Privacy Policy for Californian Resident

This Privacy Policy was last updated on, and is effective as of, June 25, 2024.

The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. In addition to our Privacy Policy (https://BConGlobal.com/Privacy-Policy), this webpage further describes your CPRA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

IF YOU ARE NOT A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, THIS NOTICE DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU. PLEASE REFER TO OUR MAIN PRIVACY NOTICE HERE (https://bconglobal.com/Privacy-Policy) INSTEAD.

Overview

This Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) describes the types of information that Business Consultants, Inc. (the “Company”, "we", "us" or “our”) collects from you or that you may provide to us when you visit our website at: https://bconglobal.com/, and/or its sub-domains (individually and collectively, the “Website"), and our practices for collecting, using, and disclosing that information.

This Policy applies only to information we collect on or through the Website. This Policy does not apply to information that we collect offline, or that you provide to, or is collected by, any third party, which may have their own privacy policies that we encourage you to read before providing your information on or through them (see “Third-Party Information Collection” below).

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. In using the Website, you agree to be bound by this Policy. If you do not accept the terms of this Policy, you may not access or use the Website and you should discontinue your use of it.

This Policy may change from time to time (see “Changes to Our Privacy Policy” below). Your continued use of the Website after we revise this Policy means you accept those changes, so please check this Policy periodically for updates.

How We Collect Information

We collect information from and about users of the Website:

Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically when you use the Website.

Information You Provide Directly to Us

When you download, register with, access, or use any aspect of the Website, we may ask you to provide the following types of information:

Information by which you may be personally identified, including but not limited to, your name, postal address, email address, and telephone number (“personal information”).
Payment information, including but not limited to, credit card information.

This information may be provided by you in the following ways:

Filling in forms on the Website. This includes information that you may provide when downloading, registering with, accessing, or using any aspect of the Website, when requesting further services, and when reporting problems with the Website.
Contacting us. This includes information you may provide when you correspond with us, including, but not limited to, email addresses and phone numbers.
Participating in surveys. This includes information you may provide when you respond to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Carrying out transactions. Details of transactions you carry out through the Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through the Website.
Searching within the Website. This includes information you may provide when you perform search queries on the Website.

If you provide information for publication or display (“Posted”) on public areas of the Website or websites you access through the Website (collectively “User Contributions”), then your User Contributions are Posted and transmitted to others at your own risk. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of third parties with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Automatic Information Collection and Tracking

When you download, register with, access, or use any aspect of the Website, the Website may use technology to automatically collect:

Usage Details. When you access and use the Website, we may automatically collect certain details of your access to and use of the Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on or through the Website.
Device Information. We may collect information about your mobile device and internet connection, including the device’s unique device identifier, IP address, operating system, browser type, mobile network information, and the device’s telephone number.

If you do not want us to collect any of the above information, then you may decide not to use the Website. For more information, see “Your Choices About Our Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Your Information” below.

Information Collection and Tracking Technologies

The technologies we use for automatic information collection may include:

Cookies (or mobile cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on your smartphone. It may be possible to refuse to accept mobile cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your smartphone. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our App. Please see our “Cookie Policy” located at https://bconglobal.com/Cookie-Policy for additional information regarding cookies, how the Website uses cookies, and how you may be able to disable cookies.
Web Beacons. The Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related app statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain app content and verifying system and server integrity).

Third-Party Information Collection

Generally. When you use the Website or its content, certain third parties may use automatic information collection technologies to collect information about you or your device. These third parties may include:

Advertisers, ad networks, and ad servers.
Analytics companies. Please see additional information below under “Our Use of Google Analytics and Hubspot”.
Your mobile device manufacturer.
Your mobile service provider.

These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps, and other online services websites. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

Payments Processing. For products and/or services offered through the Website, we use third-party services for payments processing (e.g., payment processors). The Company itself will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly by you to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information for such purposes is governed by their privacy policy. Payment processors are required by an industry self-governing body to adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

Other Sites. The Website may contain links to other sites and applications/apps that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site or app. We strongly advise you to review the applicable privacy policy of every site or app you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, apps or services that are linked from the Website.

