PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated: February 03, 2025
INTRODUCTION
Applibot respects your privacy, and we are committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy.
As used in this Privacy Policy, “Applibot”, “we”, “us”, or “our” refer to Applibot, Inc.
This Privacy Policy describes the types of personal information we collect from you, that we may receive from third parties or your contacts or that you may provide when you use Applibot’s applications for mobile devices (the “Applibot Apps”) and Applibot’s web domains and subdomains (our “Sites”). We refer to the Applibot Apps and the Sites together as our “Service.”
Please familiarize yourself with our privacy practices and contact us as described below in Section XVIII – Contacting Applibot if you have any questions.
This Privacy Policy applies to the personal information we collect:
- Through our Service; and
- By e-mail, text, and other communications between you and us and/or our Service.
It does not apply to information collected by any third party (including but not limited to our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on our Service.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will handle your information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you agree not to use our Service.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice in our Service. The date this Privacy Policy was last updated is identified at the top of the first page of this Privacy Policy. You are responsible for ensuring you periodically visit this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
I. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT
Personal Information We Collect
When we talk about personal information (or personal data) we mean any information that relates to an identified or identifiable living individual. Individuals might be identified by reference to a name, an identification number, an online identifier (such as an IP address) or to other factors that are specific to them, such as their physical appearance. The personal information we may collect and process about you, including within the last twelve (12) months, includes:
- Registration Data/Identifiers: Email address and social media account information
- Identity Data: Date of birth; gender; country; nationality
- Usage Data: Details of your visits to and actions in our Service, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data, the resources that you access, and your use of our Service.
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Technical Data/Networking Activity: including:
- Information about your computer or device and internet connection, including as applicable, your IP address through which you access our Service, operating system, browser type, mobile network information, location, time zone and/or telephone number, the unique mobile device ID or virtual unique device identifier for any mobile device used to access your account;
- Metadata and other information associated with files stored on your device;
- Information about your internet connection, the device you use to access our Service, and related usage details.
- Profile Data: Interests and preferences
- App Profile Data: Your username.
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Interactions Data:
- Records of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses and social media contact details), if you contact us through our Service.
- Information that you provide by filling in forms in our Service, for example to subscribe to our newsletter, respond to surveys or enter a contest or promotion, or to report an issue.
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Transaction Data:
- Details of transactions you carry out through our Service using in-game currency.
- Payment information, collected and processed by our payment provider.
- Marketing and Communications Data – marketing preferences; and communications preferences including any permission that you give to send you push notifications through our App.
How we collect your personal information
We may collect and receive your personal data using different methods:
- Personal Data You Directly Provide to Us
You may give us your personal data directly, for example, when you use our Sites or register to use the Applibot App, contact us with enquiries or feedback; or subscribe to receive our marketing communications.
- Personal Data Received from Third Parties
We may receive personal data about you from third parties. Such third parties may include your contacts who have shared their contacts lists with us when using the an Applibot App or third parties that provide technical services to us so that we can provide our Service.
We may receive social media account information if you choose to use a social login service, such as Facebook Login, to create or access your account.
- Automatic Data-Collection Technologies
When you access and use our Service we will collect certain Usage Data and Technical Data.
The automatic data collection technologies we use to collect Technical Data may include:
- Cookies (or pixel tags and other similar technologies browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer or device. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Service.
- Web Beacons. Our Service and our e-mails may use small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an e-mail and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
- Resettable Device Identifiers. If you use an Applibot App, we may collect a resettable device identifier from your device. Resettable device identifiers can be used like cookies and are found on many mobile devices and tablets (for example, the “Identifier for Advertisers” on Apple iOS devices and the “Google Advertising ID” on Android devices). Like cookies, resettable device identifiers are used to make online advertising more relevant, and for analytics and optimization purposes.
You may also control the information that we collect through the settings in your browser or mobile device. You may configure your browser to reject cookies from Applibot and may adjust the settings of your mobile device to prevent our Service from obtaining location information. However, please note that our Service may rely on cookies and location information to function properly and some features of our Service may not be available if you disable cookies.
II. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use personal information that we collect about you or that you provide to us for the purposes set out in this section. If we wish to make any changes to these purposes, or if we wish to use your personal data for any purpose that is not listed in this section, we will notify you using the contact details we hold for you.
