If you choose to participate in surveys or promotional events, we may ask you to provide information such as your name, address, phone number, email address, gender, and date of birth in order to verify your identity, enable you to participate in a drawing, and to deliver any prizes you may win. We automatically collect information related to when and how you used our Services. The collected information includes the status of use of various features such as the date and time that you activated our individual apps, length of time that you used our individual services, results of searches conducted in the apps, additional services that were purchased, and contents and ads that were viewed or tapped. Posts and reactions to postsIn distributing your posts to other users, the contents that you posted are sent via our server.For example, standard contents such as emoji, stickers and location information and non-standard contents such as text, image, video and audio that you post are all sent via our server. In addition, external information such as the recipient of the contents, data format, date and time of the posting, and other information on how you are interacting with your counterparty is also recorded in the server. URL information that you tapped or clicked in our Services is also recorded in the server. Furthermore, in distributing reactions or replies to the posts of other users, we collect and use information related to how you reacted to the posts of other users.  In principle, we will not use private posts, as such messages exchanged between users, for any purpose other than distributing such posts. However, in certain countries or regions (*1) for specific services, we may use a part of such information upon obtaining your additional consent for the provision and maintenance of services, development and improvement of services, prevention of unauthorized use, and provision of optimized contents including ads.  In principle, we will not use private posts, as such messages exchanged between users, for any purpose other than distributing such posts. However, in certain countries or regions (*1) for specific services, we may use a part of such information upon obtaining your additional consent for the provision and maintenance of services, development and improvement of services, prevention of unauthorized use, and provision of optimized contents including ads. We may collect the location information of your device when you share your location information with your friends, or in order for us to provide optimized search results to you. When you do not accept sending your location information by your mobile device settings, location information will not be sent to us. Furthermore, in certain countries or regions (*2), when we provide customized contents or ads to you, such as weather forecasts and local news near the areas where you are located, we may separately ask you to generally provide your location information. In the foregoing case, you may at any time choose not to provide your location information by your LINE App settings. Even when you do not accept sending your location information, we may estimate your approximate location from network information such as your IP address We will collect information related to the device, browser and the app that you are using (ad identifier for identifying the device/browser, Cookie ID and device type, OS, language/time zone setting, browser type, app version, etc.), and network information (telecommunications carrier’s name, IP address, etc.).We may also associate the collected ad identifier with the Internal Identifier. We may collect your Personal Data from our business partners.  Information such as the access history (including date and time of access, URL, etc.) of the website that you accessed from your browser.For example, if our business partner has introduced our tracking service to display ads on our Services only to users who visited a specific page of a website operated by that business partner, we will collect the access history of that business partner’s website, and use such information for the optimal ad distribution on our Services. In order to perform the foregoing optimal ad distribution, we may use cookies and associate your access history with the ad identifier or Internal Identifier.  We will use Personal Data for the following purposes:● Provision and maintenance of services;● Development and improvement of services and contents;● Prevention of unauthorized use such as unauthorized access. and/or● Provision of contents optimized for you. We use Personal Data to provide our Services to users, for utilization in research and development to provide safer and better services, and to provide services that are strongly linked to users, including ads.  We will use Personal Data for the following purposes:● Provision and maintenance of services;● Development and improvement of services and contents;● Prevention of unauthorized use such as unauthorized access. and/or● Provision of contents optimized for you. We use Personal Data to provide our Services to users, for utilization in research and development to provide safer and better services, and to provide services that are strongly linked to users, including ads. To verify your identity, through comparison with your registered information, when you log onto the LINE App or succeed your Account in changing your device; To distribute our ads or third-party ads with Personal Data such as the birthday, phone number and email address registered by users (including cases of distributing ads of our Services on services operated by third parties) as the key.  The recipients of Personal Data that we provide include third parties such as our subcontractors, subsidiaries, and affiliates located in countries or regions other than where you are residing We may subcontract certain services required for providing our Services (e.g.: building and operation of infrastructure, settlement, shipping, customer support, etc.) to a third party. The subcontractor will access the Personal Data only to the minimum extent required for performing the subcontracted services on our behalf, and will not use the Personal Data beyond the scope of the subcontracted services. If there is any transaction between companies pertaining to our business to which this Policy is applicable, such as acquisition, merger or change of business entity, Personal Data may also be transferred to the successor of the business to the extent permitted under Applicable Laws. In cases where you use the services of our business partner, we may provide, to that business partner, information to be used by the business partner for identifying you (in certain countries or regions (*5), in addition to the Internal Identifier, including an ad identifier, device information such as the language setting, and attribute information). When our business partner is equipped with an additional service such as the LINE App login function, your Internal Identifier, profile information, email address or phone number may be shared with the business partner once you use such additional service. In the foregoing case, we will ask for your permission regarding the provision of Personal Data.  For example, we are taking the following measures. ● Provision of encryption feature of messages● Strict access control based on a need-to-know basis● 24/7 security monitoring● External authentication for objectively evaluating our security measures● R&amp;D of new security technologies Furthermore, we will never provide any means for fraudulently accessing Personal Data to a third party.For details regarding our security measures, please also read “Security &amp. Privacy” To provide our Services in a reliable and responsible manner, LINE processes and stores key Personal Data on secure servers located in Japan where LINE is located.  We may continue to retain Personal Data in a format in which individuals cannot be identified after the lapse of the storage period prescribed pursuant to Applicable Laws and our internal rules. To the extent permitted under Applicable Laws, regarding your Personal Data that we process, you have the right to access, the right to rectification, the right to erasure  the right to data portability, you also have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data that we process in certain cases. In order to improve our Services, we use Google Analytics to measure our Services such as our website. Google may set cookies or read existing cookies to collect data. At such time, information such as the URL of the page that you accessed and IP address will be automatically sent to Google. We may modify this Policy. The latest version of the Policy will always be posted on this site, and we encourage you to review the contents of the latest version of the Policy carefully.When we make any material changes to this Policy, we will notify you through reasonable means. 

Summary:
Extra data may be collected about you through promotions. Many different types of personal data are collected. In some countries, sensitive data is collected and shared to target advertising. Private messages can be read. In some countries, this service may collect, use, and share location data. You are tracked via web beacons, tracking pixels, browser fingerprinting and device fingerprinting. Information is gathered about you through third parties. This service tracks you on other websites and apps. Your personal information is used for many different purposes. Your personal data is used for advertising. Your provided identifiable information is actively checked by the service. In some countries, your identity is used in ads that are shown to other users. This service gives your personal data to third parties involved in its operation. Third parties are involved in operating the service. Third parties used by the service are bound by confidentiality obligations. Your personal data may be sold or otherwise transferred as part of a bankruptcy proceeding or other type of financial transaction. In some countries, your profile is combined across various products. This service shares your personal data with third parties that are not essential to its operation. Information is provided about security practices. Your data is processed and stored in a country that is less friendly to user privacy protection. The service may keep a secure, anonymized record of your data for analytical purposes even after the data retention period. You can request access, correction and/or deletion of your data. You can retrieve an archive of your data. You can limit how your information is used by third-parties and the service. Third-party cookies are used for statistics. You should revisit the privacy policy periodically, although in case of material changes, the service will notify.