Our Use of Google Analytics and Hubspot

We use a tool called “Google Analytics” and “Hubspot” to collect information about use of this site. Google Analytics and Hubspot collects information such as how often users visit or use the Website, what pages users visit when they do so, and what other sites user used prior to coming to the Website. For more information regarding how Google uses such information, please visit the following website: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. As for Hubspot, please visit following website: https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy We use the information we get from Google Analytics and Hubspot to improve the Website. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Website is subject to and restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use (https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/) and the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy). Hubspot’s ability to use and share information collected by Hubpost about your visits to the Website is subject to and restricted by the Hubspot Terms of Use (https://legal.hubspot.com/terms-of-service) and Hubspot Privacy Policy (https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy). You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to the Website by disabling cookies on your browser. For more information on disabling cookies on your browser, see “Your Choices About Our Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Your Information” below.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information, to:

Provide you with the Website and its contents, and any other information, products, or services that you request from us.
Fulfill any purpose for which you provide it.
Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
Notify you when updates for the Website are available, and of changes to any products or services we offer or provide though it.
Develop the Website, products, and services.
Provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
Respond to law enforcement requests, or as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.

The usage information we collect helps us to improve the Website and to deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you use the Website.

We may also use your information to contact you about products and services that may be of interest to you, including our own good and services or the products and services of third parties. For more information, see “Your Choices About Our Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Your Information” below.

We may use the information we collect to display advertisements. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, however, you may during the term of your agreement with us, provide us with your personal likeness, such as a photograph or a recording of your voice. By providing your personal likeness or a recording of your voice to us, you consent to our use of, and grant to us an unrestricted, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide right, and license to use, copy, reproduce, disclose, sell, resell, publish, or broadcast, your personal likeness or your voice recording for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual without restriction.

In addition, we may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To our business partners and their practitioners.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business, including but not limited to, for printing and/or delivering our products.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about the Website’s users is among the assets transferred.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and for billing and collection.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others.

Your Choices About Our Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Your Information

This section describes mechanisms that we provide for you to control certain uses and disclosures of your information.

Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you disable or refuse cookies or block the use of other tracking technologies, some parts of the Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Promotions by the Company. You can opt-out of receiving promotional materials by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile or by selecting “unsubscribe” in emails we send to you.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see “Your California Privacy Rights” below for more information.

Nevada residents who wish to exercise their sales opt-out rights under Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A may submit request by sending an email to the following email address, Global_info@bcon.jp, or calling us at the following telephone number, +81 3-6260-7571.

Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.

You may also send us an email at Global_info@bcon.jp to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other users of the Website.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see “Your California Privacy Rights” below for more information.

Children’s Privacy and Age Limitations for the Website

The Website is intended for use by persons aged 18 or older, and by your use of the Website you affirm that you are at least 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18. If we discover or are made aware that we have received personal information from an individual who indicates that he or she is, or whom we otherwise have reason to believe is, under the age of 18, we will delete such information from our systems. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a child under the age of 18 and believe that your child has disclosed personal information to us we welcome you contacting us as provided below so that we can address such matter.

From time to time there may be instances when we collect information through the Website about children under the age of 18 but we will only do this when such information is provided to us by that child’s parent or legal guardian. In all cases where we’ve collected information about a child under the age of 18, the parent or legal guardian may contact us via email at Global_info@bcon.jp, or via regular mail at Business Consultants, Inc., Global Network Division, Akihabara Center Place Building 8F, 1 Kanda Aioicho, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan 101-0029, to review and request deletion of such child's personal information as well as to prohibit the further use of such information by us.

California Minors

California residents under 18 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see “Your California Privacy Rights” below for more information.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will post the most recent privacy policy on this page.

The date that this Policy was last revised and this Policy’s effective date is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting this Policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this Policy and our privacy practices, contact us via email at Global_info@bcon.jp, or via regular mail at Business Consultants, Inc., Global Network Division, Akihabara Center Place Building 8F, 1 Kanda Aioicho, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan 101-0029.

Your California Privacy Rights

The following additional privacy notices for California residents (the “California Notice”) supplement the information contained in the other portions of this Policy and apply solely to individuals who reside in the State of California (“California consumer” or “you”). The Company adopts this California Notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, and their related regulations (collectively the “California Privacy Law” or the “CPL”) and other applicable California laws.

Overview of Consumer Rights Under the CPL

Under the CPL, California consumers have certain rights regarding their personal information, including:

The right to know the categories of personal information that the Company has collected and the categories of sources from which we obtained such information.
The right to know the Company’s business purposes for sharing personal information.
The right to know the categories of third parties with whom the Company shared personal information.
- - The right to know if we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, comprising two separate lists disclosing:
    - any sales, which list identifies the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased (note that at present we do not sell personal information that we collect); and
    - any disclosures for a business purpose, which list identifies the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
The right to access the specific pieces of personal information that the Company has collected
The right to correct personal information that the Company has collected.
The right to delete your personal information.
The right to not be discriminated against if you exercise your rights under the CPL.

The provisions below of this California Notice provide further details about these and other rights and certain details about the exercise of such rights.

