Tokyo Anime News Privacy Policy

California residents, visit our "California Consumer Privacy Policy Addendum".

Effective Date: October 15, 2020

Last Reviewed On: October 15, 2020

Important: This Privacy Policy explains Amazia’s methods for handling your Personal Data collected through this Site.

Carefully review this Privacy Policy before using this Site or this Service.

1. Scope of Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected through this Site and does not apply to any and all information collected through any other websites which Amazia does not control or manage. Any and all information collected through any other websites is subject to the privacy practices of any other websites.
Since Amazia shall not undertake responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of any other websites, if you use or browse any other websites, Amazia recommends that you carefully read and understand each privacy policy of other websites before using or browsing such other websites.

2. Categories of Personal Data that Amazia collects

Categories of personal data that we collect are set forth below. We treat data we collect as personal data only if such data meets the definition of personal data under applicable laws and regulations of each jurisdiction (hereinafter, “Personal Data”) and typically include:

1. name;
2. e-mail address;
3. postal address;
4. phone number;
5. credit or debit card numbers, their expiration date and security code;
6. username(nickname) and password for your account on This Site;
7. your comments posted within community forums by use of the comment-posting functions of This Service;
8. correspondence you send to Amazia;
9. gender;
10. ZIP code;
11. your browser type and operating system;
12. Cookies
13. your IP address;
14. your device information(including unique identifier for the particular device you use to access This Site);
15. your browser type and operating system;
16. behavior history (including but not limited to your browsing history, purchase history, and search history) within This Site or This Service and attributes of you or any user that can be deduced from these pieces of information; and,
17. unique identifiers, including mobile device identification numbers, that can identify the physical location of such devices in accordance with applicable law;

3. Acquisition of Personal Data

Amazia may acquire Personal Data in the following cases.

1. You input Personal Data using a computer or mobile device for the purpose of registering as a member of This Site or This Service, of using This Site or This Service, of submitting a question on This Site or This Service to Amazia, of communicating or interacting with Amazia, or of cooperating in Amazia’s questionnaire research on This Site or This Service;
2. You provide Personal Data to Amazia directly or through media, including through the submission of documents, for the purpose of sending identity verification documents for This Site or This Service;
3. Personal Data is automatically collected when you visit, browse or use This Site; or
4. Amazia lawfully acquires Personal Data from a third party.

4. Use of Personal Data

Amazia may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

1. To provide you with This Site or This Service;
2. To request payment of fees or grant points;
3. To take steps to verify your identity;
4. To respond to your inquiry on This Site or This Service;
5. To send you information on details of This Site or This Service at your request;
6. To provide you with information on our other services, or our business partners’ advertisements or campaigns;
7. To secure the safe provision of This Site or This Service (this includes monitoring for users in breach of the Terms of Services and communication with any such user; investigating, detecting, and preventing wrongful acts such as fraud resulting from abuse of This Site or This Service and unlawful access; and taking countermeasures addressing the above);
8. To carry out our questionnaire-based research on your use of This Site or This Service;
9. To improve This Site or This Service and develop new Services;
10. To investigate and analyze matters such as the result of use of This Site or This Service, or monitor the use of This Site or This Service;
11. To monitor efforts to recruit users for This Site or This Service; and/or
12. For other legitimate business purposes as may be updated from time to time.,

5. Personal Data Sharing

1. Amazia may share Personal Data under the following circumstances:
   1. You agree to receive information from third parties or you request Amazia to share your Personal Data with third parties;
   2. In accordance with laws and regulations;
   3. Amazia shares it with service providers (including but not limited to cloud service providers, analytics service providers, payment service providers, website operating service providers and other service providers) that may access or process your Personal Data on our behalf to support our business operations or the purpose described in “4. Use of Personal Data” of this Privacy Policy;
   4. Amazia is required to respond to judicial proceedings, court orders, subpoenas, search warrants, legal process, other legal or law enforcement measures, and requests of governmental authorities which have the force of law;
   5. Your Personal Data is necessary for Amazia to establish or exercise its rights or or defenses against legal actions or claims;
   6. This Site or This Service is acquired by a third party as a result of the succession of business in a merger, business transfer or bankruptcy;
   7. Amazia shares it with Amazia’s affiliates or Amazia’s business partners for a variety of purposes including marketing purposes or other business purposes as long as Amazia is permitted by applicable laws to do so; and
   8. As otherwise permitted or required by applicable law.
2. In the event your Personal Data is shared with third parties under This Privacy Policy and in compliance with applicable law, your Personal Data that is shared with third parties is subject to the privacy practices of such third parties. Since Amazia shall not undertake responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of third parties, if you desire to discontinue sharing your Personal Data with third parties see information about your rights below or you will need to contact those third parties directly to exercise any rights you may have over your Personal Data.