Part A: Provision of our Service
Purpose: To provide our Sites
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If you browse our Sites: When you browse our Sites, we collect and process your personal data to help us understand how you are using and navigating our Sites. We do this so that we can better understand which parts of our Sites are more or less popular and improve the structure and navigation of our Sites. |
Usage Data Technical Data/Networking Activity |
It is necessary for us to use your personal data to perform our obligations in accordance with any contract that we may have with you for our Service, or it is in our legitimate interest to use personal data in such a way to ensure that we provide access to our Sites in a secure and effective way and so that we can make improvements to our Sites. |
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Website insight and analysis: We and our third-party partners use cookies to collect data from the devices that you use to access our Sites. We and our third-party partners use this data to analyse how you use our Sites and our Service and the effectiveness of our Sites and our Service, including:
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Usage Data Technical Data/Networking Activity Profile Data |
Where we use personal data collected through the use of analytics cookies to analyse how you use our Sites, it is in our legitimate interest to use your personal data in such a way to improve our Sites and our Service. |
Purpose: To provide the Applibot Apps
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If you browse the Applibot Apps: When you interact with the Applibot Apps, we collect and process your personal data to help us understand how you are using and navigating the Applibot Apps. We do this so that we can better understand which parts of the Applibot Apps are more or less popular and improve the structure and navigation of the Applibot Apps. |
Usage Data Technical Data/Networking Activity |
It is necessary for us to use your personal data to perform our obligations in accordance with any contract that we may have with you for the Applibot Apps, or it is in our legitimate interest to use personal data in such a way to ensure that we provide access to the Applibot Apps in a secure and effective way and so that we can make improvements to the Applibot Apps. |
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Personalisation of our Apps: in some of our Apps, we may personalise user experiences such as showing our users content and App features that we think may be of interest or relevance to our users. Non-essential cookies and other similar technologies are used for this purpose. Please see the Cookies section for further information. |
Usage Data Technical Data Profile Data |
It is in our legitimate interests to give users of our Apps the best experience, where non-essential cookies and other similar technologies are not used. Consent (where non-essential cookies and other similar technologies are used). |
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Provision of the Applibot Apps: When you use the Applibot Apps, we process your personal data so that we can provide the Applibot Apps to you, including remembering your preferences and/or scores; to ensure that the Applibot Apps are working properly, to show you the correct notices and information, and to ensure that the Applibot Apps are kept secure. This data is sometimes automatically collected and transmitted to us. When you use the Applibot Apps, we may also ask for your permission to send you push notifications. If you allow this feature, we may send you push notifications though the Applibot Apps, for example, reminders, alerts, updates and other information. You can configure and turn off push notifications via your device settings at any time. The Applibot Apps may also send us (or our IT suppliers) an error message in the event of a crash or other error (e.g. after an app has unexpectedly quit because of a program error or has stopped responding to your input). The error message contains Technical Data and information about which part of the app’s software code has caused the error. This information helps us understand the cause of the error so that we can develop a fix to prevent that error from reoccurring and therefore improve the Applibot Apps for all users. |
Technical Data/Networking Activity Marketing and communications data |
It is necessary for us to use your personal data to perform our obligations in accordance with any contract that we may have with you, or it is in our legitimate interest to use personal data in such a way to ensure that we provide access to the Applibot Apps in a secure and effective way. Our use of push notifications will be subject to the permissions that you provide and your system settings. |
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To manage your account registration and access to the Applibot Apps: You will be required to register an account with us in order to gain access to the Applibot Apps. To register for an account, you will need to provide all required personal data and a password. We will use this data to process your registration and to identify you when you log in to your account and access the Applibot Apps. We will also process certain Communications Data so that we can administer and contact you about your account, including by e-mail or push notification. |
Registration Data/Identifiers App Profile Data Marketing and Communications Data |
It is necessary for us to use your personal data to perform our obligations in accordance with any contract that we may have with you, or it is in our legitimate interest to use personal data in such a way to ensure that we provide access to the Applibot Apps in a secure and effective way. |
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To facilitate in-game payments: In Apps where we provide functions to complete in-game payments, we process personal data in order to be able to complete transactions to provide our Services to you. |
Identity Data Contact Data Transaction Data |
It is necessary for us to use your personal data to perform our obligations in accordance with any contract that we may have with you, or it is in our legitimate interest to use personal data in such a way to ensure (a) that we provide the Services in a secure and efficient way. |
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To manage your Applibot App account profile and enable you to interact with other players: If you are a registered user of an Applibot App you can voluntarily submit and we will collect Profile Data as part of your Applibot App profile. Your profile will be publicly available and we will use your personal data to provide you with features such as the ability to challenge other players and be displayed in a leaderboard. |
Usage Data Technical Data/Networking Activity Profile Data |
