Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 4, 2026
株式会社ファネルAi (formerly 株式会社ロゴラボ; the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our”) establishes this Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) concerning the handling of personal information we obtain.
Unless otherwise specified, terms in this Policy have the meanings given in Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information (Act No. 57 of 2003; “APPI”) and related laws.
This Policy describes the handling of information about users, including personal information and user information, in Funnel Ai (the “Service”).
This Policy also applies to the “Funnel Ai Live” browser extension provided by the Company. The handling of information specific to the Extension is described in “14. Handling of information in the ‘Funnel Ai Live’ browser extension.”
The Service complies with APPI, other applicable laws and guidelines, and the Google API Services User Data Policy.
Use of the Service is also subject to the Terms of Service, guides, help materials, notices and other provisions (the “Supplementary Provisions”), which form part of this Policy.
The “Regional Privacy Supplement” at the end of this Policy supplements this Policy for processing to which the laws specified in each section apply.
1. Collection and purposes of use of personal information
We obtain users’ personal information appropriately and use it within the purposes set out in this section.
1.1 Information collected
Examples of information collected and collection methods are listed below. We collect only the minimum necessary information.
- Account information: names, email addresses and profile images, obtained through Google authentication.
- Authentication and permission information: OAuth tokens, permission scopes and integration status, obtained based on user actions.
- Google user data: obtained within OAuth-approved scopes. Data types, purposes and retention periods are described in Section 7. This includes Gmail messages, threads, labels and drafts; Google Calendar events and booking information; Google Meet meeting metadata and transcripts; and Google Drive Doc files generated by Google Meet.
- Zoom integration data: Zoom account information, OAuth tokens, meeting information, cloud recordings, transcripts and Webhook events. See Section 8.
- Usage and device information: IP addresses, cookies, browser types, device information, referrers, operation histories and error logs, collected automatically.
- Support information: inquiries, log extracts and attachments voluntarily provided by users.
- Information related to browser-extension use: when using the “Funnel Ai Live” browser extension, we handle, based on the user’s actions, microphone and meeting-tab audio, transcripts and translations, meeting URLs and meeting identifiers, credentials, settings and usage information. Details of collection, recipients, storage and deletion are set out in Section 14.
1.2 Purposes of use
The Service uses collected information for the following purposes:
- Service provision: providing, maintaining and improving the Service, identity authentication and saving user settings.
- Email classification and reply drafts: AI classification and creation of drafts when expressly instructed by the user.
- Scheduling and calendar synchronization: creating, updating and canceling calendar events and automatically generating Google Meet links.
- Meeting summaries: automatically generating summaries from Meet transcripts.
- Live transcription and translation: providing transcription and translation of meeting audio started or enabled by the user, authentication, issuing connection tokens, managing usage allowances, checking usage, responding to inquiries, preventing misuse and addressing outages.
- Support: responding to inquiries and outages and sending important notices.
- Analysis and improvement: usage statistics and analysis, including processing into a form that does not identify individuals. The bodies and contents of Google user data are not used for analysis.
- Legal compliance: fulfilling legal obligations and responding to laws or requests from administrative authorities and similar bodies.
- Transactions and communications: communicating with parties necessary to provide the Service and performing work necessary for smooth and appropriate transactions with users.
- Related purposes: purposes incidental to those above.
The Service may integrate with External Services such as Gmail based on user instructions. Their availability and specifications depend on their providers, and the Service does not guarantee their continued provision.
2. Third-party provision and outsourcing
We do not provide personal information to third parties except:
- With the user’s consent;
- As required by law;
- Where necessary to protect life, physical safety or property and obtaining consent is difficult;
- Where particularly necessary to improve public health or promote the sound development of children and obtaining consent is difficult;
- Where cooperation is necessary for a national or local government body, or its entrusted party, to perform legally prescribed duties and obtaining consent may impede those duties; or
- Where our business, including the provision of personal information, is succeeded to through a merger, company split, business transfer or other reason.
We may outsource infrastructure, delivery, analysis, customer support and other activities as necessary to operate the Service. We contractually require appropriate security measures and supervise these providers.
