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ClipArt-AC PRIVACY POLICY

CLIPART-AC (hereinafter referred to as,　"we," "us," "our") are committed to providing maximum protection of users' personally identifiable information. The policy disclosed below applies to the handling of the personal information received in our website (ac-clipart.com) owned and operated by us and any other personal information received in connection with the operation of our website-related businesses.

1. Privacy Policy

(1) Personal Information
We respect the privacy of our website users (hereinafter referred to as "you," "your") in the course of the operation of our website and handle your personally identifiable information that identifies a particular individual, such as the individual's name, postal address, date of birth, age, telephone number, and other information such as browser type and language, access times, the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions collected in connection with the operation of our website (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Personal Information") based on the following policies.

(2) Security of Personal Information
We do our best to provide proper security to protect your Personal information and to prevent unauthorized access thereto, and leakage, loss, damage, etc. thereof.

(3) How to use of Personal Information
Any and all your Personal Information collected in the course of the operation of this website will be utilized to the extent of the following purposes of use:
The Personal Information will be utilized in certain related businesses to 1) operate and improve our website, 2) offer services, 3) perform research and analysis aimed improving our products, services and technologies, and 4) display content that is customized to your interests and preferences. Based on our judgment, some or all of the Personal Information in question may be given to third parties such as our subsidiaries and our related companies that we may hire to provide data storage, assist in direct marketing, etc. and will be permitted to obtain only the Personal Information to provide the service. The types of Personal Information which may be given to such third parties are listed below.
At your discretion, you can request that your Personal Information not be given to third parties (Please refer to 1. (4) ).
Types of Personal Information which can be given to third parties:
1) Name, date of birth, age, address, telephone number, etc. entered in this form
2) Records about which of our services you have utilized

(4) Sharing of your Personal Information
Besides the cases above, we may share your Personal Information with a third party without your consent to the minimum extent as required on the following occasions:
1) As personally unidentifiable statistical information for marketing analysis of this website access trend and for services improvement related thereto
2) When required by law
3) When it is difficult to obtain your permission, but your Personal Information is required to protect the life, health, property, rights, etc., of other users of this website
4) When it is difficult to obtain your permission, but your Personal Information is required for public health concerns, or regarding children's welfare
5) When requested by national institutions or local bodies to assist with matters required by law

(5) Accessing your Personal Information
Your request to confirm how your Personal Information is being used, and regarding confirmation, revision, addition, deletion, discontinuance to use or share with a third party of registered contents, etc., will be handled in accordance with paragraph 4 below, "How to access your Personal Information" If you would like to review or revise information that you previously provided to us, please contact us at info@ac-clipart.com. You can expect a response from us within 30 calendar days. Please be advised that you cannot change your username without re-registering.

(6) Personal Information Preferences
We respect your right to make choices about the use and disclosure of your Personal Information. If at any time you decide that you do not want to receive marketing communications from us anymore, please go to the page (www.ac-clipart.com/mail_account_del.php) and insert the e-mail address of the account you want to delete. Please notice that once you unsubscribe you will not receive our newsletter anymore, and you will be not able to download clip arts from this website too.

(7) Email Referrals
If you choose to use our e-mail referral services to tell a friend about our products or services, we will ask you for your friend's name and e-mail address. We will use that information to send your friend a one-time e-mail inviting him or her to visit the site and review the product or service you have selected. We may use a third-party provider to administer this function, but any such third party provider may only use the information submitted to facilitate this one-time e-mail. Neither we nor any third-party provider stores this information after the e-mail is sent.

(8) Compliance
We comply with the Personal Information Protection Law and relevant regulatory guidelines in handling Personal Information and this Private Policy will be continually reviewed, improved and followed by you.

2. Regarding Personal Information in connection with this website

(1) IP Address
IP address refers to the numeric identifier automatically assigned to a user's computer when a user is browsing any website. The Web server (the computer which provides websites) automatically recognizes and corresponds with a user's computer. We collect your IP address to compile basic data for system management and for reporting general information to our advertisers, and for surveying your access status to the website. Although your IP address and access status will be recorded, we will not specify the user. However, when we request a user to follow the terms and conditions for use of the services provided through this website, if it is necessary to protect our service, website or other customers, we may identify the particular user using the IP address.

