This Application privacy notice (hereinafter referred to as “this Application Notice”) applies to the user (hereinafter referred to as “you” or “your”) who use the application “My Yamaha Motor” (hereinafter referred to as “this Application”) provided by Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and its group companies of your country or region (hereinafter referred to as “we”, “us” or “our”). This Application connects you with Yamaha Motor Group and supports a comfortable motorcycle life. Please read this Application Notice carefully before using this Application.
To use the My Yamaha Motor, you will need to register a Yamaha Motor ID. This is managed under a separate privacy notice (Yamaha Motor ID Privacy Notice) and can be found underneath the Application Privacy Notice. If there is a conflict between the Application Privacy Notice and the Yamaha Motor ID Privacy Notice, the Application Privacy Notice shall be prioritized.
In this Application, we process the following data about you (hereinafter referred to as “your data”). Your data may include your personal data.
Information to be registered in connection with the use of this Application (such as name, address, country, phone number, email address, gender, date of birth, ID number, vehicle registration certificate, driver’s license information and information about your Yamaha product)
Information provided when you make inquiries about this Application (such as name, content of inquiry and contact information)
Location information, cookie information
Usage history of this Application, operation log
Information about your device (such as model name, OS version, country code and carrier code (only when we receive an inquiry from the inquiry form))
Warranty registration information, service history
Your data provided at the time of e-Warranty Registration will be used together with your data provided for My Yamaha Motor.
We process your data for the following purposes. And it may be used for the following purposes in combination with the information we obtained separately.
We may share your data with Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries, affiliates and counterparties (such as distributors and dealers) and contractors within the scope necessary to achieve the purpose of use.
To provide My Yamaha Motor service, we integrate your registered information of E-Warranty and the information you provided to the dealer.
Regardless of the purpose of use, your data may be converted into a form whereby an individual is unable to be identified and then shared with the third parties mentioned above as statistical or aggregated data.
In addition, in order to provide the service that utilize location information, your location information may be provided to the provider of the map and/or weather application service through this Application.
And, you can login on this Application by using your social media profile, such as Facebook and Google. Please note that the relevant social media provider could process information on your access to the application including your personal data. Please see “Logging in from social media accounts“ in Yamaha Motor ID Privacy Notice for details.
As we are engaged in business activities on a global scale, we may transfer your data to a country or a region that does not have laws or regulations equivalent to those related to protection of personal data in the country or the region where you reside / locate. Upon transferring your data abroad, we will take appropriate measures in accordance with provisions set forth in applicable laws and regulations.
If you exercise rights (right of access, right to erasure, and the like) to the extent permitted under applicable laws and regulations, we will faithfully and appropriately deal with that exercise of rights in accordance with provisions set forth in applicable laws and regulations.
You can correct a part of your data on this Application. If you have any other requests regarding the processing of your data, please contact us through contact form in this Application.
Please note that some or all of your data is necessary to fulfill the obligations of applicable laws and regulations and/or provide the Application functions properly, and some of your data may be retained.
The Provider of this Application/Data Controller:
Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.
2500 Shingai, Iwata-Shi, Shizuoka-Ken, 438-8501, Japan
my-yamaha@yamaha-motor.co.jp
If you have any queries about use of this Application and/or the processing of your data, please contact us from the contact form in this Application or to the contact information.
We may amend, revise, add to, or delete the contents of this Application Notice due to changes to the specifications of this Application and/or required by amendment to laws and regulations. Changes to this Application Notice will be notified to you through this Application.
Last updated: November 27th, 2024
Ver.1.0.0
This Yamaha Motor ID Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”) applies to users (“you” or “your”) who have registered a Yamaha Motor ID managed by Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (hereinafter referred to as “we”, “us” or “our”).
The official language of this Privacy Notice is English.
We process the following data about you (“your data”). This may include your personal data.
Profile Data (such as name, email address, gender, date of birth, password and other contact information)
Data provided by you for inquiries about Yamaha Motor ID (such as name, contact details and inquiry details)
Optional information (such as profile picture and social media account details)
Usage history of services (including Yamaha provided connected applications) linked to your Yamaha Motor ID (such as operation logs)
Data retrieved in association with your Yamaha Motor ID may be combined with personal information directly provided by you to Yamaha Group, information provided through third party (such as social media providers when using social login), and information provided through our Group’s products and services, within the scope of “3. Purpose of Use”
To register a Yamaha Motor ID you will be asked to confirm and consent to this Privacy Notice. Certain services provided by Yamaha will require registration of Yamaha Motor ID before use. In such instances, you will be asked to confirm and consent to the applicable Terms and Conditions of the service and to this Privacy Notice.