Information We Collect

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California consumer, household or device (collectively, "personal information"). Personal information does not include:

Publicly available information from government records.
De-identified or aggregated California consumer information.
Information excluded from the CPL’s scope, including:
Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data; and
Personal information covered by certain other laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

We have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

Category	Examples
Identifiers	An individual’s name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number or other similar identifiers
Personal information categories described in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)	A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information (Note: Certain of the above information may be considered to be sensitive personal information under the CPL and, to the extent such data is considered to be sensitive personal information you have the right to limit the use and disclosure of such data.)
Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.	Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).
Commercial information	Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies
Biometric information.	Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.
Internet or other similar network activity	Browsing history, search history, information on a California consumer's interaction with our website, application, or advertisement and any social media sites from which user information is linked, connected or obtained
Geolocation data	Physical location or movements (Note: Certain precise geolocation data may be considered to be sensitive personal information under the CPL and, to the extent such data is considered to be sensitive personal information you have the right to limit the use and disclosure of such data.)
Sensory data.	Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
Professional or employment-related information.	Current or past job history or performance evaluations.
Inferences drawn from other personal information	Examples include a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities and aptitudes

Sources of Personal Information

In addition to sources of personal information addressed elsewhere in this Policy, we obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

Directly from You. For example, from forms you complete or products and services you purchase or from communications with you such as when you contact the Company (whether in person, by mail, by phone, online, via electronic communication or by other means) including our customer support service.
Indirectly from You. For example, from observing your actions on the Website or from products or services that you have purchased from the Company, if you have enabled such functionality, such as telemetry services.
From Others.
- From third party service providers. For example, if you choose to make an electronic payment directly to the Company, or through a linked website or mobile application, or through an affiliate of ours, the Company may receive personal information about you from third parties such as payment services providers, for the purposes of that payment.
- From affiliates. We may collect personal information about you from our affiliates or others acting on their behalf.
From Public Sources. For example, we may collect information from public records.

Uses of Personal Information

In addition to uses of personal information addressed elsewhere in this Policy, we may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

To fulfill the reason that you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote, request to be contacted by an affiliate, or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product or service, we may use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your information to facilitate new product or service orders or to process returns.
To perform services such as customer service, order fulfillment, payment processing, financing and advertising, marketing or analytic services.
To advance our commercial or economic interests, such as by helping you to buy, rent, lease, join, subscribe to, provide, or exchange products, information, or services, or enabling or effecting, directly or indirectly, a commercial transaction.
To verify or maintain quality or safety standards or improve or upgrade a product or service provided or controlled by or for us.
To provide, support, personalize and develop the Website, products and services such as to perform warranty related services or other post-sale activities such as product or service monitoring or repairs.
To create, maintain, customize and secure your account with us.
To process your requests, purchases, transactions and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
To personalize your Website experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through the Website, third-party sites and via mail, email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).
To help maintain the safety, security and integrity of the Website, products and services, databases and other assets and business.
For testing, research and analysis purposes, including to develop and improve the Website, products and services.
To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order or governmental regulations.
As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CPL or applicable law.
To send you information relevant to your past purchases and interests, subject to compliance with applicable laws regarding direct marketing.
To otherwise use as reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve our operational or notified purpose for collecting personal information and as compatible with the context in which we collected the information.
To perform services on behalf of a CPL-covered business or its service provider, such as customer service, order fulfillment, payment processing, financing and advertising, marketing, or analytic services.
To review and audit our business interactions with you.
To detect or prevent security incidents or other illegal activity.
To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about the Website users, including California consumers, is among the assets transferred.

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Sharing Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.

In the preceding twelve (12) months, the Company has disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

Identifiers, including without limitation, email address and/or postal address.
Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)), including without limitation, name, address and/or telephone number.
Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
Commercial information.
Biometric information.
Internet or other similar network activity.
Geolocation data.
Sensory data.
Professional or employment-related information.
Inferences drawn from other personal information.

The categories of third parties to which we may disclose personal information collected by us include the following:

Service providers
Affiliates
Business partners and their practitioners
Recipients of data from cookies

Sales of Personal Information

The Company does not sell personal information to third parties.

Exercising Your CPL Rights and Choices

The sections below describe how you may exercise your rights under the CPL.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights. You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see “Exercising Access, Data Portability and Deletion Rights” below), we will disclose to you:

The categories of personal information we collected about you.
The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information.
The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
If we disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, a list disclosing the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

As allowed by the CPL, we do not provide these access and data portability rights for business-to-business personal information.

Deletion and Correction Request Rights.

