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:
Nissan Data Protection Contact Point
1. Who is the Data Controller of Your Personal Data?
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.
2. What Personal Data Do We Collect?
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.
(1) Personal Data You Provide To Us Directly
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 |
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When you request information from us |
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When we send you information that might interest you |
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When we manage our relationship with you |
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When we conduct customer surveys |
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When you search or apply for a job through our Site |
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(2) Personal Data We Automatically Collect From You
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 |
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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. |
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(3) Personal Data Provided by Third Parties
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.
3. For Which Purposes and How Do We Process 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 | ||
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Purposes of Processing | Types of Processing Activities | Legal Bases |
To process your contact request and any other inquiries |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Your consent |
MANAGING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU | ||
Purposes of Processing | Types of Processing Activities | Legal Bases |
To manage our relationship with you |
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Depending on your relationship with Nissan:
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To improve our products, services and your customer experience |
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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 |
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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 |
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To take steps prior to entering into an agreement |
To process background checks about you |
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To take steps prior to entering into a contract |
To manage candidates’ data |
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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 |
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Legitimate interest of Nissan in defending its rights and interests |
To fulfill our legal obligations |
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Compliance with legal obligations applicable to Nissan |
To manage corporate operations |
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Depending on the corporate operation:
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4. Who Do We Share Your Personal Data With?
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 |
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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:
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. |
5. How Does Nissan Protect Your Personal Data?
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.
6. Are There Any International Transfers of Your Personal Data?
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).
7. How Long Do We Store Your Personal Data?
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 |
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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).
8. What Are Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Data?
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 |
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Right to access |
You have the right to require:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Right to object |
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data at any time if:
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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.
Nissan Data Protection Contact Point
9. Changes to This Privacy Notice
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.