“Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. The Services collect Personal Information, including:

• Contact information (addresses, names, telephone numbers, email addresses, fax numbers, etc.)
• The Services' account information (user IDs, passwords, etc.)
• History of use of the Services (viewing, purchase, search, browsing, enquiry history, etc.)
• Information concerning personnel hiring (gender, date of birth, work history, academic history, qualifications, etc.)
• Employee information (organizational information, insurance numbers, health-related information, images, etc.)
• Shareholder information (shareholder numbers, amount of shares owned, etc.)
• Information about business transactions (business partners' organizational information, bank account numbers, etc.)

We and our service providers collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including:

• Through the Services.

We collect Personal Information through the Services, for example, when you sign up for a newsletter, participate in surveys, participate in the Company's personnel recruitment or other projects involving application submission, attend one of our events, inquiries about use of copyrights, contact customer service, or make a purchase.

• From Other Sources.

We receive your Personal Information from other sources, for example, from publicly available databases and our joint marketing partners, when they share the information with us.
If you connect your social media account to your Services account, you will share certain Personal Information from your social media account with us, for example, your name, email address, photo, list of social media contacts, and any other information that may be or you make accessible to us when you connect your social media account to your Services account. We refer to this as “Social Sharing.”

We need to collect Personal Information in order to provide the requested Services to you. If you do not provide the information requested, we may not be able to provide the Services. If you disclose any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We and the providers of the Services process Personal Information for the following purposes:

• Providing the functionality of the Services and fulfilling your requests.
  • To provide the Services’ functionality to you, such as arranging access to your registered account, and providing you with related customer service.
  • To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, when you contact us via one of our email address, online contact forms or otherwise, for example, when you send us questions, suggestions, or complaints, or when you request a quote for or other information about our Services.
  • To complete your transactions, verify your information, and provide you with related service.
  • To send administrative information to you, such as changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
  • To allow you to send messages to another person through the Services if you choose to do so.

  We will engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you and to comply with a legal obligation.

• Providing you with our newsletter and/or other marketing materials and facilitating Social Sharing,
  • To send you marketing related emails, with information about our services, new products and other news about our company.
  • To facilitate Social Sharing functionality that you choose to use.

  We will engage in this activity with your consent or where we have a legitimate interest.

• Analyzing Personal Information for business reporting and providing personalized services.
  • To analyze or predict our users’ preferences in order to prepare aggregated trend reports on how our digital content is used, so we can improve our Services.
  • To better understand your interests and preferences, so that we can personalize our interactions with you and provide you with information and/or offers tailored to your interests.
  • To better understand your preferences so that we can deliver content via our Services that we believe will be relevant and interesting to you.

  We will provide personalized services based on our legitimate interests, and with your consent to the extent required by applicable law.

• Allowing you to participate in sweepstakes, contests or other projects involving application submission, including personnel recruitment.
  • We may offer you the opportunity to participate in a sweepstakes, contest planned by us or other projects involving application submission, including personnel recruitment.
  • Some of these projects have additional rules containing information about how we will use and disclose your Personal Information. Please confirm those additional rules before choosing to participate.

  We use this information to manage our contractual relationship with you.

• Aggregating and anonymizing Personal Information.
  • We may aggregate and/or anonymize (process Personal Information so that it is not possible to identify an individual) Personal Information so that it will no longer necessary to handle that data as personal information. We do so to generate other data for our use, which we may use and disclose for any purpose, as it no longer identifies you or any other individual.
  • We may create anonymously processed information in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations. The items included in anonymously processed information include age, gender, area of residence, and questionnaire responses.
  • We will stipulate how to handle the anonymized processed information in our internal rules and ensure the proper handling of anonymized processed information.
• Accomplishing our business purposes.(or more specifically, the objectives listed below)

  Specifically:

  • For data analysis, for example, to improve the efficiency of our Services;
  • For audits, to verify that our internal processes function as intended and to address legal, regulatory, or contractual requirements
  • For fraud and security monitoring purposes, for example, to detect and prevent cyberattacks or attempts to commit identity theft;
  • For developing new services;
  • For enhancing, improving, repairing, maintaining, or modifying our current services, as well as undertaking quality and safety assurance measures;
  • For identifying usage trends, for example, understanding which parts of our Services are of most interest to users;
  • For determining the effectiveness of our Services, so that we can adapt our Services to the needs and interests of our users; and
  • For operating and expanding our business activities, for example, understanding which parts of our Services are of most interest to our users so we can focus our energies on meeting our users’ interests.

