We, SMC Corporation ("us"), establish and comply with the SMC Social Media Policy regarding the operation of our social media official account and the social media participation of executives and employees.

※Social media is media that allows an unspecified number of users to communicate with each other using the Internet or Web technique.

Basic Posture

1. When using social media, we will strive to express respect to our business partners, partners, local residents, corporate managers and employees, and their families, and listen to them.

2. Understand characteristics of the Internet, such as once it has been transmitted to an unspecified number of users and cannot be completely deleted.

Principles of Conduct

1. In addition to complying with laws and regulations, the SMC Group Guidelines for Corporate Behavior, the SMC Group Code of Behavior, and in-house rules, we take responsibility for our own behavior and use social media as a common-sense social person.

2. Clarify the purpose of communication, provide valuable information, and use misleading expressions.

Publication date: Dec. 15, 2022

Social Media Terms of Use

With respect to the use of the official social media account operated by SMC Corporation ("SMC") (the "Official Account"), the terms and conditions of use of social media (the "Terms and Conditions") shall be set forth as follows:

Scope of Application

These Terms and Conditions apply not only to our executives and employees, but also to anyone who uses an official account.

?The official account may be terminated or deleted without notice

?We will not reply to your comments on the official account. I will not answer any questions about direct messages (DMs).

?To follow all users who followed the official account,None.

?Even if the user does not follow the official account, we will follow it. We may ask you to do so.

Prohibitions

The following actions by users are prohibited against the official account.
If the user does any of the following, we can take action on the Remove Posted Content others without notice.

?Act of impersonating others, including us

?Posting contents that defames a particular person, firm, country or region, nationality, race, or ethnicity

?Submission of contents for Criminal Acts, and contents for Criminal Acts

?Acts that are contrary to laws, regulations, and public order and morality

?Political activities, election activities, and religious activities

?Posting an inappropriate contents with an obvious expression

?Incorrect contents posts, including discriminative expressions

?Post a contents that publishes personal communications with us or a third party

?Activities aimed at affiliates, advertising, advertising and solicitation

?The act of posting or sending harmful computer programs

?Spam activity

?Copying, selling or publishing information obtained through social media others acts of use beyond the scope of private use

?Acts that infringe or threaten to infringe upon the copyright, trademark right, portrait right, privacy or others rights of other users, third parties or us

?Actions that interfere with the operation of social media or that interfere with the operation of social media

?Act that violates the terms of use of social media

?Others actions we deem inappropriate

Indemnification

?We have a thorough caution of the information we send out from our official account, but please check our website for official announcements and views.

?If there is a mistake in the information originating from our official account, we will correct it immediately after confirmation, but we will not be responsible for any information prior to correction.

?We are not responsible for any content posted by the user.

?Please note that we are not able to respond individually to submissions received from users.

?With respect to damage, etc., arising from troubles between users or between users and third parties, the user shall, at his/her own responsibility and expense, seek to resolve the problem by compensating for such problems, and shall not bear any burden or cause any inconvenience to us.

?We are not responsible for any damage of customers arising from your use or inability to use an official account.

?All copyrights (including, but not limited to, those set forth in Articles 27 and 28 of copyright law) in the content submitted shall belong to us and the user shall not exercise moral rights therein. In addition, the user shall not charge us any compensation for the attribution and waiver of such rights.

?These Terms and Conditions are subject to change without prior consent of the user. In such event, the revised Code shall become effective as of the time of its publication on the website by others and shall thereafter be subject to the revised Code.

Jurisdiction, etc

The interpretation and apply of our Social Media Policy and Regulations Governing the Use of Social Media shall be governed by the laws of Japan unless otherwise provided. In addition, the Tokyo District Court shall be the exclusive jurisdictional court of first instance for any dispute arising out of the operation of our social media.

Contact information

On our social media policies and social media terms and conditions
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