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PRIVACY POLICY for ibisPaint

Last updated: June 27, 2023

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 Act on the Protection of Personal Information of Japan.

This is our privacy policy for ibisPaint. We may revise this privacy policy from time to time. You can obtain the latest version of this policy on our site.

Please refer to the "PRIVACY POLICY for ibisPaint in the EEA / the UK" for residents in the EEA / the UK.
Please refer to the "PRIVACY POLICY for ibisPaint in the United States of America" for residents in the United States of America.

1. RESPONSIBLE CONTROLLER

We, IBIS INC., a company registered in Nagoya, Japan, issue this privacy policy. When we determine the purposes and means of processing your personal data, we are the data controller and responsible for protecting your rights regarding personal data.

2. HOW WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA

As we provide you with our services, we collect, use, store, generate or disclose to third-parties (hereinafter collectively referred to as "process") your personal data for the following purposes:

  1. To manage your application purchase information on the application store, such as Google Play, App Store, and Microsoft Store.
    1. Categories of your personal data we process: Purchase ID, Purchased product, Device information on purchase, Date and time of purchase, continuation, and cancellation.
      We collect these categories of your personal data from your activity on the application store.
      If you do not provide them, it prevents us from giving you our service.
    2. Lawful basis: the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract.
    3. Period for which we store your personal data: until the end of the service to maintain purchase information.
    4. Recipients we disclose your personal data to: our contractors that assist us in providing ibisPaint.
  2. To manage your application accounts (Twitter account, Facebook account, Apple ID, YouTube account, CLIP STUDIO account).
    1. Categories of your personal data we process: Twitter account name, Twitter access token, Facebook account name, Facebook access token, YouTube account name, YouTube access token, YouTube refresh token, CLIP STUDIO account name, CLIP STUDIO access token, Apple account name, Apple access token, Apple refresh token, Apple identity token.
      We collect these categories of your personal data from your posting on our service.
      If you do not provide them, it prevents us from giving you our service.
    2. Lawful basis: the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract.
    3. Period for which we store your personal data: as long as user maintain their account of this service.
    4. Recipients we disclose your personal data to: our contractors that assist us in providing ibisPaint.
  3. To manage our personalized advertising.
    1. Categories of your personal data we process: 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, and resolution, sound volume, battery, memory use, country, time zone, and local settings, network connection type and speed, advertisement ID.
      We collect these categories of your personal data from the Device on which you use this application.
    2. Lawful basis: your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Your withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of our processing of your personal data based on consent before its withdrawal.
    3. Period for which we store your personal data: as long as the user maintains their account of this service or until you withdraw your consent of our services.
    4. Recipients we disclose your personal data to: our contractors that assist us in advertising.
  4. To analyze your use of our service in order to generate insight that is useful for improving our services, products and marketing:
    1. Categories of your personal data we process: App UUID, platform type, App type, model name, OS version, and region of use.
      We collect these categories of your personal data from your activity on the application store.
    2. Lawful basis: your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Your withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of our processing of your personal data based on consent before its withdrawal.
    3. Period for which we store your personal data: until loss of relation to personal information via deletion of the app or until you withdraw your consent.
    4. Recipients we disclose your personal data to: our contractors that assist us in analyzing service usage data.
  5. To investigate App bugs:
    1. Categories of your personal data we process: App UUID, platform type, App type, model name, OS version, region of use, and stack trace.
      We collect these categories of your personal data from your activity on the application store.
      If you do not provide them, it prevents us from giving you as appropriate and precise information as we can.
    2. Lawful basis: the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract and for the purpose of our legitimate interest, i.e. to improve and expand this service for our customers.
    3. Period for which we store your personal data: until loss of relation to personal information via deletion of the app.
    4. Recipients we disclose your personal data to: our contractors that assist us in analyzing service usage data.
  6. To protect your privacy and security, integrity and availability of our website:
    1. Categories of your personal data we process: IP address, user-agent, access time, and access URL.
      We collect these categories of your personal data from your activity on the application store.
      If you do not provide them, it prevents us from giving you as appropriate and precise information as we can.
    2. Lawful basis: the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract and for the purpose of our legitimate interest, i.e. protecting your privacy and our website from fraudulent or unlawful access by monitoring web access traffic.
    3. Period for which we store your personal data: seven (7) days.
    4. Recipients we disclose your personal data to: our contractors that assist us in providing ibisPaint.
  7. To manage user communication on official postings sites (Online Gallery)
    1. Categories of your personal data we process: Twitter account name, Facebook account name, Apple account name, and Your responses to posts such as comments or Likes.
      We collect these categories of your personal data from your posting on our service.
      If you do not provide them, it prevents us from giving you our service.
    2. Lawful basis: the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract
    3. Period for which we store your personal data: The shortest duration of the commented work, the deletion of the comment, or the deletion of your account.
    4. Recipients we disclose your personal data to: our contractors that assist us in managing user communication.
  8. To manage inappropriate artwork reports.
    1. Categories of your personal data we process: Twitter account name, Facebook account name, Apple account name, Device's model name, Artwork data, Inappropriate artwork report history, IP address.
      We collect these categories of your personal data from your posting on our service.
      If you do not provide them, it prevents us from giving you our service.
    2. Lawful basis: the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract
    3. Period for which we store your personal data: Until the end of this service.
    4. Recipients we disclose your personal data to: our contractors that assist us in managing user communication.
  9. To manage user upload:
    1. Categories of your personal data we process: Twitter account name, Facebook account name, Apple account name, Device's model name, and Artwork data.
      We collect these categories of your personal data from your posting on our service.
      If you do not provide them, it prevents us from giving you our service.
    2. Lawful basis: the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract
    3. Period for which we store your personal data: Until the deletion of artwork with the user's YouTube or Online Gallery account.
    4. Recipients we disclose your personal data to: our contractors that assist us in managing user communication.
  10. To manage contest:
    1. Categories of your personal data we process: Twitter account name, e-mail address, and Artwork data.
      We collect these categories of your personal data from your posting on our service.
      If you do not provide them, it prevents us from giving you our service.
    2. Lawful basis: the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract
    3. Period for which we store your personal data: Two (2) weeks after prize payment
    4. Recipients we disclose your personal data to: our contractors that assist us in managing contests.
  11. To respond to your Enquiries (bug reports, requests, complaints, etc.):
    1. Categories of your personal data we process: name, e-mail address, user-agent, and inquiry content.
      We collect these categories of your personal data from your posting on our service.
      If you do not provide them, it prevents us from giving you as appropriate and precise information as we can.
    2. Lawful basis: the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract
    3. Period for which we store your personal data: until deletion upon request.
    4. Recipients we disclose your personal data to: our contractors that assist us in storing the user content.
  12. * 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.