  We engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you, to comply with a legal obligation, and/or based on our legitimate interest.

1. Recipients of Disclosed Personal Information

   We may disclose Personal Information:

   • To our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
     • You can consult the list and location of our affiliates here:＜https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/en/about/grouplink.html＞
   • To our third-party service providers, to facilitate services they provide to us.
     • These can include providers of services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing, and other services.
   • To third party sponsors of contests, and other similar projects involving application submission.
   • By using the Services, you may elect to disclose Personal Information.
     • On message boards, chat, profile pages, blogs, and other services to which you are able to post information and content (including, without limitation, our Social Media Pages). Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public and may be available to other users and the general public.
     • Through your Social Sharing activity. When you connect your Services account to your social media account, you will share information with your friends associated with your social media account, with other users, and with your social media account provider. By doing so, you authorize us to facilitate this sharing of information, and you understand that the use of shared information will be governed by the social media provider’s privacy policy.

2. Purposes of Use and Disclosure to Other than Those Listed Above

   We also use and disclose your Personal Information as necessary or appropriate, in particular when we have a legal obligation or legitimate interest to do so:

   • To comply with applicable law and regulations.
     • This may include laws outside your country of residence.
   • To cooperate with public and government authorities.
     • To respond to a request or to provide information we believe is necessary or appropriate. These can include authorities outside your country of residence.
   • To cooperate with law enforcement.
     • For example, when we respond to law enforcement requests and orders or provide information we believe is important.
   • For other legal reasons.
     • To enforce our terms and conditions and to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others.
   • In connection with a sale or business transaction.
     • We have a legitimate interest in disclosing or transferring your Personal Information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or cannot identify an individual. The Services collect Other Information such as:

• Browser and device information
• App usage data
• Information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies
• Demographic information and other information that does not reveal your specific identity
• Information that has been aggregated in a manner such that it no longer reveals your specific identity

1. Collection of Other Information

   We and our service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:

   • Your browser or device.
     • Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Mac), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version and the name and version of the Services (such as the App) you are using. We use this information to ensure that the Services function properly.
   • Your use of the App.
     • When you download and use the App, we and our service providers may track and collect App usage data, such as the date and time the App on your device accesses our servers and what information and files have been downloaded to the App based on your device number.
   • Cookies
     • Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using. Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Services, pages visited, language preferences, and other traffic data. We and our service providers use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience. We also gather statistical information about use of the Services in order to continually improve their design and functionality, understand how they are used, and assist us with resolving questions regarding them. Cookies further allow us to select which of our advertisements or offers are most likely to appeal to you and display them while you are on the Services. We may also use cookies or other technologies in online advertising to track responses to our ads.To the extent legally required, by means of cookie banners and cookie settings screens displayed on individual websites, you may choose to accept or decline the use of cookies not strictly required for the functioning of websites by the sites in question or third parties (analytics partner (Google Analytics)). However, if users do not accept cookies, this may cause some manner of inconvenience during the use of the Services.
   • Pixel tags and other similar technologies.

     • Pixel tags.

       Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing campaigns, and compile statistics about usage of the Services and response rates.

     • Analytics.

       We use Google Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Services and report on activities and trends. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and exercise the opt-out provided by Google by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

     • Physical Location.

       We may collect the physical location of your device by, for example, using satellite, cell phone tower or WiFi signals. Our Apps may collect device location data when they are running in the foreground or the background. We may use your device’s physical location to provide you with personalized location-based services and content. We may also share your device’s physical location, combined with information about what advertisements you viewed and other information we collect, with our marketing partners to enable them to provide you with more personalized content and to study the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. In some instances, you may be permitted to allow or deny such uses and/or sharing of your device’s location, but if you do, we and/or our marketing partners may not be able to provide you with the applicable personalized services and content.

