In principle, you may use most of the services provided through Web sites run by Growth Wizards on the Internet, without disclosing your personal information. For specific services, however, you may be asked to provide your personal information, in which case Growth Wizards or partners shall be required to keep such information confidential. Furthermore, Growth Wizards is fully aware of the importance of safeguarding the privacy of such information when handling electronic information. In some cases, Growth Wizards may subcontract the management of a specific Web site, whole or a part thereof, to an outside firm that Growth Wizards judges to be trustworthy. The personal information of each individual user is protected also in these cases under GW’s rules of handling personal information. Personal information mentioned herein and defined by Growth Wizards refers to information of all kinds related to each individual person –the name, residential address, mailing address, employer’s name, department name, phone number, opinions, and so on –that is electronically transmitted to Growth Wizards by users.

In order to make your Web site browsing more efficient or to provide follow-up services after Web site browsing, Growth Wizards may ask users to provide personal information in the case of:

• online user registration
• Requesting catalogs
• Registering subscriptions to newsletters or the like
• Ordering products or services
• Allow user access to limited-entry areas of this Web site as appropriate
• other cases

Growth Wizards occasionally hires other companies to provide limited services on its behalf, including packaging, mailing and delivering purchases, answering user questions about products or services, sending postal mail and processing event registration. Growth Wizards will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

In all cases, Growth Wizards will expressly state why such information is necessary, so that you may provide the information at your own discretion. Growth Wizards will not disclose personal information provided by users to any party, other than Growth Wizards itself or Growth Wizards’s affiliates or business partners, without prior permission from the users, except in cases where Growth Wizards provides its commissioned trader with such information necessary for a trade to be executed.

However, in cases where a settlement needs to be made for using pay services or purchasing products, Growth Wizards may exchange personal information with firms, including without limitation, financial institutions, in order to check the validity of bank accounts and/or credit cards. Likewise, Growth Wizards may disclose personal information in case such disclosure is mandatory under applicable laws or is reasonably judged to be essential in order to protect and safeguard the rights, property and safety of other users, Growth Wizards itself, and/or Growth Wizards’s affiliates.

For the purpose of product development, identification of business needs, and sales promotion, Growth Wizards may use personal information, personal opinions, and the like presented by users, though such use shall be limited only to Growth Wizards itself and Growth Wizards’s affiliates and business partners.

Growth Wizards will accept, to a reasonable extent, such possible user requests as making corrections or deletions to personal information presented by users.

Growth Wizards may use the IP addresses of users recorded in the system, in order to explore the cause of or solution to any problem arising in servers, or to administer its Web sites.

In some cases, this specific Web site may contain other notices about the use and the information practices applicable.

Circumstances may arise where, whether for strategic or other business reasons, Growth Wizards decides to sell, buy, merge or otherwise reorganize businesses in some countries. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal information to prospective or actual purchasers, or receiving it from sellers. It is Growth Wizards’s practice to seek appropriate protection for information in these types of transactions.

Please be aware that in certain circumstances, it is possible that personal information may be subject to disclosure pursant to judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants, or order.

This Web site may contain links to other web sites. Growth Wizards is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those other web sites.

For queries and inquiries about the personal information protection policy of Growth Wizards, please contact us.