Equinox Mine ("the Company") adheres to the laws and ordinances and other norms pertaining to the protection of personal information with respect to the personal information of customers, other parties with which it has business relationships, employees, etc., that it handles in the course of its business activities, and shall formulate internal rules and establish structures for the protection of personal information. For that purpose the Company hereby lays down the Personal Information Protection Policy set out below, and declares that this policy shall be implemented and also revised and improved continuously.