Privacy Policy

App Factory Inc. (“we”, “us”, “App Factory”) will stipulate privacy policy concerning the protection of privacy information in our services as following.

1. Privacy information

“Personal information” of privacy information refers to “personal information” stipulated in the Personal Information Protection Law and information of alive individuals that include name, date of birth, address, phone number, contact and so on which may identify individuals.
“Record information and property information” in privacy information refers to other information than personal information stipulated above, that include used services, purchased products, browsed pages, record of advertisements, keywords searched for, date of usage, means of usage, usage environment, postal code, sex, occupation, age, users’ IP address, cookie information, location, identification number of device and so on.

2. Means of collection of privacy information

We may ask users their personal information such as name, date of birth, address, phone number, mail address, bank account information, credit card information, number of driver’s license and so on. Also, we may collect records of trades between users and our business partners that include users’ personal information and payment information from our partners (“partners”, that include source of information, owners of advertisements and delivery destinations of advertisements and so on).
We shall collect records and property information regarding users such as used services and softwares, purchased products, browsed pages and records of advertisements, keywords searched, date of usage, means of usage, usage environment (that include communication conditions of mobile devices and settings when using), IP address, cookie information, location, identification number of device when they use and/or browse our and/on our partners’ services and pages.

3. Purposes of collection of personal information

The purposes of our collection of personal information are following:

(1) To show registered information such as name, address, contact, payment method and other information such as used services and purchased products, and their prices for users to browse and modify their own registered information and status of usage.
(2) To use contact information such as name and address to send notification and contact users and/or to contact to users in advance before sending a product.
(3) To use information such as name, date of birth, address, phone number, mail address, bank account information, credit card information, number of driver’s license, result of delivery with a proof and so on to perform user identification.
(4) To use information on payment such as purchased products and number of them, type, period, number, price of used services, name, address, bank account information, credit card information and so on to charge price to users.
(5) To show registered information in our company on screen and to transfer to other services (that include what our partners provide) based on users’ direction to facilitate users’ data entry.
(6) To identify users that violated the terms and conditions in the past and/or that intend to use our services with inappropriate purposes such as delaying payment and harming a third person and to decline their usage of our services.
(7) To use information such as on inquiry and charge that are necessary for us to provide users with our services, on status of users, on contact and so on to respond to inquiries from users.
(8) Other purposes related to usage purposes above.

4. Offering personal information

We shall not offer personal information to a third person without consent of users in advance besides in cases admitted by the Personal Information Protection Law and other laws and the following cases:
(1) Cases subject to laws.
(2) Cases when it is required to protect human lives, bodies and assets but users themselves cannot provide us with their will of agreement for some reason.
(3) Cases when it is particularly required to promote public hygiene and/or education of children but users themselves cannot provide us with their will of agreement for some reason.
(4) Cases when it is required to help national authorities and/or public regional organizations and/or somebody trusted by any of them conduct acts stipulated by laws and it may be impeded to do so due to agreement of users themselves.
(5) Cases when the following are informed and/or published in advance:
1. Purpose of usage includes offering information to a third person.
2. Points of information offered to a third person.
3. Means to offer information to a third person.
4. Offering information shall be stopped due to users’ requests.
5. Regardless what are stipulated above, the following cases are not regarded as a third person:
1. Cases when we either entirely or partially trust usage of personal information to another entity within the required range to achieve the purpose of usage of it.
2. Cases when personal information is offered due when our business is taken over due to some reason such as merger.
3. Cases when personal information is shared with a particular person and it is informed users themselves and/or users are supposed to easily know it that their personal information is shared and what is shared, whom it is shared with, purpose of sharing and who is responsible to manage personal information.

5. Open personal information

We shall open personal information without delay when we are required by users themselves. However, in case opening it may cause any of the following, we may not either entirely or partially open it, and if we decide not to open, we shall inform it without delay. 1,000 yen of commission is charged to open one personal information.

(1) Cases when opening information may harm users’ and /or a third person’s lives, bodies, assets and rights to profit.
(2) Cases when opening information may particularly impede practice of our business.
(3) Cases when opening information may violate any of laws.
Regardless what is stipulated, we basically shall not open any other information than personal information such as users’ record and property information.

6. Correction and delete of personal information

Users can request to correct and/or delete personal information we have if it is wrong following a means stipulated by us.
If we judge that we have to accept their requests, we correct and/or delete personal information and inform users of it without delay.

7. Stop of usage of personal information

We shall conduct a required research and stop usage of personal information based on it and inform users of it when users request us to do so as personal information is used beyond its purpose and/or it is inappropriately obtained. We shall take an alternative action if it requires a lot of money and/or involves difficulties to stop it and it is possible to take an alternative action.

8. Change of the privacy policy

We may change the privacy policy without any notification to users.
Changed privacy policy starts acting upon when it is published in the website besides the cases separatedly stipulated by us.

9. Inquiry

Please contact us here regarding the privacy policy.
Email:support@englit.appfactory.co.jp

May 11, 2018