Privacy Policy
**Important:** This Privacy Policy explains how Gate Anime News handles your personal data collected through this website.
Please review this Privacy Policy carefully before using this website or this service.
Privacy Policy
1. Scope of the Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected through this website and does not apply to any information collected through any other websites that are not controlled or operated by Gate Anime News. Any information collected through other websites is subject to the privacy practices of those websites.
Since Gate Anime News will not assume responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of any other websites, if you use or browse any other websites, Gate Anime News recommends that you carefully read and understand the privacy policy of each other website before using or browsing those websites.
2. Categories of Personal Data
The categories of personal data we collect are described below. We do not treat data collected by Gate Anime News as personal data unless it meets the definition of personal data under applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction (hereinafter referred to as “Personal Data”) and typically include:
– Name;
– Email address;
– Mailing address;
– Phone number;
– Credit or debit card numbers, expiration dates, and security codes;
– Username (pseudonym) and password for your account on this website;
– Comments you post in community forums using the comment posting features of this service;
– Correspondence;
– Gender;
– Postal code;
– Your browser type and operating system;
– Cookies;
– Your IP address;
– Your device information (including the unique identifier of a specific device you use to access this website);
– Browser type and operating system;
– Behavioral logs (including but not limited to browsing history, purchase history, and search history) on this website or service, and characteristics or attributes of any user that can be inferred from this information; and
– Unique identifiers, including mobile device identification numbers, that can identify the physical location of such devices in accordance with applicable law.
3. Obtaining Personal Data
Gate Anime News may obtain personal data in the following cases:
– You enter personal data using a computer or mobile device for the purpose of registering as a member of this website or service, using this website or service, submitting an inquiry on this website or service to Gate Anime News, communicating or interacting with Gate Anime News, or participating in a Gate Anime News survey on this website or service;
– You provide personal data to Gate Anime News directly or through media, including by submitting documents, for the purpose of sending identity verification documents to this website or service;
– Personal data is automatically collected when you visit, browse, or use this website; or
– Gate Anime News lawfully obtains personal data from a third party.
4. Use of Personal Data
Gate Anime News may use personal data for the following purposes:
– To provide you with this website or service;
– To take steps to verify your identity;
– To respond to your inquiry on this website or service;
– To send you information about details of this website or service upon your request;
– To provide you with information about our other services, or advertisements or campaigns of our business partners;
– To securely provide this website or service (this includes monitoring users who violate the terms of service and communicating with such users; investigating, detecting, and preventing illegal activities such as fraud resulting from misuse of this website or service and unauthorized access, and taking countermeasures to address the above);
– To conduct our survey-based research on your use of this website or service;
– To improve this website or service and develop new services;
– To investigate and analyze matters such as the results of using this website or service, or to monitor the use of this website or service;
– To monitor efforts to recruit users for this website or service; and/or
– For other legitimate business purposes that may be updated from time to time.
5. Sharing Personal Data
Gate Anime News may share personal data under the following circumstances:
– You agree to receive information from third parties or request that Gate Anime News share your personal data with third parties;
– In accordance with laws and regulations;
– Gate Anime News shares it with service providers (including but not limited to cloud service providers, analytics service providers, payment service providers, website operation service providers, and other service providers) who may access or process your personal data on our behalf to support our business operations or for the purposes described in “4. Use of Personal Data” of this Privacy Policy;
– Your personal data is deemed necessary for Gate Anime News to establish, exercise, or defend its rights or defenses against legal actions or claims;
– This website or service is acquired by a third party as a result of business succession in a merger, business transfer, or bankruptcy;
– Gate Anime News shares it with affiliates of Gate Anime News or business partners of Gate Anime News for various purposes, including marketing or other business purposes, as long as permitted by applicable laws; and
– As permitted or required by applicable law.
If your personal data is shared with third parties under this Privacy Policy and in accordance with applicable law, the shared personal data is subject to the privacy practices of those third parties. Since Gate Anime News will not assume responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of third parties, if you wish to stop sharing your personal data with third parties, please review the information about your rights below or contact those third parties directly to exercise any rights you may have regarding your personal data.