Any Profile Data that you submit is voluntary, although you are required to supply some Profile Data as a part of interacting with and using the Applibot Apps. It is in our legitimate interest to use your Profile Data, so that we can provide the Applibot Apps effectively. |
Purpose: Customer Feedback/Enquiries
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If you have a general question or need help with any issue concerning our Service: There are various ways in which you are able to contact us with general enquiries and to provide feedback, including using the details set out in the Section XVIII – Contacting Applibot, via support_global@applibot.co.jp and through any other ‘contact us’ or similar feature that we make available on a Applibot App. When you make an enquiry or provide feedback, we will collect and process your personal data including any personal data you volunteer, that is relevant to your enquiry or feedback. If you have a technical issue concerning our Service, we may also process Technical Data to help us diagnose and fix the technical issues you are experiencing. We will use this information so that we can effectively manage and respond to your enquiry or feedback. |
Registration Data/Identifiers Profile Data Interactions Data Technical Data/Networking Activity |
It is in our legitimate interest to use your personal data in the ways described above to ensure that we are able to help you with your enquiry and provide a good standard of service. |
Part B: Advertising/Marketing
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Personalised advertising: We and our third-party partners may use your personal data including data that is collected through your interactions with third party websites and services (including social media and other platforms) to provide you with, and analyse the effectiveness of, personalised ads when you visit other websites and/or use other services. By “personalised ads”, we mean advertisements for the Applibot Apps that we or our partners otherwise think you might be interested in based on your browsing habits. Note, our third party partners may also use the data that is collected to show personalised ads for products and services offered by third parties. We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioural tracking). Contact us at support_global@applibot.co.jp for information on how you can opt out of behavioural tracking in our Service and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioural tracking. |
Usage Data Technical Data/Networking Activity |
Where your data is collected through the use of non-essential cookies, we and our third party partners generally rely on consent to collect your personal data and for the subsequent processing of it in this manner or it is otherwise in our legitimate interests to promote our Service to you. Our third-party partners may rely on a different lawful basis in respect of their use of your personal data. |
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E-mail marketing: We use your e-mail address to send you marketing communications by e-mail. Our marketing will include press releases and information about us, our Service, any events we may hold and the offers and promotions we offer from time to time. Our marketing communications will include personalised and non-personalised marketing. Personalised marketing has been specifically tailored to you and will include content that we think is most relevant to you, based on what we know about you. Non-personalised marketing is marketing that is not tailored to you. |
Registration Data/Identifiers Marketing and Communications Data Personalised marketing: Profile Data App Profile Data Transaction Data Usage Data |
It is in our legitimate interest to use your personal data for marketing purposes, for example to decide what marketing content we think may appeal to you. However, we will only send marketing communications to you by e-mail where you have consented to receive such content by e-mail, or where we have another lawful right to send marketing to you using e-mail. For example, in certain circumstances we may rely on our legitimate interest to send marketing by e-mail to individuals who are users of the Applibot Apps. |
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Hosting and managing events: From time to time, we may organise and host events for the purpose of promoting our business or bringing our users together. We may process your personal data to communicate with you about such events where you have specifically requested information about such events or where we have another lawful basis for sending that information to you. If you attend one of our events, we may use your personal data to record your attendance at the event and for related record-keeping purposes and, if relevant, we may collect and process any dietary requirements you may have. You may also feature in photographs taken at our events and such photographs may appear in publications that we make available. |
Registration Data/Identifiers Profile Data App Profile Data |
It is necessary for us to use your personal data in this way to perform our obligations in accordance with any contract that we may have with you where you have signed up to attend an event, or it is in our legitimate interest or a third party’s legitimate interest to use personal data in such a way to ensure that the event is operated in an effective way. We may specifically ask your permission to use your photographs, quotes, testimonials, or other content that you make available or publish at the event. Where this is the case, our processing of your such personal data will be based on consent. |
Part C: Business Administration, Financial and Legal
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Business administration, finance, and legal compliance: We may use an individual’s personal data for the following business administration and legal compliance purposes:
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Registration Data/Identifiers Transaction Data Interactions Data |
It is necessary for us to use personal data in this way to perform our obligations in accordance with any contract that we may have with the organisation, or it is in our legitimate interest to use personal data in such a way to ensure that we have an effective working relationship with the organisation and are able to provide our Service to others in an effective way. Where we do this on behalf of our clients as a data processor, we do not require a legal basis for such processing. |
III. HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION
We will only store your information as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the information is collected and processed or, where applicable law provides for longer storage and retention periods, for the storage and retention period required by law. After that your personal information will be deleted.
