Terms and Conditions

The website www.mizuho-tb.co.jp (the "Site") is administered by Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. ("MHTB"). Please read and understand the following terms and conditions before using the Site. MHTB reserves the right, at any time and in its sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these terms and conditions without prior notification. Please check these terms and conditions periodically for changes.

Information contained in the Site may include forward-looking statements with respect to financial conditions, Results of operations and business of MHTB. These forward-looking statements reflect certain risks and uncertainties and may differ from actual results due to changes in the economic situation and marked trend.

The purpose of the Site is to facilitate fair and timely disclosure of information to our stockholders, investors and customers, as well as providing a broad range of information, including press releases. Information contained in the Site may include "important facts" as defined in Article 166 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law. If a person who views press releases or other information including important facts conducts any transactions designated under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law within twelve hours after the release of such important facts to the media pursuant to the provisions of the Enforcement Order for the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law, such transactions may be deemed to violate the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law as a so-called violation of insider trading rules.

Copyrights to the content contained in the Site (including but not limited to all information, brands, design, etc.) are in principle owned by MHTB.

MHTB disclaims any liability for any problem, loss or damage arising in connection with any act committed based on any information contained in the Site.

Although the site may be subject to suspension or discontinuation of operation and change of content without prior notification, MHTB also disclaims any liability for any problem, loss or damage arising in connection with such suspension or discontinuation and change.

The site uses "cookies" for the purpose of ensuring security and providing appropriate information when visitors access the Site. Cookies are a technology that enables the identification of repeat access and visits to the Site by the same visitor through the storage of certain text files (information) on the visitor's terminal via the web browser. However, the cookies used on the Site contain no information that identifies the visitor. Also, ordinarily a visitor can change the browser settings to refuse to accept cookies or to display an alert when a cookie has been accepted. (Ordinarily, browsers are configured to accept cookies.) As a result, however, part of the services on the website may become unavailable. Refer to the section Cookie Settings for information on changing browser settings.