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Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy is simple. We do not share or sell your personal data. With anyone. Ever.

Sonhood believes in protecting your privacy and making sure you have a positive experience on our website and in using our products or services. This policy covers the Sonhood website and is applicable worldwide.

This policy outlines our handling practices and how we collect and use the Personal Data you provide during your interactions with us. In this Privacy Policy, “Personal Data” refers to any information that can be used to identify you as an individual, and may include, but is not limited to, name, email address, physical address, credit or debit card number, title, and other personally identifiable information.

Sonhood will be the controller any of your Personal Data that is provided, collected and/or processed pursuant to this Privacy Policy, except where otherwise expressly stated below.

This policy may be updated from time to time for reasons such as operational or regulatory changes, so we recommend that you review our Privacy Policy when returning to our website.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Collection of your Personal Data

We collect the following categories of Personal Data about you when you use or otherwise interact with our Products and Services:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Postal or other physical address
  • Credit/debit card information
  • Facebook profile information (when you use Facebook our Facebook groups)
  • IP addresses and other information collected passively, such as in surveys
  • We collect and/or process your Personal Data in connection with the below activities related to our Products and Services:
  • Account registration
  • Use of online classrooms
  • Generating reports based on information collected from use of our Products and Services
  • Requesting service and support for our Products and providing such support
  • Placing transactions or orders
  • Registering to attend a free talk, teleseminar, Facebook Live, or webinar
  • Participating in an online survey
  • Billing and collecting payments for our Products and Services
  • Participating in discussion groups or forums
  • Registering for newsletter subscriptions

Processing of your Personal Data

We will use your Personal Data only in accordance with our Privacy Policy. If you do not wish us to continue using your Personal Data, you can request that your account be deactivated.

We will only process your Personal Data if we have a lawful basis for doing so. Lawful bases for processing include consent, contractual necessity (i.e. processing that is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, such as your registrations with us that allows us to provide you with the Products/Services) and our “legitimate interests” or the legitimate interest of others (e.g. our users) such as:

  • Personalizing, improving or operating our Products and business
  • Better understanding your needs and interests
  • Fulfilling requests you make related to the Products
  • Providing you with information and offers from us
  • Complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes with users, enforcing our agreements
  • Protecting, investigating and deterring against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized or illegal activity
We process Personal Data for purposes such as:
  • To process your orders and deliver the Products that you have ordered
  • To provide reports based on information collected from use of our Products
  • To keep you up to date on the latest newsletters, blog posts, local events, podcasts, and other information
  • To provide support and assistance for our Products and Services
  • To provide the ability to contact you and provide you with shipping and billing information
  • To provide customer feedback and support
  • To the extent you choose to participate, to conduct questionnaires and surveys in order to provide better products and services to our customers
  • To personalize marketing communications and content based on your preferences, such as in response to your request for specific information on products and services that may be of interest
  • To meet contract or legal obligations
Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Choice

You can choose whether to provide Personal Data to Sonhood. But please note that you may be unable to access certain options, and services if they require Personal Data that you choose not to provide. You can sign-up, and therefore consent, to receive email or newsletter communications from us. If you would like to discontinue receiving these communications, you can “Unsubscribe” from any emails or by contacting us using the information in the “Contact Us”.

Data Subject Rights

You have certain rights with respect to your Personal Data as set forth below. Please note that in some circumstances, we may not be able to fully comply with your requests, or we may ask you to provide us with additional information in connection with your request, which may be Personal Data, for example, if we need to verify your identity or the nature of your request. In such situations, however, we will still respond to you.

Please contact us to make any of the following requests:

  • Access: You can request more information about the Personal Data we hold about you. You can also request a copy of the Personal Data.
  • Rectification: If you believe that any Personal Data we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can request that we correct or supplement such data.
  • Objection: You can contact us to let us know that you object to the collection or use of your Personal Data for certain purposes.
  • Erasure: You can request that we erase some or all of your Personal Data from our systems.
  • Restriction of Processing: You can ask us to restrict further processing of your Personal Data.
  • Portability: You have the right to ask for a copy of your Personal Data in a digital format.
  • Withdrawal of Consent: If we are processing your Personal Data based on your consent (as indicated at the time of collection of such data), you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
  • Right to File Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint about Sonhood practices with respect to your Personal Data with the supervisory authority of your country or EU Member State.
Data Retention

How long we retain your Personal Data depends on the type of data and the purpose for which we process the data.

Sonhood and our third-party service providers automatically collect some information about you when you use our Products, using methods such as cookies. Information automatically collected includes Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data to analyze trends in the aggregate and administer the website and/or Products.

In addition, when you use some of our Products, network information is transmitted back to us such as Product usage information. This information is transmitted back to us so we can determine how users are interacting with our Products, to assist us with improving our Products, and to correct any problems that may occur.

Sharing your Personal Data

We do not sell, share, or rent your Personal Data to third parties for marketing purposes.

We share Personal Data within Sonhood, and with third party service providers for purposes of data processing or storage.

We collect and possibly share Personal Data and any other additional information available to us in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required by law.

Security of your Personal Data

Sonhood is committed to protecting the Personal Data you share with us. We utilize a combination of industry-standard security technologies, procedures, and organizational measures to help protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. When we transfer credit card information over the Internet, we protect it using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption.

Linked websites and third-party services

Our websites and services may provide links to other third-party websites and services which are outside our control and not covered by this policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these (and all) sites you visit or services you use.

Transfer and Storage of Personal Data

Our Products and Services are hosted and operated in Japan through Sonhood and its service providers. We may transfer your Personal Data to third parties acting on our behalf for the purposes of processing or storage. By using any of our Products and Services or providing any Personal Data for any of the purposes stated above, you consent to the transfer and storage of your Personal Data to Japan as set forth herein, including the hosting of such Personal Data on Japanese servers.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contact Us

To address your individual rights or if you have any privacy-related questions or comments related to this privacy policy, please send an email to Sonhood @gmail.com. You can also contact us by writing to this address:

Sonhood

1458-55 Shima Kishi

Itoshima-shi

Fukuoka-ken

Japan

819-1334