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In order to achieve the purposes of use indicated to you, Olympus may forward information provided by you to its group companies, outsourcers and/or agents having confidential obligation agreement with Olympus and/or its group companies, so that such parties may directly respond to you.

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For inquiries on personal information obtained through the Website, please see the Personal Information Inquiry page for details.

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We may occasionally use other companies to set cookies on the Website and gather cookie information for us. In some cases, we may also use another company to operate Web servers or process credit card purchases for the Website. We use the cookie information gathered by these companies in the same manner as stated above.

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In addition to the information we collect from cookies, we also obtain information which you provide to us online - or through other communication with us. In some cases, we retain both the cookie information and/or the information you provide to us online. In other cases, we retain only the cookie and/or online information you give us if you request us to do so for your use in subsequent sessions.

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