6. Comments you post within community forums on This Site Using comment-posting functions of This Service

If you participate in community forums of This Service, your comments within community forums including your Personal Data, may be made public or may be disclosed.

Amazia recommends that you think carefully before posting information on This Site including comments within community forums using comment-posting functions of This Service.

7. Information Amazia collects automatically as you visit, access or use This Site

To the extent permitted by applicable laws, Amazia or Amazia’s service providers may use a variety of technologies (including but not limited to Cookies, Web Beacons or other tracking technologies) that automatically or passively collect your Personal Data* on This Site whenever you visit, access, or use This Site, and Amazia may acquire your Personal Data if you are a visitor or viewer of This Site by using tracking technologies.
If required by applicable laws, Amazia will restrict what Personal Data is collected and how it may be used by third parties.

1. Personal Data collected through tracking technologies such as Cookies or Web Beacons is as follows:
   • browser type and operating system
   • behavior histories (including but not limited to your browsing history, your purchase history, and search history)
   • attributes that can be deduced from these pieces of information
   • IP address or your device information (including other unique identifier for the particular device you use to access This Site).

Such tracking technologies help to recognize you, remember your preferences, track your visits to This Site, improve This Site and our offerings or otherwise provide you with a more personalized experience.

Please note that the information practices of third parties are not covered by This Privacy Policy.

By changing the setting of your browser, you may refuse to receive Cookies or have a warning be displayed when receiving Cookies. However, in such case, some features of the Sites may not function properly or you may otherwise not be able to use This Site or This Service.

8. Information Amazia acquires from other sources

Amazia may acquire information, including Personal Data, from third-party sources and platforms (such as Google Analytics Demographics and Interests Reports from social networking sites, databases, online marketing firms, our strategic business partners and ad targeting firms).

Amazia collects the following information from other sources:

• unique identifiers, including mobile device identification numbers, that can identify the physical location of such devices in accordance with applicable law; if you access third-party social networking services (such as Facebook Connect or Twitter) through This Site, your username and connection lists for those services; advertisement interaction and viewing data, such as ad click-through rates and information about how many times you viewed a particular ad.

Please note that This Site may combine information Amazia acquires from third-party sources with the information, including Personal Data, that Amazia collects.

Information, including Personal Data, that Amazia collects is subject to This Privacy Policy.

9. Data Processing in Japan and the United States and International Data Transfer

This Site is operated by Amazia (a Japanese company) in the United States. Please be aware that information Amazia collects will be transferred to and processed in both Japan and the United States.
By using This Site or providing Amazia with your information, you consent to the collection, transfer, storage, and processing of information in both Japan and the United States.
If we transfer Personal Data outside of Japan and the United States, we will implement safeguards to protect your personal data as required under applicable local data protection laws and regulations.

10. Security

Amazia takes commercially reasonable measures to help protect and secure Personal Data. However, no data transmission over the Internet, wireless transmission or electronic storage of information can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Amazia cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information Amazia collects, and that you use This Site and provide Amazia with your Personal Data at your sole risk.

11. Retaining Personal Data

We will retain your Personal Data only as long as it is necessary (subject to our internal policies on data retention, or applicable laws and regulations) and will use reasonable efforts to delete it without delay after it is no longer necessary to retain it.

12. Data Subject’s Rights

Only to the extent required by applicable law, you may have the right to withdraw your consent for the processing of your Personal Data, which consent constitutes the legal grounds for processing your Personal Data. To withdraw your consent, please contact us by using the contact details set forth in “Contact Information” below.

Only to the extent required by applicable law, you may have rights regarding your Personal Data including, without limitation, rights of access, deletion, cessation of use, or correction. To assert your rights, please contact us by using the contact details set forth in “Contact Information” below.

We will deal with your requests above in accordance with applicable laws and, where permitted by law, may charge an appropriate fee to cover the costs of dealing with the request. Any request must include sufficient details to identify you. Upon receipt of your request, we may ask for additional information from you (including proof of identity) in order to deal with your request. Please note that it may also take some time to deal with the application, although we aim to deal with all requests as soon as possible. We may also charge a reasonable fee to cover our administration costs when dealing with any requests, which fees we will inform you of in advance.

13. Children

We do not intend to knowingly collect personal data from children under age 13. If you have reason to believe that your child has provided their personal data to us, please contact us by using the contact details set forth in “Contact Information” below, and we will delete that information from our databases, unless applicable law provides otherwise.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

Amazia may, in its own sole discretion and at any time, amend all or parts of This Privacy Policy without prior notice. If these changes are material, Amazia will take reasonable steps to notify you of such changes. The revised Privacy Policy shall be deemed and considered to be effective at the time Amazia posts any revised Privacy Policy on This Site. Amazia shall deem and consider that you entirely and completely assent and agree to be bound by all the terms and conditions set forth in a revised Privacy Policy at the time you use This Site after the revised Privacy Policy is effective.