In respect of personal data that we process in connection with the supply of our Service, we may retain your personal data for up to six years from the date of supply of the relevant Service and in compliance with our data protection obligations. We may then destroy such files without further notice or liability.
Where we process personal data in connection with the registration and use of an account on a Applibot App, we may retain your personal data for up to six years from the date that the relevant account is terminated (and in compliance with our data protection obligations). We may then destroy such files without further notice or liability.
Where we process any other personal data, we will retain relevant personal data for up to three years from the date of our last interaction with you (and in compliance with our data protection obligations). We may then destroy such files without further notice or liability.
If any personal data is only useful for a short period (e.g. for a specific activity, promotion or marketing campaign), we will not retain it for longer than the period for which it is used by us.
Usage Data will not be retained longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the Usage Data was collected and processed unless applicable law provides for longer retention periods.
If you have opted out of receiving marketing communications from us, we will need to retain certain personal data on a suppression list indefinitely so that we know not to send you further marketing communications in the future. However, we will not use this personal data to send you further marketing unless you subsequently opt back in to receive such marketing.
IV. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose aggregated information about users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may also disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates;
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and/or our Service and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- To third-party post/e-mail marketing and CRM specialists who assist us in managing our marketing database and sending out our e-mail marketing communications and account-related communications
- To third-party advertising partners when you use our Sites. This data is used to provide you with, and measure the effectiveness of, online personalised advertising and for other advertising related activities.
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Applibot’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Applibot about users of our Service is among the assets transferred.
- To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- To auditors, lawyers, accountants and other professional advisers;
- From time to time, to other third parties for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
- To enforce or apply our Terms of Service and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, security or safety of Applibot, our customers, or others, or to address technical issues. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some features of our Service may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
- Promotional Offers from Applibot. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by Applibot to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt out by sending us an e-mail stating your request to support_global@applibot.co.jp. If we have sent you a promotional e-mail, you may out by opt out by using the “unsubscribe” link in the e-mail. This opt-out does not apply to information provided to Applibot as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You may opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative on their website.
California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.
V. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our Service is not intended for children under the age of thirteen (13). If you are under thirteen (13) years of age, do not use or provide any information in our Service.
If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under thirteen (13) without verification of prior parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we may possess or have received any information from or about a child under thirteen (13) without such prior parental consent, please immediately contact us at support_global@applibot.co.jp.
In one or more countries outside the United States, the applicable age is fourteen (14) years of age, rather than thirteen (13) years of age.
California residents under sixteen (16) years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Your California Privacy Rights below for more information.
VI. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, theft, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have issued you (or you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Service, you are responsible for keeping your password confidential. Please do not share your password with anyone.
We do not and will not, at any time, request your credit card information, your login information or other identification in a non-secure or unsolicited communication (such as e-mail).
Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to or on our Service. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. You assume this risk by using our Service. We are not responsible for circumvention of any of our privacy settings or security measures, and/or any damages resulting from such circumvention.
VII. HOW YOU MAY CHANGE, REMOVE, OR EXPORT YOUR INFORMATION
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your personal information by sending us an e-mail at support_global@applibot.co.jp to request access to, object to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us.
We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement, cause an issue with information related to trust, safety, or fraud, or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you delete your user content, copies of your user content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other users. Proper access to and use of information, including without limitation user content, are governed by our Terms of Service
You may e-mail us at support_global@applibot.co.jp to request that we delete your personal information from our database. For such requests, please write “delete my personal information” in the subject line, and include your e-mail address in the body of the message. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to honor your request. We may retain an archived copy of your records as required by law or for legitimate business purposes and administrative purposes.
