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LINE Manga Privacy Policy

1.Introduction

We, LINE Book Distribution Corporation (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our), believe your privacy is very important.

To fulfill our commitment to respecting and protecting your privacy, we will adhere to our basic principles as explained in detail below, and crafted this Privacy Policy in accordance with these basic principles:

1.We inform you of the personal information that will be collected, and seek your consent to collect, use, or disclose your personal information.

2.We identify the purposes of use for collecting your personal information.

3.We collect only information that is necessary to carry out the identified purposes of use.

4.We use or disclose your personal information only for the purposes for which it is collected, except with your consent or as required or permitted by law, and we will keep your information only as long as necessary to fulfill those purposes.

5.We endeavor to make sure that your personal information is accurate, complete, and up-to-date.

6.We protect your personal information by appropriate security safeguards.

7.We make our policies and practices for the handling of your personal information as transparent as possible.

8.You will have access to your personal information and will be able to correct your personal information as appropriate.

9.We will be accountable to you.  We are always interested in hearing your opinion regarding our compliance with these principles, this Privacy Policy, and applicable law.

2.What This Privacy Policy Applies To

a.What Is This Privacy Policy?

This Privacy Policy explains how the Company will handle and safeguard your personal information, and the choices you have to access and control your personal information.  This Privacy Policy applies to: personal information you provide us when you use the app (“App”), optional services made available within the App, and other apps that integrate with or work in conjunction with the App (collectively “Apps”); personal information you provide us when you visit websites maintained by us relating to our Apps (“Websites”) (Apps and Websites are collectively referred to as the “Service”); and personal information about you provided by users of the Service.

To make our Privacy Policy easier to understand, we may provide translations as a reference. A Traditional Chinese translation is now available.  However, in the event that a translation contradicts the English version of this Privacy Policy, the English version takes precedence, to the extent it is permitted under applicable law.

The current version of this Privacy Policy is accessible at our website: https://terms2.line.me/lbdmanga_privacy?lang=en

b.What Services Does This Privacy Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy is applicable to the following service(s):

・LINE Manga

3.Types of Information We Collect

a.What Information Does the Company Collect?

To provide you the Service, the Company collects and uses the following types of information:

i.Device Information and Access Logs When You Use Our Service

When you use the App or visit our Website, we may obtain and maintain certain electronic identification or log data from your mobile device or personal computer such as: OS type, IP address, browser information including type and language settings, device identifier, or last date and time you used the Service.

This information is necessary as part of our ongoing efforts to detect and deter unauthorized or fraudulent use of or abuse of the Service, as well as to provide you and optimize the Service for your environment.

In addition, we obtain the records of transactions you make and information on promotional bonuses you earn on our Service.  This information is necessary in order to provide the Service you request and to maintain your account balance.

Reading status, such as the title and page you read, the number of times you read a certain title, and the title you mark as interested, may also be collected either to create statistical data or to offer a smooth Service. 

b.What Other Information Might the Company Collect?

If you choose to use certain functionalities, we may ask you to provide following types of information:

i.Contact Information for Customer Support [OPTIONAL]

There may be occasions where you wish to contact us to seek customer support service.  If you contact us via our Contact Form or by other means, we may obtain and maintain any information you choose to provide, including your name, contact info such as your email address, phone number, as well as information about your mobile device or personal commuter such as device type, and OS type.  We will use this information to address and investigate the issues you have forwarded to us, to provide you support, and to improve our customer support service.

ii.Contact Information for Promotional Events and Customer Surveys [OPTIONAL]

If you choose to participate in promotional events or surveys that we offer from time to time, we might ask your contact details (e.g., name, mailing address, phone number, email address, gender and date of birth) to administer the event, such as to confirm participation eligibility for the event, to enable you to fill out a questionnaire, to conduct to deliver the prizes to you.

c.What About Information I Create About Myself and Share With Others?

i.User-Generated Content [OPTIONAL]

In addition to the information describe above, you may choose to create “user-generated content,” such as your profile information (i.e., “nickname”), whether you finished reading a certain book, or review comments, and share your user-generated content with other users.   You may also choose to send messages to your friends and/or group of friends via linked social networking account.

