PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: 11/1/2022

We, BANDAI CO.,LTD., respect your privacy. As we operate our Website and provide you with our services, we process personal data about you in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (the “GDPR”) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”).
This is our privacy policy on how we process and protect your personal data. We may revise this privacy policy from time to time. You can obtain the latest version of this policy on our site.

RESPONSIBLE CONTROLLER

This privacy policy is issued by us, BANDAI CO., LTD., a company registered in Tokyo, Japan. When we process your personal data, we are the data controller and are responsible for protecting your rights regarding personal data.


1)To organize the competition and to deliver the prize to the winners of the competition:

i.Categories of your personal data we process:
Your name, production activity name(optional), residential country and address, age, gender, occupation(optional), email address, telephone number, illustration work, Digitalmonster you mainly painted, description, other information about your work and questionnaire.
If you do not provide mandatory fields, we are not able to process your participation and the prize offering in the competition.
We collect this personal information directly from you via our website.

ii.Lawful basis:
1) organizing the competition and delivering the prize to the winners of the competition on the ground that it is necessary for the performance of our contract with you; and
2) gathering information about your use of this service for maintaining and improving service quality and detecting and preventing fraud against you on the ground that it is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interest pursued.

iii.Period for which we store your personal data: we will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary:
・to show or publish your work;
・to respond to any questions, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf;
・to show that we treated you fairly;
・to keep records required by law.

iv. Recipients we disclose your personal data to: our contractors that assist us in providing the website, and our group companies and/or third parties we use to help us provide you with prizes or to show or publish the works at events, on our products or media.



2)To deliver content, product or promotion information relevant to your interests via email.

i.Categories of your personal data we process:
Your name and email address
We collect this personal information directly from you via our website.

ii.Lawful basis: your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Your withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of our processing of your personal data based on consent before its withdrawal.

iii.Period for which we store your personal data: until you withdraw your consent.

iv.Recipients we disclose your personal data to: our group companies and/or our advertising partners.



3)To protect your privacy and security, integrity and availability of this website:

i.Categories of your personal data we process:
Your browsing history on our website collected by web access logging, including your IP address, type and version of your web browser, web browser plugins, operating system, and other information about your terminal device and technologies you use when accessing our website.
We collect this personal information directly from you via our website.

ii.Lawful basis: processing is necessary for the purpose of our legitimate interest, i.e. protecting your privacy and our website from fraudulent or unlawful access by monitoring web access traffic.

iii.Period for which we store your personal data: we will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary:
・to show that we treated you fairly;
・to keep records required by law.

iv.Recipients we disclose your personal data to: our contractors that assist us in monitoring web access traffic.

SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA

We usually do not collect and/or use sensitive categories of your personal data as defined in Articles 9 or 10 of GDPR on our Website.

COOKIES

A cookie is a small text file that our Website sends to your terminal device for the purpose of keeping certain records.
By using cookies:

(1) Your terminal devices (e.g. browsers) remember your preferences (e.g. language used) and activities (e.g. login status, items in cart, etc.) on our Website so that we can deliver a personalized and better user experience on our Website (essential cookies).

A cookie identifies your terminal device, typically your web browser, but it cannot identify your individual identity. We do not set and use cookies for the purpose of advertisement or web access analytics for our users.

TRANSFER TO NON-EU COUNTRIES

We do not transfer your personal data to any entities located in any third countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) or Japan. The European Commission has decided that Japan ensure an adequate level of data protection (the “Adequacy Decisions”) and that personal data can be lawfully transferred to the country without requiring any specific authorization. In the event that we transfer your data to an entity located outside the EEA or Japan, we protect your rights with personal data by virtue of a data transfer contract with the relevant recipient in accordance with the GDPR, which imposes on such recipients contractual obligations to ensure an adequate level of data protection equivalent to those laid down by the GDPR.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Provided that certain conditions are met, you have legal rights to request from us the following:

・Revocation of a previously given consent to our processing of your personal data

・Access to your personal data and to certain supplementary information covered by this policy;

・Rectification of your personal data if inaccurate or incomplete;

・Erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances;

・Suspension of using your personal data in certain circumstances;

・Stopping processing your personal data in certain circumstances; and

・Obtaining your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

If you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us.

COMPLAINT

If you are from EEA and UK, You can lodge complaints about our way of processing your personal data with the data protection supervisory authorities of your country of residence.

