Privacy
Policy

Privacy Policy
Personal Information Protection Policy

Established on July 9, 2019
SPACETIDE Foundation
President and CEO Masayasu Ishida

SPACETIDE Foundation (hereinafter “SPACETIDE”) has established the following privacy policy (hereinafter this “Policy”) for handing personal information provided to SPACETIDE and strictly managed such information with the greatest care and in accordance with this Policy.

What is Personal Information?

The term “personal information” used in this Policy means any information capable of identifying specific individuals such as e-mail address, mobile phone-mail address and name, and any other information such as address, occupation, complaint, consultation and inquiry capable of identifying specific individuals in combination with two or more of the above.

Information Management

SPACETIDE understands that the personal information is crucial information to be protected and strictly manages such information, in light of respect for privacy. SPACETIDE takes preventive measures against unauthorized access, falsification, divulgation, loss or destruction, etc. to or of the personal information and in the event of any of the above, SPACETIDE promptly addresses the event in order to minimize any inconvenience to users.

Information Collection

SPACETIDE may ask a user to provide its name, address, e-mail address or any other personal information in the form of questionnaire as necessary.

Purpose of Use of Personal Information

When SPACETIDE collects the personal information in writing or through its website directly from the person identified by such information, SPACETIDE may use the personal information in the course of business mainly for the following purposes:

  • to introduce get-together sessions, study sessions and any other events by SPACETIDE;
  • to conduct research/data collection by SPACETIDE;
  • to respond to inquiries or requests; and
  • any other purposes that SPACETIDE notifies users and obtains consent from each user in advance.

Provision of Personal Information to Third Parties

SPACETIDE appropriately manages the personal information collected and does not provide such information to third parties, except for the following cases:

  • when the person identified by the personal information consents to the provision;
  • when the personal information is publicly available information about officers, etc. of a corporation or any other group and the provision to third parties has already been notified to the officers, etc. or announced;
  • when SPACETIDE commissions handling of the personal information in whole or in part to third parties within the extent necessary to achieve any specified purpose of use;
  • when SPACETIDE uses the personal information jointly with any specific person after taking procedures set forth in laws and regulations;
  • when the provision is based on laws and regulations;
  • when the provision is necessary to protect the life, body or property of any person but it is difficult to obtain consent from the person identified by the personal information;
  • when the provision is especially necessary for improvement of public health or healthy development of children but it is difficult to obtain consent from the person identified by the personal information; or
  • when SPACETIDE needs to cooperate in carrying out any clerical work set forth in laws and regulations by any national government organ, local public agency or person commissioned thereby but obtaining consent from the person identified by the personal information is likely to obstruct carrying out such work.

Joint Use of Personal Information

When conducting a business activity jointly with a specific business operator, SPACETIDE may use the personal information necessary for such activity jointly with such business operator. In this case, SPACETIDE notifies the person identified by the personal information of or announce purpose, etc. of such joint use in advance. For safe management of the personal information, SPACETIDE also executes an agreement on the joint use of personal information and appropriately manages such information.

Direct Mails

SPACETIDE or companies providing information believed to be beneficial for users may send such information by e-mail or post to only addresses (e-mail addresses/residential addresses) registered as the personal information of users who have consented thereto in advance. Users can withdraw such consent later.

Change/Withdrawal of Personal Information

SPACETIDE responds to request for notice of purpose of use, disclosure, correction, addition or deletion, suspension of use/erasure or suspension of provision to third parties from the person identified by the personal information to be disclosed or its agent. In order to request any change to the personal information, please take the change procedures by using the inquiry form. Only when SPACETIDE can confirm that the request is from the person identified by the personal information, SPACETIDE responds to the request.

Period to Keep and Use Personal Information

SPACETIDE keeps and manages the personal information that SPACETIDE collected for the period during which the relevant user receives services from SPACETIDE. Users may request SPACETIDE to disclose their own personal information that SPACETIDE keeps and manages. However, in order to prevent the personal information from being divulged to any third party, only when SPACETIDE can confirm that the request is from the relevant user itself, SPACETIDE promptly discloses such information. If a user loses its membership, such user’s all personal information collected by SPACETIDE is deleted. When a user requests SPACETIDE to delete or correct the personal information, only when SPACETIDE can confirm that the request is from the relevant user itself, SPACETIDE promptly deletes or corrects such information.

Cookies

Cookies are functions to save many rekeying steps and display contents optimized for a user if the user’s information is saved in the browser. SPACETIDE uses these technologies in order to optimize the display of Internet advertisements, figure out the number of users and save rekeying steps. Users can set their browsers to give notice when receiving cookies and choose whether to accept such cookies and also turn off cookie functions of their browsers. However, please be aware that turning off the cookie functions may render some functions of the services unusable in some cases.

SSL

SPACETIDE’s website is “SSL”-enabled in order to protect the personal information. When using a browser that is not SSL-enabled, SPACETIDE’s website may be inaccessible or information may be non-enterable in some cases.

Management of Personal Information

SPACETIDE takes protective measures against unauthorized network access and exerts maximum efforts to prevent any access to SPACETIDE’s management server from any network other than SPACETIDE’s network. SPACETIDE uses appropriate measures and steps when sending specific personal information in order to ensure the security of and maintain the accuracy of the personal information. While SPACETIDE exerts its best efforts to protect the personal information, SPACETIDE assumes no responsibility or liability for any problems caused by users’ carelessness or troubles on the Internet.

Provision of Personal Information on a Voluntary Basis and Consequence when Personal Information is not Provided

Each user can decide on its own whether to provide its personal information in order to use the services provided by SPACETIDE. However, please be aware that if the personal information is not provided for the prescribed purpose of use, some of the services may be unusable in some cases.

Other Matters to be Noted

Please be advised that the matters stated on this page are subject to change based on reasonable necessity due to change to SPACETIDE’s business description or advancement in the information and communication technology and so on.

The matters stated on this page are effective only between SPACETIDE and users, and do not apply to any third parties including those linked from this page.

Contact for Inquiry about Personal Information

15F Toranomon Hills Business Tower
1-17-1 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-6415
E-mail: info@spacetide.org