Cookie Policy
Site-access Data and Device-specific IDs Obtained via Cookies and Web Beacons
The company’s services uses cookies, which are small data files sent from the server to the user’s hard disk or memory when users visit a website. It also uses web beacons, a technology able to recognize the user’s device-specific ID enabling the Company to understand the access status from the user’s computer.
Site-access information such as cookies and device-specific IDs used by the Company do not contain any data able to dentify separate individuals.
The company uses access information such as cookies and device-specific IDs primarily for the following purposes.
- Customization of Website content and Page Information
To make the Company’s website more convenient to use by providing article recommendations and simplified access, cookies are used to receive customized information from each user. - Streamlining of User Ad Distribution
When the Company or third-party company distribute advertisements, cookies and other access information are used to efficiently distribute advertisements, such as for behavioral targeting.
When visiting a page that displays advertisements distributed by a third-party company, the third-party company also obtains cookie data. Cookie data collected there will not be provided or disclosed to the Company, but will be managed in accordance with the privacy policy stipulated by the third-party company. To learn more about their use of cookies, the information they collect, and their opt-out procedures, please visit their respective websites below.
Google Inc.
Website Traffic Study Including User Numbers
For purposes such as service improvements, the Company uses cookies to statistically grasp and accumulate the number of users using the site, accessing trends and browsing history.
Therefore, please refer to the websites of the following third parties for information on their privacy policies and how to opt-out of their data collection.
Google Analytics (Google Inc.)
Google Analytics Terms of Service
Google Analytics Opt Out Ad On
Ad Distribution by Third-Party Distributors
Advertisements are placed on various sites on the Internet by third-party distributors including Google, LINE and Facebook. Third-party distributors, including Google, LINE, and Facebook, use cookies and other identifying information to deliver ads based on past access information to the Company’s website. In addition, the personal data held by the Company and the personal data held by the third-party service providers may be matched by the third-party service providers after irreversibly converting the personal data into data that doesn’t identify the individual and delivering advertisements based on the results of such matching. The third-party service provider will not use such data for any purpose other than ad delivery.
Terms of Services Related to Ad Displays by Google
Google ads are displayed based on the usage of the Company’s website. Google Analytics is also used to monitor the use of the website and to collect data on the ad services provided by Google Analytics (such as Google Analytics Remarketing, Google Display Network display count reports, Google Analytics user distribution and interest category reports, Google Analytic’s integrated services to collect data using ad cookies and anonymous identifiers, etc.). For this reason, in addition to standard Google Analytics data, traffic data using Google ad cookies and anonymous IDs is collected. For more information, please refer to the Google Analytics Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Google’s Use of Collected Data from Sites and Apps that Use Google’s Services.
For more information on ad serving through customer match, please refer to “About Customer Match”.
For Google Analytics and Customer Match ad distribution, Google’s cookie usage and ad serving can be disabled by visiting the following Google ad opt-out page: https://www.google.com/settings/ads
Google Inc.
Google Analytics Terms of Service
Google Analytics Privacy Policy
Google’s use of collected data from sites and applications that use Google services
Regarding ad distributions using Facebook Custom Audience
The Company uses Facebook Custom Audiences to display ads based on the usage of the Company’s services. Please check “About Custom Audiences” for more information. You may disable Facebook’s use of Facebook Custom Audiences in their ad distribution by visiting Facebook’s opt-out page from the following link: https://www.facebook.com/about/ads
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Website traffic study using Microsoft Clarity
The Company uses Microsoft Clarity to understand how customers use our website and to improve our products and advertising. By using the Company’s site, you consent to the Company’s and Microsoft’s collection and use of this data. You can read more in the following Privacy Statement: https://privacy.microsoft.com/ja-jp/privacystatement
The Company partners with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to understand how customers use and interact with the Company’s website through behavioral indicators, heat maps and session replays to help improve and market its products and services. Web site usage data is obtained using first and third party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses data, please check Microsoft’s Privacy Statement.
Microsoft Corporation
Revision of the Guidelines
The Company reserves the right to change these guidelines at its discretion. In the event of modification of the Guidelines, the Company shall notify users by publishing the modified contents on the Company’s service. Users will be deemed to have agreed to the the modified Guidelines when they use the Company’s service after being notified of the modification.