Service means any service that is provided through our website meijiinternships.com operated by MIP LLC.
Personal Data means information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
Usage Data is collected automatically either generated by the use of the service or from the service infrastructure itself, e.g. the duration of a page visit.
Cookies are small files stored on your computer or mobile device.
Data Controller is a person, company or other body that determines the purposes in which and how any personal information is or will be processed.
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a data controller of your personal data.
Data Processor or Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.
We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
Data Subject or User is any identified individual who is using our service and is the subject of personal data.

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to continuously improve our service and provide a better customer experience to you.

Personal Data
While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• First name and last name
• Email address
• Phone number
• Home address
• Cookies and usage data

We may use your personal data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or the instructions provided in any email we send to you.

Usage Data
We may also collect information on how the service is accessed and used. This usage data may include information such as your Internet protocol address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Location Data
We may use and store information about your location if you give us permission to do so. We use this data to provide certain features of our service, improve and enhance our service. You can enable or disable location services at any time when using our service within your device settings.

Tracking & Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity of our service, hence certain information will be held. Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. These are usually sent to your browser from a website and stored locally on your device. Other tracking technologies may also be used such as beacons, tags and scripts. This is to collect and track information for improving and analyzing our overall service to you.

You can always instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.
Examples of cookies we use:

• Session Cookies to operate our service.
• Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and other settings.
• Security Cookies are for securely handling your personal data to prevent digital theft and hacking from outside parties.

Use of Data
We use the collected data for different purposes, such as:

• Provide and maintain our service
• Notify you about changes to our service
• Allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so
• Provide customer support
• Gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our service
• Monitor the usage of our service
• Detect, prevent and address technical issues
• Make sure to provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events, which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted out not to receive such information.

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (e.g. the respective local law requires us to hold data for security purposes and anti terror precautions), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

We will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. If you are located outside of Japan and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to our headquarters in Japan to process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

We will take all the steps necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless previously confirmed with you. There will be adequate measures in place to ensure the security of your data and other personal information.

Business Transaction
If MIP LLC is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset transfer; your personal data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal data is going to be transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Disclosure for Law Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, MIP LLC may be required to disclose your personal data, if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Legal Requirements
MIP LLC is required to disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in case of:

• Legal law enforcement by the respective country’s governmental institutions, e.g. law enforcement, police or immigration.
• Protect and defend the rights or property of MIP LLC and affiliated parties.
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the service.
• Protect the personal safety of other interns of the service or the general public
• Protect against legal liability

We do not support “Do Not Track”. Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable “Do Not Track” by visiting the settings page of your web browser.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your personal data. If you wish to be informed about what personal data we hold about you and if you wish to be removed from our systems, please contact us directly.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

• The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.
• The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
• The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
• The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
• The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
• The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where MIP LLC relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our service (“Service Providers”), provide the service on our behalf, perform service-related services or assist us in analyzing how our service is used. These third parties have access to your personal data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service.

Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Behavioral Remarketing
We use remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our service. Third-party vendors and we may use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our service.

Google Ads (AdWords)
Google Ads (AdWords) is a service provided by Google Inc. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for display advertising and customize the Google display network ads by visiting the Google Ads settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads
Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on that can be found here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Facebook
Facebook Inc provides advertisement services for Facebook and Instagram. You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950
To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads, follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217
Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies depending on your location:

• The Digital Advertising Alliance of USA: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/
• The Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada: http://youradchoices.ca/
• The European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance: http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
• For other regions you can opt-out by adjusting your mobile device settings.

For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook’s Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

We may provide paid products and/or services within the service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We will not store or collect your payment card details. This information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help to ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The payment processors we work with are:

• Affiliated third-party providers, e.g. overseas travel agents, universities, business schools and government colleges
• International bank transfer
• Domestic bank transfer (within Japan)
• Flywire
• PayPal

Our service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click to a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no responsibility or control over the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

In compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act), we want to put parents in control, and do not collect any information from anyone under 16 years of age. Our services are all directed to people who are at least 16 years old or older to protect children’s privacy and safety online.
If you think that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children (below 16 years old) without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

We may amend our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page.
The Privacy Policy was last modified on 1st February 2019.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us.

• By email: info@meijiinternships.com
• Via our website: https://meijiinternships.com/contact-us/
• By phone: +81-92-231-9557
• By mail: Arrow Mansion Building, 6th Floor, Watanabedori 5-1-26, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City, 810-0004 JAPAN