Privacy Policy

Final Revision: October 23, 2023
NT Travel Co., Ltd.

NT Travel Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “this Company”) adheres to the rules stipulated below (hereinafter referred to as ”these Rules”) when handling user information acquired by this Company pertaining to the provision of 'NAVITIME Transit' (hereinafter referred to as “this Service”) offered by this Company. This English translation is provided for informational purposes only. If any discrepancy is identified between this translation and the Japanese original, the Japanese original shall prevail.

1. Definition of Personal Information

In these Rules, Personal Information refers to information about an individual that falls under one of the following items:
(i) information that can be used to identify that specific individual due to its inclusion of a name, date of birth, or other description contained (any and all matters (that excludes individual identification codes) written, recorded or otherwise expressed using voice, movement or other methods in documents, drawings or electromagnetic records (meaning records made by electromagnetic format (electronic, magnetic or any other format that cannot be recognized through the human senses; the same applies in next paragraph, item (ii)); the same applies in Article 18, paragraph (2); the same applies hereinafter) in such information (this includes any information that can be cross-checked against other information and thereby used to identify that specific individual).
(ii) Information that contains individual identification codes specified in the Act on the Protection of Personal Information.

2. Information to be Acquired

This Company shall not acquire Personal Information. This Company shall acquire the information listed below (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Acquired Information”) through the provision of this Service, none of which falls under Personal Information.

・Information automatically and periodically acquired through this Service when user Uses this Service

1 Information related to the user'shistory of use of this Service
(Functions used, time and date used (time stamps), search characters, etc.)
2 Information related to the user's device
(Device type, OS, language used on device, device-specific ID, advertising identifier, etc.)
3 Information through Cookies
(IP address, history of visits to this Service etc.)
4 Location information recorded through the functions of acquiring location information such as GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
(Unless user disables these functions of user’s device, user’s location information is always recorded and is provided to this Company when this Service is turned on.)

3. Purpose of Collection and Use of Acquired Information

This Company will collect and use Acquired Information for the following purposes:

(1) Business related to the provision of this Service;
(2) Business related to the improvement of the convenience of this Service;
(3) Business related to the study of the development of new services;
(4) Business related to the distribution of advertisement;
(5) Business related to the preparation and submission of statistical information (information that cannot be used to identify a specific individual);
(6) Business related to the protection of privacy;

4. Provision of Acquired Information to Third Party

(1) In principle, this Company shall not provide the user's Acquired Information to third parties. However, this shall not apply in the following circumstances:

1 Should the user provide consent;
2 Should the provision of the Acquired Information be accompanied by the succession of the business due to a merger or other reason;
3 Should the provision of the Individual Information be authorized by law, or should the provision be mandated by law or court judgment.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding item, this Company shall be entitled to produce statistical information from which individual Acquired Information cannot be identified (information that cannot be used to identify a specific individual) and provide this statistical information to third parties.

5. Storage of Acquired Information

All of the Acquired Information is immediately transmitted to a secure server controlled by Amazon Web Services, Inc. or Google Inc.and this Company stores the Acquired Information in this server. This server is located in the United States of America and Japan.
The abovementioned transmission of the Acquired Information between this Company and Amazon Web Services, Inc. or Google Inc. will be performed electronically in accordance with the requirements of applicable laws.
Amazon Web Services, Inc. or Google Inc. retains the Acquired Information only for storage purposes until we direct Amazon Web Services, Inc. to destroy it and Amazon Web Services, Inc. shall not handle the Acquired Information.

6. Use of Information Collection Modules, etc.

(1) Use of Information Collection Modules

This Company uses the following information collection modules to analyze access and use conditions of this Service. These information collection modules collect information regarding the use of this Service in a way that it does not identify a specific individual, and the collected information will not be used to identify the user.

・Google Analytics
Provided by: Google LLC
Acquired items: : https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
Purpose of use: To analyze traffic to, and usage of, this Service

・Firebase Analytics
Provided by: Google LLC
Acquired items: : https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy?hl=en
Purpose of use: To analyze traffic to, and usage of, this Service

・Treasure Data JavaScript SDK
Provided by: Treasure Data, Inc.
Acquired items: : https://www.treasuredata.com/privacy-statement/
Purpose of use: To analyze traffic to, and usage of, this Service

(2) Advertising identifier

This Company uses advertising identifier to display behavioral advertisements and provide it to the third parties listed in the following webpage titled “List of the third parties to which this Company will provide advertising identifier”. Advertising identifier will never be used to identify the user.

The user may refuse the use of advertising identifier to display behavioral targeting advertisements by changing the settings on the user's device.

“List of the third parties to which this Company will provide advertising identifier”
(https://static.aws.navitime.com/ad-provider/index.html)

(3) Use of Google Maps API

This service makes use of the Google Maps API for a portion of the features therein. The handling of user information obtained by Google LLC through the Google Maps API is to be carried out as established by Google LLC in their Privacy Policy (https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/?hl=en).

7. Voluntary Provision of Acquired Information

If the user does not wish to provide this Company with Acquired Information, please uninstall this application.

8. Safe Management and Access to Acquired Information

Regarding the handling of Acquired Information, this Company sets forth company regulations in accordance with the laws, guidelines, etc., stipulated by the Japanese government, makes these rules well-known among its employees, and takes safe management/preventative measures. The user understands and consents to the possibility that the scope of protection of his/her Acquired Information under the laws of Japan and these Rules may be less extensive than the laws of the user's country.

9. Revisions to these Rules

These Rules are subject to revision at the discretion of this Company for reasons such as to compliance with the laws, government guidelines, etc. Such revisions shall become valid at the time the revised Rules have been posted on this website. However, should there be a major revision that will have a significant impact on the users, this Company will post such revision on this Service in advance in a way that the user can understand such revision with ease ,with setting a reasonable notification period, in addition to posting the revised Rules on this website. In such case, the revised Rules shall be considered valid after the notification period has passed.

10. Inquiries Regarding Acquired Information

User’s inquiries regarding Acquired Information are handled at the Acquired Information Protection Desk provided below.

Inquiries to:

Acquired Information Protection Desk
NT Travel Co., Ltd.
3-8-38 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062

Acquired Information Protection Manager

Compliance Manager

e-mail

privacy@navitime.co.jp