Please remember that the user-generated content you share with others can be copied, stored, or disseminated by the recipients and accessed by unintended recipients due to the nature of digital data.  We encourage you to pay close attention when you generate and share your information or contents.

d.What Information Does the Company Receive from Linked Social Networking Account?

i.Profile Information

By registering your social networking account, such as LINE account, with our Service, we may retrieve your profile information that you permit us to use. 

4.How We Use and Handle Your Information

a.How Does the Company Use My Information?

To provide the Service, we, as a data controller or joint data controller, uses your information for the following purposes:

•To offer an undisturbed and smooth Service to users;

•to provide you the Service via your mobile phone or personal computer and to allow you to transmit your user-generated content to others ;

•to verify your identity;

•to detect and deter unauthorized or fraudulent use of or abuse of the Service;

•to improve and/or optimize the Service;

•to enable us to provide customer support, and to respond effectively to your inquiries and claims;

•to conduct user satisfaction surveys;

•to provide you with information regarding the Service;

•to measure the effectiveness of advertisements that we place on the Internet or in other media;

•to notify users of any other important information regarding the Service, if necessary;

•to identify winners of promotional contests, to send gifts to those winners, and to deliver purchased products and the like;

•to aggregate anonymized statistical data regarding the Service; and

•to comply with applicable laws or legal obligations.

In limited cases where necessary to perform services for the purposes stated above on behalf of the Company, LINE Corporation, our trusted family entity, may access to your information, unless prohibited under applicable law.

If, however, we provide you with more specific purpose(s) of use either at the time we ask you to provide your personal information or through another means, then such notice will take precedence over the general purposes of use stated in Section 4.a of this Privacy Policy.

b.How Does the Company Protect My Information?

To fulfill our commitment to respecting and protecting your privacy and the confidentiality of your information, we have implemented industry-standard safeguards to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, misuse, alternation, or destruction of your information.

Because no method of electronic transmission or method of data storage is perfect or impenetrable, we cannot guarantee that your information will be absolutely safe from intrusion during transmission or while stored in our systems.

To help protect your privacy and confidentiality of your information, we also need to ask for your cooperation regarding the following:  Please notify us in the event you suspect any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security via our Contact Form.

c.Where Is My Information Transmitted and Stored?

To provide the Service in a reliable and responsible manner, we process and store your information on secure servers which may be physically located in different countries around the world, including countries outside the European Economic Area.

By continuing to use the Service, you agree that your information may be internationally transferred and that we can process and store your information in a country other than where you submitted.

d.How Long Does the Company Keep My Information?

We retain your personal information you provide while: your account is in existence; for the length of time needed to fulfill any of the applicable purposes of use described in this Privacy Policy; or to comply with applicable laws and regulations.

We may retain your personal information even after your account is closed if retention is reasonably necessary:

•to comply with applicable laws, regulations or legal obligations;

•to provide and complete customer support service;

•to resolve disputes between or with users; or

•to detect and deter unauthorized or fraudulent use of or abuse of the Service.

e.Does the Company Use Outside Service Providers or Agents?

To facilitate and provide you with the Service, it sometimes is necessary for us to request third party partner service providers or agents to help us process and/or store your personal information.  We strictly evaluate the partner service providers and agents, and we make every effort to ensure that they have established appropriate and secure information administration and organizational control systems, and we strictly require that they comply with applicable laws and regulations.  We also require that they access your personal information only the extent necessary to perform tasks on our behalf.

f.Does the Company Give My Information to Third Parties?

Other than as described in this Privacy Policy and, where relevant, other applicable privacy policies or addendums, we will never provide your information to any third parties without your consent, unless we believe in good faith that we are required or permitted to do so under applicable laws or to protect and defend our rights and/or property.

g.Does the Company Use Cookies or Other Similar Technologies?

We use cookies and similar technologies, including local storage:

•to help us maintain your session when you use the Service;

•to enhance security;

•to remember information about your browser and your preferences; and

•to help us understand how people use the Services and improve the Service.

　oFor example, we may use Google Analytics to assist us with this.

