This Privacy Policy covers the websites and applications of Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (“Konica Minolta” or “we”) that link to this Policy, including All Covered, Konica Minolta’s IT services division, and Depth Security. This Privacy Policy also applies to Konica Minolta’s marketing, advertising, and employment practices where and when it is referenced. It is meant to inform you about our collection and use of your personal data.
You may choose to give us personal data to allow us to communicate with you, process your orders, provide you with services, or for employment consideration. Data we collect depends on the context of your interactions with Konica Minolta, the choices you make, including your privacy and browsing settings, and the products and features you choose. The personal data we collect may include the following:
Name and Contact Data. Your first and last name, email address, postal/billing address, phone number and other similar contact data in order to communicate with you, process orders or provide you with products or services. We may also collect your employer’s name, if you are procuring products or services on behalf of an organization, employer’s address, and information related to your prior purchases and online buying preferences. Some forms may ask for your customer number or product details such as a serial number.
Credentials. Account ID, passwords, password hints and similar security information used for authentication and account access.
Demographic Data. Data about you such as your country of residence and preferred language.
Payment Data. Data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your credit card number and the security code associated with your payment card.
Location Data. We may collect data about your location, which can be either precise or imprecise. Precise location data includes Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data (e.g. GPS), as well as data identifying nearby cell towers and Wi-Fi hotspots, that we collect when you enable location-based products or features. Imprecise location data includes, for example, a location derived from your device or data that indicates where you are located with less precision, such as a city or postal code or an IP address.
Social Media Data. We may provide social media features that enable you to share information with your social networks. Your use of these features may result in the collection or sharing of information about you by the social networking site. Please review the privacy policies and settings of social networks you use to understand their practices.
Job Applications/CVs/Resumes. Information on job applications/CVs/resumes which you provide to us if you submit a job application to Konica Minolta either directly or indirectly. You acknowledge that your application may include sensitive personal data. Konica Minolta uses this information in order to evaluate your application and perform related employment activities.
Feedback and Product Reviews. Information you provide to us and the content of messages you send to us, such as feedback and product reviews you write, blog posts or questions and information you provide for customer support. When you contact us via our website, a Konica Minolta application, or a Help Desk for such things as customer support, your phone conversations or chat sessions with our representatives may be monitored and recorded. Your feedback, posts and reviews will be used to make improvements in our products and services.
Website Browsing. Information about your visits to our websites and your browsing patterns. This may include data about your device, including Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, and regional and language settings. This is more fully described under the section entitled “Cookies, Web Beacons and Privacy Choices” below. We collect this information to determine such things as the number of visitors to various parts of our websites, to personalize your experience on our sites, and to tailor our interactions with you.
Products. Certain Konica Minolta products collect data, such as product registration, meter reads, supply levels, equipment configuration and settings, software version, and fault codes. Konica Minolta uses this information for product improvement, billing, report generation, supplies replenishment and support services.
Third Party Sources. We also obtain data from third-parties. These third-party sources vary over time, but they are sources deemed credible by us and may be publicly available or available on a commercial basis. They may include:
We collect and process personal data with your consent, as required by law, or as necessary to fulfill the legitimate interests of Konica Minolta, including to: (i) provide you with products and services; (ii) manage, administer and operate our business; (iii) meet our contractual and legal obligations; (iv) carry out direct marketing; (v) prevent fraud; and (vi) protect the security of our systems and our customers.
Personal data that is submitted in a business capacity may be merged with available business database directories. Konica Minolta uses personal data to:
We share your personal data as necessary to complete a transaction or provide a product or service you have requested or authorized. For example, when you provide payment data to make a purchase, we will share your payment data with banks and other entities that process payment transactions or provide other financial services, and for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction.
We share personal data among Konica Minolta affiliates and subsidiaries to efficiently manage the operation of our business. We also share personal data with vendors or agents working on our behalf for the purposes described in this statement or in our contracts with you. For example, companies we’ve hired to provide customer service support or assist in maintaining and servicing products via our systems and services may need access to personal data to carry out those functions. In such cases, these companies are required by contract to abide by our data privacy policy and security requirements and are not allowed to use personal data they receive from us for any other purpose. We may also disclose personal data as part of a corporate transaction such as a merger or sale of assets.
Finally, we will transfer or disclose personal data when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to:
Personal data collected by Konica Minolta may be transferred to, stored and processed in your region, the United States, or any other country in which Konica Minolta or its subsidiaries, affiliates, subcontractors, agents or partners maintain facilities. Our subsidiaries, affiliates, subcontractors, agents and partners are required by contract to safeguard any personal data they receive from us and are prohibited from using the personal data for any purpose other than to perform the services required by Konica Minolta. We also take steps to provide adequate protection for any transfers of your personal data in accordance with applicable law.
Our privacy guidelines are communicated to Konica Minolta employees on an annual basis as part of our mandatory training program. We take steps to ensure that the data we collect under this privacy statement is processed according to the provisions of this statement and the requirements of applicable law wherever the data is located. Sometimes we transfer personal data from the European Economic Area and Switzerland to other countries. When we do, we use a variety of legal mechanisms, including contracts, to help ensure any required rights and protections apply to your data.
Konica Minolta retains personal data for as long as necessary to provide the products and fulfill the services and transactions you have requested or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes and enforcing our agreements. Actual retention periods may vary. The criteria used to determine the retention periods include: (i) how long personal data is needed to provide our products or operate our business; (ii) whether the personal data is of a sensitive type; and (iii) whether Konica Minolta is subject to a legal, contractual or similar obligation to retain the data.