2. Use and Disclosure of Other Information

   We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, we may use and disclose it for the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information as detailed in this Policy. In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information. If we do, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information as long as it is combined.

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “16. Contact for Inquiries Concerning Personal Information” section below.

We provide you with options pertaining to the use and disclosure of users' Personal Information for marketing purposes. You may take appropriate action as described below to prevent us from carrying out ("opt out") the following processing:

1. Receipt of marketing-related emails from us.
   If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt out by using the unsubscribe mechanism provided in each of our marketing emails.

We will try to comply with your requests as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt out of receiving marketing related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, from which you cannot opt out.

If you would like to request to access, correct, update, suppress, restrict, or delete Personal Information, object to or opt out of the processing of Personal Information, or if you would like to request to receive a copy of your Personal Information for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent these rights are provided to you by applicable law), you may contact us in accordance with the “16. Contact for Inquiries Concerning Personal Information” section below. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.

In your request, please specify what Personal Information you would like to have changed or whether you would like to have your Personal Information suppressed from our database. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.

For requests for disclosure of personal information and notification of the purpose of use by the Company, a fee of one thousand (1,000) yen (including tax) will be charged per request.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting a change or deletion (e.g., when you make a purchase or enter a promotion, you may not be able to change or delete the Personal Information provided until after the completion of such purchase or promotion).

We retain Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purposes for which it was obtained and consistent with applicable law.

The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:

• The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Services to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using the Services);
• Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or
• Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service to which the Services link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.

In addition, we are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure, or security policies or practices of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider, or device manufacturer, including with respect to any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with the Apps or our Social Media Pages.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements regarding goods and services that may be of interest to you when you access and use the Services and other websites or online services.
You may receive advertisements based on information relating to your access to and use of the Services and other websites or online services on any of your devices, as well as on information received from third parties. These companies place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser (including through the use of pixel tags). They also use these technologies, along with information they collect about your online use, to recognize you across the devices you use, such as a mobile phone and a laptop. If you would like more information about this practice, and to learn how to opt out of it in desktop and mobile browsers on the particular device on which you are accessing this Privacy Policy, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/. You may download the AppChoices app at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in mobile apps.

Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using the Services you understand that your information will be transferred to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your Personal Information.

Unless we request it, we ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (e.g., social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background, or trade union membership) on or through the Services or otherwise to us.

We may use third party payment services to process payments made through the Services. If you make a payment through such a payment service, your Personal Information will be obtained by such a third party, not by us, and will be subject to the third party's privacy policy, not this privacy policy. We do not control and are not responsible for the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information by such third parties.

The “Last Updated” at the bottom of this Privacy Policy indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services.

Bandai Namco Pictures Inc. (Representative: Satou Hiroyuki, President; address: Fujisawa Bldg., 4-30-16, Ogikubo, Suginami-ku, Tokyo) is the company responsible for collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.

If you have any question about the Privacy Policy or a complaint concerning the handling of personal information, please contact us

Fujisawa Bldg., 4-30-16, Ogikubo, Suginami-ku, Tokyo

This section supplements our Privacy Policy and explains how we process and protect Personal Information of residents in the EEA and the UK. If there is any conflict between this section and section 2 to 16, this section prevails for residents in the EEA and the UK.

1. Responsible Controller

   Bandai Namco Pictures Inc., a company registered in Tokyo, Japan, is the data controller and responsible for protecting your rights regarding Personal Information.

2. Lawful Basis for Processing Your Personal Information

   We process your Personal Information for the purposes described in section 3 on this Privacy Policy above and the following lawful bases:

   Purposes	Lawful Basis
   (1)To provide the functionality of the Services and respond to your request	Legitimate interest of you and us
   (2)To provide our newsletters and other marketing materials to you and facilitate Social Sharing	Your consent
   (3)To analyze Personal Information for business reporting and personalized advertising Your consent	Your consent
   (4)To permit you to participate in prize competitions, contests, and other sales promotion activities	Legitimate interest of you and us
   (5)To aggregate Personal Information for our use	Our legitimate interest
   (6)To achieve our business purposes	Our legitimate interest
   (7)To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights	Our legitimate interest
   (8)To discharge our legal obligations	Our legitimate interest

3. Cross-Border Transfer of Personal Information

   Where our disclosure of your Personal Information as described in section 4 of this Privacy Policy above constitutes cross-border transfer of Personal Information to a country without a decision by a relevant authority that the county ensures an adequate level of Personal Information protection, we take appropriate data protection measures as required by such applicable data protection laws. If you have any inquiry about such data protection measures, please contact us as described in section 16 of this Privacy Policy above.

