・ allow you to take part in the innovation challenges on our website; 

・ enable you to personalize your user profile/account; 

・ as a third party provision, we will provide information to partner companies for the selection of challenges and execution of awards. 

・ transfers to operators in Japan, Europe and the United States 

・ send you service-related information (e.g., confirmation of your registration in a challenge) by email and/or any other communication means; 

・ enable you to communicate and interact with other community members, such as team members, mentors, jury members and/or the organizers of a challenge (e.g., team member messages or invitations to join a team); 

・ publish an announcement that you are a finalist or winner of a challenge; 

・ give you access to our support services to enable you to communicate with us; 

・ keep our website secure and safe; 

・ measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising and to deliver relevant advertising to you; 

・ target you for ads on social media platforms (like Facebook); 

・ send you, in accordance with applicable laws and where required, with your consent, marketing materials and suggestions of our services (e.g., up-coming challenges) that may interest you; 

・ notify you about changes to our services; 

・ administer our website, including for troubleshooting, access, data analysis, testing, research, analytic and survey purposes; 

・ improve our website to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner; and 

・ comply with our legal obligations, including court orders and other legal or regulatory requirements. 

・Registration. We collect the mandatory information required to create your user account and to register for the services we provide on our website, meaning your name, email address, password and information related to your profile.

・Profile. You have choices about the information in your profile, such as, whether to provide your date of birth, title, photograph, country, education, professional skills, and employment preferences. You don’t have to provide additional information in your profile; but profile information helps you to get more from our services, like being identified by teams to participate in a challenge. If applicable, your profile will also show membership in a team(s).

・Messages, postings and uploads. We collect personal data from you when you provide, post or upload it to our website, such as when you register for a challenge, when you upload deliverables (e.g., documents, presentations, audio/video files) submitted as part of your participation in a challenge, when you chat or message with other members of the community, post announcements, or use public message boards.

・Technical information. We keep a record of any correspondence between you and us, such as information that you send when you report a problem with our website or service. 
 

Any other information relating to you which you may provide to us. 

・Technical Information.
When you visit our website we collect information relating to the devices you use and the networks to which you are connected.  This technical information, includes your IP address, log-in information, bandwidth used, time of visit, browser type and version, browser plug-ins types and versions, operating system, information about your visit including the URL clickstream, download/upload errors, pages visited, page interactions, and other connection data held in our logs. We collect this information using different technologies, like cookies (see our Cookies Notice). 

・Agorize SAS which is the company hosting and maintaining the platform 

・the company that has sponsored a challenge, its administrators, mentors and jury members, or other persons to whom it has granted access to your personal data for the sole purpose of administering the challenge.  We have entered data sharing arrangements with the companies with whom we co-organize a challenge to ensure compliance with data protection laws; 

・social media platforms that may provide you with connecting services to use our website;

・our sub-contractors, who are technical (e.g., cloud computing platforms, data and content management and transmission systems, search engine providers, etc.) or analytics providers; and

・social media platforms who may advertise our services on their websites. 

・We are looking for two types of partners to assist the Sponsor's operations in this Challenge. Additional partners may be added at any time during the Challenge period and will be announced on the Challenge Recruitment Form once determined. 

・Management partner: A company that cooperates with part of the management (judges, mentors, award design/execution, etc.) in carrying out the challenge 

・Sponsor Partners: Companies that provide financial support for the challenge 

・Data (team attribute information, submitted deliverables) necessary for each activity (examination of ideas, mentoring of selected teams, execution of awards to winning teams, etc.) is shared with Management partners. Management partners are located in Japan/USA/Germany 

・The company name and email address of the team that passed the round one screening will be shared with the sponsor partner, and contact may occur for the purpose of future business collaboration. Sponsor partners are located in Japan 

・The video recording of the final selection will be shared with the sponsor partners with a limited scope of disclosure. 

・To assist us in the improvement and optimization of our website by using analytics and search engines; 

・It is explicitly requested by you (e.g., when registering through social media authentication); 

・It is based on your consent and/or our legitimate interest (i.e. providing you with meaningful advertising); 

・If we are required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to claims asserted against us, to comply with legal proceedings, in the framework of an investigation, or protect the rights, property or personal safety of Yamaha or its members; 

・If we sell or buy any business or assets, we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer; and 

・If all or part of our assets are acquired by a third party, your personal data may be included as transferred assets. 

・Audience monitoring (i.e. Google Analytics,..) 

・Social media (i.e. Facebook, Linkedin,...) 

・Marketing (i.e. Sumo,...) 

1. Technical session cookies for site management: when you access the site, a session cookie and a cookie “token” with unique encrypted session id code is passed to your computer. The session cookie then controls your access to the site for that session, and is deleted once you close your browser or log off from the site. The token cookie controls your access to the website as an authenticated user, and is kept until you logout or for a maximum of 7 days. These cookies also allow us to identify your device and preferences when you return to our website, such as customized features, language and regional preferences. These cookies are an essential part of the site delivery system, and you will not be able to fully use our site without these cookies enabled. The information gathered by these cookies is anonymous, and is used only to improve your experience on our website. 
    

2. Technical persistent cookies for site management: if you register on the site and select the "Remember me" option, a persistent cookie is passed to your computer. This cookie is not deleted when you leave the site or close your browser, but is saved on your computer. This cookie contains an encrypted user id code that identifies your computer upon future visits and automatically logs you into the site. This cookie is functional, and is designed to remember your preferences, to make your experience on our site better. It does not contain any personal information that could be used to identify you. 
    

3. Third-party cookies for audience monitoring: We may use Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar or other tools to monitor traffic on our site. When you visit our site, these programs set certain cookies that record statistical information about your visits to the site. We measure the number of visits, the number of pages viewed as well as visitors' activity on the site and their frequency of return. This helps us improve our website and its functionality, for example, by ensuring that users can navigate it intuitively. These cookies do not store any personal information that could be used to identify you. 
    

4. Third-party cookies for social media: If the platform allows you to register using social media Single Sign On connectivity, we will use the information stored in these cookies to authenticate you. 
    

5. Third-party cookies for marketing: If marketing tools are configured on the platform, these cookies will be used to send you communications. (deactivated by default) 
    

6. What cookies are installed?