Website Privacy Notice

Last updated: February 15, 2024

The Nissan Group is strongly committed to protecting your privacy and personal data and ensuring transparency in doing so.
This Privacy Notice is directed at:

visitors and users of the websites " https://www.nissan-global.com" , " https://global.nissannews.com" and " https://www.nissanmotor.jobs" (together “Site”);
customers and prospects receiving or viewing our newsletters, emails and other communications and materials that the Nissan Group may publish or send; and
job applicants to Nissan Group work opportunities.

Please read this Privacy Notice carefully. This Privacy Notice describes how your personal data is used and how to exercise your rights about it. We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time, and we recommend regularly visiting this page when you use our Site.

As part of our commitment to protecting your privacy and personal data, the Nissan Group has also adopted a set of privacy principles that applies to its business activities. As customer, you can find more information on our Customer
Privacy Policy here:

As you read this Privacy Notice, please keep in mind the following important notes about how this Privacy Notice applies:

this Privacy Notice contains specific sections that may not be applicable to you because of where you are located or the nature of our relationship and/or interactions;
this Privacy Notice may be supplemented by other privacy policies and/or notices that explain how your personal data is used and disclosed under other circumstances. To the extent such policies and/or notices are provided, posted and/or referenced, that different notice and/or policy will apply to the processing of your personal data;
our Site may contain links to third-party websites that we do not operate, control or endorse. Once you leave our Site, we are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide. We suggest reading the privacy notices of these third-party websites and if needed, contacting those websites directly for information about their privacy practices.

For any questions, requests or complaints concerning this Privacy Notice and the exercise of your rights, you can directly contact our Data Protection Contact Point:

Unless expressly specified otherwise:

Nissan Motor Co., LTD (“Nissan”, “us”, “we”), incorporated at 2, Takara-cho, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 220-8623, Japan, is the data controller of personal data collected and processed for the administrative, operational and commercial management of the Site as publisher;
the recruiting Nissan entity is the data controller of personal data collected and processed for the process of your job application.

For the purpose of this Privacy Notice, “personal data” means all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person as defined under applicable privacy and data protection laws, including, but not limited to, the Act on the Protection of Personal Information of Japan (“APPI”) and the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) (together “Privacy and Data Protection Laws”).
Your personal data can be (1) provided directly by you, (2) collected automatically, or (3) provided by third parties.
The provision of certain types of personal data may be necessary or optional. Mandatory data will be marked as such at the moment of collection of your personal data. If you refuse to provide the mandatory data, Nissan may not be able to process your request.

Depending on your relationship and/or interactions with us, you will provide the following personal data to us:

Scenarios	Types of Personal Data You Provide
When you request information from us	Identification data (first name, last name) Contact details (address, email and phone number) Data related to your request (date, hour, type and content of your request)
When we send you information that might interest you	Identification data (first name, last name) Contact details (address, email and phone number) Data related to our communications (date, hour, type and content of the communications, your subscription status)
When we manage our relationship with you	Identification data (first name, last name) Contact details (address, email and phone number) Data related to our relationship (nature of our relationship, transaction history, your interests)
When we conduct customer surveys	Identification data (first name, last name) Contact details (email, address, phone number) Data related to the customer surveys (your comments and any information you provide in the surveys)
When you search or apply for a job through our Site	Identification data (first name, last name, age) Contact details (address, email and phone number) Professional data (job title, employment status, educational information, professional qualifications, work experience and professional networks, references, any other information you include in your resume and cover letter) Data related to your job application (subject and content of your search, location related to the job offer, hour and date of your job application)

As you navigate through our Site, we automatically collect the following personal data about your device and browsing activities through cookies and other trackers:

Scenarios	Types of Personal Data We Automatically Collect
This information is necessary for the proper functioning of our Site and its services, as well as internal business analytics purposes such as audience measurement. For more information on the cookies and other trackers, please read the Cookies Policy.	Technical data about your web browser and your device or any other interface you may use to visit our Site (IP address, location data, device type, operating system, browser type, browser language, unique device identifiers) Connection data and log files (date and time you visited our Site, bug or any other error reports, session data such as session ID and length of access) Information regarding your navigation on our Site (referring websites (URL), entry and exit pages, pages you viewed on our Site, search terms)

Scenarios

Types of Personal Data We Automatically Collect

This information is necessary for the proper functioning of our Site and its services, as well as internal business analytics purposes such as audience measurement.
For more information on the cookies and other trackers, please read the Cookies Policy.

