US Privacy Policy
Last Updated: April 1, 2024
We value the privacy of your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes how oricon ME Inc. (“we”, “us” or “our”) collect, use, and handle personal information when you use the services or resources provided or offered via our website (https://us.oricon-group.com/), including Japan Anime News Powered by ORICON NEWS (collectively referred to as "Services"). It also describes your rights and choices with respect to your personal information, and how you can contact us about our privacy practices.
Individuals from different countries or jurisdictions may have different rights with respect to their personal information. We reserve the ability to limit our response to any request to exercise your rights based on the law that is applicable to you.
1. Collection and Use of Personal Information
(1) Categories of Personal Information
The categories of personal information that we may collect or have collected in the past 12 months are as specified in the table below.
| Category of Personal Information | Examples |
|---|---|
| Identifiers | Real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier (such as a device identifier; cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers (IDFA/GAID) and similar technology), telephone number, fax number, shipping address, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, and email address |
| Any personal information described in subdivision (e) of Section 1798.80. | Your name, address and telephone number |
| Internet or other electronic network activity information | Browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an internet website application or advertisement. This specifically includes information regarding a consumer’s use or interaction with our website or mobile app, including browsing logs and actions taken on the website |
| Inferences | Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about you reflecting your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes |
We may use third party companies (such as Google Ads, Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity) to provide advertising services and/or to collect certain information when you visit and interact with our website. These third-party companies may collect and use cookies during your visit to our website. Third parties' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, and is not governed by this Privacy Policy.
(2) Sources of Personal Information
We may collect or have collected your personal information from the following sources:
- Directly from you or your devices, such as when you visit our website
- Ad networks, such as Google Ads
- Data analytics providers, such as Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity
- Operating systems and platforms
(3) Purpose and Use of Personal Information
We use personal information for the following purposes:
- Service Provision: To deliver our services efficiently, including sending technical notices, security alerts, support communications, and analyzing trends and activities related to our services.
- Responses to Requests: To address your inquiries, including information requests, questions, complaints, and similar issues.
- Internal Business Operations: For the operation and enhancement of our business, which includes managing, securing, and improving our products, services, and/or systems.
- Development of New Offerings: To innovate and develop new products and/or services.
- Website Experience Enhancement: To personalize and enhance your experience on our website.
- Advertising and Auditing: For advertising auditing purposes, such as delivering and rendering ads, personalizing ads, limiting the number of ads displayed to users, muting ads, and measuring the effectiveness of ads, counting ad impressions, verifying ad positions and quality, and ensuring compliance with standards. Additionally, using cookies for displaying ads on Google's services or third-party sites other than Google, measuring user activity, measuring campaign performance, and measuring the conversion rate of Google Ads.
- Short-term Use: For temporary purposes like non-personalized advertising during your interaction with us.
- Security and Integrity: To detect, investigate, and prevent security incidents, malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activities, to protect the rights and property of ourselves and others, and to support the overall security and integrity of our services.
2. Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
(1) Categories of Personal Information and Third Parties
The categories of personal information that we may sell to or share with third parties or have sold or shared with third parties in the past 12 months, as well as the categories of third parties to whom we sell or share this information with, are as listed in the table below.
| Category of Personal Information | Category of Third Parties |
|---|---|
| Identifiers |
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| Internet or other electronic network activity information |
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| Inferences |
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(2) Purposes of the Sale or Sharing
We may have sold, shared, or may sell or share personal information with third parties for the following purposes:
- Internal Business Operations: For the operation and enhancement of our business (including that of our affiliates and business partners), which includes managing, securing, and improving our products, services, and systems (including those of our affiliates and business partners).
- Development of New Offerings: To innovate and develop new products and/or services.
- Website Experience Enhancement: To personalize and enhance your experience on our websites.
- Advertising and Auditing: For advertising and auditing purposes, such as delivering and rendering ads, personalizing ads, limiting the number of ads displayed to users, muting ads, and measuring the effectiveness of ads, counting ad impressions, verifying ad positions and quality, and ensuring compliance with standards. Additionally, it involves selling or sharing personal information for displaying ads on Google's services or third-party sites other than Google, and measuring user activity, campaign performance, and the conversion rate of Google Ads.
- Security and Integrity: To detect, investigate, and prevent security incidents, malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activities, to protect the rights and property of ourselves and others, and to support the overall security and integrity of our services.