Any processing of your data obtained through your Yamaha Motor ID shall be conducted based on this consent.
We will process your data to provide related services requiring Yamaha Motor ID. Other than this, we may process your data for purposes as listed below.
Respond to inquiries, requests, and complaints
Offer information on contests, events, and promotions and to administer these activities
Share administrative information such as changes to our terms, conditions, and policies
Respond to your data rights requests (see “9. Your Rights”)
Conduct research, and develop, promote new products and services
Improve and/or modify existing services and features
For quality and security improvement of products and services
Develop new features in response to customer needs
Conduct data analytics, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, business planning, determining effectiveness of campaigns, reporting, and forecasting
Gather and analyze information such as market research for the purpose of quality improvement and product development
Provide information for purposes including marketing and advertising on new and/or updated Yamaha Motor products and services to contact details you have provided
Fulfill contractual obligations with third parties, agents, subsidiaries and affiliates
To ensure protection and safety of property and rights
Protect network and information asset
Comply with laws, regulations, and other rules
Data collected from your Yamaha Motor ID may be combined with information directly provided by you to Yamaha Group, information provided by a third party (such as social media providers when using social login) and/or information you provide through our Group’s products and services. These will be used to achieve the purpose(s) of use stated above.
We will store your personal data for the period necessary to achieve the above purpose(s) of use and/or as required by laws.
We may share your data with our subsidiaries, affiliates and counterparties (such as distributors and dealers) in your country or region and contractors within the scope necessary to achieve the purpose of use (“3. Purpose of Use”). Regardless of the purpose of use, your data will be converted into a form where the individual is unable to be identified, and then shared with the third parties mentioned above, as statistical or aggregated data.
As we are engaged in business activities on a global scale, we may transfer your data to a country or region that do not have personal data protection laws or regulations equivalent to the country or region you reside in or are located. When transferring your data abroad, we will take appropriate measures in accordance with provisions set forth in applicable laws and regulations.
You can register a Yamaha Motor ID using your Google and/or Apple account. You will be asked to give us permission to use your Google and/or Apple account details including name and email address. You may at any time remove your account from our services and withdraw approval to share from your social media account settings.
If you use this function, the social media provider may process information related to you, such as your use of the applicable service. We will not be liable for that processing of your information. For details on information related to you that is processed by each social media provider, please refer to each social media provider’s privacy policy.
When we obtain a child’s personal data, we will obtain consent from statutory agents, such as a person with parental authority over that child, and take other necessary steps in accordance with applicable laws, ordinances, and the like.
We have established a management structure to prevent unauthorized access, loss, destruction, falsification, leakage of your data. We take appropriate organizational, physical and technical security measures as follows:
We recognize the importance of protecting personal data and take appropriate measures such as training against employees who process personal data.
If an accident such as leakage of your personal data occurs, we will appropriately respond to it by investigating all facts and the cause and taking measures to prevent secondary damage and reoccurrence as appropriate.
We recognize you have rights to your data including rights to know, access, correct, transfer, restrict the processing of, and deletion of your data. We shall faithfully and appropriately deal with your exercise of rights in accordance with the provisions set forth in applicable laws and regulations. To exercise your rights, please contact us (see “11. Contact Information”).
Please note that we are required to hold some/all of your data to fulfill obligations under applicable laws and regulations. Additionally, we may need some/all of your data to provide related services you have registered for and may not be able to respond to your request.
If you are unsatisfied with our response, you have the right to file a complaint with the relevant responsible data protection authority in your country or region in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
We may amend, revise, add to, or delete the contents of this Privacy Notice. This may be due to changes to Yamaha Motor ID specifications, or due to changes in requirements under applicable laws and regulations.
Changes to this Privacy Notice will be notified to you when it causes a significant impact on your rights and freedoms. Notice will be provided through related services you have registered for with your Yamaha Motor ID.
For any general inquiries relating to the use and collection of your data under this Notice, please contact us below.
(Provider of Yamaha Motor ID/Data Controller)
Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.
2500 Shingai, Iwata-shi, Shizuoka-Ken, 438-8501, Japan
The following sections provide additional information to users as may be required under local data laws.
Last Updated: August 1st, 2024
Ver.3.0.0