Privacy Policy
What is privacy information?
Privacy information includes both personal information, and history information and characteristic information.
Personal information refers to the personal information prescribed in the Act on the Protection of Personal
Information or information relating to a living individual, specifically the name, date of birth, address,
telephone number and other contact information, and any other described information that can identify
individuals.
Information other than personal information corresponds to history and characteristic information, such as
services used, products purchased, history of pages/ads viewed, search keywords used by users, time and date of
use, methods of using, using environment, postal code, gender, occupation, age, user’s IP address, cookie
information, location information, and terminal identification information.
How do you collect privacy information?
We may collect personal information when a user makes a user registration or use any of our services and/or
history and characteristic information of a user when a user uses any of our services or views any of the pages
of our website.
If a user performs settings in such a way that the use of the services is linked with any external service, we
will collect the ID to be used by the user in the external service and/or the information that the user agrees
to disclose to the linked service under the external service’s privacy settings.
For what purpose do you use privacy information?
The following gives purposes of our collection and use of privacy information.
- To present registered information including the user’s name, address, contact, and payment methods, used
services, purchased products, and charges for such services/products so that users can view and/or correct
their registered information and/or view the status of use
- To use an e-mail address to notify or contact users, to use contact information such as name and address in
order to send products to users, contact users as necessary
- To use such information such as name, date of birth, address, telephone number, bank account number, credit
card number, and arrival of mails with delivery certificate for user identity verification
- To use payment-related information such as names/quantities of products purchased, types/periods of
services used, number of times of using services, amount billed, name, address, bank account number, and
credit card number in order to charge users
- To display information registered to us on an input screen so that users can enter data easily or forward
such information to external services under instructions of users
- To use information for identify individuals, such as state of using, name, and address, to refuse the use
of the Service by those users who violate the Terms of Use of the Service, for example, failing to pay
charge
and causing damage to a third party or by those users who try to use the Service for unjust/unlawful
purposes
- To use information necessary for our provision of services for users, such as information about details of
inquiries and billing, status of use of services by users, and contact information of users so as to answer
inquires by users
- To prepare statistical data that is processed in the form that does not permit personal identification in
connection with our services
- To distribute or display advertisements of us or a third party
- To use privacy information for marketing
- Purposes incidental to the purposes of using above
Do you provide privacy information for a third party?
We will not provide privacy information for a third party without the prior approval of users except for the
following. However, this excludes cases in which the provision is permitted under the Act on the Protection of
Personal Information or any other laws and regulations.
- Where requested under laws and regulations
- Where the provision is required for protecting human life, body or property and it is difficult to obtain an
approval of the user him/herself
- Where it is especially necessary to improve public health or promote the sound growth of children and it is
difficult to obtain the approval of the user him/herself
- Where it is necessary to help any national organization, a local public organization, or a contractor
perform the
clerical work prescribed in laws and regulations and the approval of the user him/herself could disturb the
performance of the clerical work
If we outsource all or part of privacy information handling to the extent necessary to achieve the purpose of
the
use or privacy information is provided along with succession of business due to merger or for any other reasons,
it
will not correspond to the provision of privacy information to a third party.
We may share or disclose privacy information upon user’s request if a user links any our services with any
external
services when using our services.
Shared use of privacy information
To provide our services (e.g. transport of beef, payment of fees, etc.), we share privacy information with the
company below.
Joint user: Takumi CO.LTD
Can I check my privacy information or request you to correct it?
If a user himself/herself requests the disclosure of the privacy information (excluding history or
characteristic
information) to the user himself/herself, we will disclose it. However, if disclosure could harm the life,
body,
property, or other interests of the user or a third party, could cause significant hindrance to the proper
performance of our business, or violates laws and regulations, we will refrain from disclosing all or part of
the
information. If we decide not to disclose the information, we will inform you without delay.
We will charge you 1000 yen for each instance of disclosure of personal information.
If any user’s personal information we own is incorrect, the user can request us to correct or delete the
personal
information by the procedure stipulated by us. If a user makes such a request and we judge it is necessary to
meet
the request, we will correct or delete the personal information and inform the user.
Can I request you to discontinue the use of my privacy information?
When the user requests discontinuation of the use of his/her privacy information (hereinafter,
“Discontinuation of
the Use”) claiming the privacy information is handled beyond the scope of the purposes of use or the privacy
information is obtained by unjust means, we will conduct a necessary investigation, and based on the outcome
of the
investigation make take measures such as Discontinuation of the Use, and inform the user without delay.
However, we will take alternative measures if Discontinuation of the Use of privacy information involves an
inordinate expense or if it is difficult and alternative measures are possible so as to protect rights and
benefits
of the users.
What is the Cokkie policy?
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer when you visit a website. This text file stores
and
stores information that can be read by the site operator when you visit that website again at later date.
We may use cookies and similar web tracking technologies (e.g. web beacons, pixels) to, for example:
To remember login status and use it for visitor authentication, session maintenance and security measures.
To improve convenience by remembering the content of language and other settings and the date and time of the
last
visit.
To provide better services by understanding the number of visits, usage patterns, etc.
You can control whether to accept cookies by using your browser settings or other tools. However, if you
disable
cookies or restrict the ability to set cookies, you may not be able to access all or some of the features of
the
website, thereby limiting your overall convenience.
Change of Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is subject to changes without notice to users.
The changed Privacy Policy will take effect when it is placed on this website unless otherwise specified by
us.
Inquiry contact
If you have any question about the policy, please contact us at the following contact address/e-mail address:
Contact person: Jun Nakamura
E-mail address: wagyu@hitorime.com
Address: 1-20-13, Takanawa, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan
Established on 29/April/2024