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Starting February 24, 2025, Asahi Net is 3D secure, a personal identification service for preventing fraud use of credit cards. This announcement is to let you know in advance, that due to this implementation, the following agreement will be revised.

1. Date of Revision

February 24, 2025

2. Applicable Agreement

• Handling of Personal Information

The table showing revised and previous versions is as follows:

After revision	Before revision
2. Purpose of use (2) The Company shall acquire credit card information (name of the credit card holder, credit card number, expiration date, etc.) of the customer, of which purpose of use, the acquirer, the recipient and the storage period of the information shall be as the following. The company complies with the non-retention of credit card data. (i) Purpose of use: To settle fees of the service, etc. which the Company provides. (ii) Acquirer: Asahi Net, Inc. (iii) Recipient: Credit card companies of which credit cards are being used for settlement of fees, and settlement service representative companies. (iv) Storage period: Period determined as appropriate by the Company. (3) In order to prevent fraud use of credit cards, the Company will provide information (credit card information, date of birth and phone number information, device information and internet usage environment information) entered into our website or collected by our customers to their credit card companies and personal identification service companies. If the customer’s credit company is located overseas, the above-said information may be transferred to the country of which the credit company is affiliated with.	2. Purpose of use (2) The Company shall acquire credit card information (name of the credit card holder, credit card number, expiration date, etc.) of the customer, of which purpose of use, the acquirer, the recipient and the storage period of the information shall be as the following. The company complies with the non-retention of credit card data. (i) Purpose of use: To settle fees of the service, etc. which the Company provides. (ii) Acquirer: Asahi Net, Inc. (iii) Recipient: Credit card companies of which credit cards are used for settlement of fees, and settlement service support companies. (iv) Storage period: Period determined as appropriate by the Company.
8. Acquisition of personal information by methods that are not easily recognized by individuals The Company, within the scope of providing Company's service, ensuring security, preventing fraud use, improving usability, distributing advertisement, etc., shall acquire information such as device information, location information, and internet usage environment information, etc. by using cookies, etc. Information with which itself alone cannot identify a specific individual shall not be handled as personal information. However, in the event that such information is collated with other information and thereby can identify a specific individual, it shall be handled appropriately in accordance with this Handling of Personal Information.	8. Acquisition of personal information by methods that are not easily recognized by individuals The Company, within the scope of providing Company's service, ensuring security, improving usability, distributing advertisement, etc., shall acquire information such as device information or location information by using cookies, etc. Information with which itself alone cannot identify a specific individual shall not be handled as personal information. However, in the event that such information is collated with other information and thereby can identify a specific individual, it shall be handled appropriately in accordance with this Handling of Personal Information.

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