Please note that we will store communications you may send through our Service, as well as any comments you may post, and they may not be subject to modification or deletion.
Please note, similar rights will apply in the UK, EEA and Switzerland. Please see Section X – Privacy for Users from the UK, EEA and Switzerland for further information.
VIII. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND OUR SERVICE
Our Service may contain links to other websites and online services, including third-party advertisements. If you choose to click through to one of these other websites or online services, please note that any information you may provide will be subject to the privacy policy and other terms and conditions of that website or services, and not to this Privacy Policy. We do not control third-party websites or services, and fact that a link to such a website or services appears in our Service does not mean that we endorse its or its provider, or have approved the provider’s policies or practices related to user information.
Before providing any information to any third-party website or service, please review the privacy policy and other terms and conditions of that website or service. You agree that Applibot will have no liability for any matters relating to a third-party website or service that you provide information to, including their collection and/or handling of that information.
IX. NON-U.S. USERS
When we refer to the term “GDPR” in this Privacy Policy we mean the European Union General Data Protection Regulation. Information that you provide may be transferred or accessed by entities around the world as described in this Privacy Policy. If you are located outside the United States, you understand that we may transfer personal information to and process it in the United States. If you are located in the UK, EEA or Switzerland please note that your personal information may be transferred outside of the UK, EEA or Switzerland. Your consent to this Privacy Policy together with your submission of personal information constitute your agreement to these transfers. Please see Section X – Privacy for Users from the UK, EEA and Switzerland for further information.
X. PRIVACY FOR USERS FROM THE UK, EEA AND SWITZERLAND
By continuing to use our Service you acknowledge that your data will be processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
A. Data Controller
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, Applibot, Inc. is the Data Controller of your personal information.
B. International Transfers of Personal Data
Non-UK/EEA countries may not provide the same degree of protection for your personal data, may not give you the same rights in relation to your personal data and may not have a data protection supervisory authority to help you if you have any concerns about the processing of your personal data. However, when transferring your personal data (that originates from the UK, EEA or Switzerland) outside the UK, EEA or Switzerland, we will comply with our legal and regulatory obligations in relation to your personal data, including having a lawful basis for transferring personal data and putting appropriate safeguards in place to ensure an adequate level of protection for the personal data. We will take reasonable steps to ensure the security of your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
When transferring your personal data outside the UK, EEA or Switzerland, we will, where required by applicable law, implement at least one of the safeguards set out below. Please contact us if you would like further information on the specific mechanisms used by us when transferring your personal data outside the UK, EEA or Switzerland.
- Adequacy decisions: We may transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission and/or the UK/Swiss Government (as applicable).
- Model clauses: Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission and/or the UK/Swiss Government which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe, Switzerland and/or the UK.
C. Rights of EEA Residents
If you are accessing or using our Service from within the UK, EEA or Switzerland you may have the following rights under the GDPR (as well as other rights). If you wish to exercise any of these rights, you may do so by contacting us as provided in Section XVIII – Contacting Applibot.
- Right of Access: You have the right to obtain confirmation from us as to whether or not we process personal information from you and you also have the right to at any time obtain access to your personal information stored by us.
- Right to Correction of your Personal Information: If we process your personal information, we use reasonable measures to ensure that your personal information is accurate and up-to-date for the purposes for which your personal information was collected. If your personal information is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to require us to correct it.
- Right to Deletion of your Personal Information or Right to Restriction of Processing: You may have the right to require us to delete your personal information or to restrict of processing of your personal information.
- Right to Withdraw your Consent: If you have given your consent to the processing of your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on the consent before the withdrawal.
- Right to Data Portability: You may have the right to receive the personal information concerning you and which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to transmit this data to another controller.
- Right to Object: You may have the right to object to the processing of your personal information as further specified in this Privacy Policy.
- Right Not to be Subject to Automated Decisionmaking and Profiling: You have the right not to be subject to a decision when it is based on automatic processing, including profiling, if it produces a legal effect or similarly significantly affects you, unless such profiling is necessary for the entering into, or the performance of, a contract between you and us.