Technical data about your web browser and your device or any other interface you may use to visit our Site (IP address, location data, device type, operating system, browser type, browser language, unique device identifiers)
Connection data and log files (date and time you visited our Site, bug or any other error reports, session data such as session ID and length of access)
Information regarding your navigation on our Site (referring websites (URL), entry and exit pages, pages you viewed on our Site, search terms)

Depending on your use of our Site and its services, we sometimes receive your personal data through third-parties and third-party websites (such as Facebook or X), in accordance with their privacy policies and terms and conditions of use. For example, when you visit our Site directly through a social media website, it provides us with information regarding your account that you have made public.
However, Nissan does not provide any personal data to third-party companies without your express consent, unless we are allowed to do so under the applicable Privacy and Data Protection Laws. Please see the section 4 of this Privacy Notice for more information about the recipients of your personal data.

We do not process your personal data, unless we have a specific and legitimate purpose as well as a legal basis to do so. The purposes and legal bases for the processing of your personal data as described in this Privacy Notice are set out in the table below:

MANAGING OUR SITE
Purposes of Processing	Types of Processing Activities	Legal Bases
To process your contact request and any other inquiries	Displaying a search result Providing you with information you have requested Contacting you if needed	Legitimate interest (Translator’s comment: legitimate right?) of Nissan to manage its contact requests and any other inquiries
To manage and improve our Site and its services	Automatic updating of our Site or its services Evaluating and improving our Site and its services Taking steps designed to protect and enhance the security of our Site and its services	Legitimate interest of Nissan to improve the Site and its services, as well as your user experience on the Site
To evaluate the effectiveness and quality of our Site and its services	Conducting statistical or marketing analysis of our Site and its services	Legitimate interest of Nissan to develop its business activities (with your consent, if required by applicable law)
To personalize your user experience on the Site	Personalizing your content and your navigation on the Site	Your consent
MANAGING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU
Purposes of Processing	Types of Processing Activities	Legal Bases
To manage our relationship with you	Developing or managing our relationship or interactions with you Complying with our contractual and payment obligations Processing your queries or complaints as customer	Depending on your relationship with Nissan: to take steps prior to entering into an agreement or performance of the relevant agreement
To improve our products, services and your customer experience	Conducting customer surveys regarding your customer experience Publishing your feedback related to your customer experience on our Site or any other relevant material (with your consent if applicable) Identifying and assessing what is being said about Nissan Group on social media	Legitimate interest of Nissan to improve its products and services, as well as your customer experience and develop its business activities accordingly
To send communications that might interest you	Sending you marketing communications related to the business activities of the Nissan Group (including newsletters, emails or any other communications related to the products, services and events of the Nissan Group) You can opt-out of these communications, at any time, by the methods described in Section 8 of this Privacy Notice.	Your consent (unless legitimate interest of Nissan to develop its business activities is admissible by applicable law)
MANAGING THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Purposes of Processing	Types of Processing Activities	Legal Bases
To manage your job application	Examining your job application Contacting you Organizing an interview In the event of an employment offer accepted by you, managing the new-hire process and creating the employee file in our human resources system	To take steps prior to entering into an agreement
To process background checks about you	Checking your background, references and other information you gave during the recruitment process, which may include access to additional employment and educational background information, as well as criminal record information (to the extent allowed by law) Preparing an offer of employment and other documents we use at this pre-contract stage of our recruitment process	To take steps prior to entering into a contract
To manage candidates’ data	Identifying candidates, including by working with external recruiters Considering you for opportunities within Nissan Group we have now, or future ones Letting you know about opportunities or asking you to update your profile	Legitimate interest of the Nissan in feeding its talent pool
OTHER PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING
Purposes of Processing	Types of Processing Activities	Legal Bases
To manage pre-litigation or litigation	Taking action against any identified breach Managing any dispute or litigation	Legitimate interest of Nissan in defending its rights and interests
To fulfill our legal obligations	Complying with our legal obligations Processing your requests to exercise your rights	Compliance with legal obligations applicable to Nissan
To manage corporate operations	For other everyday business purposes such as payment processing and accounting, product development, safeguarding Nissan property, contract management, corporate governance, the potential sale or merger of the companies within the Nissan Group	Depending on the corporate operation: legitimate interest of Nissan in carrying out corporate operations or compliance with legal obligations applicable to Nissan

