The definition of personal information in this “Handling personal information” is in accordance with that in the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (Act no.57 of 2003).

The purposes of the use of personal information concerning the services and operation of our company including SMART Conference (hereinafter referred to as “the services of our company”) are as follows.

1.Users’ personal authentication and service offering

2.Distributing and sending various notifications, e-mail magazines, DM, news, advertisements, etc. from our company

3.Processing, collecting statistics of and analyzing personal information that we have acquired for the purpose of the services of our company.

4.Storage as a user database and its analysis

5.Sending questionnaires, sales campaign, monitor recruitment, interviews and giving presents.

6.Confirming and responding to opinions, inquiries, etc. regarding the services of our company.

7.Distributing and displaying advertisements and contents, etc. based on the attribute information, terminal information, location information and action history information, and offering the services of our company.

8.Conducting investigations into prohibited actions stated in our terms of use such as various application acts for commercial or diversion purposes、various multiple applications, transfer of rights and registration of false information.

9.Developing and improving the services of our company, as well as carrying out research on, analyzing and implementing marketing of the services of our company.

10.As to personal information of our employees including but not limited to the candidates of employees, providing information and notification to prospective employees, conducting employment selection, notification as an employee, labor management, and records.

11.For purposes related to the purposes of use stated above.

※Personal information management in hosting organizations such as academic societies.
We will provide personal information to a third party such as an academic society based on your consent through registration of participation, or in accordance with relevant laws and regulations.

We by no means provide personal information to a third party
unless you give your consent to such implementation or the related laws and regulations permit.

We are not liable for the following cases of acquisition of personal information by a third party.

We handle credit card information entrusted to us as follows.

1.Purpose of the use
To settle payments for goods and services you have purchased.

2.Information acquirer
PCO Co., Ltd.


3.Information receivers
Various settlement companies and various settlement agencies

4.Retention period
We outsource the business of credit card settlement and registration to a settlement agency, “GMO Payment Gateway Inc.” through its means of settlement, “PG Multi-payment Service”. After your credit card information is disclosed to GMO Payment Gateway Inc., we no longer retain it.

We outsource part of our business to some subcontractors in order to provide you with better services. We might consign the transaction of handling personal information to them.

We will respond to the following requests from the individual in accordance with laws and regulations regarding personal information stored as retained personal data that identifies the individual:

(i) disclosure or notification of the purpose of use
(ii) correction, addition, or deletion
(iii) suspension of use, deletion, or suspension of provision to a third party
(iv) disclosure, etc. of records of provision to a third party.　Procedures for disclosure or notification demand documents that can confirm that you are the principal or his/her agent.　However, if the case falls under the exception that is stipulated by law, we may not disclose or notify all or part of them. If that is the case, we notify you of the decision without delay. As for the details about request for disclosure or anything, please refer to the following complaints and consultations counter concerning personal information.。

Unless otherwise stipulated by laws and regulations, we reserve the right to change our privacy policy and handling of personal information at any time. The content after the change shall be posted on our website.　Two weeks after its posting, those users who still continue to use the services of our company will be viewed as having given consent to the changed privacy policy and the changed handling of personal information.

Inquiries about handling personal information shall be dealt with as follows.
1.Confirmation, etc. of information registered on My Page for our services, etc.　Please log in to My Page from the TOP page with your e-mail address and password to check your information.
You can correct or delete your personal information by your own operation.
2.Other inquiries　Other inquiries about handling personal information (including the case where you have trouble proceeding with the above No.1) will be dealt with “Inquiry form” on our website. We will reply to you within around 3 business days.