Privacy Policy

Introduction

This document (hereinafter “Privacy Policy”) provides information about the collection and use of the personal data collected by the company Nichicon (America) Corporation (hereinafter “Company”) through this website (hereinafter “Website”). This Privacy Policy, together with the Company Website Terms of Use (“Terms of Use”) governs your use of the Website. Your use of the Website constitutes your acceptance of the following terms of this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, as amended or revised by the Company from to time. You should therefore review this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use regularly to ensure that you are aware of their terms.

Company Contact Information

The entity responsible for this Website is Nichicon (America) Corporation, with the address of 927 E. State Pkwy, Schaumburg, IL 60173, U.S.A. E-mail: webmaster@nichicon-us.com.

Children Under the Age of 16

This Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal data to or on this Website. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on this Website, make any purchases through this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that data. If you believe we might have any personal data from or about a child under 16, please contact us at webmaster@nichicon-us.com.

Personal Data We Collect

We may collect any personal data provided by you such as your name, address, e-mail address and other contact information, or is automatically collected by us when you are interacting with the Website functions including Browsing Data (as further defined below), or when you request the Website services (registration to any reserved areas, use of any Apps, requests for information or reports including through contact forms, and more), as well as the data collected through the cookies.

Why We Use Your Personal Data and How

We may use your personal data to allow the use of Website services and functions and optimize its functioning, to run statistical analyses on such visits, to manage requests and reports received through the Website, and to register to any reserved areas or initiatives. The Company may also use your personal data to comply with its legal obligations required by applicable laws or regulations. The user’s personal data may also be used to manage and carry out the obligations related to reports of adverse events. Also, with your optional consent, personal data may also be used to send institutional communications (including newsletters) or perform promotional activities (marketing), by sending promotional materials and/or commercial communications regarding the services provided by the Company to the addresses specified by you, both via traditional methods and/or means of contact (such as paper mail, phone calls with operators, etc.) and automatic ones (such as communications over the Internet, fax, e-mails, text messages, applications for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets (“Apps”), and social media accounts, such as via Facebook, etc.). Finally, your personal data may be used by the Company to enforce or defend its legal rights, or to implement and/or enforce the Website Terms of Use. Personal data is collected and used using both automatic and non-automatic tools according to the applicable purpose of the collection/use and, in any case, with methods and procedures that ensure the security and confidentiality of the data.

Processing of User Requests

The forms to be filled in on this Website request certain required information marked with a [*] that is essential to handle your communications and requests and which, if not entered, will prevent your requests from being processed. Optional requested information is not essential to process your request but can be provided if you choose to do so. 

Browsing Data

The collection and use of personal data of users who visit the Website includes “Browsing Data”, which means personal data which needs to be transferred to the Website in order for the IT systems that manage the Website and the Internet communication protocols to work. For example, Browsing Data includes IP addresses, or the domain of the computer used to browse the Website and other parameters related to the operating system used by the user to access the Website. The Company collects this and other data (such as the number of visits and time spent on the Website) for statistical purposes only and anonymously in order to check the Website operation and improve its functions. This information is not collected to be combined with other information about users and to identify them; however, given its nature, this information may allow for the identification of users by collecting and combining it with data controlled by third parties. Browsing Data is normally erased after collection and analysis in accordance with this paragraph, but may be stored and used by the Company to investigate and identify users who violate the Website Terms of Use or who engage in unlawful activities through the Website and to otherwise cooperate with law enforcement and other authorities as required by applicable law. Without prejudice to the foregoing rights retained by the Company, the Browsing Data described above is temporarily kept in compliance with applicable regulations.

Do Not Track Disclosure

Your web browser may transmit “Do-Not-Track” signals to our Website and other online services with which your browser communicates, if you have enabled this feature. We currently do not take any action in response to these signals.

Use of Cookies and Links to Other Websites

We may use cookies to collect information concerning your use of the Website. A cookie is a small test file that the Website can place on your computer’s hard drive in order, for example, to gather information concerning your use of the Website, to allow more streamlined use of the Website, and improve the functionality of the Website. The Website may contain links to other websites (so-called third-party websites). These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal data or they may collect information, including personal data, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. The Company has no access to and has no control over the cookies, web beacons and other user tracking technologies used by third-party websites which you can access to or from the Website; the Company has no control over the contents and materials published by or obtained through third-party websites, or the way they process your personal data, and expressly does not accept any responsibilities on this. You must review the privacy policy and/or policies of the third-party websites you visit through the Website to get information about the conditions applicable to the collection and use of your personal data at such websites. This Privacy Policy applies to the Website as defined above only.

How We Store Data and For How Long

The way the IT systems and programs used by the Company are set up allows the Company to minimize the use of personal and identification data; this data is processed only to the extent necessary to achieve the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy; and the data will be stored for as long as necessary to fulfill such purposes.

How we Ensure Security and the Quality of Personal Data

The Company commits to protect the security of your personal data and complies with applicable law to prevent data loss, unlawful or illegal use of and any unauthorized access to the data. The Company uses multiple advanced security technologies and procedures to protect the personal data of users; for example, personal data is stored in secure servers located in places with access control and protection measures in place. 

Who Can Access Data

Personal data will be made available only to those Company personnel who may need it because of their tasks or positions held in the Company and any parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies of the Company. These designated personnel are trained appropriately in order to prevent losses, destruction, unauthorized access to or unauthorized use of the data.

