This Website and all software in this site was created, and is managed and administered by BB Share Networking Inc. Please read the following site policy and privacy policy carefully before using our Website and Software. We may amend our policy and privacy policy if further improvement is required.

We recognize the extreme importance of information identifying individual users ("personally identifiable information") of this site. On this site and our software, we sometimes collect various types of personally identifiable information from users, but we pay utmost attention to the appropriate handling of such information. We hope that you will read the following policy to increase your understanding of the way in which we collect, use and manage your personally identifiable information. It is our practice to ask users to agree to this privacy policy before asking them to provide any personally identifiable information via this site. Please note that our site's privacy policy may be amended if further initiatives to protect personally identifiable information are required.

 Personally identifiable information of site and software users

We may collect personally identifiable information (name, occupation, status, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, etc.). To protect the privacy of our users, we collect, use and manage all the personally identifiable information we obtain, including e-mails to the site administrator and e-mails to recruitment officers, in an appropriate manner. Purpose of collecting personally identifiable information of site and software users

When collecting any personally identifiable information of site and software users, we make it a rule to specify in advance the purpose for which the information is being collected and to obtain the agreement of such users before asking them to provide personally identifiable information. We do not collect, use or manage sensitive information on the following, without the user's express consent.

•  Race and ethnicity
•  Family origin or legal domicile (not including name of prefecture or metropolitan area)
•  Religion (including ideology and beliefs), political opinions or trade-union membership * Health, medical treatment mental or physical disorder
•  Criminal record

Disclosure of personally identifiable information of site and software users to third parties

We will not disclose to third parties any personally identifiable information you have provided. This shall not apply, however, in the following cases.

•  If we have obtained your consent.
• If we need to disclose personally identifiable information to cooperating companies, partner companies and contractors with which we have concluded NDA agreements in order to achieve the specific purpose for which the information was collected (in this case, we may ask such parties to protect your personally identifiable information in accordance with our regulations).
• If we use your information as statistical information in such a way that you cannot be identified (information collected using Cookies and IP address information is not classed as personally identifiable information)
• If we are required to provided such information by law, etc.

Reviewing, correcting and deleting personally identifiable information of site and software users

If you wish to review, correct or delete personally identifiable information on our site, please use the online enquiry form on this site. Having confirmed your identity, we will promptly review, correct or delete your personally identifiable information. We will notify you if we have corrected or deleted your personally identifiable information. Please note that you may be asked to provide some form of identification to verify your identity.

We may send you service announcements and information that might be of interest to you via e-mail. If you do not require such information, please notify us using the online enquiry form or the method we suggested at the time you provided your personally identifiable information, and we will ensure that you no longer receive such e-mails.

Measures in the event of use of personally identifiable information for other purposes

We will notify you by e-mail, based on the most recent personally identifiable information we hold about you, if we are going to use your personally identifiable information for any purpose other than the purpose specified to you and to which you consented at the time of collection of your personally identifiable information. We will not use your personally identifiable information for any new purpose without your consent. If the law does not require us to notify you, however, we will act in accordance with the applicable law.

Management of personally identifiable information of site and software users

The administrator of this site and Website staff shall strictly control any personally identifiable information you have provided and take appropriate measures to prevent the leak, misappropriation or falsification of such information. Access to personally identifiable information by third parties with which we have concluded NDA agreements shall be conditional upon compliance with the instructions of the site administrator and Website staff. We have taken various steps to prevent unauthorized access and viruses, including the creation of a strong firewall and the installation of virus detection software, and will continue to make further improvements in the future.

On this site we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, which is the industry standard for all Websites required to handle personally identifiable information. This enables us to protect the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information when it is transferred on the Internet.

Personally identifiable information on linked sites

Regarding the collection of personally identifiable information on Websites linked to this site, we do not share your personally identifiable information with Websites linked to this site, and are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to read their privacy policies and to be aware that you use such sites solely at your own risk.

Our initiatives to protect personally identifiable information

To protect the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information, we distribute this privacy policy and information management guidelines to all our employees. We pay utmost care to the use and management of personally identifiable information.