We may transfer data to an external service selected and authorized by the user, based on the user's action or instruction and only to the extent necessary to provide the relevant feature. Such a service is distinct from a provider acting under our outsourcing arrangements. This applies to integrations with user-selected and authorized external services, including but not limited to MCP integrations.
Provision and outsourcing involving Google user data and Zoom data are governed by Sections 7 and 8, respectively.
Recipients and processing by External Services of information collected through the “Funnel Ai Live” browser extension are governed by Section 14.
3. Requests for disclosure and other actions
When an individual or their representative requests disclosure, correction, addition, deletion, cessation of use or cessation of third-party provision of retained personal data, we respond appropriately under APPI. We verify identity using our prescribed procedures.
We may withhold all or part of the information if disclosure could harm the life, physical safety, property or other rights of the user or a third party; materially interfere with our business operations; or violate law. We will promptly notify the requester in such cases.
If personal information disclosed to a user is incorrect, we will promptly correct it upon the user’s request.
If we receive a claim that personal information is handled outside its purposes of use or was obtained improperly, we will promptly investigate as necessary and, based on the results, cease use or erase the information (“Cessation of Use”) and notify the user. If Cessation of Use would entail substantial expense or is otherwise difficult, we will take alternative measures necessary to protect the user’s rights and interests.
Users may also revoke OAuth access through their Google account settings.
4. Changes to this Policy
We will announce changes in advance by posting them on our website or sending email. Minor changes that do not materially disadvantage users, including changes resulting from legal amendments, corrections of errors and clarifications, may be announced afterward.
For material changes, such as additional categories of collected data or fundamental changes in purposes of use, we will obtain users’ consent again.
The amended Policy applies when posted on our website, unless we specify a different effective date.
5. Contact
For inquiries about this Policy or personal information handling, contact:
- Operator: 株式会社ファネルAi (formerly 株式会社ロゴラボ)
- Person responsible for personal information protection: Nozaki Tomohiro (野﨑 智裕)
- Email: info@funnel-ai.jp
6. Security measures
Storage on our servers and storage within the browser extension differ depending on the storage location. Storage on the device used by “Funnel Ai Live” and handling by our API server are described in Section 14.
We implement organizational, personnel, physical and technical security measures to prevent leakage, loss, damage, alteration and unauthorized access.
- Encryption at rest: data in PostgreSQL (Cloud SQL), Firestore and Google Cloud Storage is encrypted using Google Cloud Platform’s default encryption (Google-managed encryption keys, AES-256).
- Encryption in transit: all communications between users and the Service and between the Service and Google APIs use TLS 1.2 or later.
- Access control: staff access to production data is restricted using IAM roles, and all access is recorded in audit logs.
- OAuth tokens: refresh_token and access_token are encrypted at the application level using AES-256-GCM before storage in Firestore, which is also encrypted at rest as described above. Plaintext tokens are not left in logs, code, error output or AI inference prompt logs.
- No content logging: Google user data content, including Gmail bodies, Calendar event details and Meet transcripts, is not written to Cloud Logging, application logs or AI inference prompt logs.
- Backups: we use Google Cloud SQL automatic backups. Backups include the entire database, including Google user data content, and are stored encrypted at rest using Google-managed encryption keys (AES-256). Retention follows GCP’s standard operational settings, and GCP automatically deletes backups after the retention period.
- Cache: Google user data content is not stored in short-term cache layers; it is processed only in memory.
7. Google user data collected
This section governs Google user data obtained through Google account integration. For audio, transcripts and translations, and credentials within the browser extension “Funnel Ai Live,” see Section 14.
7.1 Data types and OAuth scopes
Through Google account integration, the Service collects the following data within scopes approved by the user through OAuth.
Gmail data
- Scopes:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly(Restricted),https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify(Restricted), andhttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.compose(Restricted). - Data: email bodies, subjects, senders and recipients, thread information, metadata such as message_id, thread_id and history_id, labels and drafts.
