PRIVACY POLICY

We, DESCENTE, LTD. are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We use the information you share with us to make our services and your experience continually better. This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. By visiting descente.com (“our site”) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy. For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (the “Regulation”), the data controller is: DESCENTE, LTD., Maruito Namba Building 13F, 1-2-3 Minatomachi Naniwa-ku, Osaka 556-0017 Japan.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

We may collect and process the following data about you:
Information you give to us.

You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our site or on our social media pages or profiles, or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. It includes information you provide when you register to use our site and may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number.

Information we collect about you.

With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information: technical information, e.g. about your browser or the device you use to access the site; information about your visit, e.g. which website you clicked through to reach ours, lengths of visits to pages , products you viewed or searched for, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs).

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

We use information held about you for the following purposes based on our contractual performance or legitimate interests:
Information you give to us.

We will use this information to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us; to provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about; and to provide you with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. If you are an existing customer, we may contact you by the mean(s) you chose to be contacted providing with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale to you.

Information we collect about you.

We will use this information: to administer, operate and improve our site and ensure it is presented in the most effective manner; as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure; to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may share your personal data with DESCENTE JAPAN LTD. for the above-stated purposes, and by submitting your personal data, you agree to this sharing and processing by DESCENTE JAPAN LTD as a data controller. If DESCENTE Group or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets. If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, we will share your personal data with the related third party. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.

WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, data storage servers located in Japan. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all reasonably necessary steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers.] Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. You can also exercise the right at any time by sending emails to the address set out in “CONTACT” section below, or alternatively you can lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from third party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that those websites should have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND WITHDRAWING CONSENT

The Regulation gives you the right to access information held about you. You may request from us a copy of personal data we hold on you.

You may at any time withdraw your consent with future effect and without affecting the lawfulness of processing of your personal data based on the consent you provided before you withdrew it.

DATA RETENTION

We will retain your personal data for as long as you maintain an account or as otherwise necessary to provide you our services. We will also retain your personal data as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Where we no longer need to process your personal data for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, we will delete your personal data from our systems.

Where permissible, we will also delete your personal data upon your request. If you would like us to delete your data, please send emails to the address set out in “CONTACT” section below with your name, e-mail address, and a copy of your national identification papers or passport and also provide exact instructions to “Delete your personal data and/or any data we store relating to you”.

If you have questions about our data retention practices, please contact us by sending emails to the address set out in “CONTACT” section below.

SECURITY

We implement appropriate technical and organizational safeguards to protect against unauthorized or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to personal data. Please be advised, however, that we cannot fully eliminate security risks associated with the storage and transmission of personal data.

Links to Other Websites. Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control or to people that we do not employ or manage. Our services may provide a link or otherwise provide access to Third Party Sites. We provide these links merely for your convenience. We have no control over, do not review, and are not responsible for Third Party Sites, their content, or any goods or services available through the Third Party Sites. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to Third Party Sites, and any data you provide to Third Party Sites, you provide at your own risk. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any Third Party Sites with that you interact with.

CHILDREN

We do not knowingly collect personal data online from children under 13 (note that the minimum age may vary based on country/region, and on local law). If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal data without parental consent, please send emails to the address set out in “CONTACT” section below. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal data without parental consent, we will take steps to remove the data and cancel the child's account.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

CONTACT

We welcome your questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy by the following contact link:

DESCENTE, LTD.
DESCENTE Brand Division

CONTACT

COOKIES

WHAT ARE COOKIES AND HOW ARE THEY USED?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit some websites, which help to provide you with a more tailored experience whenever you visit the website. We use cookies on our site to make the website easier for you to use, and to help inform us on how to improve the website to make it easier for you to shop online and navigate our features. We do not store any personally identifiable information about you in our cookies, and cookies cannot be used to harm your computer.

COOKIES SET BY DESCENTE.COM

A list of cookies used on our site is shown below, along with a brief description explaining what we use these for.

COOKIES SET BY descente.com
Cookie Purpose
Session cookie These cookies are used to store your activity throughout your individual session on our site.
Treasure Data (Client ID) The cookie is placed there for the purpose of recognizing your specific browser or remembering information specific to your browser, were you to return to the same site.
VWO The cookie is used for the report segmentation feature in VWO.
Google Analytics Used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

COOKIES SET BY THIRD PARTY SERVICES

WE ALSO WORK WITH A SELECTION OF THIRD PARTIES TO HELP US IMPROVE OUR SITE EXPERIENCE.

COOKIES SET BY THIRD PARTY SERVICES
Cookie Purpose
Treasure Data (Global ID) The cookie is placed there for the purpose of recognizing your specific browser or remembering information specific to your browser, were you to return to the same site.
Twitter If you click a ‘Tweet’ link on our site, Twitter sets a cookie to remember that you have ‘tweeted’ that information.
Facebook If you click a ‘Like’ link on our site, facebook sets a cookie to remember that you have ‘Liked’ that information.

HOW DO I MANAGE COOKIES SET BY DESCENTE?

If you wish to restrict, delete or block web browser cookies which are set on your device then you can do this through your browser settings; the Help function within your browser should tell you how.

Licences

This product includes GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from https://www.maxmind.com.

Last updated on December 1, 2023

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