In accordance with this Privacy Notice and the purposes listed above, we may disclose your personal data to the following recipients, who may or may not be affiliated with Nissan:

Recipients	Purposes
Companies of the Nissan Group (Nissan Motor Co., LTD and/or its subsidiaries) and their duly authorized employees	For the purposes set forth in this Privacy Notice, including: the global administrative, operational, technical and/or marketing purposes in the context of the Nissan Group worldwide activities; the global recruiting process, depending on the identity and location of the evaluators and of the recruiting entity. You can find more information about our subsidiaries here: https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/COMPANY/PROFILE/SUBSIDIARY/
IT service providers (e.g. hosting provider, IT service provider, software publisher, etc.)	To assist Nissan in administrative, operational, technical and/or marketing purposes related to the purposes set forth in this Privacy Notice
Service providers (e.g. marketing service provider, analytics service provider, insurers, etc.)	To assist Nissan in administrative, operational, technical and/or marketing purposes set forth in this Privacy Notice
Employment and career management service providers	To manage the Nissan Group career opportunities and process your job applications depending on the country or region of the position
Administrative, regulatory or judiciary authorities or agencies and other third parties	Exclusively to comply with any legal or regulatory obligation and/or in the cases of an express and justified request or in case of an alleged violation of legal or regulatory provisions
Advisors (e.g. outside auditors, attorneys and all interested parties)	Exclusively in the case of the management of possible disputes and other legal matters where appropriate
Other third parties	Following or during a restructuring, reconstitution, acquisition, debt financing, merger, transfer, sale of assets of Nissan or a similar transaction, as well as in case of insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership where personal data are transferred to one or more third parties as assets of Nissan, subject to your information and/or consent, if applicable.

Nissan has implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures in order to maintain a level of security well adapted to the level of risk related to the processing of your personal data. These measures aim, in particular, to protect your personal data against destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, both accidental and intentional.
However, no method of transmission of data on the internet and no method of storage (in either an electronic or a physical environment) can be entirely secure. We endeavor to protect your personal data to the best of our abilities, but we cannot guarantee an absolute security or integrity during the transmission of your data from your system to ours. Any transmission is at your own risk.

Where the personal data is originated within a country requiring an adequate level of protection for personal data when disclosing or transferring personal data outside the originating country, Nissan ensures that appropriate legal or contractual safeguards are in place for such disclosures or transfers as required by the applicable law.

In particular:

where the APPI of Japan applies and we transfer your personal data outside of Japan, we will take all necessary measures through contracts based on the APPI and any applicable guidelines;
where the GDPR applies and we transfer your personal data outside the European Union/European Economic Area/United Kingdom, we will, in the absence of an adequacy decision and after having carried out an assessment of the level of protection of your rights on the territory of the concerned third country where we deem this necessary, implement adequate measures through the adoption of appropriate safeguards (such as standard contractual clauses).

We retain your personal data for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless required by our legal obligations to retain it for longer.
In order to determine the appropriate retention period, we consider factors such as:

your use of our Site and its services;
the existence of contractual or legal obligations requiring us to retain your personal data for a fixed period;
the existence of any ongoing legal proceedings.

Below is a table indicating how long we keep your personal data according to specific purposes:

Purposes	Retention Period
Processing your contact requests and any other inquiries	Until the complete processing of contact your request or inquiry
Pre-contractual/contractual customer relationship management	5 years from the end of the pre-contractual/contractual customer relationship
Sending information that might interest you	Until your subscription period ends as detailed in Section 8 of this Privacy Notice
Carrying out customer satisfaction surveys	The duration of the study and beyond but under aggregated format
Processing your job application	For the duration of the application process, and beyond if you are recruited or if you integrate Nissan’s pool talent.

In addition to this, Nissan will keep your personal data during:

the statute of limitation, if needed for evidence purposes;
the applicable legal retention periods, in particular regarding commercial, compliance and regulatory matters, or any other mandatory retention period (such as legal hold or investigation).