- Right to Lodge a Complaint with Supervisory Authority: You have the right to lodge a complaint with your relevant data protection supervisory authority located in the European Union. If you are located in the EEA, further information about how to contact your local data protection authority is available at the website of the European Commission. If you are located in the UK the regulatory authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”). Contact details for the ICO can be found on its website at https://ico.org.uk.
D. If You Fail to Provide Your Personal Data
Where we are required by law to collect your personal data, or we need to collect your personal data under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that personal data when we request it, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you. This may apply where you do not provide the personal data we need in order to provide our Service or to process an application to register an account. In these circumstances, we may have to cancel your application or the provision of the relevant services to you, in which case we will notify you.
XI. YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
A. Shine the Light
If you are a resident of California, USA resident and user of our Service, you have specific rights regarding our handling of your “personal information” as specifically defined in California’s “Shine the Light” law (Cal. Civil Code Section § 1798.83). This law permits users of our Service who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail at the e-mail address provided in Section XVIII – Contacting Applibot or write us at: Applibot, Inc., Abema Towers, 40-1 Udagawacho Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0042.
Within thirty (30) days of receiving such a request, we will provide a list of the categories of personal information disclosed to third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year, along with the names and addresses of these third parties. A request may be made no more than once per calendar year and we are not required to respond to requests made by means other than through the e-mail address and mailing address above.
B. Your Rights Concerning California Personal Information
You have certain rights in connection with the collection of your personal information as a resident of California. You may exercise the following rights regarding your personal information, subject to certain exceptions and limitations:
- The right to know the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect, use, and disclose about you; the categories of sources from which we collected personal information about you; our purposes for collecting or selling personal information about you; the categories of personal data about you that we have either sold or disclosed for a business purpose; and the categories of third parties with which we have shared personal data.
- The right to request deletion of your personal information we have collected and retained about you. We may deny your request for deletion if retaining the information is necessary for us or our affiliates to: a. Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information and provide access the service that you requested; b. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity or prosecute those responsible for such activities; c. Comply with legal obligations; or d. Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
- The right to correct inaccurate personal information. Upon verifying the validity of a verifiable consumer correction request, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct your personal information as directed, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of maintaining your personal information.
- The right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information.
- The right to opt-out of sharing of your personal information.
As the terms are defined under the California Privacy Rights Act (the “CPRA”), we “sold” or “shared” certain data elements within the following categories of personal information: Identity Data, Usage Data, and Technical Data/Networking Activity. If you would like to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, you may click the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in our Service.
To make such a request, please send an e-mail at the e-mail address provided in Section XVIII – Contacting Applibot or write us at: Applibot, Inc., Abema Towers, 40-1 Udagawacho Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0042.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights above.
You may designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf by designating such an agent in writing. We may require the agent to provide us with proof that you have authorized the agent to make requests on your behalf prior to accepting requests from the agent.
We do not sell or share the personal information of minors under 16 years of age without their prior, verifiable consent.
XII. YOUR VIRGINIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
If you are a Virginia resident, you have certain rights under the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (the “VCDPA”). These include the right to (i) confirm whether or not a controller is processing the personal information and to access such personal information; (ii) correct inaccuracies in the personal information, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of the processing of the personal information; (iii) deletion of personal information; (iv) obtain a copy of the personal information that previously provided to us in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another controller without hindrance, where the processing is carried out by automated means; and (v) opt out of the processing of the personal information for purposes of targeted advertising, the sale of personal information, and profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning the consumer.
If you would like to opt out of the sale of your personal information, targeted advertising, and automated profiling, you may click the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in our Service.
If you wish to exercise your rights under the VCDPA, please contact us by e-mail at the e-mail address provided in Section XVIII – Contacting Applibot. If we refuse to take action on the request, you may appeal by sending an e-mail to us at the e-mail address above. You may submit a complaint to the Attorney General at https://www.oag.state.va.us/consumercomplaintform.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights under the VCDPA above.
XIII. YOUR CONNECTICUT PRIVACY RIGHTS
If you are a Connecticut resident, you have certain rights under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (the “CTDPA”). These include the right to (i) know and see what personal information we have collected; (ii) request that we delete the personal information we have collected, subject to applicable legal exceptions; (iii) request that we correct inaccurate personal information; and (iv) opt out of targeted advertising, the sale of personal information as defined under the CTDPA, and profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning the consumer.