    * 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.

3. SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA

We usually do not collect and/or use sensitive categories of your personal data, such as racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation.

4. COOKIES

A cookie is a small text file that our website sends to your terminal Device for the purpose of keeping certain records.
By using cookies:

  1. Your terminal devices (e.g. browsers) remember your preferences (e.g. language used) and activities (e.g. login status, etc.) on our website so that we can deliver a personalized and better user experience on our website (essential cookies);
  2. We keep track of your interactions with our website, giving us useful and important insight for improving our website (performance cookies).

A cookie identifies your terminal Device, typically your web browser, but it cannot identify your individual identity.

5. TRANSFER TO OTHER COUNTRIES

We may engage third-party contractors, which assist us in processing your personal data for the purposes described above. These contractors are established and located in Japan and the United States.
When the Recipients are located in Japan, your personal data is protected in accordance with the Act on the Protection of Personal Information of Japan. The European Commission and the UK have decided that Japan ensure an adequate level of data protection (the "Adequacy Decisions") and that personal data can be lawfully transferred to Japan without requiring any specific authorization.
In the event that we transfer your data to an entity located outside Japan, we protect your rights with personal data by virtue of a data transfer contract with the relevant recipient.

6. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Provided that certain conditions are met, you have legal rights to request from us the following:

  • Revocation of a previously given consent to our processing of your personal data
  • Access to your personal data and to certain supplementary information covered by this policy;
  • Rectification of your personal data if inaccurate or incomplete;
  • Erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances;
  • Suspension of using your personal data in certain circumstances;
  • Stopping processing your personal data in certain circumstances; and
  • Obtaining your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

If you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us.

7. COMPLAINT

You can lodge complaints about our way of processing your personal data with the data protection supervisory authorities of your country of residence in accordance with the data protection law where you reside.

8. INQUIRY

ibis inc. PMS Office
Nakamo Building, 4th Floor
3-17-34 Meieki, Nakamura Ward, Nagoya City, Aichi
450-0002, Japan
E-mail:

※If you determine the personal information management of our company to be inadequate, please address your complaint to our company first.

※An authorized personal information protection organization is a third-party organization that handles complaint processing and provision of information related to personal information as prescribed by the Personal Information Protection Law.  (It is not an address for inquiries about our company’s products and services.)

※In order to prevent spam mail, all addresses on our company’s website are displayed as images. Please input the address manually when making inquiries. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Created: August 1st, 2007
Latest revision: June 27th, 2023
ibis inc.
Eiji Kamiya, President and CEO