EINEBLUME Co., Ltd. ("us", "we", or "our") operates the https://global.chatie.me website and mobile application(hereinafter referred to as the "Service" or “Chatie Service”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that information. We use your information to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Service.
We may collect and process personal information about you for the following purposes. We do not otherwise share your personal information with third parties or use your personal information for any other purposes unless otherwise expressly provided herein.
We may use your personal information in connection with responding to your inquiries and grievances. That is, we may process personal information about you to confirm your identity, to review your questions or complaints and to communicate to you with our responses.
We may process your personal information to develop new services or provide more personalized and streamlined services based on demographic information or information about your interest and also to monitor statistics for your use of our Services.
We may use or process personal information about you to invite you to our special promotional events from time to time.
We may collect and use personal information about you as our User (as defined in our Chatie Terms of Service) to verify your identity and status, to prevent unauthorized use or intrusion to our Services, to confirm your consent to join our Services, to verify registration status and prevent you from creating multiple accounts and also for our record keeping purposes in connection with dispute resolution and customer services.
We may collect personal information about you in connection with providing the Chatie Services through the following methods.
We may use the following methods to collect personal information about you.
The following information about you may be collected on our website (https://global.chatie.me) or mobile application and we only use such information for the purposes set forth under “1. Purposes of Collection and Use of Personal Information.
We use personal Information about our Users only to the extent provided under “2. Collection and Use of Personal Information.” Except where we are required to disclose or submit personal information to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, governmental requests or court orders, we will not use or disclose to any third-party personal information about the Users for any other purposes without their prior consent.
We will promptly delete or de-identify the personal information we have stored about our Users once we have accomplished the purposes for collecting and storing the personal information as provided above with exception of the following reasons (and no other reasons) in which cases, we may store the personal information for the duration set forth below. Storing Personal Information Pursuant to Applicable Laws To the extent required under applicable laws, including, without limitation, the Commercial Act and the Act on the Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce, etc., we may store personal information about you for certain period of time. We store such information only to be in compliance with applicable laws and only for the time period set forth below. In no case we use the information stored hereunder for any other purpose.
We will promptly destroy personal information that is no longer required to fulfil the identified purposes stated above. We apply the following procedures in destroying such personal information.
We will move such personal information that is no longer required to fulfil the identified purposes to a separate DB (separate files in case of information in hard copies) and maintain it for set duration of time or promptly destroy as required by applicable laws. We will not use the personal information that is maintained in separate DB for any reasons except to comply with applicable laws.
Users of Chatie Services can login in to check and update their personal information registered on our system at any time. If they wish to withdraw their consent to our processing of personal information about them, then the Users can either withdraw their consent or request for cancellation of their accounts (please note that you may not be able to use our services or any part thereof upon your withdrawal of your consent or cancellation). To access or modify your personal information, you can login to your account and click on ‘update member information’ and to cancel your account (or to withdraw your consent), you can click on ‘closing account’ and follow the instructions. You can also write to us or call or e-mail us and make your request to modify or cancel. If you request a correction of your personal information registered on our system, we will not use or share your information until the correction is completed. Also, if we have already shared the personal information containing an error with any third party, we will promptly notify the third party of the correction.
We strive to safeguard personal information of our Users by utilizing technology and management system as follows.
Sensitive and critical information such as your password is encrypted and only you can check and modify such information.
We are doing our best to safeguard personal information of our Users from being leaked or damaged by hacking or computer viruses. In order to prevent the loss of personal information, we back up our data on a regular basis, use the latest anti-virus program, and use encryption technology to securely transmit personal information on our network. In addition, we use firewall to block unauthorized access from the outside, and we try to equip all possible technical devices to secure our system.
To reduce the risk of security breach, we are limiting access to personal information of our Users to only those employees who are specifically trained for handling of such information. We also change the password to the access periodically and place emphasis on the importance of safeguarding the personal information and compliance with applicable laws and policies by training our employees on a regular basis.
We have a special task force dedicated solely for protection of personal information of our Users. We continuously monitor our compliance with applicable laws and regulations and we strive to correct any breach or problem immediately upon notice.
