Privacy Policy

Introduction

Medical & Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd. ("MBL", "Company", or "We") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website https://www.mblbio.com/ https://lp.mblbio.com/ (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.


This policy applies to information we collect:

  • On this Website.
  • In e-mail, text and other electronic messages between you and this Website.


It does not apply to information collected by:

  • us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by MBL or any other third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
  • any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.


Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This policy may change from time to time. If We change our policy, we will post the changes here so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

  • by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, shipping address e-mail address, telephone number or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline ("personal information");
  • that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as visiting domains, internet addresses of the domains from which users visit the Website and information about the users’ session; and
  • about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.


We collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us;
  • Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses and information collected through cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies; or
  • From third parties, for example, our affiliates.


Information You Provide to Us.
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, purchasing our products, posting comments or reviews on our products or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses), if you contact us.
  • Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
  • Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.
  • Your search queries on the Website.


You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Website such as the product review sections of the Website (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.


Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies. As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type.


The information we collect automatically is generally statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests and provide you with more tailored information.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our Website.


The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.


We do not collect personal Information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

  • To present our Website and its contents to you;
  • To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us;
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
  • To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and/or
  • For any other purpose with your consent.


We may also use your information to contact you about our goods and services, or current and upcoming promotions and events that may be of interest to you. We will ask you if you want us to use the information you provide to continue contact with you and we will not contact you unless you have either given us permission to do so or are a customer of MBL.


If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the order form or registration form) and/or adjust your user preferences in your account profile. You may also send us an e-mail at to request any change in preference in how MBL uses your information.

Lawful Basis for the Processing

Generally, we process personal information provided by visitors through our website on the basis of consent.
We may also process personal information on other bases permitted by EU General Data Protection Regulation No 2016/679 (the “GDPR”) and applicable laws, such as when the processing is necessary for us to comply with our legal obligations.

Disclosure of Your Information

MBL is the owner of the information collected through the Website. We do not sell, share, trade or rent this information to unaffiliated third parties in any way that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy. Furthermore, we do not disclose personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.


We may only disclose the aggregated information about our users (information that does not identify any individual) and/or personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates;
  • To contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of MBL’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by MBL about our Website users is among the assets transferred;
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; or
  • With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply our Website Terms of Use or Terms and Conditions and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of MBL’s customers or others.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn more about cookies and how you can manage your cookie settings, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
  • Promotional Offers from MBL. If you do not wish to have your e-mail address or other contact information used by MBL to promote our products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an e-mail stating your request to . If we have sent you a promotional e-mail, you may send us a return e-mail asking to be omitted from future e-mail distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to MBL as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into our Website and visiting your account profile page.

You may also send us an e-mail at to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. In certain cases, depending on the type of information you request to be deleted, We may not be able to delete this information except by also deleting your user account. Furthermore, We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Website Terms of Use.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions and any other financial information will be encrypted using SSL technology.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Retention Period for Personal Information

How long We retain personal information varies according to the type of information in question and the purpose for which it is used. We delete personal information within a reasonable period after We no longer need to use it for the purpose for which it was collected (or for any subsequent purpose that is compatible with the original purpose). This does not affect your right to request that we delete your personal data before the end of its retention period. We may archive personal data (which means storing it in inactive files) for a certain period prior to its final deletion, as part of our ordinary business continuity procedures.

Absence of Statutory or Contractual Requirement or Other Obligation to Provide Any Personal Data

Users of our website are under no statutory or contractual requirement or other obligation to provide personal information to us via our website.

The Right to Lodge a Complaint with a Supervisory Authority [only for people who are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the United Kingdom]

If you are located in the EEA, you have the right to file a complaint concerning our processing of your personal data with your national (or in some countries, regional) data protection authority. The EU Commission has a list here:

If you are located in the UK, you have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by e-mail to the e-mail address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable e-mail address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

Medical & Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd.
SUMITOMO FUDOSAN SHIBADAIMON NICHOME BLDG.
2-11-8 Shibadaimon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0012 Japan

Fax: +81 3-6854-3615
E-mail: (General Affairs Department)