PRIVACY POLICY for ibis Paint in the United States of America

Last updated: February 25, 2025

We, IBIS INC., respect your privacy. As we operate our website and provide you with our services, we process personal data about you in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (the "CCPA") adopted pursuant to the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of the United States of America (the "COPPA").
This is our privacy policy for residents in the U.S.A. on how we process and protect your personal data who use our "ibis Paint". We may revise this privacy policy from time to time. You can obtain the latest version of this policy on our site.

This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect personally identifiable information of U.S.A. residents and any information related to it ("personal information") and non-personal information on this site.

Please refer to the “PRIVACY POLICY for ibis Paint in the EEA / the UK” for residents in the EEA / the UK.
Please refer to the “Policy on the Protection of Personal Information” for residents in other areas.

1. RIGHT TO KNOW ABOUT PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED, DISCLOSED, OR SOLD

1. The CCPA states you have the right to request us to disclose what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell, including the categories of personal information, the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information, the categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information, and the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about the consumer.
2. You can exercise your above-mentioned rights unless you have exercised the rights within the preceding 12 months. We endeavor to respond to you within 45 days of receiving a verifiable request from you. If you intend to exercise such rights, please refer to section 11.
3. We use your information (such as e-mail address) to verify your request. You may be asked to provide additional information so that we can verify your request.
4. The categories of personal information we collected, business or commercial purpose, sources, the length of time to retain, and the category of third parties we shared, sold, or disclosed within the preceding 12 months are as follows:

	BUSINESS OR COMMERCIAL PURPOSE FOR PROCESSING, DISCLOSURE, SELL, or SHARE	CATEGORY(as stipulated in CCPA 1798.140(v))	DETAIL	SOURCES OF COLLECTED PERSONAL INFORMATION	CATEGORY OF THIRD PARTIES WE SELL OR SHARE (stipulated in CCPA 1798.140(ad)(ah))	CATEGORY OF THIRD PARTIES WE DISCLOSE	THE LENGTH OF TIME TO RETAIN
1	To manage your application purchase information on the application store, such as Google Play, App Store, and Microsoft Store*:	Identifiers and Commercial information.	Purchase ID, Purchased product, Device information on purchase, Date and time of purchase; Continuation, and Cancellation.	Your activity on the application store.	None	Our contractors that assist us in providing ibis Paint.	Until the end of the service to maintain purchase information.
2	To manage your application accounts (ibisAccount, Twitter account, Facebook account, Apple ID, YouTube account, CLIP STUDIO account):	Identifiers	ibisAccount name, ibisAccount identity token, Twitter account name, Facebook account name, YouTube account name, YouTube access token, YouTube refresh token, CLIP STUDIO account name, CLIP STUDIO access token, Apple account name, Apple refresh token, Apple identity token, and IP address.	Your posting on our service.	None	Our contractors that assist us in providing ibis Paint.	As long as the user maintains their account for this service.
3	To manage our personalized advertising:	Identifiers and Internet or other electronic network activity information.	Your operational history on our service collected by the application, including Device token, FCM token, App UUID, Platform type, App type, IP address, User-agent, Device language settings, Terminal carrier information, Screen size, Orientation, Resolution, Sound volume, Battery, Memory use, Country, Time zone, Local settings, Network connection type and speed; and Advertisement ID.	Your activity on our service.	Our contractors that assist us in advertising.	None	As long as the user maintains their account of this service or until you withdraw your consent to our services.
4	To analyze your use of our service in order to generate insight that is useful for improving our services, products and marketing, or to advertise to potential customers who have not yet used our services:	Identifiers and Internet or other similar network activity.	App UUID, Platform type, App type, Model name, OS version, Region of use, Screen size, User Ad ID, ID created by the UET SDK, and ID that allows Microsoft to identify which ad this application was downloaded from.	Your activity on our service.	Our contractors that assist us in analyzing service usage data.	None	Until loss of relation to personal information via deletion of the app or until you withdraw your consent.
5	To investigate App bugs:	Identifiers and Internet or other similar network activity.	App UUID, Platform type, App type, Model name, OS version, Region of use, and Stack trace.	Your activity on our service.	None	Our contractors that assist us in analyzing service usage data.	Until loss of relation to personal information via deletion of the app.
6	To protect your privacy and security, integrity and availability of our website:	Identifiers and Internet or other electronic network activity information.	IP address, User-agent, Access time, and Access URL.	Your activity on our service.	None	Our contractors that assist us in providing ibis Paint.	Seven (7) days.
7	To manage user communication on official posting sites (Online Gallery):	Identifiers	ibisAccount name, Twitter account name, Facebook account name, Apple account name, and Your responses to posts such as comments or Likes.	Your posting on our service.	None	Our contractors that assist us in managing user communication.	The shortest duration of the deletion of the commented work, the deletion of the comment, or the deletion of your account.
8	To manage inappropriate artwork reports:	Identifiers	ibisAccount name, Twitter account name, Facebook account name, Apple account name, Device's model name, Artwork data, IP address, and Inappropriate artwork report history.	Your posting on our service.	None	Our contractors that assist us in managing user communication.	Until the end of this service.
9	To manage user upload:	Identifiers	ibisAccount name, Twitter account name, Facebook account name, Apple account name, Device's model name, and Artwork data.	Your posting on our service.	None	Our contractors that assist us in managing user communication.	Until the deletion of artwork with the user's YouTube or Online Gallery account.
10	To manage contest:	Identifiers	Twitter account name, E-mail address, and Artwork data.	Your posting on the site.	None	Our contractors that assist us in managing the contest.	Two (2) weeks after prize payment.
11	To respond to your Inquiries (bug reports, requests, complaints, etc.):	Identifiers	Name, E-mail address, User-agent, and Inquiry content.	Your posting on our service.	None	Our contractors that assist us in storing the user content.	Until deletion upon request.

