Privacy Policy

  1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES

Protecting your privacy is very important to us. This Privacy Policy has been accordingly developed to protect your personal information and keeping it confidential. We have built our systems and processes to protect your privacy on systems and the website www.koico.co.jp which are directly controlled by us. However, we are not liable for any unauthorized or unlawful disclosures of your personal and confidential information made by third parties who are not subject to our control, for example other websites that have links to www.koico.co.jp.Our privacy policy is subject to change at any time without notice. To make sure you are aware of any changes, please review this policy periodically.

Your information is categorized as follows:

(a) Profiling Information: Information which you provide when you register as a user, which may include some or all of the following: Information about your personal identity such. Your contact details such as your physical addresses, postal addresses, telephone numbers and the like. In the case of log in via Facebook (if so opted by you), publicly available information of yourself, your friends, their likes and dislikes, etc.

(b) Service Usage: Information about your navigation through our website, pages that you visit and products that you view.

(c) Correspondence Information: Content, information about your correspondence, and the destination/origin of communications between you and any other person using our Services, which include email communications, blog, and discussion board communications, experts forum communications, membership of newsletters etc.

(d) Stored Information: Data either created by you or by a third party and which you wish to store on our servers such as image files, documents etc.

We only collect your Personal Information to conduct our business and to enable us to deliver and improve our Services. We do not for any reason whatsoever; sell your Personal Information to any third party or otherwise trade on it.

We will only disclose your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

  1. RIGHT TO COLLECT

By accepting the Terms of Service you agree that we may collect and store your Personal Information as long as you use our Services subject to the limitations set out in this Privacy Policy.

2.1 We collect your Profiling Information for the following reasons:

(a) We need your identity details, contact details, and account history to manage our relationship with you and provide Services to you. We may use this information for suggesting products and promotional offers and schemes.

(b) We use certain parts of your information in an aggregated form to compile statistical and demographical profiles for our business and marketing activities. We will not disclose any of your information that is capable of being used or interpreted in such a manner as to identify you.

Sometimes we use “cookies” so that we can provide you with more customized information when you return to our website. “Cookies” are used to store user preferences and to track user trends, so as to enhance your interactive experience and generally improve our Services to you. You can set your browser to notify you when you are sent a “cookie”, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. If you do accept a “cookie”, you thereby agree to our use of any Personal Information collected by us using that Cookie.

You may update your Profiling Information at any time on the website. You acknowledge and agree that in the interests of improving personalization and Service efficiency, we may, under controlled and secure circumstances, share your Personal Information with our affiliates (an entity which is our subsidiary or holding company or a subsidiary of our holding company or an entity which controls, is controlled by or is under common control with us).

  1. GENERAL EXCEPTIONS

If we are required to intercept, disclose, monitor and/or store your Personal Information: (a) by law; (b) to conduct our business; (c) to secure our systems; or (d) to enforce our own rights, we will do so in the manner as prescribed by law.

Such interception, disclosure, monitoring and storage may take place without your knowledge. In that case, we will not be liable to you or any third party for any damages howsoever arising from such interception, disclosure, monitoring and storage. In order to ensure that all our Users comply with the Terms & Conditions, we may monitor your Personal Information to the extent that this may be required to determine compliance and/or to identify instances of non-compliance. To ensure that the security and integrity of our Services are safeguarded, we may monitor your Personal Information. This monitoring may include (without limitation) the filtering of incoming and outgoing electronic data messages to identify, limit and/or prevent the transmission of spam, viruses and/or unlawful, defamatory, obscene or otherwise undesirable material or content. We may under certain circumstances procure an element of the Services from a third party service provider. To the extent that it may be necessary, and solely for the purposes of providing the Service to you, you agree that we may disclose to such third party any of your Personal Information that may be necessary for the procurement of services from the third party.