”Personal information” refers to ‘personal information’ as defined in the Personal Information Protection Law, and refers to information about a living individual that can identify the specific individual by name, date of birth, address, telephone number, contact information, or other description contained in the information, as well as information that can identify the specific individual by itself, such as appearance, fingerprints, voice print data, and health insurance card insurer number. Information that can identify a specific individual by itself, such as name, date of birth, address, telephone number, contact information, and other descriptions contained in such information.

When a user registers to use the service, the Association may ask for personal information such as name, date of birth, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. In addition, transaction records and payment information, including personal information, between the user and our business partners may be shared with our business partners (including information providers, advertisers, and advertisement distributors, hereinafter referred to as “Business Partners”). (Hereinafter referred to as “our partners”). The information may be collected from our partners (including information providers, advertisers, advertisement distributors, etc.) and other parties.

The purposes for which the Association collects and uses personal information are as follows
To provide and administer the Association's services
To respond to inquiries from users (including to verify the identity of the user)
To send emails regarding new features, updates, promotions, etc. of the service you are using, as well as information on other services offered by the Association.
To contact you as necessary for maintenance, important notices, etc.
To identify users who violate the Terms of Use or attempt to use our services for fraudulent or unfair purposes, and to refuse their use of our services.
To allow users to view, change, or delete their own registration information, or view the status of their use of the service.
Purposes incidental to the above purposes of use

The Association shall change the purpose of use of personal information only when the purpose of use is reasonably deemed to be relevant to the purpose of use before the change. If the purpose of use is changed, the Association shall notify users of the changed purpose or publicize it on this website in a manner prescribed by the Association.

Except in the following cases, the association will not provide personal information to third parties without the prior consent of the user. However, this excludes cases permitted under the Personal Information Protection Law and other laws and regulations.
When it is necessary for the protection of the life, body, or property of an individual and it is difficult to obtain the consent of the individual
When it is necessary to cooperate with a national agency, a local government, or an individual or entity entrusted by either a national agency or local government to execute affairs prescribed by law, and obtaining the consent of the individual is likely to impede the execution of such affairs.
When the following items are notified or announced in advance and the personal information protection committee is notified by the association

• The purpose of use must include provision to a third party
• Data items provided to third parties
• Means or method of provision to third parties
• Stopping the provision of personal information to third parties at the request of the individual
• How to accept the person's request

Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, in the following cases, the recipient of such information shall not fall under the category of a third party

• When the association outsources all or part of the handling of personal information to the extent necessary to achieve the purpose of use
• Cases in which personal information is provided as a result of the succession of business due to merger or other reasons
• Means or method of provision to third parties
• In cases where personal information is used jointly with a specific person, and where this fact, the items of personal information jointly used, the scope of joint use, the purpose of use by the person using the information, and the name of the person responsible for the management of the personal information are notified to the person in advance or are made readily available to the person in question The items of personal information to be used to that effect and jointly

Whenever the Association receives a request for disclosure of personal information from an individual, the Association will disclose such information to the individual without delay.However, if disclosure would result in any of the following cases, the Company may decide not to disclose all or part of the information, and if the Company decides not to disclose the information, it will notify the customer to that effect without delay.
If there is a risk of harm to the life, body, property, or other rights or interests of the person concerned or a third party
If there is a risk of significant hindrance to the proper conduct of our business
In case of violation of other laws and regulations
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, in principle, the Company will not disclose non-personal information, such as historical information and characteristic information.

If a user believes that his/her personal information held by the Association is incorrect, the user may request the Association to correct, add or delete his/her personal information (hereinafter referred to as “correction, etc.”) in accordance with the procedures set forth by the Association. The user may request the Association to correct, add or delete (“Correction, etc.”) his/her personal information. If the Association deems it necessary to respond to the request from the User as described in the preceding paragraph, the Association shall correct or delete the relevant personal information without delay. The Association will notify the User without delay when it corrects or decides not to correct the personal information in accordance with the preceding paragraph.

The contents of this policy may be changed without notice to users, except as otherwise provided by law or otherwise in this policy. Unless otherwise specified by the Association, the amended Privacy Policy shall take effect from the time it is posted on this website.