* This service uses the YouTube API service provided by Google to upload videos of User's creations to YouTube and to play those uploaded YouTube videos.
The YouTube API uses cookies or similar technologies to store, access, and collect information directly or indirectly on the device or browser from which the user uses this service.
You may revoke your access from our service by using the Google Security Settings page.
Please see below for the YouTube Terms of Use, Google Privacy Policy, and the Google Security Settings page.

• YouTube Terms of Use (Goolge LLC.)
  https://www.youtube.com/t/terms
• Google Privacy Policy (Goolge LLC.)
  https://policies.google.com/privacy
• Google Security Settings page (Goolge LLC.)
  https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions

* The Windows version of this product contains the Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime (including Microsoft Defender SmartScreen). Microsoft Edge WebView2 and Microsoft Defender SmartScreen may collect information about your use of the software and send it to Microsoft.
For more information about the personal information collected by Microsoft, please visit
https://aka.ms/privacy
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/privacy-whitepaper#smartscreen
For the avoidance of doubt, we do not process any of the information collected by Microsoft.

5. Use or disclosure of Sensitive personal information stipulated in CCPA 1798.140(ae)
   1. We use the contents of your chat message that is not intended to us, which may be considered Sensitive personal information under the CCPA. We do not use or disclose your Sensitive personal information for reasons other than those set forth in section 7027, subsection (m) of CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT REGULATIONS.


6. Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
   1. We do not have actual knowledge that we Sell or Share personal information about residents who we know are younger than 16 years old.
      Under the CCPA, "Sell" means disclosing by electronic or other means, a consumer's personal information to a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration, and "Share" means sharing a consumer's personal Information to a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising.
      
   2. Under the CCPA, the activities in which we share information collected from cookies or email addresses with advertising agencies to manage our personalized advertising to those of you 16 years of age or older based on your preferences may be considered a "sale" or "share" of personal information.
      You may exercise your right to opt-out by going to the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" section of the Settings window of the app of our service. You can open the Settings window by tapping the gear icon in the first screen of the app.


7. Disclosure of Personal Information
   1. We only allow our service providers to handle your personal information when we have confirmed that they take appropriate measures to protect your personal information. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers to ensure that they can only use your personal information to provide services necessary to receive, handle, and respond to your inquiries. We may also share personal information with external auditors.
      We may disclose and exchange information with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
      We may also need to share some personal information with other parties, such as potential buyers of some or all of our businesses, or during a re-structuring. Usually, information will be anonymized, but this may not always be possible. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations.
      We will not share your personal information with any other third party.

2. RIGHT TO REQUEST DELETION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

1. The CCPA states you have the right to request us to delete your personal information collected by us, subject to certain exceptions.
2. We endeavor to respond to you within 45 days of receiving a verifiable request. If you intend to exercise such rights, please refer to section 11.
3. We use your information (mail address etc.) to verify your request. You may be asked to provide additional information so that we can verify your request.

