Privacy Policy

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(1) Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use our Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

By using our website or participating in our studies at LA Product Studio , You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

(2) Interpretation and Definitions

-Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions.

The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

-Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Under GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), You can be referred to as the Data Subject or as the User as you are the individual using the Service.

Company (referred to as either "The Company.", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to INTAGE USA Inc. ,which controls and possesses 100% ownership of "LA Product Studio". INTAGE USA Inc, is a California corporation, 3625 Del Amo Blvd. Suite 335 Torrance CA 90503.

For the purpose of the GDPR, INTAGE USA Inc. is the Data Controller.

· Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.

· Website refers to INTAGE USA, accessible from https://www.intage.co.jp/usa/

· Service refers to the Website and any research study that is hosted by INTAGE USA Inc.

· Country refers to: United States

Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of INTAGE USA Inc.. It    refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by INTAGE USA Inc. to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of INTAGE USA Inc., to perform services related to the Service or to assist INTAGE USA Inc. in analyzing how the Service is used.

For the purpose of the GDPR, Service Providers are considered Data Processors.

· Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.

Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

For the purposes for GDPR, Personal Data means any information relating to You such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

For the purposes of the CCPA, Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with You.

· Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

· Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

· Data Controller, for the purposes of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), refers to INTAGE USA Inc. as the legal person which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.

· Business, for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), refers to INTAGE USA Inc. as the legal entity that collects Consumers' personal information and determines the purposes and means of the processing of Consumers' personal information, or on behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers' personal information, that does business in the State of California.

· Consumer, for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means a natural person who is a California resident. A resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual who is in the USA for other than a temporary or transitory purpose, and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the USA who is outside the USA for a temporary or transitory purpose.

· Sale, for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a Consumer's Personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

(3) Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

-Personal Data

While using Our Service or participating in research studies hosted by Us, we may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

· Email address

· First name and last name

· Phone number

· Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

· Usage Data

· Survey Responses and opinions collected during your participation in paid research studies (ratings, open ended typed responses, audio and video recordings, and any materials such as photos and assignments)

 -Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the INTAGE USA Inc. website.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

-Survey Respondents

Your participation in a survey or any market research program/study is completely voluntary, and the use of your personal information is carried out with your consent. INTAGE USA Inc. may obtain personal information directly from you when you provide it with consent, or we may obtain it from third parties that we collaborate with.

The third parties (research/panel companies) that we collaborate with have also obtained your information with your consent. In the case that INTAGE USA Inc. works with a third party for a research study that you may be participating in, it is strongly recommended you review and understand the privacy policies of the third parties. We do not sell your personal information/data to third party companies for solicitation purposes. INTAGE USA Inc. will never contact you to advertise or sell you any products or goods.

-Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service.

You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service.

Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close your web browser. Learn more about cookies: All About Cookies.

We use both session and persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary / Essential Cookies

Type: Session Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

Functionality Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy.

-Use of Your Personal Data

INTAGE USA Inc. may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

· To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication. 

· To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

· Partners or Clients: After participating in any market research study/survey with your consent, we share the data and results with our partners and or clients to gather reports and results regarding the research topic. Our partners and or clients typically will not have access to your personal information such as contact phone and email unless otherwise stated. Your responses to any research study remain confidential and will not be made public. Data and opinion responses may be made public, but as an average and not linked to your personal contact information. 

· For Business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

· With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.

-Retention of Your Personal Data

INTAGE USA Inc. will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

INTAGE USA Inc. will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

-Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at INTAGE USA Inc.'s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

INTAGE USA Inc. will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

-Business Transactions

If INTAGE USA Inc. is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

-Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, INTAGE USA Inc. may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

-Other legal requirements

INTAGE USA Inc. may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

· Comply with a legal obligation

· Protect and defend the rights or property of INTAGE USA Inc.

· Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service

· Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public

· Protect against legal liability

-Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

(4) GDPR Privacy

-Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR

We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:

· Consent: You have given Your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific purposes.

· Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with You and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.

· Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which INTAGE USA Inc. is subject.

· Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect Your vital interests or of another natural person.

· Public interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in INTAGE USA Inc..

· Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by INTAGE USA Inc..

In any case, INTAGE USA Inc. will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

-Your Rights under the GDPR

INTAGE USA Inc. undertakes to respect the confidentiality of Your Personal Data and to guarantee You can exercise Your rights.

You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are within the EU, to:

· Request access to Your Personal Data. The right to access, update or delete the information We have on You. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of Your Personal Data directly within Your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact Us to assist You. This also enables You to receive a copy of the Personal Data We hold about You.

· Request correction of the Personal Data that We hold about You. You have the right to to have any incomplete or inaccurate information We hold about You corrected.

· Object to processing of Your Personal Data. This right exists where We are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for Our processing and there is something about Your particular situation, which makes You want to object to our processing of Your Personal Data on this ground. You also have the right to object where We are processing Your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.

· Request erasure of Your Personal Data. You have the right to ask Us to delete or remove Personal Data when there is no good reason for Us to continue processing it.

· Request the transfer of Your Personal Data. We will provide to You, or to a third-party You have chosen, Your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which You initially provided consent for Us to use or where We used the information to perform a contract with You.

· Withdraw Your consent. You have the right to withdraw Your consent on using your Personal Data. If You withdraw Your consent, We may not be able to provide You with access to certain specific functionalities of the Service.

-Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights

You may exercise Your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting us from our “Contact US” link indicated below. Please note that we may ask You to verify Your identity before responding to such requests. If You make a request, We will try our best to respond to You as soon as possible.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about Our collection and use of Your Personal Data. For more information, if You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact Your local data protection authority in the EEA.

(5) CCPA Privacy

-Your Rights under the CCPA

Under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are a resident of California, You have the following rights:

· The right to notice. You must be properly notified which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.

· The right to access / the right to request. The CCPA permits You to request and obtain from INTAGE USA Inc. information regarding the disclosure of Your Personal Data that has been collected in the past 12 months by INTAGE USA Inc. or its subsidiaries to a third-party for the third party's direct marketing purposes.

· The right to say no to the sale of Personal Data.You also have the right to ask INTAGE USA Inc. not to sell Your Personal Data to third parties. You can submit such a request by visiting our "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" section or web page.

The right to know about Your Personal Data. You have the right to request and obtain from INTAGE USA Inc. information regarding the disclosure of the following:

· The categories of Personal Data collected

· The sources from which the Personal Data was collected

· The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the Personal Data

· Categories of third parties with whom We share Personal Data

· The specific pieces of Personal Data we collected about You

· The right to delete Personal Data. You also have the right to request the deletion of Your Personal Data that have been collected in the past 12 months.

The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of Your Consumer's rights, including by:

· Denying goods or services to You

· Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties

· Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to You

· Suggesting that You will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

-Exercising Your CCPA Data Protection Rights

In order to exercise any of Your rights under the CCPA, and if you are a California resident, You can email or call us or visit our "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" section or web page.

INTAGE USA Inc. will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving Your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonable necessary and with prior notice.

-Do Not Sell My Personal Information

We do not sell personal information. However, the Service Providers we partner with (for example, our clients) may use technology on the Service that "sells" personal information as defined by the CCPA law.

If you wish to opt out of the use of your personal information for interest-based advertising purposes and these potential sales as defined under CCPA law, you may do so by following the instructions below.

Please note that any opt out is specific to the browser You use. You may need to opt out on every browser that you use.

-Website/Cookies

You can opt out of receiving ads that are personalized as served by our Service Providers by following our instructions presented on the Service:

· From Our "Cookie Consent" notice banner

· Or from Our "CCPA Opt-out" notice banner

· Or from Our "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" notice banner

· Or from Our "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" link

The opt out will place a cookie on Your computer that is unique to the browser You use to opt out. If you change browsers or delete the cookies saved by your browser, you will need to opt out again.

(6) Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

(7) Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

(8) Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Last updated: April 16, 2020

(9) Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

· By using the "Request form" in this website's "CONTACT" page.