Privacy Policy
Tonchidot Corporation, (“Tonchidot”, “we” or “us”) places importance in treating your privacy
appropriately. This Privacy Policy covers how Tonchidot collects, uses, discloses, transfers, and
stores your information in the course of delivering our various mobile/internet services (“Services”)
to our users. Please familiarize yourself with our privacy practices outlined below, before using any
of our Services. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us – information
is provided in the last section of this Agreement.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the respective Service Agreements for
our various Services. Your use of the Services and any Personal Information you provide on our
Services are subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and Service Agreements.
1. Collection and Use of Personal Information
“Personal Information” refers to personally identifiable information (such as your name, mailing
address, telephone number, birthday, etc.) and other information associated with a particular person
(such as credit card numbers, gender, usage history, location, payments, personal connections, and
personal likes/dislikes).
We may collect certain Personal Information from you in the process of delivering various Services
to you. The Personal Information we collect are securely protected by standard industry methods,
and are treated in the same manner as we treat our own company’s confidential information. This
also applies to information that does not specify its owner by itself, but could specify a particular
person when combined with other information.
2. What personal information we collect
We collect certain Personal Information when you register to use our Services. You may at
any time decide not to provide Personal Information to our Services. However, you understand
and agree that some or all of our Services may not be made available without certain Personal
Information from you.
We may also hold seminars, events, user feedback interviews, etc from time to time, and when you
agree to participate in any of them, we may further collect a variety of information, including your
mailing address, phone number, email address, contact preferences and bank account information.
2.1 Registration Information:
You may be asked to provide Personal Information (such as your name, email address, credit card
information, etc.) when using our Services.
2.2 Profile Information:
When using our Services, you will be providing certain Personal Information and content that will
be made public to other users of the Services and on third-party sites and services (for example,
when using our Services to publish updates to Twitter, Facebook, etc.) in accordance with your
privacy settings. Such Personal Information may include information about your education, job,
home town, favorite places, interests and hobbies, age, gender, and relationship status, etc that you
have provided.
2.3 Location Information:
We and our partners and licensees may collect, store, share, display, and otherwise use your precise
location data and other location information, including the real-time geographic location from
the mobile device that you use to access our Services. Please be aware that your mobile device
may even be located when the mobile application of our Service is not open and running in the
foreground of your device. However, your location may be displayed and shared with other users
only in accordance with your privacy settings, or only through certain actions you perform that
explicitly record and display location data within the Services.
2.4 Log Data:
When you use certain parts of our Service, we will automatically record information about
your usage, such as timestamp and location information of Content you post, view, or comment.
2.5 Cookies:
We may use cookies in our Services to provide better user experience to you. If you do not wish us
to have cookies in your browser, you may disable cookies in your browser’s settings, or change the
settings so that an alert appears when cookies are about to be accepted from a website. Note that if
you disable cookies, you may not be able to use services that require you to log in.
3. How we use your personal information
3.1 We may use your Personal Information to operate, maintain, and provide to you and
other users information regarding our newest Services, software updates, various events and
campaigns. You may refuse to accept our notifications whenever you wish.
3.2 We also use Personal Information to help us develop, deliver, and improve our products,
services, content, and advertising. We may use log data and cookies to remember certain
information so that you will not need to re-enter them, and to offer personalized content and
advertisements.
3.3 We may also use your Personal Information to deliver important notices such as service
pricing, various legal issues that need to be addressed, or changes in any of our service
agreements and privacy policies. Such information is important in delivering our Services to
you, and you will not be able to refuse accepting them.
3.4 We may also use Personal Information for internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis,
and research, to improve our products, services, and customer communications.
3.5When users participate in promotional events such as sweepstakes that we may hold from
time to time, we may use your Private Information to deliver certain prizes to you.
4. Disclosure to Third Parties
We shall not disclose Personal Information other than (i) to other businesses or third parties
whom we consign and collaborate in assisting us to deliver our Services, or to attract users to our
Services, and (ii) to other businesses or third parties for purposes specified below. When we do
disclose Personal Information, we require that these parties agree to process such information in full
compliance with our Privacy Policy, and to use appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
4.1 Service Providers
We share personal information with companies who provide services such as information
processing, extending credit, fulfilling customer orders, delivering products to users, managing and
enhancing customer data, providing customer service, assessing your interest in our products and
services, and conducting customer research or satisfaction surveys.
4.2 Law Enforcement
It may be necessary − by law, legal process, litigation, and/or requests from public and
governmental authorities within or outside your country of residence − for us to disclose your
personal information. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that for
purposes of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is
necessary or appropriate.
4.3 Other
We may also disclose information about you if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary
to enforce our terms and conditions or protect our operations or users. Additionally, in the event of
a reorganization, merger, or sale we may transfer any and all personal information we collect to the
relevant third party.
5. Protection of Personal Information
We take precautions, including administrative, technical, and physical measures, to safeguard
your personal information against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as against unauthorized access,
disclosure, alteration, and destruction. We also limit access to your personal information to our
employees and contractors who need access to them to perform their respective job functions, such
as customer service.
However, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any Personal Information that we receive, and
you provide them to us at your own risk. We also cannot guarantee that such information may not
be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our administrative, technical, or
physical safeguards.
6. Indemnification
When you use our Services, including when you use our Services to post content on various third-
party social networking services, you will be able to show the name, photograph, and any other
Personal Information that you may have provided to us. This Personal Information will become
public, and may be seen, collected, and used by others to identify you or any other individual users
of our Services. You understand and agree that we are not liable for any harm and damages that
you may suffer as a result thereof. We therefore advise you that you do not post, disclose, or share
Personal Information that you do not wish to have public. When you deliberately provide and make
public any Personal Information on or through our Services, you do so at your own risk, and you
understand and agree to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless from any and all claims, suits,
actions, losses, costs, damages and any other liabilities arising out of or related to your decision and
actions to provide Personal Information to us
7. Third-Party Sites and Services
Our websites, products, applications, and services may contain links to third-party websites,
products, and services that we do not operate ourselves, or have any control over. Our products and
services may also use or offer products or services from third parties. Information collected by third
parties, that may include such things as location data or contact details, is governed by their privacy
practices. In these cases, we are not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on these third-party
sites. When linking to another site, you should carefully read the privacy policy stated on that site. This
Privacy Policy only governs information collected on our Services.
8. Modifications to this Privacy Policy
We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time, and we will post any new versions on our web site.
If we make any material changes in the way we use your personal information, we will notify you
by prominently posting notice of the changes on our web site. Any such changes will be effective
immediately following our posting of notice of the changes on our web site. These changes will
also be effective immediately for new users of the Services. Your continued use of the Services
following the posting of any changes to the Privacy Policy constitutes acceptance to those changes.
9. Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at the following:
support(atmark)sekaicamera.com.
We will make every effort to resolve your concerns.
Issued: December 21st, 2009
Revised: October 26th, 2010
Revised: March 9th, 2011
Revised: March 9th, 2011
Revised: November 28th, 2011
