PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy was last updated on July 31, 2023

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Thank you for choosing to be part of Our community at Aokumo Inc. This website is operated by Aokumo Inc. Your privacy is most important to Us. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy.

This Privacy Policy (defined below) describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service (defined below) and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

INTERPRETATION

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under this Privacy Policy. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural. Any words or phrases not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the same meaning as defined under the Terms and Conditions. Please visit our Terms and Conditions page here https://www.aokumo.io/terms

DEFINITIONS

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

“Affiliate” means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities that entitles such owner for election of directors or other managing authority.
“Aokumo” means (herein referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our") Aokumo Inc., having its official address as 1-11-1 Marunouchi, 13F Pacific Century Place Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, 100-6208, Japan.
“Cookies” means small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
“Country” means Japan.
“Device” means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
“Personal Data” is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
“Privacy Policy” means the provisions contained herein that form the Company’s standards regarding Your data and Your privacy.
“Service” refers to the Website (defined below) and services, media or information offered on the Website.
“Service Provider” means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of Aokumo. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by Aokumo to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of Aokumo, to perform services related to the Service or to assist Aokumo in analyzing how the Service is used.
“Usage Data” means data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
“Website” refers to aokumo.io, accessible from https://www.aokumo.io/
You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or Aokumo, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

COLLECTING AND USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

a. Types of Data Collected

i. Personal Data: We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You when you:

use Our Service;
interact with Our social media pages, customer support, community forums, surveys, blogs, or other content;
participate in Our training solutions, workshops, or attend Our events and demonstrations; or;
interact with Us as technology partners or professional advisors.

ii. Personally Identifiable Information: Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

First name and last name
Email address
Job title and employer
Phone number
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
Usage Data

iii. Usage Data: Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (herein referred to as “IP address”), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

iv. Tracking Technologies and Cookies: We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:

Cookies or Browser Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
Web Beacons: Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Aokumo, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Types of Cookies: Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below.

v. Types of Cookies: Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below.

Necessary / Essential Cookies

Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

Functionality Cookies

Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy. Learn more about cookies: What Are Cookies?

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Aokumo may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
To manage Your Account and manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
For the development, compliance and undertaking of the contract of purchase for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may share Your personal information in the following situations: With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.
For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy which includes Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
With other users: When You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside Our Website or other media under Our control.
With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

Aokumo will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Aokumo will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at Aokumo's operating offices and in any other places where the Service Providers involved in the processing Your data are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents that You agree to such transfer under this provision.
Aokumo will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

In addition to Section 5 of this Privacy Policy, Aokumo disclose Your personal information for following purposes:

i. Business Transactions: If Aokumo is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

ii. Law enforcement: Under certain circumstances, Aokumo may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

iii. Other legal requirements: Aokumo may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

Comply with a legal obligation
Protect and defend the rights or property of Aokumo
Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
Protect against legal liability

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Aokumo is committed to protect and secure Your Personal Data in accordance with this Policy and applicable law. When personal information is transmitted through the Service, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. However, no Internet transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that security breaches will not occur. Without limitation of the foregoing, we are not responsible for the actions of hackers and other unauthorized third parties that breach our firewalls, secure server software, and other reasonable security procedures.

DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

The Service Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about Your activity on Our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies. We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

The laws of the Country, excluding its conflicts of law rules, shall govern this Privacy Policy and Your use of the Service. Your use of the Application may also be subject to other local, state, national, or international laws.

SEVERABILITY AND WAIVER

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit, which are outside the purview of Our Service. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any such third party sites or services.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

By email: privacy@aokumo.io