As an organization working with technology to promote social change, The Society for Biotechnology, Japan takes privacy issues very seriously. The following describes our policies and practices with regard to the collection and use of personal information from users of www.sbj.or.jp


Purpose of use of personal information

We gather individually-identifying personal information from our members as well as from authors and reviewers who are involved in the Society’s journal publication. We use the collected information to deliver monthly journals, send an invoice or important notice about SBJ service. We believe that smooth communication using the collected data will make SBJ service more effective and provide users with additional information. It will not be used for any other purpose without your consent. All such information is collected and stored in a manner appropriate to the nature of the data.

Disclosure to third parties

We will not share individually-identifying personal information about our user with third parties without his/her permission, with the exception of service providers or other organizations we contract with to fulfill services on our behalf (e.g. delivering mails and executing credit card transactions), or in the course of cooperating with authorities or complying with legal requirements.

Access and Changes to Your Registration Information and Preferences

Members may access their identified contact information and other Registration Information and correct any discrepancies or update information by logging into the members’ area at any time. The accuracy of such information is solely the responsibility of the user. If you are a registered user, we will comply in a reasonable manner to any request by you to confirm, update, correct, or delete your registered information.
We reserve the right to notify you of changes or updates to the Site whenever necessary.

SBJ Web Site


SBJ Web site does not use cookiesto to collect any personal information about users, nor do we sell or make them available to other organizations. Visitors to SBJ Web site should use it at their own risk. SBJ assumes no responsibility on any outcomes from using the information obtained both on SBJ Web site itself and on other Web sites linked to SBJ Web site.

Revision of this policy


This policy may be revised from time to time. Please refer to this page occasionally.

Scope of this policy

Our website has dozens of links to other organizations and government agencies. This is a service to our users and we attempt to make sure that they are all active sites with pertinent content. However, we cannot be held responsible for the privacy policies on sites to which we link. If you consider this important information, please read the privacy policy on those sites.

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