japanese-creative-books.com, and its subdomains (hereinafter referred to as “We” or “Our” or “This Site”) have established the following privacy policy (hereinafter referred to as “Policy”) regarding the handling of privacy information of users (hereinafter referred to as “You” or “yours”) of the services provided on this website (hereinafter referred to as “This Service”) as follows.
Unless otherwise specified, the “no overdue period” and “without overdue” period in this policy shall be between 3 and 7 days.
Furthermore, since this site is operated in Japan, it will be operated in accordance with the Japanese Constitution. The laws of other countries may differ. Please use this site after agreeing that the Constitution of Japan takes precedence over the laws of other countries.
Privacy Information
Definition of Personal Information
“Personal information” among privacy information refers to “personal information” as defined in the Personal Information Protection Act, which is information about a living individual and includes the following information:
- full name
- date of birth
- address
- telephone number
- Information that can identify a specific individual through contact details or other descriptions
Definition of historical and characteristic information
Among privacy information, “historical information and characteristic information” refers to information other than “personal information” as defined above, and includes the following information:
- Services you have used and products you have purchased
- History of pages viewed and products purchased
- The search keyword used to search by you
- Date and time of use
- Usage environment
- Postal code
- Profession
- Age
- Gender
- User’s IP address
- Cookies Information
- location information
- Individual identification information of the device, etc.
How privacy information is collected
When you browse this service, the following information will be collected or recorded by our service.
- User’s IP address
- Search terms used by the search engine
- Information about the device you are using to view the page
- Some cookie information held by yours
- Or if you write a comment or review on This Site, what you writed contents
- Or an email address you used when you registered an account on our site
Purpose of collecting and using personal information
The purposes for we collects and uses personal information are as follows:
- To provide you with appropriate payment services and deliver purchased products
- To post comments and reviews written by the User within the Service
- To reply to emails sent by you
- To respond to your support requests
- To improve the content of the Service based on the terms searched and browsing history of yours
- To respond to a situation in which we are forced to restrict your browsing, comments, reviews, etc.
- Purposes incidental to the above purposes of use
Provision of personal information to third parties
We will not provide personal information to a third party without your’s prior consent, except in the following cases:
However, this does not include cases where “it is permitted by the Japanese Personal Information Protection Law or other Japanese laws and regulations” or “where the matters have been notified or publicly announced in advance.”
Disclosure of information in accordance with the Japanese Personal Information Protection Law and other laws and regulations
We may disclose personal information to third parties in the following cases permitted by the Personal Information Protection law and other laws and regulations.
- When it is necessary for the protection of a person’s life, body, or property, and it is difficult to obtain the individual’s consent
- When it is particularly necessary for the improvement of public health or the promotion of healthy child development, and it is difficult to obtain the individual’s consent
- When it is necessary to cooperate with a Japanese national government agency, local government, or a person commissioned by them in carrying out business prescribed by law, and obtaining the individual’s consent is likely to impede the performance of said business.
Disclosure of information when matters have been notified or publicly announced in advance
We may disclose personal information to third parties if the following reasons have been notified or publicly announced in advance, as described below:
- The purpose of use includes providing the information to a third party
- Items of data provided to third parties
- Means or method of provision to third parties
- To stop providing personal information to third parties at the request of the individual
Matters not applicable to third parties
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the following cases shall not apply to a third party.
- When our entrusts all or part of the handling of personal information to a third party within the scope necessary to achieve the purpose of use
- When personal information is provided in connection with business succession due to a merger or other reason
- When personal information is used jointly with a specific person, the individual is notified in advance or made easily accessible to the individual of the fact, the items of personal information to be used jointly, the scope of those using the information jointly, the purpose of use by those using the information, and the name or title of the person responsible for managing the personal information.
Disclosure of Personal Information
When an individual requests disclosure of your personal information, We will disclose it to you without delay.
However, if disclosure would result in any of the following, we may not disclose all or part of the information, and if we make a decision not to disclose it, we will notify you of that decision without delay.
- When there is a risk of harm to the life, body, property or other rights and interests of the person or a third party
- When there is a risk of causing significant disruption to the proper performance of our business
- If it would violate other Japanese laws and regulations
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, in principle we will not disclose information other than personal information, such as historical information and characteristic information.
Correction and Deletion of Personal Information
If your personal information held by ours is incorrect, You may request we to correct or delete the personal information in accordance with the procedures established by ours.
If we receives a request from you as described in the preceding paragraph and determines that it is necessary to comply with the request, We will correct or delete the personal information without delay and notify you of this.
Suspension of use of personal information, etc.
If an individual requests the suspension of use or deletion (hereinafter referred to as “suspension of use, etc.”) of personal information because that information is being handled beyond the scope of the intended purpose or has been obtained by illegal means, We will conduct any necessary investigations without delay and, based on the results, will suspend the use, etc. of the personal information and notify the individual of that effect.
However, if suspending the use of personal information would involve a significant amount of expense or is otherwise difficult to do, and alternative measures can be taken that are necessary to protect the rights and interests of the individual, we will take these alternative measures.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
The contents of this policy may be changed without notice to you.
The revised privacy policy will take effect when it is posted on this website.
Contact Information
For inquiries regarding this policy, please contact the following office.
e-mail: info★japanese-creative-books.com (Please change ★ to @)