This California Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”) provides the information required under the California Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), and other California laws and supplements the information contained in NTT Solmare Corporation’s (“NTT Solmare”, “we”, “our”, Company’s or “us”) Privacy Policy and MangaPlaza’s Privacy Policy. The Privacy Notice applies solely to residents of the State of California ("consumers", “customer”, "you" or “your”).

This Privacy Notice describes how we collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process personal information of individual residents of the State of California, either online or offline, within the CCPA.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all terms in this Privacy Notice have the same meaning as defined in our Privacy Policy or as otherwise defined in the CCPA.

As used in this Privacy Notice, “Personal Information” or “personal information ” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or household. Personal Information includes, but is not limited to, the categories of Personal Information identified below if such information identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could be reasonably linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or household.

Personal Information does not include:
Publicly available information from government records.
Deidentified, aggregated or anonymized information that is maintained in a form that is not capable of being associated with or reasonably linked to a consumer.
Information excluded from the CCPA's scope, such as:
Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data; and
Personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (CalFIPA), and the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994.
As used in this Privacy Notice, “Sensitive Personal Information” means Personal Information that reveals: a consumer’s social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number; a consumer’s account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; a consumer’s precise geolocation; a consumer’s racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership; the contents of a consumer’s mail, email, and text messages unless the business is the intended recipient of the communication; or a consumer’s genetic data. Sensitive Personal Information also means the processing of biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying a consumer; Personal Information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s health; or Personal Information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s sex life or sexual orientation.
For the purpose of clarity, note that you have the same rights for your Sensitive Personal Information as you have for your Personal Information in addition to the specific rights described herein.

To learn more about the types of personal information we collect, the sources from which we collect or receive personal information, and the purposes for which we use this information, please refer to the Information Acquired by Us section and Purpose of Use section in our Privacy Policy.

Below is a list of all the categories of Personal Information that we have collected in the past 12 months.

We may collect, use or disclose your Personal Information for one or more of the following purposes:

1. (1) The personal information below, that is, information the Company handles when customers order, use, or make inquiries about information-providing services or digital content delivery services, etc., will be used to the extent necessary for verifying the identities of customers, controlling credit, providing information-providing services or digital content delivery services, etc., calculating and invoicing charges for information-providing services or digital content delivery services, etc., and making contact with customers in relation to the above, etc.
   
   In addition, the information will be used to the extent necessary to introduce and propose information-providing services and digital content delivery services, etc., implement measures to improve and enhance quality and customer satisfaction, etc. (including questionnaires), plan and develop new information-providing services or digital content delivery services, etc., manage and improve facilities related to the provision of the services, and conduct any other business related to the information-providing services or digital content delivery services, etc.
   
   Even after a contract with a customer is terminated by cancellation, etc., the personal information may still be used within the scope of the above purposes of use.
   
   -Sex, and e-mail address of the customer, and machinery, services, or products the customer uses
   - Contact information on the customer (e-mail address.)
   - Items classifiable as personal information among the information items recorded in documents provided by the customer for verification of the customer’s identity
   - Other items classifiable as personal information among the information items the Company handles when customers apply for, use, or make inquiries about the information-providing services or digital content delivery services
2. (2) The personal information below, that is, information the Company handles when the Company’s customer contact point receives questions, requests, etc. (including proposals for the disclosure of personal information, etc.; hereinafter the same shall apply), may be used not only to the extent necessary to handle the contents of the relevant questions, requests, etc., but also to the extent necessary to improve the quality of information-providing services or digital content delivery services or develop new information-providing services or digital content delivery services based on the contents of the opinions, questions, etc. expressed by customers.
   
   - Name, address, telephone number, email address, etc. of the customer who submits the questions or requests
   - Other items classifiable as personal information among the contents of the questions and requests
3. (3) The personal information below, that is, information the Company handles when customers participate in questionnaires and other surveys conducted by the Company or apply for prize competitions or members-only programs (hereinafter referred to as “Participation in Questionnaires, etc.”), may be used to the extent necessary to send materials required for questionnaires and other surveys, rewards for questionnaires and other surveys, and gifts for prize competitions, to improve the quality of services, etc., to develop new information-providing services and digital content delivery services, etc., and to introduce the Company’s information-providing services and digital content delivery services, etc.
   