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Why narrower scopes are not used: gmail.metadata alone cannot retrieve email bodies needed for AI intent and priority classification and reply-context analysis. gmail.labels alone cannot apply labels to messages (messages.modify). gmail.send alone cannot manage the draft lifecycle (create, update and delete). The combination gmail.readonly + gmail.modify + gmail.compose is therefore the minimum permission set for the Service’s email workflow: retrieving incoming email bodies, AI classification, label management, draft creation and sending. The broader full-access scope
https://mail.google.com/is not used.
Google Calendar data
- Scope:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar(Sensitive). - Data: calendar events (titles, descriptions, start and end times and attendees), created event information and calendar metadata.
- Why narrower scopes are not used: calendar.readonly cannot perform events.insert or events.delete required for scheduling. calendar.events cannot access calendar metadata (calendarList.get / colors.get) needed for the interface. calendar.freebusy cannot create or delete events. The calendar scope is therefore currently necessary.
Google Meet meeting metadata
- Scopes:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/meetings.space.readonly(Sensitive) andhttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/meetings.space.settings(Non-sensitive). - Data: meeting transcript metadata and Meet space settings (automatic transcription settings only).
- Why narrower scopes are not used: meetings.space.readonly retrieves transcript metadata; meetings.space.settings is used only to patch autoTranscriptionGeneration. Together these are the minimum permissions for retrieving transcripts and enabling automatic transcription.
- Updates through spaces.patch using meetings.space.settings are limited to the single field
config.artifactConfig.transcriptionConfig.autoTranscriptionGeneration. Recording, participant controls and other Meet settings are not changed.
Google Drive data
- Scope:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.meet.readonly(Restricted; Meet-generated files only). - Data: Doc files in Drive created or edited by Google Meet, such as transcripts and meeting notes.
- Why this scope is used: drive.readonly grants access to all of Drive and would be excessive for a Service that only accesses Meet-generated transcript Docs. We intentionally use drive.meet.readonly as the narrowest option.
- Important: the Service does not access arbitrary Drive files. Access is limited to files created or edited by Google Meet. The Service does not have a Drive picker or other interface for selecting arbitrary files.
Google account information
The Service obtains the Google account email address for identity verification and communication, and the display name and profile image for display within the Service.
7.2 Purposes of use
Collected Google user data is used only for:
- Email classification and organization: AI determination of intent and priority and automatic labeling;
- Reply draft generation: Gmail data is referenced only when expressly initiated by the user; sending requires user action and is not automatic;
- Scheduling and booking management: creating, updating and canceling calendar events and automatically generating Google Meet links;
- Generating meeting summaries from Meet transcripts;
- Integrating with an external service selected and authorized by the user, with transfers based on the user's action or instruction and limited to what is necessary to provide the relevant feature. Use and transfer of Google user data remain subject to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements;
- Account identity verification and authentication state management; and
- Minimum necessary processing state management, including message_id, thread_id, event_id, processing status and timestamps.
7.3 Data flow summary
- Gmail: receive push notification → retrieve message body using gmail.readonly → classify with Gemini API → apply labels using gmail.modify → create draft using gmail.compose. Sending requires user action; no automatic sending.
- Calendar: retrieve events through events.list / events.watch using calendar → create scheduling bookings through events.insert and delete cancellations through events.delete.
- Meet summaries: meeting ends → obtain fileId through conferenceRecords.transcripts.list using meetings.space.readonly → retrieve text through files.export(fileId, "text/plain") using drive.meet.readonly → generate summary with Gemini API.
- Meet automatic transcription: when creating a new meeting, enable automatic transcription through spaces.patch using meetings.space.settings, with updateMask limited to the autoTranscriptionGeneration field.
Prompts and responses sent to Gemini API during inference are not retained in logs. Gmail bodies, Calendar details and Meet transcripts are not retained in error logs, AI inference prompt logs or short-term cache layers. See Section 6.
7.4 Third-party provision and outsourcing
The Service does not use or transfer collected Google user data for advertising, data sales or provision to data brokers for marketing.