6. Comments You Post in Community Forums on This Website Using the Comment Posting Features of This Service
If you participate in the community forums of this service, your comments, including personal data, may be published within the community forums or disclosed.
Gate Anime News recommends that you think carefully before posting information on this website, including comments in community forums using the comment posting features of this service.
7. Information Automatically Collected by Gate Anime News During Your Visit or Access to or Use of This Website
To the extent permitted by applicable laws, Gate Anime News service providers may use various technologies (including but not limited to cookies, web beacons, or other tracking technologies) that automatically or passively collect your personal data on this website whenever you visit, access, or use it, and Gate Anime News may obtain your personal data if you are a visitor or viewer of this website using tracking technologies.
If required by applicable laws, Gate Anime News will restrict the personal data collected and how it is used by third parties.
The personal data collected through tracking technologies such as cookies or web beacons includes:
– Browser type and operating system;
– Behavioral logs (including but not limited to browsing history, purchase history, and search history);
– Characteristics that can be inferred from these pieces of information;
– IP address or your device information (including other unique identifiers of the specific device you use to access this website).
These tracking technologies help recognize you, remember your preferences, track your visits to this website, improve this website and our offerings, or provide you with a more personalized experience.
Please note that the information practices of third parties are not covered by this Privacy Policy.
By changing your browser settings, you may refuse to receive cookies or be warned when receiving cookies. However, in such cases, some features of the website may not function properly, or you may not be able to use this website or service.
8. Information Gate Anime News Obtains from Other Sources
Gate Anime News may obtain information, including personal data, from third-party sources and platforms (such as demographic and interest reports from Google Analytics, social networking sites, databases, online marketing companies, strategic business partners, and advertising targeting companies).
Gate Anime News collects the following information from other sources:
– Unique identifiers, including mobile device identification numbers, that can identify the physical location of such devices in accordance with applicable law;
– If you access third-party social networking services (such as Facebook Connect or Twitter) through this website, your username and contact lists for those services;
– Advertising interaction and impression data, such as ad click rates and information about how many times you viewed a particular ad.
Please note that this website may combine information obtained by Gate Anime News from external sources with information, including personal data, collected by Gate Anime News.
Information, including personal data, collected by Gate Anime News is subject to this Privacy Policy.
9. Data Processing
By using this website or providing Gate Anime News with your information, you consent to the collection, transfer, storage, and processing of the information.
10. Security
Gate Anime News takes reasonable measures to help protect and secure personal data. However, no data transmission over the Internet, wireless transmission, or electronic storage of information can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Gate Anime News cannot guarantee the security of any information it collects, and you use this website and provide Gate Anime News with your personal data at your own risk.
11. Retention of Personal Data
We will retain your personal data only as long as necessary (in accordance with our internal data retention policies or applicable laws and regulations) and will make reasonable efforts to delete it without delay once retention is no longer necessary.
12. Data Subject Rights
Only to the extent required by applicable law, you may have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data where consent forms the legal basis for processing your personal data. To withdraw your consent, please contact us using the contact details provided in “Contact Information” below.
Only to the extent required by applicable law, you may have rights relating to your personal data, including but not limited to rights of access, deletion, cessation of use, or correction. To exercise your rights, please contact us using the contact details provided in “Contact Information” below.
13. Children
We do not intend to knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 13. If you have reason to believe that your child has provided us with their personal data, please contact us using the contact details provided in “Contact Information” below, and we will delete that information from our databases unless otherwise required by applicable law.
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
Gate Anime News may, at its sole discretion and at any time, modify all or parts of this Privacy Policy without prior notice. If such changes are material, Gate Anime News will take reasonable steps to notify you of the changes. The revised Privacy Policy will become effective at the time Gate Anime News posts any revised Privacy Policy on this website.
You will be deemed to have fully agreed to be bound by all terms and conditions set forth in the revised Privacy Policy at the time you use this website after the revised Privacy Policy becomes effective.
15. Contact Information
If you have any questions, inquiries, requests, or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy or Gate Anime News’s information collection practices, please contact us.
You can contact us to ask questions or raise concerns about our privacy policies and practices, your choices, and your rights through the “Contact Us” page.