These contents are temporary version because they were just translated Japanese into English. To see the exact contents, please check the original terms of service and privacy policy in Japanese.
- Privacy policy
- Collection of private information
- How your private information is used
- Sharing and disclosing your private information
- How to view, edit or remove your personal information
- How we protect your private information
- Cookies
- Third-party tracking systems
- Tool bars
- Policy limitations
- Changes to our privacy policy
- Caretaker of personal information
- Suggestion, complaints and objections to our privacy policy
- Modification history
- The Hatena Website ("Site") is operated by Hatena Inc. ("Company"). The minimum amount of information is collected from Users in order to operate the services ("Service") provided on this Site by the Company. The Company is committed to safeguarding the privacy of Users (both registered users and guest users of the Services). Following is the Company's privacy policy related to personal information.
- When you register for and use the Services, the Company collects personal identifying information including name, e-mail address, date of birth, gender, and zip or postal code. The information collected will be referred to hereafter as "User Registration Information."
- The Company automatically gathers certain information about you, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, information saved in cookies, websites you have browsed, and your machine data, and stores it on its server. The Company also automatically gathers from Users who access parts of the Toolbar, information on other Websites you visit and stores it on its server, as mentioned in section 8 of this policy.
- The Company will request your address, name, telephone number, credit card information, or bank account number, as necessary, for the purposes of shipping products, purchasing points, exchanging points into cash, placement of help wanted ads, and general ads.
- The Company may receive notice that includes personal information of a User or a third party, or may acquire public information in a lawful way for the purpose of investigating suspected violation of the Rules.
- The Company uses the information it collects in the following ways:
- When the User uses our Services, such as receiving e-mail, and filling out surveys.
- To display contents that may be of interest to the User, and deliver more relevant information.
- Analyzing the ways Users are utilizing the Services in order to improve the Site and to better serve you.
- User statistics may be used to explain our Services to a User or a third party.
- Sending notices to a User or third party, identity confirmation, investigating suspected violation of the Rules, responding to your requests, and shipping products.
- The Company will not use your personal information for any other purposes.
- Please view the Hatena Personal Information table for information regarding methods of collecting personal information and categories in which your personal information is used.
- The Company will not disclose your personal information except under the following circumstances:
- If you have given consent for such disclosure.
- The Company may disclose your personal information as may be required to operate the Services such as displaying your information on the access log.
- When you have given consent to share your information with the Company business partners and sponsors for the purpose of carrying out such business.
- The Company may disclose your personal information as may be required by law or court order.
- In order to protect the Company's rights, property and Services when there is reasonable doubt that a User has violated the User's Agreement.
- To protect a User or a third party from physical or financial harm and other emergencies when it is not possible to get consent from the User in a timely manner.
- As a general rule, the Company allows Users to view, edit, or remove their own User Registration Personal Information by going to My Hatena after login. When sending e-mail, your identity will be confirmed. You can also subscribe or unsubscribe from the e-mail magazine.
- To learn how to view, edit or remove your User Registration Personal Information, please visit the Update Registration section.
- In the event that a User cancels membership, after the passage of a fixed period of time, all of the User Registration Personal Information, except the Username, will be deleted. Before a modification is made, the Company backs up and retains the User Registration Personal Information in order to prevent problems due to processing failure. The Company also retains information for a period of time after cancellation in the event it requires investigation into alleged violation of the Rules. User Registration Personal Information will never be used on the Services after cancellation. Once a Username is created, it will never be deleted in order to prevent any future confusion.
- Your User Registration Personal Information can only be viewed by you after correctly entering your Username and Password. Other Users or a third party cannot view this information in order to protect your privacy.
- SSL code is used to transmit data in order to protect sensitive data during transmission.
- Except for authorized personnel, Company employees are prohibited from accessing User Registration Personal Information. This information is securely stored in a safe location, and will never be removed from the area.
- All Company employees are bound by a confidentiality agreement, and must observe the Security Policy set by the Company.
- The Company uses cookies to keep track of your login information. Cookies work in the following way:
- When a User logs in to the Service, a cookie is sent to his/her browser in order to identify the User.
- If the User's computer is set to accept cookies, the cookie will be saved on the computer.
- If the User's computer is set to accept cookies, the server receives information stored in the cookie from the User's browser. In order to protect your privacy, we only have access to cookies set by our own Site.
- A User can deny cookies by setting his/her computer reject cookies. If your computer is set to reject cookies, you will not be able to access parts of our Services that require login.
- Advertisers on our Site may also set cookies. The Company has no control over such cookies, which are bound by the privacy policy of such parties.
- This Site utilizes third-party cookies and image files (web beacon) in order to track and analyze User activity. This information is compiled and analyzed as a collective.
- The Company automatically collects information from websites being viewed when a User utilizes certain functions on the Hatena Toolbar for Internet Explorer or Hatenabar for Firefox ("Toolbar").
- Functions that automatically collect information from websites being viewed are as follows:
- Antenna Display function included in websites being viewed
- Bookmark Display function included in websites being viewed
- Diary Display function referring to websites being viewed
- The User may remove these functions from the Toolbar at any time.
- The Company gathers basic information from websites being viewed, which is commonly saved on the server. This information includes the following:
- The URL of the website being viewed.
- Your IP address.
- Time.
- Browser type.
- The Company is not responsible for voluntarily posted information, which may be collected and abused by a third party.
- Our Services contain links to other sites. Unless otherwise stated, these third-party sites are independent from our Services and are bound by their own privacy policies. The Company is in no way responsible for the activities or policies of such sites. When linking to another site, you should review the privacy policy stated on that site.
- The Company reserves the right to modify this privacy policy in part or in its entirety from time to time. If any major changes are made, they will be posted on our Services so Users can easily be made aware of such changes.
- If at any time the Company modifies or adds to its application purposes, the User will have the right to utilize or ignore the modified or added application.
- The person in charge of personal information at the Company is:
- Junya Kondo, Director
- Hatena Inc.
1st Floor, NTT Communications Hachiyama Building
9-31, Hachiyama-cho, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo, Japan
- If you have any suggestions, complaints, or objections about this privacy policy, please contact us at info@hatena.ne.jp. Upon receiving your comment, we will notify you and make every effort to take appropriate measures.
- Updated on August 10, 2007
- Deleted information regarding TRUSTe.
- Updated on May 30, 2007
- Added examples to collected personal information.
- Specified the process of accessing, changing or deleting personal information.
- Added the description of third-party tracking systems.
- Added the description of consent for use if the Privacy Policy is modified.
- Changed the URL of TRUSTe-Japan.
- Updated on June 23, 2005
- Added information regarding TRUSTe.
- Added details regarding information collected through the Toolbar.
- Review of repeated contents.
- Created on December 1, 2004
