Please read the following points before using the system.
1. Protection of personal information
This external desk is operated by D-Quest Co., Ltd., a third party entrusted by the company, which exercises sufficient care for protection of personal information.

2. System for reporting (provision of information)
1) At this external desk, the information input by a whistleblower gets translated if necessary and is handed over to the Kirin Holdings Company, Limited.
Please note that no message can be cancelled once sent.

2) Even if you provide your personal data such as real name, email address, position etc, Kirin Holdings Company, Limited, will receive the information with your personal data masked, and will then disclose it after obtaining your consent to provide your personal information.

3) In addition, in cases where it is based on laws and regulations or orders from the government / there is a risk of danger to the body or life, information that can identify the whistleblower may be disclosed to the whistleblower's affiliated company or a third party without the consent of the whistleblower.

3. Matters subject to whistleblowing
Events to be reported are limited to fraud and any legal of regulatory violation that has a significant impact on the company.

Actions to be reported: bribery, cartel activites, child labor, forced labor, accounting fraud, embezzlement, breach of trust, leakage of confidential information, etc.

Not accepted: reports regarding Human Resources related matters such as complaints about salary or employment conditions, problems with relations in the workplace,issues that can be resolved in-company. These issues are not handled by this hotline.

4. Who can use this service
regular employees, agency-dispatched employees, contract employees, temporary workers, etc.
* As a rule, we do not accept reports from employees other than those working for our group companies.

5. Handling of Personal Information
Disclosure or non-disclosure of the name of the department and the whistleblower’s name, etc., at the time of reporting shall, in principle, be at the whistleblower‘s discretion. Even in the case of anonymous reporting, consideration will be given to sufficient investigation and protection of the informant.

The handling of personal information shall be in accordance with the following privacy policy.
　https://www.kirinholdings.com/en/privacypolicy/

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