3. RIGHT TO CORRECT INACCURATE PERSONAL INFORMATION

1. The CCPA states that you have the right to correct inaccurate personal information collected by us.
2. We endeavor to respond to you within 45 days of receiving a verifiable request. If you intend to exercise such rights, please refer to section 11.
3. We use your information (email address, etc.) to verify your request. You may be asked to provide additional information so that we can verify your request.

4. RIGHT TO OPT-OUT OF THE SALES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

1. The CCPA states you have the right to opt-out of the Sale or the Share of your personal information if we sell or share your personal information.
2. Under the CCPA, the activities in which we share information collected from cookies or e-mail addresses with advertising agencies to manage our personalized advertising to those of you13 years of age or older based on your preferences may be considered a "sale" or "share" of personal information.

You may exercise your right to opt-out by going to the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" section of the Settings window of the app of our service. You can open the Settings window by tapping the gear icon in the first screen of the app.

5. RIGHT TO LIMIT THE USE OR DISCLOSURE OF SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

1. The CCPA states that you have the right to limit the use or disclosure of sensitive personal information if we use or disclose your Sensitive personal information for reasons other than those set forth in section 7027, subsection (m) of CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT REGULATIONS.
2. We use the contents of your chat message that is not intended to us, which may be considered Sensitive personal information under the CCPA. We do not use or disclose your Sensitive personal information for reasons other than those set forth in section 7027, subsection (m) of CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT REGULATIONS.

6. RIGHT TO NON-DISCRIMINATION FOR THE EXERCISE OF A CONSUMER'S PRIVACY RIGHT

1. The CCPA states you have a right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of the privacy rights conferred by the CCPA, including an employee's, applicant's, or independent contractor's right not to be retaliated against for the exercise of their CCPA rights.
2. We do not discriminate against you for the exercise of your privacy right.

7. AUTHORIZED AGENT

1. When you use an authorized agent to submit a request to know or, a request to delete, or a request to correct, we may require that you:
   1. Verify your own identity directly with us; and
   2. Directly confirm with us that you provided the authorized agent with permission to submit the request

8. HOW DOES THIS SITE RESPOND TO "DO NOT TRACK" SIGNALS　OR OPT-OUT PREFERENCE SIGNALS

Some browsers incorporate a "Do Not Track" (DNT) feature or opt-out preference signals, which, when turned on, signals to websites you visit that you do not want to be tracked. Our non-browser-based services do not respond to your browser's DNT signals or opt-out preference signals, and our browser-based services do not track your activity regardless of DNT signals or opt-out preference signals.

9. YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS (FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS)

Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1798.83, we only share Personal Information of California residents with third parties for those third parties' direct marketing purposes if you specifically opt-in or are offered the opportunity to opt-out and elect not to opt-out from such sharing at the time you provide Personal Information or at the time you choose to participate in a feature. If you do not opt-in or if you opt-out at the applicable time, we do not share your information with those identified third parties for those third parties' own direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident, and we do not have a policy of providing choices regarding certain kinds of sharing, as described above, you have the right to receive from us: (a) information identifying any third party(ies) to whom we may have disclosed, within the preceding calendar year, your Personal Information for that third party's own direct marketing purposes; and (b) a description of the categories of Personal Information disclosed. If you are a California resident, please write to the contact point referred to in section 9 to obtain information free of charge regarding our compliance with this law. (Requests received by other means may result in a delayed response.) Please use "Your California Privacy Rights" in the subject line of your e-mail or letter. Please include your name, street address, city, state, and zip code. We are not responsible for requests that are not labeled or sent properly or do not have complete information.
Please note that we are only required to respond to one request per customer each calendar year. We will respond to these requests within thirty (30) days.

10. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

We do not collect and store personal information about the Child (in this provision, we call the children who are under 13 years old) if a Child submits this information without prior parental consent or by the parent or guardian of the Child. If we discover that we've unintentionally collected information from a child in a way that doesn't meet COPPA requirements, we will delete the information immediately.

11. CONTACT US

Please contact us by e-mail if you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you.
ibis inc. PMS Office
3-17-34 Meieki, Nakamura Ward, Nagoya City, Aichi
450-0002, Japan
E-mail: privacy@ibis.ne.jp