Privacy Policy

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Last Updated: Nov 2, 2026

1. About This Policy

DENSO CORPORATION (“DENSO,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) handles the personal data of customers, business partners, job applicants, shareholders, and other stakeholders in the course of its business activities as a company that contributes to solving social issues and realizing a sustainable society through the development, manufacture, and sale of automotive technologies, systems, and products.

In addition to complying with the Act on the Protection of Personal Information and other applicable laws and regulations, we recognize personal data entrusted to us on the basis of your trust as important information and strive to use it appropriately and manage it securely.

Based on this approach, we have established this Privacy Policy as set forth below. To prevent the leakage, misuse, alteration, unauthorized use, or other improper handling of personal data provided by you, we implement appropriate security control measures in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and our internal rules and strive to protect personal data. We also provide ongoing training to our employees on the proper handling of personal data and work to ensure its thorough protection.

If a privacy policy or similar notice for a particular product or service contains provisions that differ from this Privacy Policy, those provisions will take precedence with respect to that product or service.

This website may contain links to and from third-party websites. These third-party websites, and any services that may be accessible through them, have their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for any third-parties’ privacy practices. We encourage you to be aware of this when you leave this website and to read the privacy policies applicable to these third-party websites.

If you are an individual in the European Economic Area (EEA), please read Addendum for Individuals in EEA for additional information.

If you are a California “consumer” within the meaning of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, please read Addendum for California Consumer Privacy Act for additional information.

2. Information about Us

This website is operated by DENSO CORPORATION (Data Controller).

  1. Our office address: 1-1, Showa-cho, Kariya, Aichi, Japan

  2. Name of the representative: Please click here.

  3. Contact form: Please click here.

3. What Is Personal data?

For purposes of this Policy, “personal data” means information about an individual provided to us by customers, officers and employees of business partners, job applicants, shareholders, or any other person who provides personal data to us (collectively, “you”), such as an address, name, telephone number, or email address, that can identify a specific individual by the name or other description contained in the information.

4. Collection of Personal data

We collect personal data by lawful and fair means only to the extent necessary to achieve the purposes disclosed to you, including the purposes of use set forth in this Privacy Policy.
If you do not wish to provide personal data to us, you may choose not to do so at your own discretion.

In that case, we may be unable to respond to your inquiry or provide certain services.

5. Legal Basis for and Purposes of Processing Personal data

We will process your personal data on the following legal bases unless such data processing will not conflict with applicable laws and regulations:

  1. Contract. When we need to process your personal data to perform a contract we enter into with you.

  2. Legal Obligation. When we need to comply with a legal obligation.

  3. Legitimate Interests. When the processing of your personal data is necessary for the fulfilment of legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

  4. Consent. When you have given consent for us to process your personal data. However, even if we obtain consent from you, we may process your personal data based on other legal grounds. The withdrawal of your consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing performed based on the consent before your withdrawal.


We use the personal data we collect for the following purposes:

  1. To carry out activities incidental to the planning, research, development, manufacture, maintenance, quality improvement, marketing, and sale of the products and services we handle (based on contract or legitimate interests)
    For information about our products and services, please see this page.

  2. To conduct activities necessary to ensure and improve the safety, reliability, and quality of our business operations; ensure legal and regulatory compliance; manage risks; and otherwise operate our business appropriately (based on contract or legitimate interests)

  3. To organize exhibitions, seminars, briefing sessions, and other events; manage attendance; conduct surveys; and improve future planning (based on contract or legitimate interests)

  4. To facilitate the exercise of rights and performance of obligations by shareholders under the Companies Act and other applicable laws and regulations, manage shareholders, and communicate with them (based on legal obligation or legitimate interests)

  5. To improve the usability of our websites, analyze usage, ensure security, and improve services (see our Cookie Policy)

  6. To respond to questions, requests, and applications submitted to us (based on legitimate interests)

If we collect or use personal data for any other purpose, we will notify you of, or publicly announce in advance, the purpose and manner of use when we collect the information.

We may also use personal data in the form of statistical data that does not identify any individual.