If you would like to opt out of the sale of your personal information, targeted advertising, and automated profiling, you may click the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in our Service.
If you wish to exercise your rights under the CTDPA, please contact us by e-mail at the e-mail address provided in Section XVIII – Contacting Applibot. If we refuse to take action on the request, you may appeal by sending an e-mail to us at the e-mail address above.
You may designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf by designating such an agent in writing. We may require the agent to provide us with proof that you have authorized the agent to make requests on your behalf prior to accepting requests from the agent.
XIV. YOUR COLORADO PRIVACY RIGHTS
If you are a Colorado resident, you have certain rights under the Colorado Privacy Act (the “CPA”). These include the right to (i) know and see what personal information we have collected; (ii) request that we delete the personal information we have collected, subject to applicable legal exceptions; (iii) request that we correct inaccurate personal information; and (iv) opt-out of targeted advertising, the sale of your personal information as defined under the CPA, and profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning the consumer.
If you would like to opt out of the sale of your personal information, targeted advertising, and automated profiling, you may click the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in our Service.
If you wish to exercise your rights under the CPA, please contact us by e-mail at the e-mail address provided in Section XVIII – Contacting Applibot. If we refuse to take action on the request, you may appeal by sending an e-mail to us at the e-mail address above.
You may designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf by designating such an agent in writing. We may require the agent to provide us with proof that you have authorized the agent to make requests on your behalf prior to accepting requests from the agent.
XV. YOUR UTAH PRIVACY RIGHTS
If you are a Utah resident, you have certain rights under the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (the “UCPA”). These include the right to (i) know and see what personal information we have collected; (ii) request that we delete the personal information we have collected, subject to applicable legal exceptions; and (iii) opt-out of targeted advertising and the sale of your personal information as defined under the UCPA.
If you would like to opt out of the sale of your personal information and targeted advertising, you may click the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in our Service.
If you wish to exercise your rights under the UCPA, please contact us by e-mail at the e-mail address provided in Section XVIII – Contacting Applibot. If we refuse to take action on the request, you may appeal by sending an e-mail to us at the e-mail address above.
XVI. YOUR OREGON PRIVACY RIGHTS
If you are an Oregon resident, you have certain rights under the Oregon Consumer Privacy Law (the “OCPA”). These include the right to (i) know and see what personal information we have collected; (ii) request that we delete the personal information we have collected, subject to applicable legal exceptions; (iii) request that we correct inaccurate personal information; and (iv) opt-out of targeted advertising, the sale of your personal information as defined under the OCPA, and profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning the consumer.
If you would like to opt out of the sale of your personal information, targeted advertising, and automated profiling, you may click the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in our Service.
If you wish to exercise your rights under the OCPA, please contact us by e-mail at the e-mail address provided in Section XVIII – Contacting Applibot. If we refuse to take action on the request, you may appeal by sending an e-mail to us at the e-mail address above.
You may designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf by designating such an agent in writing. We may require the agent to provide us with proof that you have authorized the agent to make requests on your behalf prior to accepting requests from the agent.
XVII. YOUR TEXAS PRIVACY RIGHTS
If you are a Texas resident, you have certain rights under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (the “TDPSA”). These include the right to (i) know and see what personal information we have collected; (ii) request that we delete the personal information we have collected, subject to applicable legal exceptions; (iii) request that we correct inaccurate personal information; and (iv) opt-out of targeted advertising, the sale of your personal information as defined under the TDPSA, and profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning the consumer.
If you would like to opt out of the sale of your personal information, targeted advertising, and automated profiling, you may click the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in our Service.
If you wish to exercise your rights under the TDPSA, please contact us by e-mail at the e-mail address provided in Section XVIII – Contacting Applibot. If we refuse to take action on the request, you may appeal by sending an e-mail to us at the e-mail address above.
You may designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf by designating such an agent in writing. We may require the agent to provide us with proof that you have authorized the agent to make requests on your behalf prior to accepting requests from the agent.
XVIII. CONTACTING APPLIBOT
If you have any questions, inquires, requests, comments or complaints concerning this Privacy Policy or our information practices, please contact our Privacy Officer, Koki Ukita at support_global@applibot.co.jp or by regular mail at the following address: Privacy Officer, Applibot, Inc., Abema Towers, 40-1 Udagawacho Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0042.