However, to provide the Service, we entrust the minimum necessary processing to the following providers. They process data under our instructions and contracts and do not use it for independent purposes.
| Provider | Processing | Data processed |
|---|---|---|
| Google Cloud Platform (GCP) | Servers, databases, storage, authentication, logging and Secret Manager | All data, stored encrypted |
| Google Gemini API | Inference for AI classification, summaries and draft generation | Gmail bodies, Calendar content and Meet transcripts, sent only during inference. Prompt and response contents are not retained in logs after the response is received. |
| SendGrid Inc. | Delivery of operational emails sent by the Service | Recipient email addresses and operational email bodies. Users’ Gmail messages themselves are not sent. |
Separately from these outsourcing arrangements, we may transfer Google user data to an external service selected and authorized by the user, based on the user's action or instruction and only to the extent necessary to provide the relevant feature. Both processing by outsourced providers and transfers to user-selected external services are subject to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
The Gemini API used by the Company for the Google account integration data processing described in this section is used under the Company’s paid-tier contract. Submitted data is used only to generate inference results and is never used to train AI models, in accordance with Google Cloud’s Generative AI Service Terms.
When the browser extension “Funnel Ai Live” uses the user’s own API key, Google’s handling of the data is subject to the terms and pricing plan selected by the user. See Section 14.6 for details.
7.5 Restrictions on human access
Staff are prohibited from reading users’ Google user data, including Gmail bodies, Calendar content and Meet transcripts, except:
- With the user’s specific permission (consent) to resolve support or technical issues;
- Where a security investigation is necessary, such as suspected misuse;
- Where necessary for legal compliance, such as a court order; or
- Where urgently necessary to protect the user’s life, physical safety or property.
All human access is recorded in audit logs and is subject to internal audit.
7.6 Tenant isolation
The Service uses a multitenant design and enforces tenant_id constraints on all database queries and API calls to prevent data leakage between tenants. The technical implementation of tenant isolation has been independently verified in a CASA Tier 2 audit report.
7.7 Google API Services User Data Policy compliance (Limited Use)
The Service complies with the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use Policy, when handling information received from Google APIs.
“Funnel Ai's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.”
Specifically, the Service complies with these four Limited Use conditions:
- Limited purposes: Google user data is used only to provide features expressly approved by users, such as email classification, draft generation, calendar synchronization and meeting summaries.
- No advertising use: Google user data is not used for advertising, including targeting, profiling or advertising effectiveness measurement.
- Restricted human access: staff do not read Google user data except in the limited circumstances in Section 7.5.
- Restricted transfers: Google user data is transferred only for essential processing by the outsourced providers described in Section 7.4 or to an external service selected and authorized by the user, based on the user's action or instruction and only to the extent necessary to provide the relevant feature. Both cases remain subject to the purposes and conditions permitted by the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. It is not transferred to other third parties.
8. Zoom integration data
Audio capture, transcription and translation for Zoom Web by the browser extension “Funnel Ai Live” are governed by Section 14.
With authorization from users or their organization’s administrator, the Service may obtain Zoom account information, OAuth tokens, meeting information, cloud recordings, transcripts and Webhook events through Zoom integration.
We use this information to create and manage Zoom meetings, coordinate schedules, maintain meeting records, retrieve and display cloud recordings and transcripts and associate them within the customer’s tenant, and maintain integrations, address failures and prevent misuse.
Zoom OAuth access and refresh tokens are stored encrypted using AES-256-GCM. External communications use HTTPS. Webhooks received from Zoom are verified using the Secret Token, x-zm-signature and x-zm-request-timestamp. Zoom data is stored and processed separately for each customer tenant.
When Zoom is disconnected, we invalidate and delete stored OAuth access and refresh tokens and stop acquiring new data from Zoom APIs. Business records already imported are retained until the customer tenant is deleted or the customer requests deletion. We may retain information as necessary for legal compliance, dispute resolution or audits.
We do not sell Zoom data or use it for advertising delivery. We do not provide it to third parties except with user consent, as required by law, or when entrusting minimum necessary processing to providers needed to deliver the Service.
9. Retention and deletion
Even after account deletion, we may retain information for a certain period to the extent necessary for legal compliance, dispute resolution, audits or similar needs.