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see “Exercising Access, Data Portability, Deletion and Correction Rights” below), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our (and service provider) records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Debug products or services to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another California consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et seq.).
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with California consumer expectations based on your relationship with us, such as future field campaigns or product safety issues.
Comply with a legal obligation.
Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

As allowed by the CPL, we do not provide these deletion rights for business-to-business personal information.

In addition, if you provide us with a verifiable consumer request to correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct such information in accordance with your instructions.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, Deletion and Correction Rights.

To exercise the access, data portability, deletion and correction rights described above, you should submit a verifiable consumer request to us by one of the following methods:

Emailing us at Global_info@bcon.jp.
By postal mail at Business Consultants, Inc., Global Network Division, Akihabara Center Place Building 8F, Akihabara Center Place Building 8F, Akihabara Center Place Building 8F.
Accessing your online account that you maintain with us.
By calling us at +81 3-6260-7571.

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of a minor child for whom you are a parent or legal guardian.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a twelve (12) month period. The verifiable consumer request must provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify that you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative, which may include:

Your name
Your address
Additional information depending upon the type of request and the sensitivity of the information involved with such request
Describe your request with sufficient detail to enable us to properly understand, evaluate and respond to such request.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or your authority to make the request and confirm that the personal information involved with the request relates to you.

Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. However, we will consider requests made through a password-protected online account that you maintain with us to be sufficiently verified when the request relates to personal information associated with that online account, provided such online account functionality is then made available by us on the Website.

We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

If you have an online account with us, we may deliver our written response to that online account, provided that such online account functionality is then made available by us on the Website. If you do not have an online account with us, or such functionality is not available for your online account we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.

If we’re unable to comply with your request, the response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with the request. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily usable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CPL rights. Unless permitted by the CPL or other applicable law, we will not as a result of you exercising any of your rights under the CPL:

Deny you products or services;
Charge you different prices or rates for products or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties;
Provide you a different level or quality of products or services; or
Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for products or services or a different level or quality of products or services.

However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CPL that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CPL-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your personal information's value and contain written terms that describe the program's material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt in consent, which you may revoke at any time.

Retention of Personal Information

Our policy is to retain personal information only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the reason for which the personal information was collected and as necessary to process such personal information. In addition to the above, we will retain your personal information for the purposes of satisfying any professional, legal, accounting or reporting requirements to which we are subject. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the scope, nature and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the personal information, the purposes for which we collected and processed your personal information and whether we can reasonably achieve those purposes through other means, as well as any applicable legal and professional requirements.

Other California Privacy-Related Disclosures

Sharing Personal Information for Direct Marketing Purposes. Before sharing personal information of California consumers with third parties for direct marketing purposes we will obtain opt-in consent from the applicable California consumers or provide such California consumers with a cost-free method to opt out.

California Do-Not-Track Disclosure. At this time, the Website is not set up to honor web browser do-not-track settings. Do-not-track is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. When a user activates the do-not-track settings in browsers that offer this setting, the browser sends a message to websites or applications requesting them not to track the user. For more information about do-not-track matters, please visit www.allaboutdnt.org.

Information on Marketing Disclosures. California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, information about the personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If applicable, this information would include a list of the categories of personal information that was shared and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us at: at Global_info@bcon.jp, or via regular mail at Business Consultants, Inc., Global Network Division, Akihabara Center Place Building 8F, 1 Kanda Aioicho, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan 101-0029.

Content Removal Requests for Website Users Under 18 Years Old. If you are a user of the Website under 18 years of age and reside in California, you may request and obtain removal of, content or information that you have posted on the Website. You may send us any such requests by one of the following methods: (i) by email (writing “Privacy Policy/Removal Request” in the subject line) at Global_info@bcon.jp, or via regular mail at Business Consultants, Inc., Global Network Division, Akihabara Center Place Building 8F, 1 Kanda Aioicho, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan 101-0029. We will review the request and respond promptly. You should be aware that a request to remove content or information posted by you on the Website does not ensure or require complete or comprehensive removal of such content or information from our databases.

Complaints

If you have any complaint about use of the Website, you may contact us by email at via email at Global_info@bcon.jp, or via regular mail at Business Consultants, Inc., Global Network Division, Akihabara Center Place Building 8F, 1 Kanda Aioicho, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan 101-0029. In accordance with California Civil Code Section 1789.3, California residents may also file complaints with the Complaint Assistance Unit, Division of Consumer Services, California Department of Consumer Affairs by postal mail at 1625 North Market Road, Suite N112, Sacramento, CA 95834 or by telephone at 800-952-5210.

