■ Information gathering

When you use this website, we may request that you provide information that can identify you personally, such as your name, company name, address, telephone number, email address, and user ID (hereinafter referred to as "personal information"). Whether or not you provide personal information to us is entirely at your discretion. However, if we request personal information from you and you do not provide it, we may be unable to provide you with our services. Please understand this in advance.
Furthermore, we may record your personal history, including your usage history of various services and your access history to this website (hereinafter referred to as "personal history"), within our company. Please be aware of this in advance.

■ Retention and management of personal information

Our company maintains personal information and recorded personal history provided by our customers under a strict management system and strives to enhance security to a reasonable extent to prevent unauthorized access to our customers' personal information and personal history by third parties.

■ Use of personal information

Our company uses personal information provided by customers for the purpose of providing the services requested by the customer, and for related or incidental activities (such as providing customer support regarding the services provided), as well as for purposes separately specified by our company when we receive such information from the customer. Furthermore, our company may use your personal information for the following purposes. Please be aware of this in advance.

• To introduce our products and services to our customers.
• We ask our customers to provide us with their opinions and feedback (including opinions and feedback on our products and services).
• To create statistical data categorized by customer attributes.

We will not use your personal information or personal history for any purpose other than those stated above without your consent.

■ Disclosure of personal information

To achieve the purposes of use of personal information and personal history described above, we may disclose personal information and personal history to our partner companies to the minimum extent necessary. Please be aware of this in advance. When disclosing your personal information and personal history, we will ensure that our partner companies maintain such information and personal history under a strict management system and do not disclose it to any other third party or use it for purposes other than those specified by us.
Furthermore, we may disclose personal information and personal history to third parties to the minimum extent necessary in the following cases. Please be aware of this in advance.

• When we receive a legally binding request from a judicial or administrative body based on the provisions of laws and regulations, and it is necessary for us to fulfill such request.
• When it is necessary to protect the life, body, liberty, property, rights, and reputation of our company or our customers.

Except in the cases mentioned above, we will not disclose your personal information or personal history to any third party without your consent.
Please note that we may provide statistical data created based on personal information and personal history to our partner companies and other third parties, but such statistical data will not contain any information that can identify individual customers.

■ Use of Cookies

A cookie is a type of data that a website sends to your computer and stores on your hard drive as a means of identifying you. We may send a cookie to your computer when you access this service. By using such cookies, we can provide you with more customized services the next time you access this site.
You can change your computer settings to prevent this site from sending you "cookies." However, please note that doing so may prevent you from using this site and its various services.

■ Providing personal information of others

When you provide us with personal information of someone other than yourself, please be sure to obtain their consent before providing it to us.

■ Compliance with Laws and Regulations

Our company will comply with all applicable laws and regulations regarding personal information provided by our customers.

■Other

If you disclose personal information on a publicly accessible website, such as a message board, post, or chat room, that information may be collected and used by other users. If you provide personal information on such a publicly accessible website, this policy will not apply even if we collect and use such information.
On such websites, please transmit your personal information at your own risk. Furthermore, this site contains links to websites operated by third parties other than our company. These linked sites may have their own separate and independent privacy policies. We assume no responsibility for these policies or for the collection, use, and disclosure of information by these linked sites to third parties.
We reserve the right to change, modify, add to, or delete these Terms and Conditions at our sole discretion as needed. Therefore, we encourage you to review these Terms and Conditions periodically to see how we protect your information.