Retention and deletion conditions for Google user data acquired through the Service are set out below. When OAuth access is revoked or a tenant’s contract is terminated, we stop new data acquisition and, as a rule, delete stored data within 30 days.
| Condition | Action or deadline |
|---|---|
| User deletion request / account deletion request | Within 14 days |
| OAuth disconnection | Immediately stop new data acquisition and delete stored data within 30 days |
| Tenant contract termination | Within 30 days |
| Audit logs (metadata only, no content) | Retained for up to 7 years for legal compliance and security investigations |
Send deletion requests to the contact in Section 5. Content included in Cloud SQL automatic backups is automatically removed by GCP after the backup retention period.
Retention and deletion of Zoom integration data are governed by Section 8.
The storage locations, retention periods and deletion methods for audio, transcripts and translations, credentials and usage information handled by the browser extension “Funnel Ai Live” are set out in Section 14. The deadline in Section 14.3 applies to usage aggregation, meeting identifiers and troubleshooting logs for the extension. Information copied or exported as files by the user is managed and deleted by the user.
10. International transfers
Data may be transferred outside Japan through cloud services and similar arrangements. We take necessary protective measures under the laws applicable in the destination jurisdiction.
11. Minors
Minors should obtain a parent or guardian’s consent before using the Service. If we learn that a user is a minor, the Service may take necessary measures.
12. Cookies
Our website uses cookies. You may reject cookies through your browser settings.
13. Access history
Our website records access history to improve services. This may include IP addresses, cookies, browser types, device information and referrers. We use this information for usage statistics, analysis and service improvement, not to directly identify users.
14. Handling of information in the “Funnel Ai Live” browser extension
株式会社ファネルAi (the “Company”) handles the following information to provide transcription and translation of meeting audio through the “Funnel Ai Live” browser extension (the “Extension”). “Our API server” in this section means the Funnel Ai API server operated by the Company. The applicable provisions of this Policy concerning our general security measures and requests for disclosure, correction, deletion and other actions, as well as the contact point, also apply.
14.1 Audio and shared screens
When the user starts capture, the Extension obtains audio from the selected microphone or meeting tab. Microphone capture is independent of the mute setting in the meeting service. For transcription, audio is sent directly from the user’s browser to Google’s Gemini API. Our API server does not receive or store the audio.
In the previously distributed version (v0.3.0), the user selects a meeting tab and tab audio in the browser’s sharing dialog. Video of the screen is not used for transcription or translation and is not sent externally or stored. Audio capture stops when the panel is closed. In both the “check audio only” and transcription modes, up to the first 30 seconds of audio for checking is held only in the panel’s memory and discarded when the next capture starts or the panel is closed.
In v0.3.1, audio is captured from the meeting tab targeted by the start action. Video and screenshots are not captured, and no sharing dialog is shown. Audio capture continues if the panel is closed or the user moves to another tab. Capture stops when the user presses the stop button, the input track ends, the user leaves the meeting, the target meeting tab navigates to another URL, reloads or closes, or the browser closes, among other events.
In v0.3.1, translation is off by default. The user can explicitly turn it on in the settings, and a change during capture takes effect from the next finalized segment. The recognition language remains the setting selected when capture began.
In “check audio only,” v0.3.1 captures up to the first 30 seconds for diagnostics and does not send it externally. The WAV used for checking is stored in the browser’s temporary session area for each meeting tab and can be played or saved after diagnosis. This temporary data is not deleted merely by closing the panel; it is deleted when the next capture starts in the same meeting tab, the target tab closes, the browser closes, or the Extension session is reset. The user may save the WAV file through their own action and manages and deletes the exported file. In v0.3.1’s transcription mode, audio is not stored in the session as a diagnostic WAV.
14.2 Transcription and translation
Transcription originals and translations are held in browser session storage separately for each meeting tab. They are deleted when the relevant meeting tab closes, when the browser closes, or when the Extension is reloaded, disabled or updated. The user may copy the text and save it as a TXT file. “Clear text” starts a TXT download and clears the text shown on screen, but the immediately preceding text is retained in the same session storage for restoration. This action alone does not completely delete the text. The text remains when the panel is closed. Exported files and clipboard contents are managed by the user.