   - Name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, age, date of birth, occupation, sex, etc. a customer provides the Company when participating in a questionnaire or another survey
   - Other items classifiable as personal information among the information items a customer provides to the Company when the customer participates in a questionnaire, etc.
4. (4) Personal information that the Company handles when conducting business consigned by other business entities (sales, brokerage, surveys, etc. for the products or services of other business entities) may be used to the extent necessary for conducting the consigned business. If the Company consigns part of its business, personal information received from the relevant subcontractor may be used to the extent necessary for the business.
   We will only retain your Personal Information for a period no longer than for the purpose such information was collected.

In the previous 12 months, we have disclosed all of the categories of Personal Information we collect, explained in the table above, to third parties listed in the table above, for business purposes . We do not sell Personal Information to third parties.

We share Personal Information within the NTT Solmare Corporation parent and subsidiary companies (“Affiliates”) and with the categories of third parties listed in the table above for business purposes.

As a California resident, you may be able to exercise the following rights in relation to the Personal Information about you that we have collected (subject to certain limitations at law):

1. List of CCPA Rights
   1. Knowledge of Personal Information Collected

      You have the right to request the following information regarding your Personal Information we have collected and disclosed in the last 12 months, upon verification of your identity:

      • The specific pieces of your Personal Information we have collected;
      • The categories of your Personal Information we have collected;
      • The categories of sources from which your Personal Information is collected;
      • The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your Personal Information; and
      • The categories of third parties with whom we shared or sold your Personal Information.
   2. Access to Personal Information

      You have the right to request a copy of the specific Personal Information we have collected in the last 12 months, upon verification of your identity.

   3. Deletion of Personal Information

      You have the right to request the deletion of Personal Information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions such as the exercise of free speech, detection of security incidents, completion of a transaction for which your Personal Information was collected, compliance with a legal obligation, or others listed under Section 1798.105(d) of the California Civil Code.

   4. Opt Out of Personal Information Sales and Sharing

      You have the right to direct us not to sell or share, as defined under California law, personal information we have collected about you to third parties now or in the future. If you are under the age of 16, you have the right to opt-in, or to have a parent or guardian opt-in on your behalf, to such sales or sharing.

   5. Non-Discrimination

      You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment from us for exercising the rights in this section. However, we may charge you a different price or rate, or provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you, if the difference is reasonably related to the value provided to us by your Personal Information.

   6. Correction

      In certain circumstances, you have the right to request correction of your Personal Information when such information is inaccurate.

   7. Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information

      You have the right to direct us to limit our use of your Sensitive Personal Information to that use which is necessary to perform our services or provide our goods, as reasonably expected, such as completing a transaction or for safety purposes.

2. How to Exercise Your California Consumer Rights
   1. Exercise your Right of Knowledge, Access, Correction, Limitation and/or Deletion

      Please submit a request by:
      
      Making all such requests by emailing them to mp-support@sub.nttsolmare.com with the subject line “California Rights Request,”
      
      We will need to verify your identity before processing your request. In order to verify your identity, we will generally require the matching of sufficient information you provide us to the information we maintain about you in our systems. Although we try to limit the Personal Information collected in connection with a request to exercise the knowledge, access or deletion rights to that Personal Information identified in your request, certain requests may require us to obtain additional Personal Information from you. In certain circumstances, we may decline a request to exercise the knowledge, access, correction, limitation and/or deletion rights, particularly where we are unable to verify your identity.

   2. To Exercise Your Right to Opt Out of Personal Information Sales

      We do not sell Personal Information to third parties. If that should change, we will make available to you a method to opt out of such sale.
      We do not and will not “sell” the Personal Information of consumers we know to be less than 16 years of age, unless we receive affirmative authorization (the "Right to Opt In") from either the minor who is between 13 and 16 years of age, or the parent or guardian of a minor less than 13 years of age.

California Civil Code Section §1798.83 permits California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of certain types of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year. To make such a request, please send an email to mp-support@sub.nttsolmare.com. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year. We reserve our right not to respond to requests submitted other than to the email address specified in this section.

At this time, we do not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals.

We may and will update this Privacy Notice from time to time. When we make changes to this Privacy Notice, we will change the "Last Updated" date at the beginning of this Privacy Notice. All changes shall be effective from the date of publication unless otherwise provided in the notification