PRIVACY POLICY
Privacy Policy
This is an English translation provided for reference. If there is any discrepancy between this translation and the Japanese original, the Japanese version shall prevail.
HITOHATA ASSOCIATION, a general incorporated association (hereinafter “the Association”), complies with the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, guidelines on the protection of personal information and other relevant laws and regulations concerning the handling of personal information it acquires.
1. Security management of personal information
The Association takes appropriate organizational, physical, human and technical measures to protect personal information, and takes necessary and appropriate measures for the security management of personal information, including the prevention of leakage, loss or damage of the personal information it handles.
2. Matters observed in acquiring personal information
The Association observes the following in acquiring, using and providing personal information.
(1) Acquisition of personal information
To the extent necessary to operate the website “TOKYO ART SPHERE” managed and operated by the Association (hereinafter “this Site”), the Association may acquire personal information concerning general users of this Site (hereinafter “Users”) or persons who place advertisements on this Site (hereinafter “Advertisers”) from such Users or Advertisers.
(2) Purposes of use of personal information
Except where permitted by law or with the consent of the person concerned, the Association will not use personal information it has acquired beyond the scope necessary to achieve the following purposes.
(i) Operation, maintenance and management of this Site
(ii) Provision and introduction of services through this Site
(iii) Surveys to improve the quality of this Site
(3) Provision of personal information
Except as provided by law, the Association will not provide personal information acquired with the consent of the person concerned to any third party without that person’s prior consent. Requests from the person concerned for the disclosure, correction, addition or deletion of personal information, or for notification of the purposes of use, will be handled in accordance with the law, and the Association will respond appropriately to opinions and inquiries.
3. Change of the purposes of use
In principle, the Association will not change the purposes of use specified in the preceding section except with the prior consent of the person concerned. However, this does not apply where the Association changes the purposes of use within a scope reasonably recognized as substantially related to the purposes before the change, after announcing the changed purposes in advance.
4. Provision of personal information to third parties
When entrusting all or part of the handling of personal information to a third party, the Association will thoroughly examine the third party’s suitability and will exercise necessary and appropriate supervision over the entrusted party so that the security of the entrusted personal information is ensured.
5. Improvement and review of the handling of personal information
The Association inspects its handling of personal information, its management system and its initiatives, and continuously improves and reviews them.
6. Disposal of personal information
When personal information is no longer necessary in light of its purposes of use, the Association will erase or dispose of it. Such erasure and disposal will be carried out using necessary and appropriate methods to prevent risks such as external leakage, to the extent necessary for the performance of its operations.
7. Use of access analysis tools
This Site uses Google Analytics, an access analysis tool provided by Google LLC, to understand how the Site is used. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect access information in a form that does not identify individuals. You can refuse this collection by disabling cookies in your browser settings. For details, please see https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
8. Contact for complaints and inquiries
The Association has established the following contact point and person responsible for the handling of personal information.
[HITOHATA ASSOCIATION, a general incorporated association]
Person responsible for complaints and inquiries regarding personal information: 松下 友美 (Matsushita)
Established October 1, 2026
Revised October 30, 2026