Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy (English translation version) is provided for convenience only, and the Japanese version of this Privacy Policy governs our relationship with you. If there is any inconsistency or conflict between the Japanese and English versions, the Japanese version shall prevail.
Personal information for the purpose of press and writing
Diamond, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and retains a lot of personal information in its activities as a press and organ of public opinion. A Japanese law, “Act on the Protection of Personal Information” (2003, Act No.57, hereinafter referred to as “Personal Information Protection Law” or “PIPL”) sets forth that its Chapter 4 articulating the obligations of Personal Information Handling Business Operator (PIHBO) shall not be applied to personal information to be used for the purposes of “press” or “writing.” On the other hand, the same article also sets forth that even in those exempted fields, PIHBO should voluntarily strive to take necessary measures for ensuring appropriate handling of personal information and announce such measures. We promise appropriate handling of personal information we retain through our independent and voluntary efforts while firmly maintaining the freedom of press and expression.
Tetsuya Ishida, President, Diamond, Inc.
Personal information not for the purpose of press or writing
We fully recognize the importance of privacy and pay utmost attention in handling it. For that reason, we have established the following Privacy Policy to define how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your information and handle it appropriately.
What information we collect and how we collect it
We collect the following information about you within the scope of the purposes as set forth in “How we use the collected information” such as providing the service and communicating with you.
Information we directly collect from you
We may ask you to provide the following information when you register to the service we provide (hereinafter our “Service”).
- • Full name
- • Name of the corporation or entity you belong to (Trade name if you are a sole proprietor)
- • Email address
- • Password or other information required to verify the identity of the person accessing the account
- • Information we decide to collect for the Service
- • Other information about you that we specify
Device information
When you use the Service on your device or mobile, we may collect the device identifier or mobile device identifier and IP address. In addition, we may obtain all information you choose to provide us including the name associated with your device, type of device, telephone number, country and user name or email address.
Information related to the provision of customer support
When you receive support from our customer support team, we may collect and store such information including your contact information and your activity data on the Service. We may also store such communication and the information contained in it.
Information about your action
When you use the Service, we may collect and store the information that you provide us either directly or through a third-party service provider providing such service. We may also collect information about your use of the Service.
Information collected by Cookies
When you access our Service, we collect and analyze the access data including the reference date and time and URLs that referred you to our site, and use them to provide behavioral targeting advertising.
In addition, other service providers such as advertising companies independently collect your access data on our site and use it to deliver behavioral targeting advertising. You can check the service providers collecting access data at our site in the linked pages. If you wish to stop the use of your access data, please make a request to each service provider from the linked pages.
Information collected through partnerships with external services
We may obtain the information which you request our partner companies to disclose depending on the privacy setting of the ID and others you use at such external services. We may record and store the archived communication when you communicate with other customers on external services and participate in certain information sharing activities (including posting information and sending direct message such as text, user profile, message, pictures, images and other contents).
How we use the collected information
For details on how we use your information we collect, please see “Public Announcement pursuant to Personal Information Protection Law.”
Disclosure of personal information to third parties
Without your prior consent, we will not disclose your personal information to third parties except in the following cases.
- (1) When disclosure is required by law or regulation.
- (2) When disclosure is required for the life or physical safety of a person or protection of property, and it is difficult to obtain the data subject’s consent.
- (3) When disclosure is specifically required for the enhancement of public health or healthy development of children, and it is difficult to obtain the data subject’s consent.
- (4) When disclosure is required to cooperate with a national or local government or its designee in executing affairs prescribed by laws and regulations, and obtaining the consent of the data subject is likely to impede the execution of such affairs.
- (5) When it is disclosed pursuant to the opt-out procedure which has been filed with Personal Information Protection Commission in advance.
Sharing of personal data
We share your personal data with companies in our group and third-parties located in foreign nations. For details, please see the “Public Announcement pursuant to Personal Information Protection Law.”
Protection of personal information
We take reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures in order to avoid loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, tampering and destruction of your personal information. In order to ensure the safety of your personal information, we inform our employees about the privacy and security guidelines and ensure the implementation of privacy protection measures within our company.
Access to personal information
We make commercially reasonable efforts to provide you with access to your personal information so that you can make a request to correct inaccurate data or to delete your data, unless we retain such data for legal compliance or for our legitimate business interest.
And when the information is incorrect, we make sincere efforts to promptly provide you with the means to update it or delete it. However, this will not apply when we need to keep such information for our legitimate business interest or for legal compliance. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before we respond to your request.
We may decline requests that are; unreasonably repeated; require undue technical efforts; may infringe others’ privacy: are extraordinarily unrealistic; or not specifically requested by the applicable law for such access.
Destruction of collected information
We will destroy the personal information we collect when it is reasonably determined that such information is not necessary for our ordinary business operations.
Inquiries about our Privacy Policy
If you have any questions or inquiries regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact the person in charge of personal information at Corporate Affairs Division, Diamond, Inc. (privacy@diamond.co.jp).
Revision to our Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. When there is a material change in our Privacy Policy, we will post it on our website together with its updated version. The updated Privacy Policy will be effective when it is posted on our website.
Disclaimer
In no event are we liable for any damage arising from the use or the inability to use our website, even if we have been advised of such possibility in advance.
- • We make no warranty of any kind with respect to the website we operate.
- • We are not liable for any damage incurred by the use of the information we provide.
- • We are not liable even if there is an error contained in the information that we provide on our website.
- • The content of our website may change without prior notice.
- • The website we operate may contain links to other companies or entities. Those links do not imply our endorsement or guarantee for the linked entities or products.
Copyright
All text and images contained in our publications and on our website are copyrighted works. Since such copyrights are owned by us or by the original author and protected by laws, you are prohibited from taking the following actions without obtaining permission.
- 1. Duplicate all or parts of the text or images in the binding, table of content, contents of publication or the website, and post, publicly transmit, or distribute it.
- 2. Summarize, tamper, or create derivative work of the text in publications and/or on website and post or publicly transmit it.
- 3. Even for personal or inhouse use, engaging third party service providers to duplicate the contents in publication or on a website by copying or scanning.
We reserve the right to take countermeasures, including legal action, against any of the above copyright infringements.
