Basic Policy
This website recognizes the importance of personal information and considers its protection a social responsibility. We comply with laws and regulations regarding personal information and properly acquire, use, and manage the personal information handled on this website.
Scope
This Privacy Policy sets forth the policies that this website complies with when handling users’ personal information or equivalent information.
Purpose of Use of Personal Information
This website uses the information provided by users within the scope of the following purposes:
- To verify the user’s identity
- To confirm and respond to inquiries, comments, etc.
- To distribute and send email newsletters, direct mail, and various notices
- To conduct campaigns, surveys, monitoring, interviews, etc.
- To provide, improve, and develop services, and for marketing purposes
- To provide personal information to affiliated businesses, organizations, etc., based on the user’s consent or application
- To investigate acts prohibited by the Terms of Use, etc.
- For other purposes individually consented to by the user
Management of Personal Information
To ensure the accuracy and safety of personal information, this website thoroughly implements security measures and takes necessary and appropriate safety precautions against risks such as leakage, falsification, and unauthorized access to personal information.
This website uses SSL encryption to prevent important information from being read or falsified by third parties.
Provision of Personal Information to Third Parties
This website will not provide personal information to third parties except when there is a justifiable reason, including the following:
- With the user’s consent
- When required by law
- When necessary for the protection of human life, body, or property
- When necessary for the improvement of public health or the sound growth of children
- When cooperating with national agencies, etc., in executing affairs prescribed by law (e.g., tax investigations, statistical surveys)
This website may outsource the handling of personal information to other businesses within the scope necessary to achieve the purpose of use.
Inquiries Regarding Personal Information
If we receive a request for disclosure, correction, suspension of use, etc., we will respond based on our prescribed procedures. For specific methods, please contact us, and we will guide you individually.
Cookies
Cookies are a mechanism that saves a user’s browsing history on their computer.
Users can refuse the collection of information by disabling cookies. Please check your browser settings. However, if you refuse cookies, some services and functions of this website may not operate properly.
Access Analytics
This website uses “Google Analytics,” provided by Google, to analyze and improve the site.
This service uses cookies to collect traffic data. Traffic data is collected anonymously and does not personally identify you.
Advertising
This website uses the third-party advertising service “Google AdSense.”
Advertising providers may use cookies to display advertisements tailored to users’ interests. This allows them to identify the user’s browser, but it does not personally identify the user.
For details on how to disable cookies and more information about Google AdSense, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?gl=en
Additionally, as an Amazon Associate, this website earns from qualifying purchases.
Comments and Contact Forms
When visitors leave comments or use the contact form on the site, we collect the data shown in the form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it.
The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Disclaimer
While we strive to provide as accurate information as possible regarding the content and information on this website, we do not guarantee its accuracy or safety. Please note that we cannot be held responsible for any damages or losses caused by the content posted on this website.
If you are redirected to other websites via links or banners from this website, we assume no responsibility for the information, services, etc., provided on the destination websites.
Pricing information posted on this website is subject to change without notice.
Copyrights and Portrait Rights
The copyrights, portrait rights, and other rights to all content (text, images, videos, audio, files, etc.) posted on this website belong to the website owner or the respective rights holders. Unauthorized use (reproduction, duplication, transfer, secondary use, etc.) without permission is strictly prohibited. Furthermore, any transformation, modification, or alteration of the content is not permitted.
If any rights holder finds an issue with the posted content, please contact us directly. We will respond promptly.
Links
As a general rule, this website is link-free. No permission or notification is required to link to this website. When quoting, please clearly state the source and provide a link to the relevant page.
However, please refrain from direct linking to image files or displaying links within HTML pages using inline frames.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This website will review the contents of this Privacy Policy from time to time and strive to improve it.
This Privacy Policy is subject to change without prior notice.
Any changes to this Privacy Policy shall become effective at the time they are posted on this website.