Please read the information set out below and enjoy worry-free use of the services offered on this site.
SMAF website (hereafter referred to as "this site") regards protecting our on-line visitors' privacy as a very important issue. When using the services offered on this site, read the policy below to check how we handle our visitors' personal information. You should only use this site's services if you agree with this policy. The policy may be revised or canceled by this site, so please review it periodically. Visitors who use the services offered on this site following a revision to this policy will be deemed to have agreed to the revised policy.
This site defines personal information as personally identifiable information related to individuals. This definition includes information on products purchased by individuals or services used by individuals.
- Information Collected from Site Visitors
Through the services it offers, this site asks visitors for information such as their e-mail address, mailing address, date of birth and gender. In addition to this information required in order to use the services offered by this site, we can offer services and content more suited to our visitors' needs by collecting detailed information on other matters.
We sometimes ask visitors to fill in a questionnaire as part of a survey. These questionnaires are voluntary, and are used to help us learn more about our visitors and choose advertising content, prizes, and promotions that will interest them.
- Use of Cookies
This site uses cookies to track visitors' login history. Cookies are small text files containing randomly selected alphanumeric identifiers instead of personal information. When you visit the website, they are transferred from our web server to your computer via the browser you use to view the Internet, and saved on your computer. Visitors cannot be identified by cookies, but by using the alphanumeric identifiers contained in the cookies we can offer our visitors services and content that is better suited to their needs.
You can use your browser settings to have your browser notify you that a site uses cookies and prevent your computer from accepting them.
You can still view this site without using cookies, but the functions you can use may be limited.
- How Do We Use the Information We Collect?
This site asks for personal information chiefly with the aim of providing services that match the needs of each visitor. The personal information we collect is used in accordance with this privacy policy. This use is limited to marketing activities (including mail magazine production, questionnaires, and purchase histories). You can change the information you have registered with us and start or stop services at any time.
To gain a better understanding of our visitors, we conduct surveys of visitor demographics, interests, and behavior, based on samples of information from registrations, server logs, and questionnaires. Survey results are collated, edited, and analyzed. This site sometimes shares the data collated in this way with business partners with whom we have concluded confidentiality agreements.
- Information Disclosure
This site does not disclose individual registration information to third parties without your consent. However, in the case where this is required by law and in the other cases listed below where we determine a need to save or disclose communication content, such information may be saved or disclosed to a third party.
- When required by law
- When required to comply with the terms and conditions of use of the site
- To respond to a request regarding content that violates the rights of a third party
- To protect this site and its registered users, the rights of the public, assets, or individual safety.
This site may provide general information about visitors to advertisers and business partners. This general information concerns matters such as the proportion of males and females among site users and does not include information identifying individual users.
- Accessing, Changing or Deleting Registered Information
You can change all or part of the information you have registered with this site by following the instructions on the visitors' guidance page (Yamatomo). If you forget your password, you can be reminded of your current password or change to a new one.
- Security Measures
To protect personal information that you provide to us, this site uses VeriSign, Inc.'s Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology during transmission of such information, which prevents theft or re-writing of information by a third party. You can check that transmissions are encrypted by confirming that the lock symbol on the status bar at the bottom of your browser screen is in the locked position.
Furthermore, access to personal information is limited to those persons who require such information in their work.
In some cases, a recognized business partner of this site may access part of a visitor's personal information. For example, it may be necessary to share your name and a delivery address with a transport company so that it can deliver a product from this site. For such third parties, we limit access to information and the ways in which information can be used. Apart from these cases, we do not share personal information without your permission.
- Links to Other Sites
This site may post links to sites operated by third parties, but such sites are not managed by us. Accordingly, this site can take no responsibility whatsoever for the content of such linked sites, nor for the protection of personal information on such sites. We recommend that you check the privacy provisions on each linked site you enter.
This site and its business partners use information in accordance with the privacy policy applicable at the time the information was collected. This policy may change, so please check it periodically. Visitors who use the services offered on this site following a revision to this policy will be deemed to have agreed to the revised policy. Inquiries regarding this privacy policy should be directed to the Music e-club webmaster (contact webmaster).
Supplementary ProvisionThis privacy policy is effective from December 20, 2000.