When translation is enabled and the user uses a Funnel Ai account, the text to be translated, language settings and segment number are sent to our API server. The text and language settings are sent to Google’s Gemini API for translation, while the segment number is used on our side to associate processing. We do not store the received original or translated text bodies in a database as a transcription or translation history. When the user uses their own Gemini API key, audio and text to be translated are sent directly to Google and do not pass through our API server.
14.3 Account and usage
When a Funnel Ai account is used, we handle authentication information, the user’s email address, the user’s tenant, the type of meeting service and requests to issue connection tokens. For managing usage allowances, checking usage, responding to inquiries and preventing misuse, our API server records usage information such as reserved minutes per user and month, the number of tokens issued, the number of translation calls per day and processing times.
Reserved minutes are the prescribed number of minutes for each token issuance. They do not record actual speaking time or the measured duration of a meeting. We do not send meeting titles or participant lists.
Retention periods for usage information and similar information handled by our API server are as follows.
| Information | Retention period and deletion method |
|---|---|
| User-linked usage aggregation history | Retained while the account exists and deleted within 30 days after account deletion. |
| Meeting identifiers | As a rule, not stored on our API server. If needed for troubleshooting, the information subject to investigation is stored and deleted within 7 days after collection. |
| Troubleshooting logs for the Extension | Investigation information such as processing results and processing times is recorded and deleted within 30 days after recording. Audio, transcription and translation text, API keys and authentication tokens are not recorded. If a meeting identifier must be stored, the seven-day deadline in the preceding row applies. |
These retention periods apply to information stored by the Company for the Extension. Storage of audio, transcripts and credentials in the browser is governed by Sections 14.1, 14.2 and 14.5, and handling of information by Google is governed by Section 14.6. Requests for disclosure, deletion and similar actions concerning personal information are accepted under the applicable provisions of this Policy and through the contact point.
14.4 Access to meeting pages
The Extension checks the target service URL and is enabled only in the corresponding meeting tab. To stop audio capture after the user leaves, it checks on the device the label and displayed state of the page’s leave button and page text indicating that the user has left. It does not collect or send meeting captions, chat or participant lists as sources for transcription. It does not rewrite meeting pages, operate caption functions or post to chats.
14.5 Storage of credentials and settings
API keys and access tokens are kept in the Extension’s trusted area, are not passed to meeting pages or content scripts, and are not recorded in logs. By default, an API key is held only in the browser session. If the user selects “Save key on this PC,” it is stored on the device and can be deleted using “Delete saved key.” For authentication, the API key is sent to Google and the Funnel Ai access token is sent to our API.
When logging in to Funnel Ai, an access token and a token for refreshing the login are held in the session by default. Only when the user selects “Save login state on this PC” before logging in are the refresh token and the login destination and user information, such as an email address, stored on the device. Login states stored by an earlier version are retained, and both are deleted when the user logs out. A short-lived token issued for connecting to Google is not stored in browser storage and is used for one connection. Settings such as input method and language are stored on the device.
14.6 External services and purposes of use
Necessary audio and text are processed by Google’s Gemini API for speech recognition and translation. Communications use HTTPS or WSS. We do not use information handled by the Extension for advertising delivery, behavioral tracking or sale, and do not use it to train our models.
Google’s processing, retention and data-use conditions are governed by the Gemini API Terms of Service. In particular, when the user uses their own API key, the terms and pricing plan selected by the user apply. The Extension does not guarantee that any processor, including Google, retains no data at all or that data is not used for model improvement under every plan.
14.7 Contact
株式会社ファネルAi
Email: t.nozaki@funnel-ai.jp
Address: Tokyo Tatemono Yaesu Sakura-dori Building 1F, 1-5-20 Yaesu, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Regional Privacy Supplement
1. Scope and the Company’s role
This Supplement applies to processing to which the laws specified in each section apply. If it conflicts with another provision of this Policy, this Supplement prevails for the processing concerned. It does not relax any existing restrictions on or deletion deadlines for Google user data.
