FORUM 8 Co., Ltd. encourages the below actions to strengthen and execute
compliance activity.
We report on the compliance activity in 2008-2010 and the activities will
be continues hereafter.
Compliance Activity Report (by the employee position) |
Compliance to education, training and conference
activities
- 1. Activity and training of board members/divisional directors
- FORUM 8 president and the division directors were advised by
the solicitors
on the subjects related to compliance ? guidance on the law;
review and
guidance on the report on the current company status and the
accounts by
the CPA; guidance on the financial mandates; and guidance
and confirmation
on the current company status.
- Legal compliance about intellectual property law
- Legal compliance about labor management
- Legal compliance about finance, accounting and tax
- Check point about Individual contract such as sales,
consignment and alliance.
- New regulations and update of the existing regulations
regarding the compliance
activity and its enhancement was agreed to be conducted at
the board meeting.
- New provision:
Regulation on research (regulations on misconduct
regarding competitive
fund) formulated and implemented on February 24th
2009
- Revised provision:
FORUM 8 Co.,Ltd. Labor regulations were revised on
June 30th, 2010 (in
Chapter 3 Discipline Regulations, Section 3
Discipline Knowledge, the item,
use of computers was added)
- Other company regulations, including regulation
regarding maternity, were
amended in compliance with the related laws.
- FORUM 8 will organize the company activities with reference
to white paper
report and survey results from "The Second Survey on
Compliance",
published by Nippon Omni Management Association. To avoid
activities and
events in breach of compliance, research and education are
carried out
under the leadership of board members ? daily activities
will be monitored
by each group leader.
Incompliant activities and events in regards to research and
education:
- Category 1: Fabrication, falsification, leakage,
false impersonation and
concealment, human rights violation, fraud and
concealment
- Category 2: Defective product, misrepresentation,
violation of rights,
software cracking, illegal access
- To review internally the laws regarding import and export of
goods and
the international conventions, the existing business
relationships were
reviewed with reference to the latest information included
in the "Trade
Handbook 2010" (published by JETRO, Japan External
Trade Organization,
February 10, 2010).
Moreover, "Consultation and Support Agreement for Sales
and Marketing
of FORUM 8 Product" was signed with FORUM 8 Technology
Development
China (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of FORM 8 in
Shanghai, to comply
with the local Chinese regulations and to avoid
misunderstandings.
- Board members are to answer any questions from the
Commission of Fair Trading,
the entrustment survey organization etc. to assist in the
surveys of compliance
in and outside of FORUM 8.
2. Activities and training of the management, group leaders and
full employees
- To carry out and improve the compliance activities, FORUM 8
holds "Monday
Meetings" attended by all group leaders and employees
as below.
乬c. The activities and events of incompliance will be
prevented and compliance
will be improved through research and education.
Specifically, category
1 relates to prevention through communication and reports
and category
2 relates to prevention through education and notifications.
Group leaders and directors give reports in the meeting,
followed by questions
and answers and advice and directions. Divisional meetings
are joined by
part time employees.
Monday Meeting schedule:
- Week 1: Group Leader Meeting (The President, the
Group Leaders, the Team
leaders)
- Week 2: Company Meeting, Group Leader Meeting (All
employees, the President,
the Directors)
- Week 3: Sales and administration Meeting (Relevant
employees, the President,
the Directors)
- Week 4: Development and Support Meeting 乮Relevant
employees, the President,
the Directors)
- Week 5: Group Leader Meeting (the President, the
Directors, the Group Leaders,
the Team Leaders)
Compliance activity and training (by laws
and themes) |
- 1. Obtaining privacy policy and Privacy Mark
- To observe and implement continually the privacy policy Japanese and Personal information handling
policy based on privacy policy (Japanese) of May
31st, 2005, we are planning to obtain "Privacy
Mark"
during the financial year of 2010.
FORUM 8 joined the Computer Software Association on April
1st, 2010 and
contracted a consultant.
2. Strenghened information security
- In regards to the facility and the technology, to improve
the security
of the server room, admission management system for the
server room with
personal identification will be in operation. UC-1 for SaaS
server is in
the 3rd party data center and the backup system will be
placed in the server
room of the Tokyo Head office. To assure the security and
the manageability,
our system requires USB hardware lock system. In addtion, we
are planning
to provide software audit function by NetUPDATE
(Japanese) (Network based product management
program).
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