(3) Minors
We do not knowingly sell or share, nor have we sold or shared in the past, personal information of minors under 16 years of age with third parties.
3. Disclosure of Personal Information for Business Purposes
(1) Categories of Personal Information and Third Parties
The categories of personal information that we may disclose to third parties or have disclosed to third parties within the past 12 months for business purposes, as well as the categories of third parties to whom we disclose this information for business purposes, are as listed in the table below.
| Category of Personal Information | Category of Third Parties |
|---|---|
| Identifiers |
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| Internet or other electronic network activity information |
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| Inferences |
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(2) Purposes of Disclosure
We may disclose or have disclosed personal information with third parties for the following purposes:
- Internal Business Operations: For the operation and enhancement of our business (including that of our affiliates and business partners), which includes managing, securing, and improving our products, services, and systems (including those of our affiliates and business partners).
- Development of New Offerings: To innovate and develop new products and/or services.
- Website Experience Enhancement: To personalize and enhance your experience on our website.
- Advertising and Auditing: For advertising and auditing purposes, such as delivering and rendering ads, personalizing ads, limiting the number of ads displayed to users, muting ads, and measuring the effectiveness of ads, counting ad impressions, verifying ad positions and quality, and ensuring compliance with standards. Additionally, it involves selling or sharing personal information for displaying ads on Google's services or third-party sites other than Google, and measuring user activity, campaign performance, and the conversion rate of Google Ads.
- Security and Integrity: To detect, investigate, and prevent security incidents, malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activities, to protect the rights and property of ourselves and others, and to support the overall security and integrity of our services.
- Legal Compliance: To comply with our legal and financial obligations.
- Business Sale: In connection with the anticipated or completed merger, acquisition, or sale (including transfers as part of bankruptcy or bankruptcy proceedings), or as part of corporate reorganization or other changes in corporate control, we may transfer personal information as an asset.
- Cooperation with Investigations: If we are conducting an investigation into contract violations or legal violations, or if we detect the following, we may disclose your personal information to other organizations in response to a search warrant or other legally valid investigation or order (including lawful access by U.S. or foreign government authorities, courts, or law enforcement agencies) in order to prevent or suppress crimes or as required or permitted by applicable U.S. law or other laws.
4. Analytics
We may use data analytics providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
(1) Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information about visit activity with Google Analytics.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy ＆ Terms web page:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
(2) Microsoft Clarity
Microsoft Clarity is a user behaviour analytics tool provided by Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”). Microsoft may collect your personal information from you when you visit our website. Microsoft may collect or receive personal information from you to provide Microsoft Advertising. For further details, please see the Microsoft Privacy Statement: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
5. Sensitive Personal Information
We do not collect your sensitive personal information and therefore do not use or disclose your sensitive personal information for any purposes other than those specified in Section 7027, subsection (m) of the regulations implementing the CCPA, specifically excluding the inference of your characteristics from such information.
6. Retention of Personal Information
Your personal information will be retained only for as long as we need it to fulfill the purposes for which we have collected it and, if applicable, as long as required by legal, regulatory, accounting, or industry retention requirements. Thereafter, we will either delete your personal information or de-identify it so that it is anonymous and not attributed to your identity.
7. Notice to California Residents
This section supplements the information contained in this Privacy Policy and applies solely to consumers who reside in the State of California. We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CCPA”) and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this section, except where otherwise noted.
(1) California Privacy Rights
Under the CCPA, California residents have the following rights concerning their personal information:
(a) Right to Know
You have the right to request that we disclose the following information to you regarding your personal information that we collect, sell or share or that we disclose for business purposes:
- Categories of personal information we have collected about you.
- Categories of sources from which we collected personal information.
- Business or commercial purposes for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information.
- Categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information.
- Specific pieces of personal information that we have collected about you.
- Categories of personal information that we sold or shared about you and categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or shared, and categories of personal information for each category of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or shared.
- Categories of personal information we have disclosed about you for business purposes and categories of third parties to whom the information was disclosed for business purposes.
(b) Right to Delete
You have the right to request that we delete certain personal information about you that we have collected from you. Please note such right is subject to certain exceptions under the CCPA. If we determine to maintain your personal information after your request, we will inform you of the exception applied to your case.
