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164-3, Aza Sakaeda, Ishinomaki City
Miyagi Prefecture 986-2135

0225-25-4839
shop@ishinomaki-lab.org

Privacy Policy

The privacy of users of this website is extremely important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains how we handle your personal information.
When you first access this website, by agreeing to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy, you are deemed to have given permission for us to use cookies each time you access the website thereafter.

1. Collection of Personal Information

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

  • Information about your computer, including IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system.
  • Information about your visits to and use of this website, including referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths.
  • Information such as your email address that you enter when registering on this website.
  • Information entered when creating a profile on this website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational background, and employment history.
  • Information such as your name and email address entered to subscribe to email notifications and/or newsletters.
  • Information entered while using the services on this website.
  • Information generated while using this website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it.
  • Information relating to purchases you make, services you use, or transactions you conduct through this website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card details.
  • Information you post to the website for publication on the internet, including your username, profile picture, and the content of your posts.
  • Information contained in any communications you send to us by email or through this website, including communication content and metadata.
  • Any other personal information you send to us.

Before disclosing the personal information of another person to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

2. Use of Personal Information

Personal information submitted to us through this website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • Administering and managing this website and our business
  • Personalizing this website for you
  • Enabling your use of the services available on this website
  • Sending goods purchased through this website
  • Supplying services purchased through this website
  • Sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders, and collecting payments
  • Sending non-marketing communications
  • Sending email notifications you have specifically requested
  • Sending our newsletter by email if you have requested it (you may unsubscribe at any time)
  • Sending marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully selected third parties that we believe may interest you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed, by email or similar technologies (you may opt out at any time)
  • Providing third parties with statistical information about our users (without identifying individual users)
  • Dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to this website
  • Keeping this website secure and preventing fraud
  • Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of this website (including monitoring private messages sent through the website’s messaging service)
  • Other purposes

Privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your information on this website and can be adjusted through the website’s privacy controls.
We will not supply your personal information to any third party for their or any other third party’s direct marketing without your express consent.

3. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (including subsidiaries and our ultimate holding company) as reasonably necessary for those purposes.
We may disclose your personal information:

  • To the extent required by law
  • In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings
  • In order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including fraud prevention and reducing credit risk)
  • To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or assets that we are (or are contemplating) selling
  • To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where we reasonably believe that such court or authority would be likely to order disclosure

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

4. International Data Transfers

Information that we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred in any of the countries in which we operate.
Information may be transferred to countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area, including the United States, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
Personal information you publish on the website or submit for publication may be available worldwide via the internet. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

5. Retention of Personal Information

We will not retain personal information longer than necessary for the purposes for which it is processed.
Notwithstanding the above, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

  • To the extent required by law
  • If we believe the documents may be relevant to ongoing or prospective legal proceedings
  • In order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights

6. Security of Personal Information

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
All personal information you provide will be stored on secure servers protected by passwords and firewalls.
All electronic financial transactions conducted through this website are protected by encryption technology.
You acknowledge that transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping your password confidential. We will never ask for your password (except when you log in to the website).

7. Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. Please check this page periodically to ensure you understand any changes.
We may notify you of changes by email or through the website’s private messaging system.

8. Your Rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you, subject to:

  • Providing appropriate proof of identity

We may withhold personal information to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes or be given the opportunity to opt out.

9. Third-Party Websites

This website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites.
We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies or practices of third parties.

10. Updating Information

Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

11. Cookies

This website uses cookies.
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page.
Cookies may be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain valid until their expiry date unless deleted. Session cookies expire at the end of the user session when the browser is closed.
Cookies generally do not contain information that personally identifies a user, but personal information we store may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • Recognizing a computer when a user visits the website
  • Tracking users as they navigate the website
  • Enabling the use of a shopping cart
  • Improving the website’s usability
  • Analyzing website usage
  • Administering the website
  • Preventing fraud and improving security
  • Personalizing the website
  • Targeting advertisements that may be of particular interest to users

We use Google Analytics and Google AdWords for these purposes.
Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies and delete cookies already stored. Blocking all cookies may negatively impact the usability of many websites and may prevent you from using all features of this website.

12. Contact

If you have any questions, complaints, or wish to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us at:
Email: info@ishinomaki-lab.org