The Nippon Carbide Industries Group (hereinafter "the Group") is committed to company wide information security measures to protect information assets, including but not limited to information entrusted to us by our customers and business partners as well as the Group s trade secrets and personal information, from accidents, disasters, crime, and other threats, and to earn the trust of our customers and society.

• Management Responsibility
  The Group shall strive to systematically and continuously improve and enhance information security under the leadership of management.
• Compliance with legal and contractual requirements
  The Group shall comply with all laws, regulations, codes, and contractual obligations related to personal information protection and information security.
• Establishment of internal systems
  The Group shall establish an organization to maintain and improve information security, and shall define information security measures as official internal rules and all officers and employees shall throughly implement the secure handling and management of information assets.
• Risk assessment and implementation of countermeasures
  As part of our information security management system, the Group promotes activities to systematically assess risks to the information assets we handle and to enable the swift implementation necessary countermeasures.
• Education and training initiatives
  The Group shall systematically provide education and training to directors and employees of the Group to raise their awareness of information security and ensure that security measures are thoroughly implemented.
• Response to violations and accidents
  In the event of any violation of laws and regulations, breach of contract, or accident related to information security, the Group shall take appropriate action to prevent recurrence.
• Review of the policy
  The Group shall periodically review this policy and continuously improve it in response to changes in the business and social environments legal regulations, and the emergence of new risks and threats.