4. Your Rights

   You have the following legal rights set out in the GDPR with the processing of your Personal Information by us.

   • Revocation of consent - you can revoke at any time previously given consent to our processing of your Personal Information.
   • Right to access - You have the rights to make an inquiry, to review and to request us for copies of your Personal Information we hold.
   • Right to rectification - You have the right to request us to correct any of your Personal Information we hold which you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request us to complete your Personal Information we hold which you believe is incomplete.
   • Right to erasure - You have the right to request that we erase your Personal Information, under certain conditions.
   • Right to restrict processing - You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your Personal Information, under certain conditions.
   • Right to object to processing - You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information, under certain conditions.

   If you would like to exercise any of these rights, or if you have any inquiries about your rights, please contact us as described in section 16 of this Privacy Policy above.

5. Complaint

   You can lodge complaints about our way of processing your Personal Information with a data protection supervisory authority that has a jurisdiction over the region where you reside. Contact information of data protection supervisory authorities is available at the following URL.

   • For EEA residents：https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en
   • For UK residents：https://ico.org.uk/

This section supplements our Privacy Policy and explains how we process and protect Personal Information of residents in California. If there is any conflict between this section and section 2 to 17, this section prevails for residents in California.

1. Sources of Personal Information

   • We collect Personal Information from: Our interactions with you, such as when you interact with our Websites or other online services we provide, give us feedback, surveys, questionnaires, contests, participation in projects involving application submission, link your social media account to your account with us, or contact customer support; and
   • Our group companies, publicly available online sources and joint business partners.

2. Categories of Personal Information Collected, Disclosed, Sold, and Shared

   Following are details of the categories of Personal Information that we collect about California residents, the categories of Personal Information that we "sell" or "share" for the purpose of cross-context behavioral advertising, and the categories of Personal Information that we have collected and disclosed for business purposes in the preceding 12 months.

   Types of Personal Information	Recipients of Disclosed Personal Information	Parties to Whom Personal Information is Sold	Parties with Whom We Share Cross-Context Behavioral Ads
   A. Identifiers Name, contact details, IP address, and other online identifiers, etc.	Group companies/trusted service providers/joint business partners/providers of promotions such as sweepstakes and contests, etc.	Not sold	Not shared
   B. Customer Record Information that is Personal Information, as defined in the California Customer Records Act Name, contact details, medical information, insurance information, education information, employment information, etc.	Group companies/trusted service providers/joint business partners/providers of promotions such as sweepstakes and contests, etc.	Not sold	Not shared
   C. Protected Class Information Age, gender, etc.	Group companies/trusted service providers/joint business partners/providers of promotions such as sweepstakes and contests, etc.	Not sold	Not shared
   D. Online Use Information Browsing history and interactions with the Services	Group companies/trusted service providers/joint business partners/providers of promotions such as sweepstakes and contests, etc.	Not sold	Not shared
   E. Employment Information Information on occupation or employment, such as work history and prior employer	Group companies/trusted service providers/joint business partners/providers of promotions such as sweepstakes and contests, etc.	Not sold	Not shared
   F. Education Information Education information subject to the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, such as student records	Group companies/trusted service providers/joint business partners/providers of promotions such as sweepstakes and contests, etc.	Not sold	Not shared
   K. Inferred Information Making a profile of an individual’s preferences, behaviors, or characteristics, for example, with an inference derived from any of the above Personal Information	Group companies/trusted service providers/joint business partners/providers of promotions such as sweepstakes and contests, etc.	Not sold	Not shared
   L. Sensitive Personal Information Social security number, driver's license, state-issued ID or passport number, account login number, financial account, password, credentials, exact geographic location, and content of the email, or text message that we are not the intended recipient of the communication . Personal Information collected and analyzed regarding an individual's health Personal Information collected and analyzed regarding an individual's sexual life or sexual orientation	Group companies/trusted service providers/joint business partners/providers of promotions such as sweepstakes and contests, etc.	Not sold	Not shared

   We have not "sold" or "shared" Personal Information for purposes of the CCPA in the past 12 months. We do not "sell" or "share" Personal Information of minors under 16 years of age.

