Privacy Policy（EEA Version）

プライバシーポリシーソニーグループ・プライバシーポリシー個人情報の取り扱いについて個人情報保護方針

We strictly protect your privacy and ensure the utmost safeguards regarding your personal information. This Privacy Notice, which covers data subjects located in the EEA, tells you what personal information we collect, how we use it, with whom we share it, and how we safeguard it.

Please read the following to help you understand our privacy policy and how we treat personal information.

１）About us

The data processor is Sony Payment Services Inc., also referred to as the “Company” . As a data processor, we obtain your personal data through our services as a payment service provider. We thus process your personal data on behalf of the merchants we work for. The merchants act as data controllers. As such, if you would like to inquire about your personal information, please contact the merchant you bought a product/service from.

Although we, as a data processor, are not obliged to inform you of data processing activities, we do so for completeness’s sake.

We do act as data controller with regard to the processing activities that are carried out when you visit our website. Information in this regard is also included in this policy.

２）Information covered by this privacy notice.

Personal information that can be used to identify directly or indirectly an individual, either in combination with other information or on its own, and that is processed by the Company in general.

３）What personal information do we collect?

We collect information from the following sources:

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Information we obtain from you: We collect information we receive from you, namely the following: card number, expiration date, security number, zip code and address, and other information sent to us by the data controller.

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Third Party Information: when you visit our website (https//www.sonypaymentservices.jp ) we automatically obtain the following information through the use of cookies and other technologies (as data controller):

For more information on how we use cookies, please refer to our "Cookie Policy".

４）How We Use Personal Information

Subject Personal Data Objective Reason
To enact payments from our merchants in a timely and precise manner by way of payment processing Card number, expiration date, security number, zip code and address, and all other information sent by the data controller that can be considered as personal data under GDPR regime. For payment processing whose processing order is placed with the merchants who in turn relay them to our system. It can be purchasing payment order, refund or cancellation or information search orders etc.

５）Whether or not we use personal information for direct
　　marketing

By usage of our cookies, we collect data such as browsing behaviors to improve the effectiveness of our website, collect statistics and analyze the collected data for our own research purpose only.

６）Does the Company share information with third
　　parties?

Your personal information is basically intended to be used by us, but we may share it with third parties in certain circumstances.

We may share information with the following categories of third parties:

While providing these services, these companies may have access to your personal information. We require such third parties to share only the minimum necessary information and to use it only for the intended purpose. We are committed to ensuring that these third parties act in a manner that protects your personal information to the greatest extent possible.

We may be required to disclose personal information to third parties as permitted by law; to law enforcement agencies, regulators, government agencies, courts, or the executive branch for legal or regulatory reasons.

We may also disclose personal information other than as described above. These include when disclosure is legally permissible and necessary to protect our position, when necessary for national security, to enforce laws and regulations, to execute contracts, to protect the rights of our customers, or to protect the rights of the public.

Transfer of information to third parties in connection with a business transfer; if the transferee agrees to preserve personal information in the same manner as our policy, we may transfer personal information to the transferee through reorganization, restructuring, acquisition, merger, or asset transfer.

We do not sell personal information to third parties.

Our website may contain links to third party partners or affiliates. These third-party sites have their own privacy policies, and we have no control over their handling of your personal information. For this reason, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third parties before providing any information to them.

７）Transfer of Personal Information Outside the EEA

Your personal information may be processed in the countries listed below (target countries: Japan and the United States). We anticipate that your personal information may be processed by our affiliates or outsourcing companies in those countries. We will take every precaution to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with our Privacy Notice and similar data protection legislation. Examples of such precautions are as follows:

８）Your rights（only in countries where EU data
　　protection legislation applies）

Your rights in relation to your personal data are as follows where EU data protection legislation applies:

The above rights can be exercised by writing to us at the following address:

Sony Europe B.V.
The Heights, Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey KT13 0XW
Direct: +44 (0)1932 816265
Mobile: +44 (0)7795 011814
Email: kathy.bromley@sony.com



AKD Benelux Lawyers
Address
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Mobile
Email

Customers may file a complaint with their local data protection authority if they believe that the Company has not complied with the protection laws and regulations.

If you live in the UK or your complaint concerns the UK, please contact:

Phone: +44 303 123 1113
Email: casework@ico.org.uk
Website: www.ico.org.uk
Web form: www.ico.org.uk/concerns/
Address: Water Lane, Wycliffe House, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF



If you are outside the UK and are a resident or complainant in the EEA, please contact the national data protection authorities listed at the URL below:

９）How is my personal data protected?

The Company takes measures in terms of systems and structures to protect personal information. Such measures include limiting access to such information to personnel involved in the processing of personal information, as well as other administrative, technical, and physical measures, such as the immediate erasure of personal data and its replacement with a non-identifiable string of characters. We do not share information with third parties.

Although we take every precaution to protect information from unauthorized access, use, modification, or disclosure through our systems, sites, and procedures, we cannot guarantee against unauthorized access, use, modification, or disclosure due to the open nature of the Internet environment. However, due to the open Internet environment, it is not impossible to prevent third-party intervention (e.g., hackers) in the transmission and storage of information.

10）Information retention period

We retain personal information so long as required by the data controllers – being the merchants – whom we serve.

11）Children's privacy

We do not collect personal information from children under the age prescribed by each applicable laws of the subject children’s residence without parental consent. If you are under the age described above, please do not provide us with your personal information. If we learn that your personal information is under the age of what was described above, we will delete it.

12）Contact information

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact AKD Benelux Lawyers

13）Applicable version of this privacy notice

We may update the Privacy Notice from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by e-mail or place an alert on our homepage.

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