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Privacy Policy
TV Bank Corp. (hereinafter referred to as " TV Bank "), will do its utmost to comply fully with the "Act concerning Protection of Personal Information (Law No. 57, May 30, 2003)" and the "Requirements for Compliance Programs on Personal Information Protection" (JISQ15001) and to put each of the following items into execution in order to protect personal information.

1. Enhanced education of employees
TV Bank will prepare learning materials for personal information protection, distribute them to all its employees and temporary employees, and provide training at least once a year to all its employees and temporary employees that handle personal information.

2. Improvement of internal rules regarding personal information protection
TV Bank will improve the internal rules regarding personal information protection to present a clear policy for the handling of personal information and ensure that all its personnel are well aware that it takes a tough stance against personal information leaks.

3. Placement of a "Chief Information Security Officer" and enhancement of his/her capacity
TV Bank will establish the position of "Chief Information Security Officer" and assign the person in charge of information security to this position. To ensure that this person supervises compliance with laws and guidelines, formulation of the internal rules, improvement of the audit system, and other handling of personal information, TV Bank will establish a system in which the person's role is clearly defined.

4. Implementation of proper measures for information security
TV Bank will implement necessary and proper measures such as personal information access control, restriction on outside use of personal information, and preventive measures against unauthorized access from outside, for the purposes of prevention of leakage, loss, or damage of personal information and of safe management of personal information.

5. Review and improvement of outsourcing
TV Bank will review and improve our outsourcing strategy to enhance the protection of personal information. Before entering into a business trust agreement, TV Bank will rigorously examine the eligibility of the counterparty. When TV Bank makes a business trust agreement, it will include provisions concerning safe management measures, confidentiality, conditions for reconsignment, and other matters related to the proper handling of personal information. TV Bank will properly supervise its outsourcees by regularly monitoring their operation statuses or by other means, paying greater attention to personal information protection.

6. Improvement and enhancement of the auditing system
TV Bank will improve the in-house auditing system by which it can see whether personal information is properly protected. TV Bank will study methods of auditing based on using an access log, because it believes such measure is effective for the early detection of persons who leak personal information and because such measure has a deterrent effect, and thus will be effective for preventing information leaks.

7. Proper collection, use, provision, and publication of personal information
TV Bank collects, uses, provides, and publishes personal information in a proper way giving much thought to the details and scope of the business.

1) Intended use of the personal information
i. Response to inquiries from customers, guide to procedures for using TV Bank services, information provision, and other activities for customer support
ii. Marketing research and analysis
iii. Guide to products, services, and campaigns offered by TV Bank and other companies
iv. Other business activities necessary for provision of TV Bank services

If TV Bank needs to use personal information for any other purposes than those above, it will clearly explain the purpose and obtain the prior consent of the customer each time.

2) Shared use
TV Bank shares personal information as follows:

a. Companies that share information with TV Bank
i. SOFTBANK BB Corp. (For details, visit the following site.)
http://www.softbankbb.co.jp/
ii. Group companies of SOFTBANK BB Corp. (For details, visit the following site.)
http://www.softbankbb.co.jp/company/group/index.html
iii. SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp. (For details, visit the following site.)
http://www.softbanktelecom.co.jp/
iv. Group companies of SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp. (For details, visit the following site.)
http://www.softbanktelecom.co.jp/group/index.html

b. Personal information to be shared
Name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, customer ID, and all other personal information TV Bank obtains from a customer through application for and provision of its services (provided that such provision does not conflict with privacy of communications).

c. Purpose of sharing information
i. Response to inquiries from customers, guide to procedures for using the services provided by the above companies, information provision, and other activities for customer support
ii. Marketing research and analysis
iii. Guide to products, services, and campaigns offered by TV Bank and other companies

d. Chief Information Security Officer for the shared information
TV Bank's information security manager

(2) TV Bank clearly explains the intended use each time it collects the personal information of its employees.
(3) TV Bank clearly explains the intended use each time it collects the personal information of people other than its customers, such as TV Bank’s business partners.
(4) When a customer requests TV Bank to inform him/her of, disclose, or revise the intended use of personal information TV Bank collects from the customer, TV Bank will respond to the customer in writing (provided that the customer agrees). TV Bank may charge the customer for this answer within a reasonable range taking the actual cost into consideration.
(5) If a customer wants TV Bank to disclose or correct the personal information it collected from him/her or if a customer has any complaint about the handling of such personal information, he/she may contact TV Bank at the following address:
E-Mail:privacy@tv-bank.com
Time in: 9:00 ? 18:00 (Closed on Saturdays and Sundays, holidays and the first three days of the New Year, and on certain days for equipment inspection and maintenance)

8. Continuous improvement of activities concerning personal information protection
TV Bank will continuously review and improve the above seven items of activities concerning personal information protection.

About "Cookies" and links
On a website of TV Bank (hereinafter referred to as "Our Website"), a "Cookie" may be used. A "Cookie", which is a small text file, is made by a software application on a webpage server and stored in your hard disk.
A "Cookie" will accumulate information such as the records of a customer’s use of Our Website (how Our Website is navigated, which pages interested a customer, how often a customer accesses Our Website, and so on) on TV Bank’s server. Therefore, when a customer visits Our Website again, the "Cookie" will inform TV Bank’s server of the customer’s visit and the website will be tailored to fit the customer’s taste. If a customer does not want to use a "Cookie", the customer can disable the "Cookie" by making a change in the basic settings of the customer’s browser.

Our Website may be linked to or from third-party sites. TV Bank assumes no responsibility whatsoever for personal information collected on such linked sites and the management of such information.

Object of this "Principle of Personal Information Protection"
In this "Principle of Personal Information Protection", "personal information" means information that can be used to identify individuals, which includes names, dates of birth or other descriptions, numbers or codes given to each person, or images or voices of individuals regardless of whether they are TV Bank’s customers, employees of TV Bank’s business partners, or TV Bank’s employees. (including information that is not enough for identification but can easily be matched with other information and thus used for identification). This "Principle of Personal Information Protection" is applicable to all personal information TV Bank has unless otherwise noted in individual clauses.

(Enacted and enforced on November 11, 2008)



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