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Legal

This website is operated under the supervision of Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. (Head office: 6-1 Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan) for the purpose of providing information about the Konica Minolta Group ("Konica Minolta") throughout the world. By accessing this website, visitors indicate their agreement to be bound by the laws of Japan and the ordinances of Tokyo regarding the use of this website, regardless of any differences in the legal principles applying to Konica Minolta and the persons accessing this website.

The information published on this website may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. The information is subject to change or updating without notice.

Konica Minolta may improve or modify the products and services introduced on this Web site without notice.

Konica Minolta does not want to receive confidential or proprietary information from you through this website. Konica Minolta carries out original research and development in a wide range of fields. The possibility exists that an unannounced idea conceived originally by Konica Minolta might be seen to resemble a suggestion sent by you. In order to avoid any misunderstandings or disputes arising from such an eventuality, Konica Minolta has a policy of refusing to accept any ideas, memos, drawings, concepts or other proposals that you might make regarding new products, technologies, designs, manufacturing methods, advertising, promotion or marketing, etc. If in spite of this policy such a proposal is received, any and all such proposals will be returned without consideration or evaluation. Moreover, any information and materials sent by you will be deemed to be non-confidential.

Terms and Conditions

The user assumes all responsibility and risk for the use of this website. Under no circumstances shall the Company be liable for any damage that results from the information, or the use of the information, obtained from this website and/or from any other websites that are linked to this website.

Copyright

Copyright © 2007, Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved. All text, photographs, images, graphics, animation, music, sounds, and other materials on this website are subject to the copyrights and other intellectual property rights of Konica Minolta Holdings, its affiliated companies, and its licensors. Konica Minolta Holdings owns the copyrights in the selection, coordination, and arrangement of the materials on this website. These materials may not be copied for commercial use or distribution, nor may these materials be modified or reposted to other sites.

Duplication, public transmission, modification, deletion, or reproduction on your website of content from this website without the authorization of the copyright holder, whether Konica Minolta Holdings, its affiliated companies, and its licensors is prohibited under copyright law, except for printing or storage for personal use, or other specific use permitted under copyright law. You are therefore requested to contact Konica Minolta Holdings ("Konica Minolta") to obtain permission before making use of content appearing on the site. Note that permission to use such content may be refused if it contains portraits that are protected under law, copyrighted material or trademarks belonging to third parties, etc., or if the intended usage is deemed inappropriate by Konica Minolta.

If use is made of content with the permission of Konica Minolta, you are requested to display the copyright notice specified by Konica Minolta. Modification or deletion of the copyright notice without prior notice to Konica Minolta is prohibited.

Recommended Browsers and Plug-ins

1. Compatible Browser

   (1)Microsoft Windows

   Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 or later, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or later.

   (2)Apple Macintosh

   Safari 2.0 or later.

2. Required Plug-ins
   
   　Latest Version of Flash Player from Adobe Systems Incorporated.
   
   　Latest Version of Adobe Reader from Adobe Systems Incorporated.
   
   　Latest Version of Windows Media Player from Microsoft Corporation.

Cookies

Use of Cookies and Web-beacons

For providing better services to the customers, Konica Minolta websites may use cookies and /or web-beacons. These technologies are objected to be used for selectively displaying best-matched pages to the customers and for obtaining static data of web visitors.
However, the use of those technologies is refrained from the function to track down or identify individuals.

Further, it is possible for every customer to willingly turn on/off the use of cookies on his/her browsers or even to set the browsers to give interactive alerts before cookies are being transferred.
When the use of cookies is turned off on the browsers, Konica Minolta websites may be readable but limited in some services.

Accesibility

1. Konica Minolta is committed to providing a site that is accessible in ease and comfort by all Internet users, including those disabled by old age or other physical reasons. For this reason, it is important that our site is designed and encoded in such a way as to place as small a burden as possible on people with visual, aural, physical, intellectual and linguistic disabilities.
2. Konica Minolta is committed to the provision of clear and easily understood information, so as not to cause misunderstanding or confusion among users accessing our site as a result of such users' experience, intellect, culture or language.
3. Konica Minolta is committed to design interface with a high level of usability, in consideration of the environments from which users access the Internet, in order to ensure the satisfaction and trust of such users, as well as increased benefits from use of the site.

Privacy Policy

Konica Minolta does all in its power to manage and protect your personal information. Normally you will not need to provide your name or any other information about yourself to access this website.

At the same time, this website is operated for the purpose of providing information about Konica Minolta, and there may be cases where you will be requested to voluntarily give personal information such as your name and address, in answering surveys or in requesting answers to queries, registering for periodic mailings, or having printed materials shipped to you.

In such cases, you might be asked to give such personal information as your name, e-mail address, telephone number and street address. There may also be cases where a minimum of additional information will be requested for particular purposes. Except for the minimum necessary information, all such information is optional; you are free to provide it or not. In no case will the information you provide be altered without your permission.

Note that there may be cases where the information you provide is notified to a third party, but only to the extent necessary. For example, if we are asked to ship materials to your address, it will be necessary to notify your name and address to the shipping agent.

If a person registering information with this website requests disclosure of his or her own personal information, this will be done only to the registering party and only after confirming the identity of the requesting party.

In offering certain kinds of services on this website, the possibility may arise where you will be asked to provide more confidential information such as that for electronic money or credit card transactions. In such cases encryption of the transmitted information and other steps will be taken to ensure the security of the information.

The policies outlined above may be subject to change in the future, in which case all such changes will be notified on this website.

Linking to the Website

Permission is granted to link to the site if you comply with the following linking policy: your website must not slander or damage Konica Minolta or contain inappropriate content; you may not create a frame around Konica Minolta content or create any impression by any other method that the content does not belong to Konica Minolta: This permission terminates automatically if you breach any terms or conditions of these terms or any applicable terms of use on the subsites. Upon termination, you must remove any links.