Changes to Our California Notice

We reserve the right to amend this California Notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this California Notice, we will post the updated California Notice on the Website and update the California Notice’s effective date. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

Your EU Privacy Rights

Persons who are residents of the member countries of the European Union (“EU”) or other data subjects covered by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, (EU) 2016/679 (the “GDPR”), have certain additional privacy rights under applicable law. The following provisions of this Privacy Policy provide an overview of these additional rights.

Legal Bases for Processing Personal Information of European Union Citizens

When processing your personal information, the Company may rely on one or more of the following legal bases (or other available legal grounds), depending on the circumstances:

Legitimate Interests. We may process your personal information where the Company has a legitimate interest in such processing for managing, operating or promoting our business, and that legitimate interest is not overridden by your interests, fundamental rights or freedoms.
Consent. We may process your personal information where the Company has obtained your consent to the processing.
Contractual Necessity. We may process your personal information where such processing is necessary in connection with any contract that the Company has with you.
Legal Requirements. We may process your personal information where such processing is required by applicable law.

Disclosures to Third Parties

Your personal information will not be disclosed to third parties except for where it is necessary for fulfillment of the Company’s obligations to you or where the Company is obliged or permitted to do so by law (including, without limitation, through the terms of any agreement the Company may have with you), or where the Company makes disclosures that are otherwise consistent with the uses described in this Policy.

The Company may also disclose any information (including personal information) relating to you to law enforcement authorities or any regulatory or government authority in response to any request including requests in connection with the investigation of any suspected illegal activities.

The Company reserves the right to transfer any personal information the Company has about you in the event the Company sells or transfers all or a portion of our business or assets, or merges with another organization. Should such a sale, transfer or merger occur, the Company will use reasonable efforts seeking to require that the transferee uses personal information you have provided to the Company in a manner that is consistent with this Policy.

We will not sell, resell or lease your personal information to any third parties but the Company may, if required for the purpose(s) for which your personal information was collected and processed, share it with the Company partners and/or service providers to enable them to provide their services to the Company or to you, as applicable. The foregoing are in addition to the other uses described elsewhere in this Policy.

Security of Personal Information of European Citizens

The Company has policies and technical and organizational measures in place which are intended to safeguard and protect your personal information against unauthorized access, accidental loss, improper use and disclosure. However, you should be aware that information transmitted over the internet is not completely secure because of the nature of the internet and that systems and measures used to secure information are not flawless. For these reasons, although the Company will use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, the Company does not warrant the security of personal information transmitted to the Company or stored by the Company, and personal information that is transmitted to the Company by you electronically is done at your own risk.

Retention of Personal Information of European Citizens

Our policy is to retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the Company collected such personal information, including for the purposes of satisfying any professional, legal, accounting or reporting requirements to which the Company is subject. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, the Company considers the scope, nature and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the personal information, the purposes for which the Company collected and processed your personal information and whether the Company can achieve those purposes through other means, and any applicable legal and professional requirements.

Your Rights as a European Citizen

You have a number of rights concerning your personal information that the Company holds and uses, including the following:

Right of Access. You have the right to be informed about what personal information the Company holds about you and to a copy of this personal information.
Right to Rectification. You have the right to have any inaccurate personal information which the Company holds about you updated or corrected.
Right to Erasure. In certain circumstances you may request that the Company delete the personal information that the Company holds about you.
Right to Complain. You have the right to lodge a complaint regarding the processing of your personal information to an applicable governmental or supervisory authority in your country.
Right to Withdraw Consent. Where processing of personal information is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw such consent at any time.
Right to Object. Where the Company relies on our legitimate interests to process your personal information, you have the right to object to such use and the Company is required to discontinue such processing unless the Company can demonstrate an overriding legitimate interest in such processing.
Right to Restriction. You have the right to request that the Company stop using your personal information in certain circumstances including if you believe that the personal information the Company holds about you is inaccurate or that the Company’s use of your personal information is unlawful. If you validly exercise this right, the Company will store your personal information and will not carry out any other processing until the issue is resolved.

You may exercise any of the above requests in writing to the Company via email at via email at Global_info@bcon.jp, or via regular mail at Business Consultants, Inc., Global Network Division, Akihabara Center Place Building 8F, 1 Kanda Aioicho, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan 101-0029. You are also free at any time to request that the Company stop using your personal information for marketing purposes by writing to the Company via email at the above email address or via regular mail at the above mailing address.

Contact Us:

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us.

Business Consultants, Inc.

Global Network Division

Akihabara Center Place Building 8F,

1 Kanda Aioicho, Chiyoda-Ku,

Tokyo, Japan 101-0029

E-mail: Global_info@bcon.jp

Tel: +81 3-6260-7571