By continuing to use the Service, you are agreeing to our use of cookies and similar technologies in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Most browsers allow you to control whether or not to accept cookies. If you, however, deactivate cookies or limit the ability to set cookies, you may not be able to use certain parts or all functions, or limit your overall user experience.

i.Does the Company Use Third-Party Modules?

We use third party advertising agencies to place advertisements on the Internet or in other media. To measure the effectiveness of the advertisements to determine how much to pay to the advertising agencies, we install third-party modules within the Apps.  We may also install third-party modules within the Apps in order to help us understand how the Service is used. Details regarding the Apps in which such third-party modules will be installed can be viewed here. 

5.Your Choices, Your Rights

a.How Do I Control My Information?

We have tried to make it as easy as possible for you to have control over your personal information.  You can confirm and revise your personal information directly within the App at any time.  For example:

•Under your “My Menu”, you can confirm and/or revise your nickname;

•Under your “My Menu”, you can unlink your social networking account.

In addition to your ability to check or correct your information directly through the App, if we hold your personal information, you can always send us a written request at any time to confirm, correct, or delete any other personal information that we hold which cannot be confirmed directly on the App.  Upon verification of your identity, we will respond to your request within a reasonable period of time and in accordance with relevant law.  To check, correct, or delete your information, please contact us via this Contact Form.  If you would like to send us a written request, please refer to Section 6.b for our mailing address.

If you no longer wish to use the Service or if you no longer wish to consent to our collection and use of your personal information, you may choose to delete your entire account directly through the customer support service.  We will take reasonable measures to delete your information in accordance with Section 4.d. 

Please be noted again that the content you decide to share with others can be copied, stored, or disseminated by the recipients and accessed by unintended recipients.  A deletion request, therefore, does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content posted on our Service.  

b.What If I Change My Mind?

We have worked hard to make sure that you can have as much control over your personal information as possible.

If you change your mind regarding how much information you wish to continue to share or disclose on the Service going forward, you always can change the settings in the App relating to, among other examples:

•your profile information such as your nickname; or

•whether to allow your friends to see what you have read.

6.Other Important Information for You

a.A Special Note about Children in the United States of America

The Service is intended for a general audience and is not directed to or intended be used by children under the age of 13 (“Children”).

We understand the special necessity to protect children's online privacy, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from Children.

To protect Children’s online privacy and to avoid collecting personal information from Children, we may ask age information from our users.  When we request age information, and users identify themselves as under 13 years of age, our Service will not accept personal information, unless permitted by applicable law.

Please note that, as permitted by relevant law, we collect persistent identifier, and we only use it to provide support for internal operations of our Service.

If, however, you believe we have collected any personal information from Children, then please let us know via this Contact Form.  If you would like to send us a written request, please refer to Section 6.b for our mailing address.

If we learn that we have inadvertently collected personal information from Children, we will deactivate the relevant account(s) and will take reasonable measures to promptly delete such personal information from our records.

If you have any questions or comments about our privacy policy to protect Children’s online privacy, please contact us via this Contact Form.

b.I have Questions/Comments/Concerns

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our other privacy policies or practices, please contact us via Contact Form or by writing to:

LINE Book Distribution Corporation

Attn: Privacy Policy

23th Floor JR Shinjuku Miraina Tower

4-1-6 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo

160-0022 Japan

c.Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may modify our Privacy Policy from time to time for various reasons including to improve our privacy practices, to reflect changes to our Service, and to comply with relevant law.  The last time we updated this Privacy Policy was update 30th of July, 2019 and it was initially released on 4th of November, 2015.

When we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will provide notice to you on our Service, or by other reasonable means.  We encourage you to review changes carefully.  If you agree to the changes, then please continue to use our Service.  If you, however, do not agree to any of the changes and you no longer wish to use our Service, you may choose to close your account.  Continuing to use our Service after a notice of changes has been communicated to you or published on our Service constitutes your acceptance of changes and consent to the modified Privacy Policy.