Personal Information
Protection Policy

Position on Personal Information Protection

This privacy policy provides information on how BEENOS Inc. (referred to as the "Company") processes and manages personal information and anonymized processed information (collectively referred to as “Personal Information”) when the Company operates this website.
The Company recognizes the importance of compliance with the applicable laws, appropriate collection, process, and internal management of Personal Information.

  • The Company will comply with the applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and other rules pertaining to the protection of Personal Information.
  • The Company will prevent and correct unauthorized access to Personal Information, as well as the loss, destruction, falsification, and leakage of any Personal Information.
  • Personal Information collected by the Company will be handled within the scope of the purpose set forth in privacy policy and the Company will establish and implement confirmation procedures to prevent the use of Personal Information outside of the scope of the purpose.
  • The Company shall respond in good faith to inquiries and requests for disclosure regarding Personal Information from you.

Shota Naoi
President and CEO
BEENOS Inc.

Privacy Policy

1. Personal information the Company may collect

In order to achieve the purpose of use described in Article 3 below, the Company may collect and retain the personal information specified below. The personal information collected from Customers includes information provided directly by Customers, information obtained automatically through Cookies and other means, and information obtained from third parties. Specifically, it refers to information about a living individual that falls under any of the items below. For more information about Cookies, please refer to Article 10 below.

  • Information (name, gender, e-mail address, telephone number, address, nickname, pen name, date of birth, occupation, job title and any other relevant information that can be used to identify a specific individual through a combination of information) that can be used to identify the specific individual due to its inclusion of a name, date of birth, or other description contained in such information (any and all matters written, recorded or otherwise expressed using voice, movement or other methods in documents, drawings or electromagnetic records).
  • Information that contains individual identification codes.

2.Handling of anonymized information and pseudonymized information

The Company currently does not create anonymized information (meaning anonymously processed information as defined in the Act on the Protection of Personal Information; the same shall apply hereinafter). If the Company creates anonymized information or provides it to a third party, the Company shall take precautions for safety management in compliance with the separately stipulated Rules for Handling Anonymized Information. If the Company creates or collects pseudonymized information (meaning pseudonymously processed information as defined in the Act on the Protection of Personal Information; the same shall apply hereinafter), the Company shall use it for statistical data analysis and take precautions for safety management in accordance with laws and regulations pertaining to the protection of personal information. The Company will not provide pseudonymized information to third parties, except in accordance with laws and regulations pertaining to the protection of personal information.

3. Purpose of use, legal basis

The Company shall use personal information collected for the purposes described below.
The Company shall, except as permitted by laws and regulations pertaining to the protection of personal information, obtain the consent of Customers each time when using their personal information beyond the extent necessary to achieve the purposes described below. In addition, the Company shall not use personal information in a manner that may encourage or induce illegal or unjust acts.

  • Responding to Customers inquiries
  • Questionnaire
  • Sending various notifications
  • Preparation of statistical data providing to the group companies of the Company (meaning its subsidiaries, and its equity method affiliates that are defined in Securities and Exchange Law) and Company’s business partner.
  • Exercise of rights and performance of obligations under contracts and laws and regulations
  • Recruitment
  • Consideration of business alliance

The Company processes personal data provided by Customers in the performance of contracts with Customers for the services of the Company. For this reason, entering into a contract between Customers and the Company for the Company’s services is subject to the consent of Customers and provision of personal data by Customers as requested by the Company. Please note that if Customers fail to, or opt not to, provide any personal data requested by the Company, Customers may not use the Company’s services. Where the Company processes personal data based on the consent of Customers, Customers have the right to withdraw consent at any time.

4. Controller and management of personal information

The controller of personal information held by the Company is BEENOS, Inc. (the company registered in Japan under registration no. 0107-01-020605). The Company represents the controller and appoints a Personal Information Administration Manager to the division responsible for managing personal information, and that division shall facilitate and supervise activities to protect personal information through the appropriate management of such information.

President and Group CEO: Shota Naoi
Personal Information protection officer: Director and Executive Managing Officer Head of Strategy & Corporate HQ Taisuke Miura
BEENOS Inc.
Gotenyama Trust Tower 7F, 4-7-35 Kita-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0001
TEL: +81-3-5739-3350
E-mail: privacy_corp@beenos.com

5. Retention of personal information

The Company will retain personal information held by the Company only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in Article 3 above; provided, however, that if the Company is required by laws and regulations pertaining to the protection of personal information and any other applicable laws and regulations to retain personal information, the Company shall comply with the relevant laws and regulations.

6. Provision of personal information

The Company takes appropriate steps to protect personal information in accordance with laws and regulations pertaining to the protection of personal information and shall not disclose nor provide personal information in a personally identifiable form to a third party without the consent of the subject, except as permitted by laws and regulations pertaining to the protection of personal information. Please note that personal data held by the Company may be transferred to a third party payment service provider or to a third party business partner if it is necessary to deal with such illegal activities as money laundering.