3. Purposes of Use for Personal Information

   We use these categories of Personal Information for the purposes of operating, managing, and maintaining our business, providing our products and services, and accomplishing our business purposes and objectives, including using Personal Information to:

   • Respond to inquiries from you;
   • Plan, improve and maintain our services;
   • Conduct research, analytics, and data analysis;
   • Establish and maintain user accounts and authenticate user identity;
   • Conduct contests, projects involving application submission, research and surveys
   • Maintain our property and our records, and undertake quality and safety assurance measures;
   • Conduct risk and security control and monitoring, and detect and prevent fraud;
   • Perform identity verification, accounting, audit, and other internal functions, such as internal investigations and record-keeping;
   • Carry out corporate transactions, such as mergers, joint ventures, or acquisitions; and
   • Comply with law, legal process, and internal policies, and exercise and defend legal claims.

   We may also use sensitive Personal Information as permitted by applicable laws for the performance of services for our business, provision of goods or services requested by customers, ensuring security and integrity, short-term temporary use such as the display of first-party non-personalized advertising, order processing and fulfillment, account maintenance, customer service provision, confirmation of customer information, payment processing, provision of financing, activities related to quality and safety management or product improvement.

4. Individual Rights and Demands

   If you are a California resident, you may make the following requests:

   1. “Requests to know”
      You may request that we disclose to you the following information covering the 12 months preceding your request:
      1. The Categories of Personal Information we collected about you and the categories of sources from which we collected such Personal Information;
      2. The specific contents of Personal Information we collected about you;
      3. Business purpose when collecting Personal Information about you;
      4. The categories of Personal Information about you that we otherwise shared or disclosed, and the categories of third parties with whom we shared or to whom we disclosed such Personal Information (if applicable).
   2. “Requests to Delete”
      You may request that we delete Personal Information we collected from you.
   3. “Requests to Correct”
      To make a Request to Know or a Request to Delete, please contact us according to "16. Contact for Inquiries Concerning Personal Information." We will verify and respond to your request consistent with applicable law, taking into account the type and sensitivity of the Personal Information subject to the request. We may need to request additional Personal Information from you, such as name, email address, mailing address and information regarding your previous interactions with us, in order to verify your identity and protect against fraudulent requests. If you maintain a password-protected account with us, we may verify your identity through our existing authentication practices for your account and require you to re-authenticate yourself before disclosing or deleting your Personal Information. You may make a request on behalf of a child who is under 13 years old if you are the child’s parent or legal guardian. If you make a Request to Delete, we may ask you to confirm your request before we delete your Personal Information. You have the right to be free from unlawful discrimination for exercising your rights under the CPRA.

5. Authorized Agent

   If you are applying as an authorized agent on behalf of a California resident, you may use the submission method described above. As part of our verification process, we may require you to submit certification regarding your status as an authorized agent, if applicable, which may include a Power of Attorney from a California resident pursuant to Probate Code Sections 4121 through 4130.

   • Proof of registration with the California Secretary of State to do business in California; and/or
   • Power of Attorney from a California resident pursuant to Probate Code Sections 4121 through 4130; and/or

   If you are making an inquiry request or deletion request on behalf of a California resident and have not provided us with a Power of Attorney from the resident pursuant to Probate Code Sections 4121 through 4130, we may also require the resident to:

   • directly verify their identity with us; and
   • directly confirm whether the resident has permitted to submit a "Request to Know" or “Request to Delete."

6. Anonymized Information

   If we retain or use anonymized information, we will continue to retain and use the same only in an anonymized manner and will not re-identify the information.