6. Disclosure and Provision of Personal data to Third Parties

We may disclose personal data provided to us to a third party only in any of the following circumstances:

  1. With your consent.

  2. When personal data is jointly used within the DENSO Group as described in this Policy.

  3. When information is provided to cooperating companies, business partners, or service providers to the extent necessary to achieve the purposes of use. In such cases, we require the recipient to handle the personal data disclosed by us appropriately and exercise appropriate oversight.

  4. When the information has been processed into statistical data that does not identify any individual.

  5. When disclosure is required by laws or regulations.

7. Joint Use within the DENSO Group

We may jointly use personal data with our affiliates within the scope set forth below.

  1. Categories of personal data jointly used
    Name, address, email address, telephone number, affiliation, position, and other information necessary to achieve the purposes of joint use.

  2. Scope of joint users
    Our affiliates belonging to the DENSO global network. For details, please see this page.

  3. Purposes of use by joint users
    For the purposes stated under “Legal Basis for and Purposes of Processing Personal data”, to the extent necessary for the joint user’s business operations.

  4. Entity responsible for managing the personal data
    DENSO CORPORATION

8. Cross-Border Transfers

We may transfer personal data to a third party located in a foreign country only in any of the following circumstances:

  1. When you have consented to the provision of your personal data to a third party located in a foreign country. In this case, we will inform you in advance, or provide at your request, information on the personal data protection system in that country and the measures implemented by the third party to protect personal data.

  2. When information is provided to a third party in a foreign country that implements, by appropriate and reasonable means, measures corresponding to the standards required Chapter IV, Section 2 of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information and has an arrangement with us ensuring the continued implementation of those measures. Recipients in this case are limited to DENSO Group companies involved in joint use under this Policy and our business partners, and service providers.

  3. When the information has been processed into statistical data that does not identify any individual.

  4. When provision is required by laws or regulations.

9. Storage Limit for Personal Data

Unless indicated otherwise, we will retain the personal data that we collect about you for the period necessary to process such personal data, except to the extent that we are required by law to retain the data for a longer period of time, in which case we will retain it for the period required by law.

10. Your Rights

You have a number of legal rights in relation to the personal data that we hold about you. These rights may vary depending on where you are located and which data protection laws will apply to the relationship between you and us, but would typically include:

  1. the right to obtain information regarding the processing of your personal data and access to the personal data which we hold about you;

  2. the right to request that we rectify your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete;

  3. the right to request that we erase your personal data;

  4. the right to request that we restrict our processing of your personal data;

  5. the right to object to us about our processing of your personal data;

  6. the right to receive any personal data which we process about you where this is technically feasible.

  7. the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data.

You can exercise your rights by contacting us using the information about us indicated above in Section 2. You can also lodge a complaint with the data protection regulator if you think that any of your rights have been infringed by us.

11. Management of Personal data

As part of our information security measures, personal data collected by us is strictly managed by the persons responsible for information management and for each website. We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to prevent leakage, misuse, alteration, and similar incidents. For information about our information security, please see this page.

If a DENSO website has specific terms of use or other provisions, those provisions will take precedence over this Privacy Policy.

12. Handling of Personal data on Our Website

When you submit an inquiry, apply to participate in an event, request materials, or otherwise use this website, you may be asked to enter personal data. We implement appropriate security control measures in accordance with this Privacy Policy and strive to protect that information.

Except in the circumstances described above, you may browse our website without disclosing personal data.

13. Use of Web Beacons

Some pages of this website use web beacons, a technology used to determine how many times a particular page has been accessed. Statistical data obtained through web beacons may be used to improve the website and for other purposes. Based on your browsing history and similar information on this website, advertisements may also be displayed on websites operated by companies with which we cooperate.

14. Use of Log Information

When you browse our website, we record access-log information, including your IP address. We use this information to understand how our website is used and, except on pages requiring user authentication, do not use it to identify individual users.

15. Personal data on Linked Websites

We assume no responsibility for the collection of personal data on websites operated by other companies that are introduced or linked to from this website.

16. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time and will post the updated Privacy Policy with a “Last Updated” effective date for the revisions. We recommend that you review this Privacy Policy periodically. If we make a material change to this Privacy Policy, you will be provided with appropriate notice, such as a notice posted on a website.

17. Contacts

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your rights, or any other issues regarding the protection of your personal information, you can reach us using the contact information in Section 2 above.

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