(c) Right to Correct
You have the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.
(d) Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing
You have the right to direct us not to sell to or share your personal information with third parties.
(e) Right of Non-Retaliation and Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate or retaliate against you for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA.
You also have the right to ask us to limit certain use of sensitive personal information we collect about you. However, we do not collect any sensitive personal information from consumers.
(2) How to exercise your rights
(a) Right to Know/Delete/Correct
Initiating Requests
To exercise your Right to Know, Delete or Correct as described above, please email us at japananimenews@oricon.jp .
Verifying Requests
We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity based upon the information you provide and the type of request you are making. When you exercise your Right to Know, Delete or Correct, we may ask that you provide us with additional information (such as your name, address, state residency, phone number and email address) in order to verify your identity and fulfill your request. If we are unable to verify that the individual submitting the request is the same individual about whom we have collected information (or someone authorized by that individual to act on their behalf), we will not be able to process the request.
Authorizing an Agent
When you use an authorized agent to submit a request above, we may require the authorized agent to provide proof that you gave the agent signed permission to submit the request on your behalf. We may also require you to (1) verify your own identity directly with us, or (2) directly confirm with us that you provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request.
(b) Request to Opt-Out
Opt-Out Choices
To exercise the Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing as described above, you can visit Your Privacy Choices .
As we do not sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age, we do not have a process for opting-in and opt-out of the sale/sharing of personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.
Browser Signals
To exercise the Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing as described above, you can make your preference known using an opt-out preference signal, such as a global privacy control (or GPC) signal. If we detect that your browser or device is communicating a GPC signal, we will, subject to applicable law, process the signal as a valid request to opt-out of sale/sharing of personal information for you. For more information about the GPC, you can visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/.
We do not currently respond to web browser "Do Not Track" signals.
(3) Shine the Light
Under California’s “Shine the Light” law, California residents may have the right to request: (a) a list of certain categories of personal information we have disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year and (b) the identity of those third parties, all as defined under the Shine the Light law. To make such a request, please email us at japananimenews@oricon.jp.
8. Notice to Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut and Utah Residents
This section supplements the information contained in this Privacy Policy and applies solely to consumers residing in the States of Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, or Utah. This section is added to comply with the privacy laws in these states.
Your Rights
Each of these state privacy laws grant all or part of the following rights with respect to their personal data to consumers who reside in the state, subject to the state privacy law’s definitions and limitations.
- The right to confirm whether or not we are processing your personal data.
- The right to access the personal data processed by us.
- The right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data.
- The right to delete personal data provided by or obtained about you.
- The right to obtain a copy of your personal data that you previously provided to us in a portable and readily usable format.
- The right to opt out of the sale of your personal data.
- The right to opt out of the processing of your personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising.
- The right to opt out of the profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.
- The right to be free from discrimination based on your exercise of your privacy rights.
Exercising Rights
To exercise the rights to confirm, access, correct, delete and/or obtain as described above, please email us at japananimenews@oricon.jp .
Please note that when you exercise your rights above, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity based upon the information you provide and the type of request you are making.
To exercise the rights to opt out of the sale, targeted advertising or profiling as described above, you can visit Your Privacy Choices.
If we decline to take action regarding your request under these rights, we will inform you of the justification for declining to take action and give you instructions for how to appeal our decision. You may appeal in accordance with the instructions.
9. Notice to Nevada Residents
Nevada Privacy Law grants residents of Nevada the right to request that businesses do not sell their personally identifiable information collected online for monetary consideration. This right applies even if your personal information is not currently being sold. To exercise this opt-out right, you can visit Your Privacy Choices .
10. Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect any information from anyone under the age of 13. Our Service is not directed at children under the age of 13. If you believe that we might have personal information from a child under 13, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13 without parental consent, we will delete the information as quickly as possible.
As stated in Section 2(3), we do not knowingly sell or share, nor have we sold or shared in the past, personal information of minors under 16 years of age with third parties.
11. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The revised Privacy Policy will be posted on this website with the date of the last modification, and we will notify of the changes if required by the applicable law.
Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
We encourage you to check whenever you use our Services to see if this Privacy Policy has been updated.
12. Effective Date
The effective date of this Privacy Policy was April 1, 2024.
13. Contact Information
For inquiries or complaints regarding personal information, please contact us at japananimenews@oricon.jp