related to the Company, such as an affiliated company, business partner, etc.

The products, services, technical and other information provided to you on our Website are protected under intellectual property-related laws and regulations, including industrial property rights laws and the Copyright Act. You may use such information only for your personal use. Any use (including reproduction, transmission, distribution, transfer, adaptation, etc.; the same shall apply hereinafter) of such information for other purposes shall require an express permission from the Company.

The trade names, trademarks and other marks of the Company, the Company’s affiliated companies or any other company used on our Website are protected under the Trademark Act, the Unfair Competition Prevention Act and other relevant laws. You may not use them without an express permission of the Company and their respective right holders.

When using our Website, you are prohibited from committing the following acts:

1. Infringement of any industrial property right, copyright or other property right of the Company, a third party, or any other customer of the Company;
2. Libel or slander against, or intimidation of the Company, a third party or any other customer of the Company;
3. Acts that cause or may cause disadvantage or damage to the Company, a third party or any other customer of the Company;
4. Acts that may damage the credibility of the Company or our Website;
5. Acts of use for business or profit-making purposes;
6. Acts that are contrary to public order or morals, including indecent or blasphemous acts or statements;
7. Acts of use or provision of any harmful program, including computer viruses, or acts that may result in such act;
8. Acts of violating laws and regulations (including export-related laws and regulations), or acts that may cause such violation;
9. In addition to the preceding items, any act in violation of these Terms of Use which interferes or may interfere with the business operation of the Company or a third party.

Except for cases where the Company requests separately on its Website that you provide any confidential or other proprietary information (including your technical, sales, product, and other ideas; hereinafter referred to as “Information, etc.”) held by you, the Company shall refuse to receive any Information, etc., provided by you.
Even if you provide us with any Information, etc., in circumstances where the Company has not clearly indicated its intent to specially assume confidentiality obligations, please understand that the Company shall not bear any obligation to keep confidential such Information, etc. Further, the Company shall not bear any obligation to use or evaluate such Information, etc.

In the event that any damage is caused to the Company, a third party or any other customer of the Company by your violation of the Terms of Use, you shall be liable to fully compensate for such damage. In no circumstances shall the Company be liable for any such damage.

The Terms of Use and our Website shall be governed by the laws of Japan. Any dispute relating to the Terms of Use and our Website shall be settled under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Fukuyama Branch of the Hiroshima District Court.

You may link to our Website after agreeing to the “Conditions for Links” below. You do not need our permission to set up such links.

[Conditions for Links]

1. You may not set up a link using an image of the corporate logo of the Company or Mitsubishi Electric. To use an image of the corporate logo of the Company or Mitsubishi Electric, you are required to enter into an agreement with us and obtain our permission. For details, please check with the relevant department designated as our contact.
2. You shall not link to our Website from any website which is deemed by us to fall under any of the following: websites containing any content that is contrary to public order or morals, including any indecent or blasphemous act or statement; websites containing any content that libels, slanders or threatens, or damages the credibility of, the Company or a third party; websites containing any content that infringes any copyright or other property right of, or causes damage or disadvantage to, the Company or a third party; and websites containing any content that is otherwise illegal.
3. Set the link so that our Website will be displayed on a separate window, not within the frame.
4. Make it clear that it is a link to the Company’s Website.
5. Accepting linking to the Company’s Website does not guarantee its contents, and the Company shall not bear any liability that may arise from such linking.
6. Links may be changed or deleted without prior notice.
7. Stop linking immediately upon our request to delete the link.

1. OS / Browser
   The Website may not be correctly displayed on older versions of an OS/ web browser.
   When the Internet Explorer compatibility view is on, the Website may not function properly or may not be displayed correctly.
   Since the representative technology used in each browser is unique to its respective developer, we do not guarantee that the Website will be displayed in the same manner on every browser.
   Individual product websites may specify recommended browsing environments separately from these Terms of Use.
   Further, the Website may not function properly or may not be displayed correctly if you have changed the settings of your OS/browser or depending on the settings of your internet access
2. JavaScript
   The Website uses JavaScript. If your browser’s JavaScript is disabled, the Website may not function properly or may not be displayed correctly. Please enable JavaScript on your browser to view this Website.
3. Style Sheet
   The Website uses a style sheet. If your browser’s style sheet function is disabled, the Website may not be displayed correctly. Please enable the style sheet function on your browser to view this Website.
4. Plugins
   The Website uses the following plugins.
   If you do not have them installed, please download the latest versions from their respective websites.
   Some content may require additional plugins. Please check the information posted in such content.
5. RSS
   The Website uses standard-format RSS (RDF Site Summary) based on XML technology to provide updated information and other information on our Website.

Our Website may use cookies to display it in an optimal way for you and to distribute advertisements.
We may also use access analysis tools and other similar technologies to collect information on visitors’ activities.

1. What are Cookies?
   Cookies are small data files that are transmitted from the server as you browse a website and stored on your equipment or device.
   We may identify your equipment or device and collect information such as your website use history using cookies, access analysis tools and other similar technologies, but your personal identifiable information will not be included.
2. If You Wish to Reject the Use of Cookies
   If you wish to reject the use of cookies, you may stop the use of cookies through your browser settings.
   In this case, you may not be able to use some services on our Website.

Further, we may distribute advertisements of our products on other websites based on your page browsing information and other information collected by cookies of a third-party company (third-party cookies) to which we entrust advertisement distribution.
You can refuse to receive third-party cookies through your browser settings.

On the pages to enter inquiries or personal information for membership registration on our Website, we protect the entered information from eavesdropping and other threats by already used encrypted communication using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) / TLS (Transport Layer Security).
In response to the vulnerability of SSL3.0, we have suspended the use of SSL v2 and SSL v3 for communication on our Website. There are certain pages not accessible from some browsers that do not support TLS. Please use those pages using a browser other than the following:

[Affected Browsers]
Some NTT DOCOMO mobile phones (excluding smart phones);
Some KDDI (au) mobile phones (excluding smart phones); and
Internet Explorer 6.0 or older.

We strive to improve the web accessibility of our Website so that it may be used by anyone regardless of his/her use environment and/or physical characteristics of the user.
For that purpose, we aim at meeting the Level AA requirements in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WACG) 2.0 (=ISO/IEC 40500:2012) developed by W3C/WAI.