15. Contact Information

If you have any questions, inquires, requests, or complaints with respect to This Privacy Policy or Amazia’s information collection practices, please contact us at info@anime-news.tokyo.

California Consumer Privacy Policy Addendum

Last Reviewed On: October 15, 2020

This California Consumer Privacy Policy Addendum shall be applied to users who are California residents.
If you are a California consumer within the meaning of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), this California Consumer Privacy Policy Addendum applies to you.

Any terms used in this California Consumer Privacy Policy Addendum have the same meaning as such terms are defined in the CCPA.

Consumers with disabilities may access this Addendum by using a standard screen reader or by contacting us using IV. Please see the “contact information” below for additional information on accessibility.

I. California Personal Information

1. Categories of California Personal Information

In the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of California Personal Information.

Category	Examples
Identifiers.	Real name, ,postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, account name,.
Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).	Name, address, telephone number, credit card number,. This category may overlap with other categories.
Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.	gender
Commercial information.	Records of services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
Internet or other similar network activity.	Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website or application.

California Personal Information does not include publicly available information from government records, deidentified or aggregated consumer information, or other personal information excluded from the CCPA’s scope.

2. Categories of Sources of California Personal Information

Within the past 12 months we have obtained California Personal Information from the sources described above in “3. Acquisition of Personal Data“ of This Privacy Policy, such as directly from you, automatically and indirectly from you and from third-party sources.

3. Our Use of California Personal Information.

We use the California Personal Information we collect for the business purposes described in “4. Purpose of use of Personal Data” of This Privacy Policy.

We may also use the California Personal Information we collect for purposes for which we provide you additional notice or for purposes compatible with the context in which the California Personal Information was collected.

4. Recipients of California Personal Information

Within the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed California Personal Information to the following categories of third parties.

(1) Disclosures of California Personal Information for Business Purposes
Within the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed California Personal Information to the following categories of service providers.

Categories of Personal Information	Categories of third parties with whom we disclosed California Personal Information for Business Purposes
Identifiers.	cloud service providers, analytics service providers, , website operating service providers and other service providers
Commercial information.	Same as above
Internet or other similar network activity.	Same as above
Inferences drawn from other personal information.	Same as above

(2) Sale of California Personal Information

We do not sell, and, within the preceding 12 months, we have not sold, California Personal Information.

II. Your Rights Regarding California Personal Information.

• California residents have certain rights with respect to California Personal Information collected by businesses. If you are a California resident, you may exercise the following rights regarding your California Personal Information, subject to certain exceptions and limitations:You may have the right to request more information about how we treated your personal information in the past 12 months, including:


• The categories of personal information we collected about you;
• The categories of sources from which we collected that information;
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that information;
• The categories of third parties with whom we shared that information; and
• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.


• Under certain conditions, you may have the right to request we delete your personal information.
• The right to opt out of a sale of your California Personal Information. Please note that we do not sell your California Personal Information, and therefore we do not support requests to opt out of a sale of California Personal Information.
• The right not to receive discriminatory treatment by the business for the exercise of the privacy rights conferred by the CCPA. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights, including by denying you goods or services, charging different prices or rates for goods or services, providing you a different level or quality of goods or services, or suggesting that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Other California Privacy Rights. Under California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83), you, as a California resident, may ask us to provide a list of what personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year and the names and addresses of those third parties. You may also ask us to refrain from sharing your personal information with third parties for their marketing purposes. Please note that we do not disclose your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

• How to Exercise Your Rights. To submit a request to exercise these rights you may contact us at:
  • Logging in to your account (if you have an account) and reviewing or updating your Personal Information Contacting us at: info@anime-news.tokyo, or
  • By completing our rights request form available here link.

Verification Process and Required Information. Note that we may need to request additional information from you to verify your identity or understand the scope of your request. We may ask you to provide certain California Personal Information which we already maintain, as part of our verification process.

Authorized Agent. You may designate an authorized agent to make a CCPA request on your behalf by submitting the written power of attorney or by providing the agent with written permission to act on your behalf. As permitted by law, we may require verification of the agent’s authorization or require you to verify your own identity in response to a request even if you choose to use an agent.

Please note that we may not be able to respond to your request or provide you with your California Personal Information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the California Personal Information relates to you.

III. California Do Not Track Disclosure.

Our websites, apps and other online services are not designed to respond to “Do Not Track” requests from browsers.

IV. Contact Information

You may contact us with questions or concerns about our privacy policies or practices and your choices and rights under California law at: info@anime-news.tokyo.