You have choices about the data we collect. When you are asked to provide personal data, you may decline. However, if you choose not to provide data that is necessary to provide a product or feature, you may not be able to use that product or feature.
You may contact Konica Minolta to check the accuracy of your personal data or to request that your information be updated or deleted by writing to [email protected]. Please indicate “Access” in the subject line and let us know the details of your request in the body of the message. You may also contact us at 1-866-604-1225. Konica Minolta reserves the right to confirm your identity and to modify the scope and number of requests. In certain cases, your request may be denied on the basis of a legitimate exception or where we are legally prevented from honoring such request.
Konica Minolta does not direct any part of its website to children under 13 years old (or such age as a child is defined by local law if higher) and does not knowingly collect personal data from children or target its website or products to children.
Konica Minolta is committed to protecting the security of your personal data and maintains strict access control over it. We use reasonable and appropriate physical, technical and administrative procedures to safeguard personal information we collect and process. Only authorized Konica Minolta personnel, and those of our subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, and partners are allowed to handle information submitted to Konica Minolta.
Konica Minolta websites store personal data in password-protected environments on servers that are subject to Konica Minolta’s information security policies, standards, and procedures. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. For example, we store the personal data you provide on computer systems that have limited access and are in controlled facilities.
When you provide personal data to Konica Minolta, it may be necessary to transfer personal data to our subsidiaries, affiliates, agents or partners, who then fulfill the orders or provide the services. Konica Minolta requires that its subsidiaries, affiliates, agents and partners handle personal data with the same degree of concern for personal data privacy as Konica Minolta.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize your device, letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your experience.
Konica Minolta uses cookies to recognize repeat visits to our websites and to facilitate Web navigation and online shopping. The cookies store your country and language, along with an assigned random session ID. In some cases, the cookies store name and address information so you do not have to re-enter this information in multiple forms.
The cookie information that Konica Minolta collects helps us track the number of visitors to our websites over time and determine whether these were new or repeat visits.
Konica Minolta uses Google Analytics to collect and process data. For more information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. Konica Minolta also works with third party advertising partners that use cookies to deliver Konica Minolta advertising on other websites and to measure the performance of our advertising campaigns.
A web beacon is an electronic image that can be used to recognize a cookie on your computer or other device when you view a web page or e-mail.
Konica Minolta and our third party advertising partners may use web beacons on our websites, in our emails, and in our advertisements on other websites to measure the effectiveness of our websites and our advertising. For example, web beacons may count the number of individuals who visit our websites from a particular advertisement or the number of individuals who open or act upon an email message.
Yes, the ability to enable, disable or delete cookies can be controlled through your website browser. Consult the “Help” menu of your browser application for details. If you block the use of cookies, you will not be able to use some of the features on Konica Minolta websites, including the shopping cart and online account management services. You can make some web beacons unusable by disabling the cookies.
Other websites that may be accessed through our website, such as through social media buttons or other links, may collect certain information about you through the use of cookies, web beacons and other features. We do not have access to or control over the cookies or other features that these third party sites may use, and the information practices of these third party websites are not covered by this privacy statement. Please review the privacy notices and settings of the third party site to understand their practices.
Websites cooperate with online advertisers to collect information about visitors to present ads that are more useful and relevant. This is known as interest-based advertising or online behavioral advertising. Konica Minolta and our third party advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons to deliver interest-based ads that are relevant and targeted to our customers and prospects.
Konica Minolta and our third party advertising partners may use cookies or web beacons to collect information for the purposes of interest-based advertising based on your visits to konicaminolta.com and other web sites. These cookies identify the pages you view, the links and ads you click on, other actions you take on those websites, and the referring website. Similarly, online advertisers use cookies to deliver advertising to you for companies other than Konica Minolta based on your visits to konicaminolta.com and other websites.
Konica Minolta may send commercial email to you advertising our products and services. You can also subscribe to various product and service-specific communications on our websites. If you receive commercial email from Konica Minolta and wish to discontinue these mailings, you may unsubscribe through an “unsubscribe” link provided in the communication.
This unsubscribe option does not apply to communications primarily for the purpose of administering order completion, contracts, support, product safety warnings, software updates, services updates (outages or service disruptions), or other administrative and transactional notices, the primary purpose of which is not promotional in nature.
Konica Minolta commits to resolving complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal data. Inquiries or concerns regarding this privacy statement and your rights under privacy laws can be directed to the Konica Minolta Director of Compliance at [email protected] or you can write to the Director of Compliance at the following location.
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
Director of Compliance
100 Williams Drive
Ramsey, NJ 07446
For other Konica Minolta Global locations please visit our Konica Minolta Global Website and choose your region.
If you have questions about Konica Minolta products or services, call us toll-free at 800-456-5664. More contact information about support, sales, corporate information, research and innovation, and services is available on our Support Page should you have additional questions.
Some Konica Minolta solutions offer integrations with Google. These integrations include, but are not limited to, the following:
These integrations use and transfer information received from Google APIs and will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
This link leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. These files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.
Konica Minolta reserves the right to make changes to this statement Policy. If we make changes, we will revise this privacy statement Privacy Policy to reflect such changes and revise the effective date of the statement Policy. Your continued use of our websites and/or applications following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
Statement Effective Date: March 9, 2023.
