Our commitment to privacy
We have created this privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting and handling your personal information obtained on our services that we provide on our website ("Services") appropriately pursuant to the Japanese Personal Information Protection Act. This privacy policy applies to information that you provide to us when you use our Services and also when you simply access our Services on a third party website, whether as a registered or non-registered user of our Services.
Below we provide you with our privacy policy including as to what information we intend to collect, how we intend to use the information and with whom we intend to share the information.
What information do we collect?
During your use of our Services, we collect various types of data and personal information with a view to obtaining usage statistics and user demographics as described below.
“Personal Information " means information about your identity that may include, but is not limited to, your user name, email address and photos/videos in which you appear.
"Log Data" means information sent by your browser including, but not limited to, your computer's IP address, referring HTTP address, current HTTP address, time of the access and other statistics. Log data itself is not Personal Information, and we do not link Log Data to any Personal Information about you or otherwise attempt to discover your identity.
How do we use collected information?
We may only use your Personal Information (a) for purposes relating to our customer magazines, other marketing and promotional efforts, (b) to select winners and award prizes to them (c) to further improve our services, (d) to make Services even more interesting and appealing to you, (e) to respond to your inquiries, and (f) to fulfill your requests concerning our products and services. We may use Log Data to statistically analyze usage of our website (e.g. usage patterns, behavioral patterns, etc.), to customize our website contents, layout to your needs and to further improve our services.
With whom do we share collected information?
We may share the collected Personal Information with Mazda distributors or affiliated companies (http://www.mazda.com/d-list/), but we will never disclose or divulge the information to any third party except those. However, the following are cases in which we may disclose your Personal Information and Log Data.
Third party providers: We may employ third party to better provide the Services on our behalf, to perform our Services and to administrate our website. These third parties will have access to your Personal Information and Log Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and will be obligated not to disclose or use them for any other purpose.
Compliance with law: We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with law. We may disclose from time to time Personal Information to government or law enforcement officials or private parties when we, at our sole discretion, believe it necessary or appropriate to respond to claims or legal process (including but not limited to subpoenas), to protect our or a third party’s property or rights, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop any activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, illegal or legally actionable.
Business transfers: We may sell, transfer or otherwise share with a third party some or all of our assets, including your Personal Information, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event of a bankruptcy.
Our commitment to data security
To better ensure the accuracy and security of your Personal Information and Log Data, we implement information security and control measures, thereby striving to prevent unauthorized access to your Personal Information and prevent loss, destruction, falsification and leak of your Personal Information and Log Data.
Disclosure, Amendment, etc. of Personal Information
If and when you request disclosure, amendment, etc, of your Personal Information that we hold, we will respond to the request as we deem appropriate. Please contact the following; contact.zz@mail.mazda.co.jp