PRIVACY POLICY

PRIVACY POLICY

We may collect information about you in order to accept catalogue subscription, to register auction participation and for other necessary reasons. In any case we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy according to following principles.

1. Basic Guideline

We conduct our privacy security policy according to our compliance program based upon JIS Q 15001 GUIDE LINE.

2. Purpose of Using Your Private Information

We collect your private information in order to:

  1. 1register you as a subscriber for our auction catalogues
  2. 2register you as a buyer or seller in our auction
  3. 3identify you when you participate in our sale room
  4. 4rate your financial credibility as a buyer
  5. 5send you necessary information related to our auction
  6. 6gather your opinion regarding us and art market in general

We delete all of your private information without any condition and delay when we receive official notification from you.

3. How to protect your privacy

We compile and stock your private information in our closed system database to protect your privacy from any illegal access to steal, rewrite or destruct them.
We will take all reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the security and integrity of all personal information provided to our website, or be any other means electronic or otherwise.

4. Information sharing and disclosure

We never rent, sell, or share any of your private information unless obtaining your permission. We, however, without your permission, may disclose such information if we are required to do so by a valid Court Order, if we are lawfully requested by government or law enforcement authorities, if we are required to do so pursuant to other legal processes, or if it becomed nessessary to protect the rights or property of Mainichi Auction.

5. Security measures when outsourcing

When we outsource necessary part of our business practice such as sending catalogues, conducting market survey and etc. we choose such agents very carefully and never commission such works to the companies or institutions that do not fulfill our standard of privacy policy. We also make periodical inspection to examine if such standard is observed at our outsourcing partners.

6. Improvement of our security protection system

We treat your private information as highly confidential and have implemented processes in order to make sure that only employee who need to know specific information have access to it. To observe our privacy policy strictly we appoint privacy security supervisor and under his/her supervision we constantly improve our structure and system to protect your private information through continuing training of our employees belonging to such section.

About the handling policy of informative data (information related to personal information)

We acquire informative data (as defined below) of the users via our website and application in order to offer more appropriate and beneficial services to those (hereinafter referred to as “User”) who use the services we offer (hereinafter referred to as “Our Service”), and also use it for advertisement, etc. We define the basic policy for handling the informative data as follows and shall commit to appropriate acquisition and utilization through company-wide efforts. Furthermore, the acquisition method, the utilization purpose, and provision of the informative data to a third party shall be defined for each individual service and shall be handled in compliance with the relevant laws, etc. when specified otherwise by the laws etc. in the relevant foreign country.

  • Defining the informative data

“Informative data” is defined as the information related to the User who uses the Internet and acquired when they use a terminal such as a PC, a cell-phone, etc. or a direct contact point such as a seminar, etc. to gain access to one of Our Services and is defined as the information which cannot identify the individual person. It mainly includes the following information:

  • Usage environment
  • Attribute information
  • Location information
  • Usage history information
  • Terminal identification information (Cookies, etc.)
  • Advertisement identifier
  • Advertisement information
  • Research panel data
  • About the handling of informative data in this website

This website shall acquire the informative data of Users according to the “handling policy of informative data” set by our company and use it for advertisement delivery.

  • External Transmission of Informative Data

This website uses cookies and other terminal identifiers (informative data), and collects information about users (user information) for transmission to third parties in order to improve the user experience, deliver personalized contents and advertising to users, and improve our website using web analytics. See below for details of the names and services of third parties, details of user information shared with third parties, and the purpose for which shared user information is used.

  • Cookie settings

This website uses Cookies to acquire the informative data. A cookie is a text file that contains a small amount of data about the user to be stored in the user’s device by the browser when the user visits the website. The users can use the Cookie banner displayed in this website or the Cookie setting button below to select whether they accept or decline the use of Cookies other than those Cookies strictly required for the functionality of this website. Please refer to the following “Resetting the informative data” for resetting the informative data already acquired by this website.

  • Safety control measures of the informative data

We shall take the safety control measures against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, tampering, leakage, etc., of the informative data. Furthermore, we shall take prompt actions to correct and improve the measures when any change occurs in the social situation or any defect is found in the safety control measures.

  • Opt-out

The user may reset the user information collected by the website (opt-out) by either of the following methods.

  • Opting Out on the Website

If you wish to opt-out of transmitting informative data to third parties, follow the instructions provided on the respective third party websites to opt-out. For information on the opt-out page of respective third parties, see “External Transmission of Informative Data”.

  • Resetting the Cookies

Deleting or declining the Cookies in the browser deletes the association with the informative data already acquired by this website and resets the informative data.If you delete cookies, or refuse to allow their use, certain services may be partially or fully unavailable, and other restrictions may apply to the use of this website.

  • Resetting the advertisement identifier on your smartphone

Resetting the advertisement identifier on your smartphone according to the following instructions on the website of the OS provider deletes the association with the informative data already acquired on the terminal and resets the informative data. If you use the website after deleting the advertisement identifier, the website will begin collecting user information again.

OS provider Website
Apple Ine. https://support.apple.com/ja-jp/HT202074
Google Japan G.K. https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/3405269?hl=ja
  • About opt-out of the iOS, iPadOS version app of IDFA (the advertisement identifier of iOS, iPadOS)

Check the following to follow the instructions on the Website to perform an opt-out if you wish to perform an opt-out for the tracking of IDFA on the iOS, iPadOS version app. https://support.apple.com/ja-jp/HT212025

  • CONTACT US

TOC Ariake Bldg. #W-5F, 3-5-7 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 135-0063
Mainichi Auction Inc.
website: https://www.my-auction.co.jp/en

In order to use advertising distribution services provided by third parties such as Google and Yahoo!, these third parties may obtain and use information such as visits and behavioral history on our website through cookies. The visit and behavioral history information obtained by these third parties is handled in accordance with their privacy policies. Users can stop the use of their visit and behavioral history information for advertising distribution through the opt-out means provided by these third parties.

MAINICHI AUCTION INC.
Representative Director, President and Executive Officer: Toshiei Okazawa

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