Privacy Policy

・Position of privacy policy

As a group of professionals in the digital age, our mission is to solve social issues by building an R&D ecosystem, turning promising technologies into businesses as quickly as possible, and spreading the word. We handle a variety of information, including data received from. As a company that provides digital innovation as an important value, we are aware that ensuring the safety of data and information handling is the most important initiative for us to gain and maintain the trust of society. We have compiled and published a policy for handling personal information that we receive from our business partners.

·Scope of application

This policy stipulates the handling of personal information handled by our company in connection with its business activities. Personal information not disclosed under this policy will be handled by the Act on the Protection of Personal Information and other related laws and regulations (including foreign laws and regulations).

・Purpose of acquisition and use

In connection with its business activities, the Company shall acquire and use personal information only to the extent necessary to achieve the following purposes.

Performance of a contract concluded between you or our company
Contact for business negotiations and meetings with the person or customer
Provision of after-sales service, communication regarding service information, etc.
Fulfillment of work entrusted to us by customers, such as consulting and system development
Responding to various inquiries
Analysis to improve our services
Our recruitment activities, such as contacting you regarding selection and recruitment and sending out materials.

When acquiring personal information directly from the person in writing (including e-mail, entry on the company website, or other electromagnetic methods), unless stipulated by laws and regulations, we will inform the person in advance of the purpose of use. I'll make it clear.

・Provided by a third party

Our company will not provide the personal information of the individual to a third party without obtaining the consent of the individual in advance. However, this excludes the cases stipulated in the following items.

When based on laws and regulations, etc.
When it is necessary to protect a person's life, body, or property, and it is difficult to obtain the consent of the person in question.
When it is particularly necessary to improve public health or promote the healthy upbringing of children, and it is difficult to obtain the consent of the individual.
In cases where it is necessary to cooperate with national institutions, local governments, or other entrusted parties in carrying out affairs stipulated by law, carrying out such affairs with the consent of the individual concerned. If there is a risk of interfering with
When outsourcing the handling of personal information to the extent necessary to achieve the purpose of acquisition and use
When providing personal information due to business succession due to merger or other reasons

Our company may provide your personal information to our shareholders or affiliated companies to the extent necessary to achieve the purposes listed in "Purpose of Acquisition and Utilization" above.

・Handling of specific personal information

Regarding specific personal information, our company complies with the "Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify Specific Individuals in Administrative Procedures" (hereinafter referred to as the "Numbers Act") and the "Act on the Protection of Personal Information". We will also comply with the "Guidelines for Proper Handling of Specific Personal Information (Business Operator Edition)".
Our company acquires specific personal information to the extent necessary to achieve the purpose, with the scope of use of specific personal information being the implementation of administrative procedures related to social security, taxes, and disaster countermeasures stipulated in each item of Article 9 of the Number Act. shall be used accordingly.
The main scope of use of specific personal information handled by our company is as follows.
1. When our company receives specific personal information, we use it to record various legal documents such as withholding tax slips for employment income and retirement income, salary payment reports, employment insurance notifications, notifications of acquiring qualifications for health insurance and employees' pension insurance, etc. Administrative matters to be filled out in necessary documents and submitted to the head of the tax office, municipal mayor, Japan Pension Service, etc.
2. When our company receives specific personal information, we use it to record payment records of remuneration and fees, dividends, distribution of surplus and fund interest, payment records of real estate usage fees, etc., and records of transfers of real estate, etc. Affairs that are written in various payment records such as consideration payment records and submitted to the director of the tax office.
3. The execution of operations that our company has been entrusted with the handling of specific personal information by administrative agencies, etc., or other business operators.
Our company will not provide specific personal information of individuals to third parties, except as required by laws and regulations. There will also be no shared use. However, if any of the items stipulated in Article 19 of the Number Act (Restrictions on Provision of Specific Personal Information) apply, specific personal information may be provided.
Our company may outsource the handling of specific personal information within the scope of the purpose of use stipulated by laws and regulations.
Requests for disclosure, correction, addition, deletion, suspension of use, suspension of provision to third parties, notification of purpose of use, or complaint regarding specific personal information held by our company shall be handled by our company's "Personal Information Disclosure" Regarding requests or complaints, please refer to the following.

・Requests for disclosure of personal information, etc., or complaints

If you request disclosure, correction, addition, deletion, suspension of use, suspension of provision to a third party, or notification of the purpose of use (hereinafter referred to as "disclosure, etc.") of your personal information held by our company, If you have any questions or would like to make a complaint, please contact us using the contact information below.

·The information desk

BIRD INITIATIVE Co., Ltd. Personal information complaint and consultation desk
To the personal information protection manager
7F Arco Tower, 1-8-1 Shimomeguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0064
Phone number: 050-5873-6349
Reception hours: Weekdays 9:00 – 17:00 (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays, and company holidays such as year-end and New Year holidays)

・Personal information protection manager

Chief Digital Officer Satoshi Goto