Ohara Shoten Inc. (“Company”) maintains the following Privacy Policy (“Policy”) concerning the handling of Personal Information of the User pertaining to the service provided on this Website (“Service”).
Article 1 (Personal Information)
“Personal Information” refers to the “personal information” specified in the Act on the Protection of Personal Information. It means information relating to a living individual and that can identify a specific individual through the name, date of birth, address, telephone number, contact information, or any other listings contained within as well as information that can on its own identify a specific individual (personal identification information) such as data related to appearance, finger prints, and voiceprints, or the insurance number on a health insurance card.
Article 2 (Acquiring Personal Information)
When the User registers for usage with the Company, the Company may request Personal Information from the User, such as the User’s name, date of birth, address, telephone number, e-mail address, bank account number, credit card number, or driver’s license number. Additionally, the Company may acquire information related to transaction records and payments concerning transactions between the User and a partner of the Company from partners of the Company (this includes information providers, advertisement sponsors, advertisement placement platforms, etc., and are referred to below as “Partners”). This information may also contain User Personal Information.
Article 3 (Purposes for acquiring and using Personal Information)
The purposes for which the Company acquires and uses Personal Information are as follows.
- To supply and manage the Company Service
- To answer inquiries from the User (including cases of confirming User identity)
- To send e-mail notifications concerning new features for the Service the User is currently using, update information, campaigns, etc. and information about other services the Company offers
- To send notifications when necessary, such as maintenance notifications and important information
- To identify and refuse access to Users who violate the Terms of Service and Users who attempt to use the service for illicit or inappropriate purposes
- To allow Users to view, change, and delete their own registered information and view their usage status
- To bill the User for usage fees regarding paid services
- Any purpose ancillary to the above usage reasons
Article 4 (Changing usage purposes)
- The Company may change usage purposes for Personal Information, but only in cases wherein the changed usage purposes can reasonably be judged to share a relationship to the pre-change purposes.
- When the Company changes usage purposes, the Company will notify Users regarding the changed purposes through a method designated by the Company or release information about the change on this Website.
Article 5 (Supplying Personal Information to third parties)
- With the exception of the following cases, the Company will not supply Personal Information to any third parties without the prior consent of the User. However, this restriction does not apply to cases allowed in the Act on the Protection of Personal Information and other laws or regulations.
- When necessary to protect the life, body, or property of a person, and obtaining the consent of the User is difficult
- When particularly necessary for the improvement of public health or to promote the healthy growth of children, and obtaining the consent of the User is difficult
- When it is necessary to assist a federal agency, local government organization, or a government contracted entity in the execution of a duty set forth in law, and obtaining the consent of the User may potentially hinder the execution of that duty
- When the Company has already issued a notification of or publicly released information notifying the following matters, and has notified the Personal Information Protection Commission
- The fact that supply to a third party is included in the usage purpose
- The type of data supplied to the third party
- The process or method of supplying to the third party
- The fact that the Company will terminate supply of Personal Information to a third party based on the request of the User
- The method of accepting requests from the User
- Notwithstanding the provisions of the previous paragraph, the recipient of information is not considered a third party in the following cases.
- When the Company consigns the handling of Personal Information in whole or part within a scope necessary to achieve a usage purpose
- When supplying Personal Information corresponding to the process of transferring business processes due to a merger or another similar reason
- When using Personal Information together with a specific entity, and so far as the Company has either issued prior notification to the User of, or placed beforehand in a condition easily known to the User, the fact of that sharing and the type of Personal Information being shared, the scope of entities with which the Personal Information is shared for usage, the usage purpose of the using entity, and the name or title of the entity who is responsible for managing that Personal Information
Article 6 (Disclosing Personal Information)
- If the Company receives a request from the User for the disclosure of the Personal Information of that User, the Company shall disclose such to the User without delay. However, if the disclosure results in any of the following conditions, the Company may decide not to disclose the whole or part of the Personal Information. If the Company decides not to disclose Personal Information, the Company will notify the User of such without delay. Please not that for the disclosure of Personal Information, each case requires a processing fee of 1,000 yen.
- If there is potential harm to the life, body, property, or rights or interests of the User or a third party
- If there is the potential of a significant hindrance to the appropriate execution of Company business
- If doing so would violate a law or regulation
- Notwithstanding the provisions of the previous paragraph, the Company generally does not disclose information that is not Personal Information, such as usage history and attribute information.
Article 7 (Correcting and deleting Personal Information)
- If the Personal Information of a User retained by the Company is incorrect, the User may use the method designated by the Company to request to the Company the correction, addition, or deletion (“Correction, etc.”) of Personal Information.
- If the Company receives a request set forth in the previous paragraph from a User and judges it necessary to fulfill the request, the Company shall conduct Correction, etc. of the Personal Information in question without delay.
- If, pursuant to the provisions of the previous paragraph, the Company conducts Correction, etc. or decides not to conduct Correction, etc., the Company will notify the User thereof without delay.
Article 8 (Termination of Personal Information usage, etc.)
- If the Company receives a request from a User to cease using or delete (“Usage Termination, etc.”) Personal Information on the grounds that the Personal Information is being handled in a way that exceeds the usage purpose scope or was obtained through illicit means, the Company will conduct the necessary investigation without delay.
- If the Company deems that fulfilling the request is necessary based on the results of the investigation set forth in the previous paragraph, the Company will conduct Usage Termination, etc. of the Personal Information in question without delay.
- If, pursuant to the provisions of the previous paragraph, the Company conducts Usage Termination, etc. or decides not to conduct Usage Termination, etc., the Company will notify the User thereof without delay.
- Notwithstanding the previous two paragraphs, if conducting Usage Termination, etc. would require high expenses or is difficult for some other reason, and it is possible to take other measures necessary to protect the rights and interests of the User, the Company will employ that alternative approach.
Article 9 (Changing the Privacy Policy)
- The content of this Policy may be altered without notifying the User, with the exception of items set forth otherwise in law or this Policy.
- The altered Privacy Policy takes effect from the moment it is listed on this Website, unless specified otherwise by the Company.
Article 10 (Contact us)
Direct inquiries about this Policy to the following contact information.
Address: 4541-1 Itsukaichicho Ishiuchi, Saeki-ku, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Company name: Ohara Shoten Inc.
E-mail address: info@ohara-shoten.co.jp