We have designated the following persons as administrators of personal information that we collect and process. You many direct your inquiries or complaints on our processing of your personal information to them. You may contact the below named administrators with all your inquiries on personal information. We will attempt to respond to your inquiries in a timely manner.
You may also contact the following agencies to report any personal information breach or other related inquiries.
Please note, this Privacy Policy does not apply to any personal information collected by other websites that you may access through the links provided on our services.
We will provide at least 7 days prior notice, either on the notice tab on our Website or via E-mail, for any planned changes or modifications to this Privacy Policy. Any changes will be effective as of the effective date on the notice. If, however, we make any changes to signification provisions such as the purposes for collecting and using personal information about you and the circumstances on which we share such information with third parties, then we will provide at least 30 days prior notice for such signification changes. If any changes require your prior consent under applicable laws, including, without limitation, the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, Etc. and Personal Information Protection Act, then we will request your consent prior to making any such changes.
We make the following efforts to comply with the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation, “GDPR”).
We are committed to companywide efforts and attention to complying with the GDPR. We identify the impact GDPR will have on our organization and are committed to complying with GDPR on a job-by-job basis by:
We conduct a data protection impact assessment if the following situations are likely to pose a high risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons as provided by GDPR.
We are committed to ensuring the Right to Delete (Right to Be Forgotten) as defined by GDPR. The data subject has the right (delete right) to request the deletion of personal data related to him.
However, we can reject a delete request if one of the following is true:
We will report to the supervisory authority within 72 hours of becoming aware of a breach if any of the following infringements occur that could pose a risk to an individual's rights and freedoms:
When there is a high risk of the freedom and rights of the data subject, the data subject is notified without delay.
If you are a California of USA resident, this Section shall apply only to the extent and when we are regulated under the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”), as a business (as defined in the CCPA). [note: we may not be eligible as a business under CCPA until it satisfies some thresholds.]
We may collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with particular California residents, devices or households ("consumer information").
We may use consumer information for the business or commercial purposes and in the manner described in this Privacy Policy with respect to Personal Information.
We may disclose your consumer information described above to a third party for a business purpose, as described in this Privacy Policy with respect to Personal Information of the following categories of consumer information under CCPA:
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not sold, and we do not and will not sell, consumer information that is subject to this Privacy Policy.
The CCPA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their consumer information. This Section 12.5 describes your CCPA rights (to the extent applicable to you) and explains how to exercise those rights.
You may have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your consumer information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (in the manner described in Section 12.6 below), to the extent required by the CCPA, we will disclose to you.
You have the right to request that we delete any of your consumer information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm a verifiable request from you (if you are a California resident) in the manner described in Section 12.6 below (“verifiable consumer request”), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your consumer information from our records, unless an exception applies. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for our or our service provider(s)’ legitimate business purposes.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights, including, unless permitted by the CCPA, by:
If you are a citizen of India, this Section shall apply only to the extent
and when we are regulated under the (Personal) Data Protection Bill (the
“DPB”).
You have the following rights:
You have the rights to know what information we have collected on you.
You have the rights to know the purpose for which we used your information. You also have the right to request the correction of inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading information, and to request an update of your data.
You have the right to request whatever data has been collected by us in a commonly used and machine-readable format.
You have the right to request a restriction to our continued use or processing of personal data, and to request an end to your data being processed if the purpose of collecting the data is no longer being served.
If you are a citizen of Philippines, this Section shall apply only to the
extent and when we are regulated under the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (the
“DPA”).
You have the following rights:
You are entitled to:
(a) be informed whether personal information pertaining to you shall be, are
being or have been processed;
(b) be furnished the information how your personal information is processed
by us before the entry of your personal information into the processing
system;
(c) reasonable access to, upon demand, the contents of your personal
information that were processed; the source of collection, the manner of
processing or other information;
(d) dispute the inaccuracy or error in the personal information;
(e) suspend, withdraw or order the blocking, removal or destruction of your
personal information from our filing system.
Your lawful heirs and assigns may invoke your rights of the data subject.
If applicable, you have the right to obtain from us a copy of data undergoing processing in an electronic or structured format.