PERSONAL INFORMATION PERTAINING TO MINORS

For the avoidance of doubt, we do not collect and store the personal information of minors. If we discover that we have unintentionally collected personal information belonging to minors, we will delete such information immediately.

Contact Us:

For further information and inquiry, contact:
Privacy Manager ppolicy@bandai.co.jp
Data Protection Officer bnhd-dpo-office@iij.ad.jp
BANDAI CO.,LTD.

FOR OUR VISITORS FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

This section of our privacy policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect personally identifiable information of California residents and any information related to it (“personal information”) and non-personal information.


1. RIGHT TO KNOW ABOUT PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED, DISCLOSED, OR SOLD

a. The CCPA states that you have the right to request us to disclose what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell.

b. You can exercise your above-mentioned rights unless you have exercised the rights within the preceding 12 months. We endeavor to respond to you within 45 days of receiving a verifiable request from you. If you intend to exercise such rights, please refer to section 6.

c. We use your information (name and email address) to verify your request. You may be asked to provide additional information so that we can verify your request.

d. The categories of personal information we collected, business or commercial purpose, sources and category of third parties we shared within the preceding 12 months are as follows:

CATEGORY(as stipulated in CCPA 1798.140(o)) DETAIL BUSINESS OR COMMERCIAL PURPOSE FOR PROCESSING SOURCES OF COLLECTED PERSONAL INFORMATION CATEGORY OF THIRD PARTIES WE SELL (stipulated in CCPA 1798.140(w)) or disclose
1 Identifiers
Visual information
your name, production activity name(optional), residential country and address, age, gender, occupation(optional), email address, telephone number, illustration work, Digitalmonster you mainly painted, description, other information of your work and questionnaire. To organize the competition and to deliver the prize to the winners of the competition Your activity on our site our contractors that assist us in providing the website, and our group companies and/or third parties we use to help us provide you with prizes or to show or publish the works at events, on our products or media
2 Identifiers your name and email address To deliver content, product or promotion information relevant to your interests via email. Your activity on our site our group companies and/or our advertising partners.
7 Identifiers
Internet or other similar network activity
your browsing history on our website collected by web access logging, including your IP address, type and version of your web browser, web browser plugins, operating system, and other information about your terminal device and technologies you use when accessing our website. To protect your privacy and security, integrity and availability of this website Your activity on our site our contractors that assist us in monitoring web access traffic.

e. Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information
(1) We do not have actual knowledge that we sell personal information about residents who we know are younger than 16 years old.
Under the CCPA, “sell” means disclosing by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information to a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

2. RIGHT TO REQUEST DELETION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

a. The CCPA states that you have the right to request us to delete your personal information collected by us.

b. You can exercise your above-mentioned right with your account with us unless you have exercised the rights within the preceding 12 months. We endeavor to respond to you within 45 days of receiving a verifiable request. If you intend to exercise such rights, please refer to section 6.

c. We use your information (name and email address) to verify your request. You may be asked to provide additional information so that we can verify your request.

3. RIGHT TO OPT-OUT OF THE SALES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

a. The CCPA states that you have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information by us.

b. We do not sell your personal information and do not share information collected from cookies or email address with advertising agencies to manage our personalized advertising to those of you based on your preferences

4. RIGHT TO NON-DISCRIMINATION FOR THE EXERCISE OF A CONSUMER’S PRIVACY RIGHT

a. The CCPA states that you have a right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of the privacy rights conferred by the CCPA.

5. AUTHORIZED AGENT

a. When you use an authorized agent to submit a request to know or a request to delete, we may require that you:
(1) Provide the authorized agent with written permission to do so; and
(2) Verify your own identity directly with us.
(3) Directly confirm with us that you provided the authorized agent with permission to submit the request

We may deny a request from an agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your own behalf.

6. CONTACT US

Please contact us by email if you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you.
email address: ppolicy@bandai.co.jp
Data Protection Officer bnhd-dpo-office@iij.ad.jp

7. How our site responds to “Do Not Track” Signals

Some web browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” (DNT) feature that sends signals to websites you visit that you do not want to be tracked, when turned on. Our site do not respond to the DNT signals, as we do not sell your personal information.

8. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

We do not collect and store personal information about Children (in this provision, we define Children as minors under 13 years of age) if a Child submits this information without prior parental consent or by the parent or guardian of the Child.
If we discover that we’ve unintentionally collected information from a Child in a way that does not meet COPPA requirements, we will delete the information immediately.