Additionally, the personal data may be communicated to the following categories of third parties: (i) institutions, law enforcement and other governmental authorities or public entities for their institutional purposes or as may otherwise be required under legal order or applicable law; (ii) professionals, contractors, third parties and vendors hired by the Company to provide commercial, professional and technical services for managing the Website and its functions (for example IT service and Cloud Computing providers), pursuing the purposes specified above and providing the Website services to you; or (iii) third parties in case of mergers, acquisitions, company or branch transfers, audits or other extraordinary operations of the Company. These entities will receive only the data necessary to fulfill their functions and for the above purposes only in compliance with applicable privacy law. The data may also be communicated to legitimate recipients pursuant to applicable law. Except for the categories of third parties identified above, data is not shared with third parties who do not otherwise perform any commercial, professional or technical functions for the Company. 

Rights of Users

If you wish to retrieve, update, correct, modify, or have deleted any personal data from you through the Website (subject to applicable law), please contact us at webmaster@nichicon-us.com.

Your California Privacy Rights

To learn more about California residents’ privacy rights, visit here.

In addition, pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, residents of California have the right to request from a business, with whom the California resident has an established business relationship, certain information with respect to the types of personal information the business shares with third-parties for direct marketing purposes by such third party and the identities of the third parties with whom the business has shared such information during the immediately preceding calendar year. To request a copy of the information disclosure provided by the Company pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, please contact us at: webmaster@nichicon-us.com.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

If any changes are made to this Privacy Policy, the updated version will be published on this Website, with a notice that the Privacy Policy has been updated on the Website home page. The date this Privacy Policy was last updated is identified at the bottom of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting the Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 5/16/2025.

Privacy Notice for California Residents

Effective Date: May 16, 2025

Last Reviewed on: May 16, 2025

This Privacy Notice for California Residents (“Notice”) supplements the information contained in Nichicon (America) Corporation’s (“Company”) Privacy Policy, located here, and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California ("consumers" or "you"). We adopt this Notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meanings when used in this Notice. 

This Notice does not apply to employment-related personal information collected from California-based employees, job applicants, contractors, or similar individuals.

Where noted in this Notice, the CCPA temporarily exempts personal information reflecting a written or verbal business-to-business communication ("B2B personal information") from some of its requirements.

Information We Collect

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device ("personal information"). Personal information does not include:

• Publicly available information from government records.

• Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.

• Information excluded from the CCPA's scope, like:

  • health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data;

  • personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months: 

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above either directly from you, i.e. from forms you complete or products and services you purchase; or indirectly from you, which includes: (1) we may observe your actions on our Website or on third-party platforms.  We will obtain your specific consent prior to observing your behavior on any third-party platforms.  Separately, we may also observe your browsing history on our Website and on third-party websites.  (2) we collect personal information in Category A (Identifiers), above, utilizing public websites and online aggregators in order to obtain contact details for individuals representing business entities with which we are attempting or intending to do business. This information may also be collected by the use of “cookies,” which are generated by our Website and sent onto your device.  For specific information on cookies, please see our Privacy Policy.

Use of Personal Information

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following purposes: 

• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product or service, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your information to facilitate new product orders or process returns. 

• To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Website, products, and services.

• To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.

• To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.

• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.

• To obtain contact information for responsible representatives of potential business partners or business customers.

• To personalize your Website experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Website, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).

• To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.

• For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Website, products, and services.

• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.

• As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.

• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us  about our consumers is among the assets transferred.

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Sharing Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. 

We share your personal information with the following categories of third parties: 

• Any parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies of the Company

Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose

In the preceding twelve (12) months, Company has not disclosed personal information for a business purpose. 

Sales of Personal Information 

In the preceding twelve (12) months, Company has not sold personal information. 

Your Rights and Choices

The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will disclose to you:

• The categories of personal information we collected about you.

• The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.

• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.

• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.

• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

• If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:

  • sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and 

  • disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained. 

We do not provide these access and data portability rights for B2B personal information.

Deletion Request Rights

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies. 

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to: 

1. Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.

2. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.

3. Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.

4. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.

5. Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).

6. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.

7. Comply with a legal obligation.

8. Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

We do not provide these deletion rights for B2B personal information.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either: 

• Calling us at (847) 843-7500; or

• Emailing us at webmaster@nichicon-us.com 

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. To designate an authorized agent, you must first verify your identity directly with us and provide your agent with written authorization to make verified requests on your behalf.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative, which may include:

  • Your name, address, and any other identifying information we may require for verification purposes.

  • Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. 

Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. 

We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request. 

Response Timing and Format

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. 

Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request. 

Personal Information Sales Opt-Out and Opt-In Rights

If you are 16 years of age or older, you have the right to direct us to not sell your personal information at any time (the "right to opt-out"). Since we do not sell your personal information to third parties, you do not need to formally opt out of such sales.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

• Deny you goods or services.

• Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.

• Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.

• Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services. 

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this Privacy Notice, we will post the updated Notice on the Website and update the Notice's effective date. Your continued use of our Website, products or services following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this Notice, the ways in which Company collects and uses your information described here and in the Privacy Policy, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

Phone: (847) 843-7500

Email: webmaster@nichicon-us.com

Postal Address: Nichicon (America) Corporation, 927 E. State Parkway, Schaumburg, IL 60173