Privacy policy
Privacy Policy
A.PRESSE EC STORE (the “Service”) is operated by Anthings Inc. (the “Company”) and consists of the store and website, including all related information, content, features, tools, products, and services.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose your personal date when you visit, use, make a purchase from, or otherwise interact with the Service.
In the event of any conflict between our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy shall prevail with respect to the handling of Personal date.
The Service is hosted by Shopify, which enables us to provide the Service.
For information regarding the handling of personal data on Shopify, please refer to Shopify's Privacy Policy, Privacy Policy for Customer and Cookie Policy.
By using the Service, you agree to these Shopify policies.
1. Personal Date We Collect or Process
“Personal date” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can reasonably be linked to an individual.
It does not include anonymous or irreversibly anonymized information.
We may collect or process the following categories of personal date:
- Contact Information: Name, address, billing address, shipping address, phone number, email address
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Financial Information: Payment-related information, transaction details, and payment confirmation
(Please note that we do not store credit card numbers) - Account Information: Username, password, and account settings
- Transaction Information: Browsing, purchase, return, exchange, and cancellation history
- Communications: Inquiries and correspondence with customer support
- Device and Usage Information: IP address, browser type, access times, and interaction data
2. How We Collect Personal Date
You directly provide us with most of the data we collect.
We collect data and process data when you.
- Register online or place an order for any of our products or services.
- Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback on any of our message boards or via email.
- Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.
- To improve our service, we indirectly collect customer behavior history and interaction data—such as page views, clicks, items added to the cart, purchases, and items added to favorites through Shopify and our service providers.
We may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:
3. Purpose of Use
We process personal date for the following purposes:
- Providing, operating, and improving the Service.The lawful basis for these uses is your consent , to perform our contract with you or to pursue our legitimate interests in maintaining our Service quality and giving our users the best experience.
- Processing orders, payments, shipping, returns, and exchanges.The lawful basis for these uses is to perform our contract with you.
- Customer support and communication.The lawful basis for these uses is your consent.
- Marketing and advertising (where consent is required, only after obtaining consent).The lawful basis for these uses is your consent.
- to decide which information to show you, where you give us your consent. The lawful basis for these uses is your consent.
- Ensuring security and preventing fraud.The lawful basis for these uses is to pursue our legitimate interests in maintaining our Service quality and giving our users the best experience.
- Compliance with laws and responding to legal obligations.The lawful basis for these uses is to comply with our legal obligations.
4. Disclosure and Sharing of Personal Date
We may share personal date with third parties in the following circumstances:
- Shopify and service providers for IT services, payment processing, analytics, and customer support
- Logistics, fulfillment, and warehouse service providers involved in storage, packing, shipping, returns, and exchanges
- Advertising and marketing partners (where consent has been obtained, if required)
- When required for legal compliance, protection of rights, or business transfers
In all cases, personal date is shared only to the extent necessary for the performance of such services.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies to operate and improve the Service.
Details regarding the types of cookies used, purposes, management methods, opt-out options, and our response to Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals are described in our Cookie Policy.
Consent management is handled via Consentmo GDPR Compliance.
6. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal date:
- Right to obtain information about data processing
- Right to access personal date
- Right to request correction,deletion,rectification,completion
- Right to ask us for a copy of your personal date
- Right to restrict processing of your personal date
- Right to data portability
- Right not to be subject to automated decision-making
- Right to request an explanation of the handling rules
- Right to withdraw consent
- Right to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal date under CCPA/CPRA
7. International Data Transfers
We may transfer your personal date outside of Japan, including to the European Union, the United States, and other regions, as necessary for business operations.
When we do so, we implement appropriate safeguards in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
When handling personal data of EEA or UK residents, the legal basis for transferring personal data outside the EEA or UK shall be adequacy decisions where such decisions exist for the destination country. Where no adequacy decision exists, the legal basis shall be the necessity of the transfer for the performance of a contract between the data subject and the controller.
8. Data Security and Retention
We take reasonable security measures to protect personal date; however, no security system is completely secure.
Personal date is retained only for as long as necessary to fulfill its intended purpose or as required by applicable laws.
9. Children’s Personal Date
The Service is not intended for children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal date from such individuals.
10. When we handle personal data for California residents
We may collect personal data from customers residing in California for the same business purposes as described in 3 above.
We regularly review the California personal data we hold to ensure it is accurate and up to date. We retain California personal data only for as long as necessary in accordance with the terms of each service. We also retain California personal data for relevant business purposes, security, legal compliance, and dispute or claim resolution, consistent with our policies and to the extent permitted by applicable law.
We do not sell or share California personal data. We have not sold or shared your California personal data within the past 12 months, regardless of whether you are under or over 16 years of age, as defined by the CCPA.
California residents have certain rights regarding California personal data collected by businesses, subject to certain exceptions and limitations. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA. However, we may charge different prices or rates, or provide different levels or qualities of goods or services, where such differences are reasonably related to the value your California personal data provides to us. We do not offer specific monetary incentive programs for your prior opt-in consent.
Please note that we may need to request additional information from you to verify your identity or understand the scope of your request, as permitted or required by applicable law.
You may designate an agent to make CCPA requests on your behalf by providing the agent with written authorization to act on your behalf or by submitting a power of attorney. To the extent permitted by law, we may require verification of the agent's authorization or your own identity when responding to a request, even if you choose to use an agent.
Please note that if we are unable to verify your identity or the authority of your agent, or if we cannot identify the California personal data related to you, we may be unable to respond to your request or provide you with your California personal data
11. Data Retention
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to achieve the purposes of processing. The specific retention period is determined by taking into account the purposes of processing the personal data, the nature of the personal data, and the legal or operational necessity of retaining it; however, as a general rule, it shall not exceed 10 years.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as necessary.
Any changes will become effective upon posting on this website.
13. Contact Information
Anthings Inc. is responsible for your personal data as a data controller.
If you have any question or would like to uphold your rights, please contact us at:
KW Building 3F
2-9-11 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 151-0051, Japan
Anthings Inc.
Email: ec-support@apresse.jp
*Please note that responses to inquiries may take several days.
Inquiries received on weekends and public holidays will be answered from the next business day.
Please note that response times may vary depending on the nature of your inquiry and the volume of inquiries we receive.
For all inquiries regarding our online store, please contact our customer support.
Please note that we are unable to respond via our official Instagram or other social media channels.
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