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WIM WORKS Privacy Policy

2023/11/09

 The store（or “we”, “us”, or “our”, as the case may be) recognizes the importance of your personal information, and complies with the Act Concerning Protection of Personal Information (hereinafter referred to as “Act”) and properly treats and protects your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy (hereinafter referred to as “Policy”).

1. Definition of personal information
As used in this Policy, “personal information” shall mean personal information defined pursuant to Article 2.1 of the Act, meaning information pertinent to existing individual, which can personally identify a specified individual by its name, birth date, or other description contained in such information (including those which can easily collate other information to personally identify a specified individual), or those containing personal identification code.

2. Purpose of personal information
(1) provide our services;
(2) give guidance and respond to inquiries in connection with our services;
(3) give guidance relating to our goods and services;
(4) cope with a violation of our rules and regulations or the terms and conditions, or polices (hereinafter referred to as “Rules”) in connection with our services;
(5) notify you of any change in Rules relating to our services;
(6) facilitate improvement of our services and development of new services;
(7) generate data processed for statistical purposes and made anonymous, which cannot be personally identifiable in connection with our services; and
(8) accomplish purposes incidental to purposes as set forth above.

3. Change of purposes of use of personal information
The store reserves the right to change the purposes of use of personal information for as long as it will continue to remain relevant, and notify you of, or make it public such change.

4. Restriction on use of personal information
Unless otherwise permitted by the Act and other relevant applicable laws and regulations, we shall not use your personal information except as required to accomplish the purposes of use without your consent, unless:
(1) required by the applicable laws and regulations;
(2) it is necessary to protect a person’s life, body, or property, and it is difficult to obtain your consent;
(3) it is particularly necessary to improve public health and facilitate sound education for children, and it is difficult to obtain your consent; or
(4) it is necessary for us to cooperate with state or local government or its agency in carrying out their statutory duties and functions, and it is detrimental to carry out of them if your consent needs to be obtained.

5. Proper collection of personal information
We shall collect personal information, and shall not collect personal information by false or otherwise illicit means.

6. Security of personal information
The store shall carry out necessary and proper supervision over its employees, in order to secure your personal information against risk of loss, destruction, alteration, and leaking of your personal information. If we subcontract, wholly or partially, treatment of your personal information, we shall carry out necessary and proper supervision over a subcontractor.

7. Provision to third parties
Unless otherwise permitted by the Act and other relevant applicable laws and regulations, we shall not provide to third parties your personal information without your prior consent, except for cases where:
(1) we provide personal information as a result of subcontracting, wholly or partially, treatment of your personal information to the extent necessary to accomplish the purposes of use of personal information;
(2) your personal information is provided by way of merger or amalgamation, or other events of business transfer; and
(3) your personal information is shared with third parties in accordance with the Act.

8. Disclosure of personal information
If we are required by you to disclose your personal information pursuant to the Act, we shall promptly disclose it to you, after identifying that such request has been submitted by you (if such information does not exist, we shall notify to that effect.), unless otherwise we are not obligated to do so under the Act or other relevant laws and regulations.

9. Correction of personal information
If we are required by you to make a correction, addition, or deletion (hereinafter referred to as “Correction”) of your personal information by reason that such information is untrue, we shall promptly carry out investigations to the extent necessary to accomplish the purposes of use thereof after identifying that such request has been submitted by you, and make a Correction based on the results thereof, and you shall be notified thereof (or we shall notify you if we shall not make any Correction), unless otherwise we are not obligated to do so under the Act or other relevant laws and regulations.

10. Suspension of use of your personal information
If we are required by to you to suspend

11. Complaints
If you have complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below. If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, depending on where you live you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the contact details set out below, or lodge your complaint with your local data protection authority.