Privacy Policy

1. Name, address and representative of the business operator

Name

Asahi World Inc.

Address

Elegance Iidabashi 603, 3-4-3 Iidabashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0072, Japan

Representative

Wang Peng, Representative Director

2. Personal information we collect

Asahi World Inc. (“we”) collects your organization name, name, email address, subject and message through the contact form on this website. The organization name and subject are optional.

To prevent abuse, we also record the sender’s IP address for a short period (about 24 hours), in a form from which the address cannot be recovered. When you send an inquiry, an automatic confirmation is emailed to the address you entered.

3. Purposes of use

We use the personal information we collect only for the following purposes.

• Responding to your inquiry and contacting you to confirm its content
• Contacting you about business dealings and sending you materials
• Complying with laws and regulations

4. Provision to third parties

We do not provide personal information to third parties without your consent, except as required by law.

5. Outsourcing and transfer to a third party in a foreign country

We may outsource the handling of personal information to external providers to the extent necessary to achieve the purposes of use, and we supervise those providers appropriately.

Personal information sent through the contact form (organization name, name, email address, subject and message) is entrusted to a provider in a foreign country (the United States) as described below, to deliver the inquiry to us and send you a confirmation. By checking the consent box on the form, you agree to this transfer.

Provider

Plus Five Five, Inc. (operator of the email delivery service Resend)

Country

The United States (the provider stores data in the United States; sending records are kept for 30 days)

Personal information protection system in that country

The United States has no comprehensive federal personal information protection law; sector-specific federal laws and state laws (such as the California Consumer Privacy Act) apply. For details, see “Foreign systems (United States of America)” by Japan’s Personal Information Protection Commission (https://www.ppc.go.jp/enforcement/infoprovision/laws/offshore_report_america/, in Japanese).

Measures taken by the provider

SOC 2 Type II audit by a third party, encryption of stored data (AES-256) and of data in transit (TLS), and a data processing agreement (DPA) governing personal data. The provider states that it does not use customer content to train AI models.

Servers

This website is served by Railway Corporation and Cloudflare, Inc., both in the United States.

6. Security measures

To prevent the leakage, loss or damage of personal information, we take measures such as limiting the staff who handle it, restricting access and encrypting transmissions. Details of our security measures will be provided without delay on request to the contact point below.

7. Requests for disclosure, correction, suspension of use and other actions

If you request notification of the purposes of use, disclosure, correction, addition, deletion, suspension of use, erasure or suspension of provision to third parties of your retained personal data, we will respond in accordance with the law after confirming your identity. Please ask at the contact point below about the procedure and any fees.

8. Complaints and inquiries

Complaints and inquiries about the handling of personal information are accepted at the following contact point.

Contact point

Inquiry Desk, Asahi World Inc.

Contact details

TEL +81-3-6261-1495 (Elegance Iidabashi 603, 3-4-3 Iidabashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0072, Japan)

9. Cookies and external services

This website currently does not use cookies for analytics or advertising. If we introduce them, we will state on this page what information is collected and for what purpose.

The company and contact pages embed Google Maps, provided by Google LLC, to show our location. When the map is displayed, your browser sends information such as your IP address and browsing environment to Google, and Google’s cookies may be used. For details, please see Google’s privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy).

10. Revisions to this policy

We may revise this policy in response to changes in laws and regulations or in our business. The revised policy takes effect when it is posted on this website.

This English translation is provided for reference. If there is any discrepancy between the Japanese and English versions, the Japanese version prevails.