7. Sharing of personal information

The Company may share personal information as follows:

Sharing with the group companies of the Company

  • Items of personal data to be shared

    Same as the personal information described in Article 1 above

  • Scope of those who share personal data

    Group companies of the Company (including new group companies of the Company participated after establishment of this Privacy Policy)

  • Purposes of use by those who share personal data

    Same as those purposes of use described in Article 3 above

  • Name and address of the person responsible for the management of the personal data and, in the case of a corporation, the name of its representative

    BEENOS, inc., President and CEO Shota Naoi
    Gotenyama Trust Tower 7F, 4-7-35, Kita-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan

8. Transfer of personal information to third countries

If the Company transfers personal data to a country that the European Commission does not certify as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data (a country that does not have a so-called “adequacy decision”), the Company will carry out the transfer on the basis of an agreement that meets the requirements set by the EU for the transfer of personal data outside the EU. Because of the global nature of the Company’s business, the Company will take appropriate measures in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations pertaining to the protection of personal information when making overseas transfers of the personal data of Customers.

9. Security

When personal information is provided through this website, it is encrypted using the industry standard encryption method called TLS (Transport Layer Security) to protect it from unauthorized access of a third party.
The Company shall provide security by using TLS encrypted communication to protect personal information when the Company deems it necessary to do so.
The Company also places strict controls on personal information collected by the Company based on the management standard it has predetermined and takes steps to prevent access to, and loss, destruction, alteration, leakage and infection of personal information by establishing a firewall, developing antivirus measures, and taking other action.

10. Cookies

  • This website uses the technology known as cookies.

    Cookies are a system for allowing a communications device used by Customers to temporarily retain certain information as data and identify the Customers based on the data whenever Customers revisit the website. The Company provides services on the premise that cookies are used. Please note that If Customers do not allow the use of cookies, some of the Company's services may not be available. Customers can set whether or not to allow cookies on the Customers’ browser. Please check the settings as necessary.

  • The Company’s advertisements are placed on various websites on the Internet by third party distribution services such as Google. However, Customers can disable the use of cookies by Google by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page (or disable the use of cookies by third party distribution services by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
  • The Company uses Google Analytics to improve the performance and service of our website to Customers. Customers’ information collected, recorded, and analyzed by Google Analytics does not include any information that can identify a specific individual. Collected and analyzed information is managed by Google Inc. based on its privacy policy.
    • (i) Tool provider: Google Inc.
    • (ii) Information obtained: Website usage (access status, traffic, routing, etc.)

    By disabling Google Analytics in your browser's add-on settings, it is also possible to stop the Company from collecting Customers’ information by use of Google Analytics. In order to disable Google Analytics, please download and install the "Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on" on Google's download page and change the add-on settings in your browser.

    When Google Analytics is disabled, Google Analytics will also be disabled on websites other than this site that a user may visit, however, Google Analytics may be enabled again by reconfiguring the add-on settings in your browser yourself.


    Google Analytics Terms of Service
    https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/gb/
    Google Privacy Policy
    https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
    Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
    https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

11. Information provision to business partners

The Company is not responsible for the use of personal information that is collected independently at websites linked from this website, such as websites and services of third parties that can be accessed through this website. Therefore, the Company accepts no liability or responsibility for the independent provisions and activities of these websites or companies. The Company advises Customers to check the privacy policy of each website.

12. Disclosure/revision/deletion of personal information

The Company shall respond to requests for disclosure, revision, addition, deletion, discontinuation of use, elimination, cessation of provision to third parties and notification of purposes of use of personal information, withdrawal of consent (where applicable), and disclosure of third-party records, in accordance with laws and regulations pertaining to the protection of personal information. However, if such request does not meet the requirements provided by laws and regulations pertaining to the protection of personal information, the Company may not respond to the request.

13. Method of accepting a request for disclosure of personal information

When making a request for disclosure, revision, addition, deletion, discontinuation of use, elimination, or cessation of provision to third parties of personal information, or other requests, please complete the specified request form in accordance with procedures separately set out by the Company and send it by mail to the contact address below.
In the event of a request for disclosure, please enclose the predetermined fee, and document delivery postage if (but only when) you request disclosure in writing.

Contact

Personal Information Customer Consultation Service, BEENOS, inc.
Gotenyama Trust Tower 7F, 4-7-35 Kita-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0001
Email : privacy_corp@beenos.com

14. Method of accepting request for notification of purposes of use of personal information

To request notification of the purposes of use of personal information, please contact the Company at privacy_corp@beenos.com.

15. Compliance with laws and regulations pertaining to the protection of personal information

The Company may revise this Privacy Policy when laws and regulations pertaining to the protection of personal information are changed or as necessary to improve the protection of personal information. On these occasions, the Company shall post the updated Privacy Policy.

16. Opinions, complaints and objections as to the Privacy Policy

For inquiries about this Privacy Policy and the handling of personal information, please contact the following consultation service:

Contact

Personal Information Customer Consultation Service, BEENOS, inc.
Gotenyama Trust Tower 7F, 4-7-35 Kita-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0001
Email : privacy_corp@beenos.com

Contact of Representative in the European Union

Shop Airlines Europe B.V.
Evert van de Beekstraat 104, The Base B, 1118CN Schiphol, the Netherlands
Email : privacy_corp@beenos.com

Representative office in the United Kingdom

Tenso UK Ltd.
130 Shaftesbury Avenue, 2nd Floor, London, W1D 5EU, United Kingdom
Email : privacy_corp@beenos.com


1st February 2007 established
30th May 2017 amended
16th December 2020 amended
1st Apr 2022 amended