Depending on the applicable Privacy and Data Protection Laws, that apply to your situation you may be able to exercise the following rights regarding your personal data processing by Nissan:

Your Rights	Scope of the Rights
Right to access	You have the right to require: the confirmation on whether we process your personal data or not; a copy of such personal data; and information on the use of your personal data in a clear, transparent and understandable way (as provided in this Privacy Notice).
Right to rectification	You have the right to require the rectification of your personal data that may be obsolete, inaccurate or incomplete.
Right to erasure	You have the right to require the erasure of your personal data, when one of the following conditions applies: Your personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which we collected it or otherwise processed; you retract your consent on which the processing of your personal data is based, and we have no other legal basis for the processing; you object to the personal data processing and we have no compelling legitimate grounds for processing your personal data; the use that is made of your personal data does not comply with the applicable legal or regulatory provisions.
Right to restriction of processing	You have the right to require the restriction of the personal data processing during a limited period of time, in particular in order to carry out some verifications, if one of the following conditions applies: you contest the accuracy of your personal data, and wish to restrict the processing of your personal data during the period required of us to verify the accuracy of your personal data; the personal data processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of your personal data and request the restriction of their use instead; we no longer need your personal data for the purposes of the processing, but you require them for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims; you have objected to the processing of your personal data, and wish to restrict their processing pending the verification of whether our compelling legitimate grounds for processing override your grounds for objecting to it.
Right to data portability	You have the right to require us to provide you with your personal data that you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to require us to transmit this data to another data controller. This right is not exercised in all circumstances, it applies only if it fulfils all the following conditions: your request is only related to your personal data (excluding anonymous or third-party data); your request does not adversely affect the rights or freedoms of others, in particular those of Nissan (including trade secrets); the processing is carried out by automated means (paper files are therefore not included); the processing is based on consent or the performance of a contract (to check if it is the case, you can see the section 3 of this Privacy Notice).
Right to object	You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data at any time if: the processing is based on our legitimate interest; or your personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes. Nissan will no longer process your personal data unless Nissan demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, such as the respect of a legal obligation (e.g. legal obligation involving the retention of personal data), or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
Right to withdraw your consent	You have the right to withdraw your consent when it has been obtained, without this withdrawal affecting the lawfulness of the personal data processing operations previously carried out.

You have control regarding our use of personal data for directing marketing. If you no longer wish to receive any marketing communications, remain on a mailing list to which you previously subscribed, or receive any other marketing communication, you can choose to not receive such communications at any time. Please follow the unsubscribe link in the relevant communication or contact us.

Depending on your country of residence, you may have additional local rights with respect to our processing of personal data. Please note that some of the personal data that we collect, use and share may be exempt from the rights outlined above.

We will treat your requests with particular care in order to assure the effectiveness of your rights. If necessary, we may also ask that you provide us with additional information in order to confirm your identity before responding to your request. This is another appropriate security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to an individual who does not have the right to receive it.
Please note that under certain circumstances, such as the existence of legal obligations, we may not be able to respond to your request immediately. We will notify you of the measures taken in relation to your request within a month, unless there are exceptional circumstances justifying an extension that shall not exceed two additional months. In such a case, we will inform you of the extension and the justifications for the extension within a month from the receipt of your request.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant authority. If you are a resident of the European Union/European Economic Aera, the full list of Data Protection Authorities of Member States can be found at the following link:
https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en
This right may be exercised at any time and free of charge, at the exclusion of potential postal fees or expenses related to legal representation or assistance should you choose to engage third-party assistance for the procedure.

If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights, you can directly contact our Data Protection Contact Point:

We may amend this Privacy Notice from time to time in order to reflect any changes in law or our personal data processing activities, publication of new guidelines by the relevant authorities or technological developments.
We recommend that you review this Privacy Notice each time you visit our Site so that you can stay informed on our collection, use and sharing of your personal data. We will post the updated version of this Privacy Notice on our Site and ask for your consent to the changes if legally required.

1. Who is the Data Controller of Your Personal Data?

2. What Personal Data Do We Collect?

(1) Personal Data You Provide To Us Directly

(2) Personal Data We Automatically Collect From You

(3) Personal Data Provided by Third Parties

3. For Which Purposes and How Do We Process Your Personal Data?

4. Who Do We Share Your Personal Data With?

5. How Does Nissan Protect Your Personal Data?

6. Are There Any International Transfers of Your Personal Data?

7. How Long Do We Store Your Personal Data?

8. What Are Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Data?

9. Changes to This Privacy Notice