(2) Use of Cookies and Other Technologies
Cookies means data transferred to your computer's hard disc drive from a web site for recording purposes. By utilizing cookies, your visits to the web site become more easy and convenient, while we may monitor your activity patterns in the web site. Cookies offer you many conveniences. They allow us to identify registered users when they return to the site so that they can retrieve previous image search results, access and view their previous invoices. Cookies also save you time by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information. We use cookies to collect data regarding Official Site for evaluation, improvement and renewal purposes. However, cookies will never be used to identify your Personal Information. You may choose any time to turn off the cookies through changing browser's setting. Most browsers are designed to install cookies at the initial setting. You are expected to set their own level of rejecting cookies and method of accepting them. However, please be aware that if you turn cookies off, some services on the web site may not function properly, or response remarkably slow. In some cases, our third-party service providers may use cookies on our sites. We have no access to or control over these cookies. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by ClipArt-AC only, and does not cover the use of cookies by third parties.

(3) Links to Other Web Sites
We may link to websites, including those of our third-party content providers that have different privacy policies and practices from those disclosed here. We assume no responsibility for the policies or practices of such linked sites, and encourage you to become acquainted with them prior to use. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such links outside of this website for which we hold no legal responsibility, and will not be applied in a manner to contradict regulations by law or government.

(4) Limited Responsibility for Privacy Policy in connection with this website
We think it most important to protect security of your personally identifiable information and we handle your information sent from your computer to our website with utmost care. Please be aware that, despite our best efforts, no security measures for any information sent to us via Internet are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of information sent by you at your own responsibility to our online services. If a password is used to protect your account and personal information, it is your responsibility to keep your password confidential.

(5) In using our website, you are deemed to agree with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with it, please do not use this website.

3. How to know if we amend this Privacy Policy

We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time. If we amend this Privacy Policy to permit material changes in the way we collect, use and/or share your Personal Information, we will notify you of such changes in advance by prominently posting notice of the changes on this website and/or by sending you e-mail at the last e-mail address that you provided to us on an as-may-be-necessary basis. Any such material changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective in principle thirty (30) calendar days following such notice of the changes by us, where any such material changes to this Privacy Policy may affect the way of our use and sharing of Personal Information that you provided to us before our notification to you of the changes. If you do not wish to permit material changes in the way we collect, use or share your Personal Information that you have provided to us before the effective date of such amendments, you must so notify us at our contact office (as provided in the paragraph 5 below, "How to access your Personal Information") before that effective date. Please be advised, however, that, regardless of whether you provide such notice to us, the amendments of this Privacy Policy will apply to any Personal Information that you provide to us on or after the effective date of such changes.

4. How to access your Personal Information

(1) If you have any questions about or any requests for the access to your personally identifiable information, you can contact us by e-mail(info@ac-clipart.com), or by phone at +81-6-6281-5103, or by postal mail at ad ACHIEVE Co., Ltd. ClipArt-AC(〒541-0058 3-2-7 Minami Kyuhozi-cho, Daiichi Zyuken Minami Kyuhozicho-Bldg.7F Chuo-ku Osaka JAPAN). *Calls may be recorded to verify the contents of the Guest's request or to check the operator's handling of the call.

(2) Moreover, in accessing such information, you are required to identify yourself or an agent by the delivery of documents or otherwise. In some cases, you may be required to complete an application form as designated by us. At your request, we will provide you with detailed instructions.
When we collect your Personal Information either in writing or on the website, we designate "inquiry number," which will, for verification purpose, be necessary when you make any request or inquiry with respect to your Personal Information. Moreover, for the purpose of matching your Personal Information with information retained in our databases, we will verify circumstance surrounding the collection of your Personal Information, such as when and how the information was collected. Unless this verification process is complete, we may not respond to your request.

(3) Clerical charges
Following the request, we will, in principle, answer in writing, and clerical charges equivalent to the actual expenses will be invoiced to the requesting party.