California Consumer Privacy Statement

Last Updated: January 5, 2026

This California Consumer Privacy Statement supplements our Privacy Policy. It applies solely to personal information collected about California customers, website visitors, job applicants, and personnel of our business partners. This California Consumer Privacy Statement does not apply to personal information collected about Hisamitsu personnel.

This California Consumer Privacy Statement uses certain terms that have the meaning given to them in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020) and its implementing regulations (collectively, the "CCPA").

Notice of Collection and Use of Personal Information

We may collect (and may have collected during the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of this California Consumer Privacy Statement) the following categories of personal information about you:

Identifiers: identifiers such as a first and last name, company, postal address, unique personal identifier (such as a device identifier; cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers, and similar technology; customer number, unique pseudonym, or user alias; telephone number and other forms of persistent or probabilistic identifiers), online identifier, IP address, email address, and other similar identifiers
Additional Data Subject to Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80: signature, state identification card number, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or other financial information, and education information
Protected Classifications: characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, genetic information, disability, citizenship status, and military and veteran status
Commercial Information: commercial information, including products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, and other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies
Online Activity: Internet and other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with websites, applications or advertisements
Sensory Information: audio, electronic, visual, and similar information
Employment Information: professional or employment-related information such as résumé information, occupation details, education details, certifications and professional associations, historical compensation details, previous employment details, emergency contact information, and pre-employment screening and background check information, including criminal records information
Education Information: education information in connection with job applicants
Inferences: inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about you reflecting your preferences, characteristics, and behavior.

We may use (and may have used during the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of this California Consumer Privacy Statement) your personal information for the purposes described in the Hisamitsu Privacy Policy and for the following business purposes:

Performing services, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytics services, providing storage, or providing similar services;
Providing advertising and marketing services;
Auditing related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance;
Short-term, transient use, such as nonpersonalized advertising shown as part of your current interaction with us;
Helping to ensure security and integrity;
Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of our services or devices and to improve, upgrade, or enhance them;
Debugging to identify and repair errors;
Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration;
Managing career opportunities with us; and
Managing our relationships with current or prospective partners, corporate customers and vendors and other business partner personnel.

We do not collect or process sensitive personal information for purposes of inferring characteristics about consumers.

To the extent we process deidentified information, we will maintain and use the information in deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify the information unless permitted by applicable law.

Retention of Personal Information

We will retain your personal information for the time period reasonably necessary to achieve the purposes described in the Hisamitsu Privacy Policy and this California Consumer Privacy Statement, or any other notice provided at the time of collection, taking into account applicable statutes of limitation and records retention requirements under applicable law.

Sources of Personal Information

During the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of this California Consumer Privacy Statement, we may have obtained personal information about you from the following categories of sources:

Directly from you, such as when you contact us
Your devices, such as when you use our Sites
Our affiliates
Service providers, contractors and other vendors who provide services on our behalf
Online advertising services
Data analytics providers
Internet service providers ("ISPs")
Operating systems and platforms
Social networks
Job references, such as your employers or teachers
Public databases, credit bureaus, credit reporting service providers and background check services

Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

We do not sell your personal information in exchange for monetary compensation. We may share your personal information by allowing certain third parties (such as online advertising services) to collect personal information via automated technologies on our websites and apps for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes. This kind of sharing may be considered a "sale" under California law when the personal information is exchanged for non-monetary consideration. You have the right to opt out of these types of disclosures of your information.

We may sell or share for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes (and may have sold or shared during the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of this California Consumer Privacy Statement) the following categories of personal information about you to online advertising services:

Identifiers
Commercial Information
Online Activity
Inferences

You have the right to opt-out of this disclosure of your information, as detailed below. We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of minors under 16 years of age.

Disclosure of Personal Information

During the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of this Privacy Statement, we may have disclosed the following categories of personal information about you for the business purposes listed above to service providers and contractors:

Identifiers
Additional Data Subject to Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80
Protected Classifications
Commercial Information
Online Activity
Sensory Information
Employment Information
Education Information
Inferences

Please see the With Whom We Share Personal Information section of our Privacy Policy for more information about how we disclose personal information.

California Consumer Privacy Rights

You have certain choices regarding your personal information, as described below.

Access: You have the right to request, twice in a 12-month period, that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected, used, disclosed, and sold or shared about you.
Correction: You have the right to request that we correct the personal information we maintain about you, if that information is inaccurate.
Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete certain personal information we have collected from you.
Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information or the sharing of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.

How to Submit a Request. To submit an access, correction, or deletion request, please contact us at info@us.hisamitsu. You can opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information by broadcasting the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal through a supported browser. Requests sent using the Global Privacy Control will apply to the device and browser from which they are submitted. If you use the GPC, we will process your request for your browser in a frictionless manner, but it will not apply outside of that browser to your device. Also, if you clear your cookies in your browser after using the GPC, you will need to use the GPC again for us to process your opt out for that browser. If you would like to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information associated with a different device or browser, please use the GPC signal using that device or browser. For more information about the Global Privacy Control, please visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/.

To submit a request as an authorized agent on behalf of a consumer, please contact us at info@us.hisamitsu. For questions or concerns about our privacy policies and practices, please contact us as described in the "How to Contact Us" section of our Privacy Policy.

Verifying Requests. To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with your deletion or correction request. If you request access to, correction of or deletion of your personal information, we may verify your identity by requiring you to authenticate your email address or providing information about your prior interactions with us. In addition, if you ask us to provide you with specific pieces of personal information, we may require you to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the consumer whose personal information is the subject of the request. If you submit a request through an authorized agent, we may ask for your written permission or a power of attorney. Where you provided your authorized agent with a written permission, we may require that you also verify your identity.

Additional Information. If you choose to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment by us. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may charge a reasonable fee to comply with your request.