Privacy policy


The store(or “we”, “us”, or “our”, as the case may be) strongly recognizes the importance of protecting a personal information of our customers and properly handles and protects their personal information in compliance with the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (hereinafter referred to as the “APPI”) as well as in accordance with the following privacy policy?(hereinafter referred to as the “this Privacy Policy”).

1.Definition of Personal Information

As used in this Privacy Policy, “personal information” shall mean personal information as defined in Article 2.1 of APPI, meaning information relating to a living individual that can be used to identify a specific individual by its name, date of birth, or other description contained in such information (this includes any information that can be easily collated with other information and thereby used to identify that specific individual), or those containing personal identification code.

2.Purpose of using personal information

We use your personal information for the following purposes:

To provide our services

To provide information and respond to inquiries regarding our services

To provide information on our products and services

To cope with a violation of our rules and regulations or the terms of service, or polices (hereinafter referred to as the "Terms") regarding our services. ?

To notify you of any change in Terms relating to our services.

To?facilitate improvement of our services and development of new services

To generate statistical data processed into a form that cannot identify individuals in relation to our services.

To accomplish purposes incidental to the above purposes of use

3.Change of purposes of use of personal information

We may change the purpose of use of personal information to the extent that it is reasonably recognized to be relevant, and in the event of such change, we notify our customer or disclose it to the public.

4.Restriction on use of personal information

We shall not use personal information of our customers beyond the scope of achieving the purpose of use without the consent of the customer, except as permitted by APPI and other relevant laws and regulations. However, this does not apply in the following cases:

1.Cases based on laws and regulations;

2.Cases in which there is a need to protect the life, wellbeing, or property of an individual, and it is difficult to obtain the consent of the identifiable person;

3.Cases in which there is a special need to improve public wellbeing or promote healthy child development, and it is difficult to obtain the consent of the identifiable person;

4.Cases in which there is a need to cooperate with a national government organ, local government, or person entrusted thereby with performing the functions prescribed by laws and regulations, and the consent of the identifiable person is likely to interfere with the performance of those functions;

5.Proper acquisition of personal information

We shall acquire personal information properly, and shall not acquire it by deception or other wrongful means.

6. Security of personal information

"We shall exercise the necessary and adequate supervision over our employees to ensure the secure management of the personal data against risks such as loss, destruction, falsification, and leaking of personal information.If we entrust another person with all or part of the handling of personal data, we shall exercise the necessary and adequate supervision over the person we entrust to ensure the secure management of the personal data with whose handling it entrusts that person.

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7.?Provision to third parties

We shall not provide personal information to third parties without obtaining the identifiable person's consent in advance, except in cases where disclosure is permitted under APPI or other relevant laws and regulations. However, the following cases do not fall under a third party regarding applying the provisions of each preceding paragraph:

1. Cases in which we?entrust a person with all or part of the handling of personal data within the scope necessary for achieving the purpose of use;

2. Cases in which your personal information is provided as a result of the business succession due to merger or other such circumstances;

3. Cases in which your personal data is provided to specific persons who have joint use of that data in accordance with the provisions of APPI.

8. Disclosure of personal information

When we receive a request from a customer for disclosure of personal information pursuant to the provisions of APPI, we shall disclose the personal information to the customer without delay after confirming that the request is made by the customer himself/herself (If such personal information does not exist, we will notify the customer to that effect.) However, this does not apply to cases in which we are not obligated to disclose the information under APPI or other relevant laws and regulations.

9.Correction of personal information

If we are requested by a customer to correct, add, or delete personal information (hereinafter referred to as "Correction”) based on the provisions of APPI by reason that such information is untrue, we shall ,after confirming that the request is made by the customer himself/herself, conduct the necessary investigation without delay to the extent necessary to achieve the purpose of use, and based on the results, make Correction the content of personal information and notify the customer thereof (If we decide not to make such Correction, we will notify the customer to that effect.) However, this does not apply to cases in which we are not obligated to make Correction under APPI or other relevant laws and regulations.

10.Cease to use of personal information

If we receive a request from a customer to cease to use or delete his/her personal information (hereinafter referred to as "cease") pursuant to the provisions of APPI by reason that such information is treated for any purpose other than those which are made public, or is obtained or collected by deception or other wrongful means, and we found that such request is reasonably acceptable, we shall promptly cease to use personal information of the customer and notify the customer thereof without delay after confirming that the request is made by the customer himself/herself. However, this does not apply to cases in which we are not obligated to cease the use of personal information under APPI or other relevant laws and regulations.

11. Use of Cookie or other technologies

1.Cookie or other similar technologies may be used for our services. These technologies shall help us understand how our services are being used, and contribute to improving our services. Users who wish to disable cookie may do so by changing their web browser settings. However, if you disable cookie, you may not be able to use certain functions of our services.

2.We use in our services Google Analytics provided by Google LLC, to investigate and analyze the information including customers’ usage of our services. For information on the mechanism of data collection and processing under Google Analytics and for other detailed information, please visit the website provided by Google LLC

Google Analytics Terms of Service:

https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/jp.html

How Google uses information when customers use Google partners’ websites or apps the Service:

https://www.google.com/intl/ja/policies/privacy/partners/

Google Privacy Policy:

http://www.google.com/intl/ja/policies/privacy/

For those who do not want their data to be used by Google Analytics, please use the Google Analytics Opt-Out Add-on provided by Google.

Google Analytics Opt-Out Add-on:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

3.Our services enable “Google Analytics Function for Advertising" and use the following features and use third-party cookie such as the DoubleClick cookie for advertisement and website improvement.

Google Analytics Remarketing

Google Analytics User Attribution Reports and Interest Reports

This allows our services to use Google Analytics cookie for the analysis of approximate understanding of your age, gender, browsing history, and trends in interest in our services.

For those who do not want “Google Analytics Function for Advertising" to be used, its tracking function can be disabled by the settings. You can disable it by installing the "Google Analytics Opt-Out Add-on" in your browser.

12. If you have request for disclosure, opinions, questions, complaints, or any other inquiries regarding the handling of personal information, please contact us by using the contact information in the "Act on Specified Commercial Transactions" page of our store, or use the inquiry form on the store page.

13.Continuous Improvement

We shall review the status of operation how your personal information is being handled on a regular basis, and use our best efforts to make them better, and modify this Privacy Policy from time to time.