Privacy policy

A : The clinic handles personal information for the purposes listed in the following items. Please understand this in advance.

• (1) Provision of medical services to patients
• (2) Medical insurance transactions (including submission of receipts to review and payment institutions, and responses to inquiries from review and payment institutions or insurers)
• (3) Management and operation of facilities pertaining to patients
• (4) Cooperation with Other hospitals, clinics, midwifery centers, doctors, dentists, nurses, and other medical personnel (hereinafter referred to as "medical institutions, etc.")
• (5) Responses to inquiries from other medical institutions, etc.
• (6) When seeking the opinions and advice of other medical institutions, etc.
• (7) Specimens and other tests
• (8) Consultation or notification, etc., to medical professional organizations, insurance companies, etc., concerning medical liability insurance, etc.
• (9) Case studies, other medical research and education
• (10) Various tasks necessary to obtain the consent of the patient, such as making a phone call to the contact address reported by the patient

B: The clinic will not handle personal information beyond the scope necessary to achieve the above purposes without obtaining the prior consent of the individual.

The clinic will take necessary and appropriate organizational, human, physical, and technical measures to prevent leakage, loss, or damage of personal information and to otherwise safely manage personal information.

Disclosure of personal information will only be done for the purpose of protecting the rights and interests of individuals. Personal information will only be disclosed after confirming that it will not interfere with the patient's privacy and medical treatment. As a general rule, the only person who can make a request for disclosure is the patient himself/herself. However, a request for disclosure may be made in any of the following cases.

• ・ The legal representative, if the person has one.
• ・ A voluntary guardian who is granted the right of representation regarding medical contracts.

• ・ Cookies may be used when you are visiting our websites. Technically, these are so-called HTML cookies and similar software tools such as Web/DOM Storage or Local Shared Objects (so-called "Flash cookies"), which we collectively refer to as cookies.
• ・ Cookies are small files that are stored on your desktop, notebook or mobile device while you visit a website. Cookies make it possible, for example, to determine whether there has already been a connection between the device and the websites; take into account your preferred language or other settings, offer you certain functions (e.g. online shop) or recognize your usage-based interests. Cookies may also contain personal data.
• ・ The use of cookies also depends on the settings of the web browser you are using (e.g., Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox). Most web browsers are preset to automatically accept certain types of cookies; however, you can usually change this setting. You can delete stored cookies at any time. Web/DOM storage and local shared objects can be deleted separately. You can find out how this works in the browser or device you are using in the manual of the learner.
• ・ The consent to, and rejection or deletion of, cookies are tied to the device and also to the respective web browser you use. If you use multiple devices or web browsers, you can make decisions or settings differently.
• ・ If you decide against the use of cookies or delete them, you may not have access to all functions of our websites or individual functions may be limited.

In some cases, we may not be able to disclose all or part of the information if any of the following applies:

• ・When there is a risk of harm to the life, body, property, or other rights and interests of the individual or a third party.
• ・When there is a risk of significant hindrance to the proper execution of our clinic’s business.
• ・If disclosure would violate the law.