Where the Company determines the purposes and means of processing for account and contract administration, responding to inquiries to the Company, preventing misuse or similar matters, the Company acts as the controller for that processing. Where the Company processes CRM information, email, schedules, meeting records or similar information entrusted by a Customer in accordance with the Customer’s instructions, it handles that information under its data processing terms with the Customer. If the Company receives a data-subject request concerning the latter processing, it will, as necessary, coordinate with the Customer and assist with the response.
2. United Kingdom
Where the UK GDPR applies to processing carried out by the Company as a controller, the following applies. The types of information collected and collection methods are described in Section 1, recipients and categories of recipients in Section 2 and the descriptions of each feature, and security measures in Section 6.
(1) Purposes and legal bases
The Company handles personal data as necessary on the following legal bases for each processing activity. Where consent is required, use of the Service or viewing this Policy alone is not treated as consent.
| Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|---|
| Service provision and contract management based on a contract to which the individual, such as a sole proprietor, is a party | Processing necessary for performance of a contract or for steps at the individual’s request before entering into a contract (Article 6(1)(b)). |
| Registration management, business communications and inquiry handling for corporate contacts and Users | The legitimate interests of the Company or the Customer in providing the Service, communicating with customers and resolving issues (Article 6(1)(f)); the Company balances those interests against the individual’s rights and interests. |
| Preventing misuse, securing systems and addressing outages | The legitimate interests of protecting the Service and its users (Article 6(1)(f)); the Company considers necessity and impact on individuals. |
| Optional marketing or processing using cookies or similar technologies where the necessary consent is obtained | The individual’s consent (Article 6(1)(a)). |
| Compliance with a legal obligation meeting the requirements of Article 6(1)(c) | Processing necessary to comply with that legal obligation. |
If the information necessary for authentication, account management or similar functions is not provided, the relevant function may not be available. Consent to optional marketing is not a condition of using the Service.
(2) Retention periods
For information whose retention period is specified in a feature description, that period applies. For other information, such as account and inquiry information, the Company determines the retention period based on whether the relationship continues, the status of resolving an inquiry or outage, the need to address a specific dispute or legal claim, and applicable statutory retention periods, and deletes or anonymizes information when it is no longer necessary to retain it.
(3) International transfers
The Company is located in Japan. Transfers from the United Kingdom to the Company rely on the United Kingdom’s adequacy decision for Japan where that decision covers the transfer. For other restricted transfers, the Company uses safeguards meeting applicable requirements, such as standard contractual clauses recognized in the United Kingdom. You may contact the point of contact in Section 5 to ask about the applicable transfer mechanism and how to obtain a copy.
(4) Individual rights and complaints
Subject to the conditions in law, individuals may request access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection to processing. For processing based on consent, consent may be withdrawn at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal. If an individual objects to direct marketing, the Company will stop processing for that purpose. Requests are accepted through the point of contact in Section 5 and handled within the period required by law.
Complaints about the Company’s handling of personal data are also accepted through the point of contact in Section 5. For complaints to which Section 164A of the Data Protection Act 2018 applies, the Company will acknowledge receipt within 30 days, conduct the necessary investigation and response without undue delay, and provide updates and the result. Individuals may also complain to the data protection supervisory authority in the United Kingdom.
3. Singapore
Where Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA) applies to personal data for which the Company determines the purposes of collection, use and disclosure, the following applies. Information collected, purposes and provision and outsourcing are described in Sections 1 and 2 and the descriptions of each feature.
An individual may withdraw consent, including deemed consent, to collection, use or disclosure based on consent by giving reasonable prior notice. The Company will explain the expected effects of withdrawal and, unless law requires or permits processing without consent, stop the processing concerned and require its contractors to take the necessary steps to stop it.
Subject to legal conditions and exceptions, an individual may request access to personal data held or controlled by the Company, information about use and disclosure during the year preceding the request, and correction. The Company will stop retaining personal data when the purpose of collection is no longer served by retention and there is no legal or business need to retain it, or will anonymize it so that it can no longer be associated with the individual.
For transfers outside Singapore, the Company ensures a level of protection comparable to the PDPA through contractual obligations or another method permitted by law. Requests, withdrawal of consent and complaints are accepted through the personal information protection contact and point of contact in Section 5.