Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) applies to this website and any associated subordinate sites that may be linked to it (collectively, the “Website”) that are owned and operated by Kotobukiya America Inc. (“Company,” "we," "our," or "us"). Company understands that privacy of certain data that we collect from or about you or that you submit when you access this Website or otherwise is important. This Policy seeks to familiarize you with our policies for the collecting, processing, maintaining, and protection of personal information on the Website and in certain cases beyond the Website.

This Policy may be changed at any time, but any changes will be posted and will apply immediately only to activities and information on a going forward, not retroactive basis, except as otherwise indicated. We may notify you of any material changes either through a pop-up notice, email or through other reasonable means, and you are encouraged to review the Policy whenever you visit the Site to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide will be used.

Please read this Policy carefully before using the Website or submitting any personal information to us to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using the Website, you are agreeing to the practices described in this Policy and are representing to us that you have legal capacity to do so. If you are using the Website on behalf of an entity, you are agreeing to this Policy for that entity and are representing to us that you have the authority to do so (in which case “you” will refer to that entity). If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you should not use the Website or provide us your personal information.

Information We Collect

As of the effective date of this Policy, we have not collected consumers’ personal information (as defined below) in the preceding twelve (12) months but we will collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, and is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked with, directly or indirectly, a particular consumer or device, and that is not otherwise excluded under applicable law ("personal information"). The categories of personal information we will collect about consumers are as follows:

Category	Examples
A. Identifiers.	A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).	A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.	Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).
D. Commercial information.	Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
E. Internet or other similar network activity.	Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.
F. Geolocation data.	Physical location or movements.
G. Professional or employment-related information.	Current or past job history or performance evaluations.
H. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).	Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.
I. Inferences drawn from other personal information.	Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
J. Sensitive personal information	Sensitive information means a consumer’s social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number; account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; precise geolocation; citizenship or immigration status, racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership; the contents of a consumer’s mail, email, and text messages unless the business is the intended recipient of the communication; genetic data; neural data; the processing of biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying a consumer; personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s health; and personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s sex life or sexual orientation

Sources of Personal Information

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the categories of sources indicated below:
You. We may collect personal information that you provide during your interactions with us, such as through our Website, by email, or when you communicate with our professionals online, by phone, at one of our locations, or through social media. We may also collect information when you attend an event, or participate in a program we sponsor. We collect information when you are an applicant for employment with us and employed by us. We also collect information through certain online tracking tools, such as browser cookies, flash cookies, and web beacons, as well as through our advertising activities.
Related Entities and Affiliates. We may collect information about you from our related parties and affiliates, including joint ventures (if any).
Social media and related services.
Service providers and contractors. When you obtain products and services from us, we may collect your personal information from service providers and contractors that collected information about you that is needed to provide those products and services.
News outlets, social media, surveys, and certain third parties. In the course of performing our services or marketing activities, we or service providers on our behalf may conduct research and other activities resulting in the collection of personal information about you.
Governmental entities. In connection with inquiries, investigations, or other actions, we may receive personal information about you from governmental entities.
Information collected automatically. As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may compile statistical information concerning your usage of the Website through analytics services, such as those provided by Google Analytics. To do so, we may collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Website, such as traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
- Information about the type of device you are using, mobile ad identifiers, the time and length of your visit, and the website that referred you to our Website.
- Information about your preferences to make your use of the Website more productive, via the use of cookies. While all of this information can be associated with the IP address your computer had while you visited the Website, it will not be associated with you as an individual or with any other information you may submit through the Website or that we may store about you for any other purposes. We may use this information to generate aggregate statistics about visitors to our Website. Please check your web browser if you want to learn what information your browser sends or how to change your settings.

Use of Personal Information

We may use the categories of personal information from the list above for one or more of the following business purposes, as indicated below:

To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product or service, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your information to facilitate new product orders or process returns
To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Website, products, and services
To personalize the content, offers, advertising and experiences you receive
To create, maintain, customize, and secure your KOTOBUKIYA account and membership with us
To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud
To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses
To contact you and/or provide you with email alerts and other notices concerning our products, services, events, or news that may be of interest to you. For example, we may send you announcements, surveys, and newsletters using any communications preferences you have expressed. We may provide these communications via email, postal mail, online advertising, social media, telephone, text message (including SMS and MMS), push notifications, in-app messaging, and other means. Of course, if at any time you no longer wish to receive such communications, you have the option of unsubscribing from our mailing list for that communication
To manage our recruiting efforts and employment and workforce relationships. These activities include, for example, sourcing and processing employment applications, onboarding employees and contingent workers, and carrying out a range of employments activities relating to the employment relationship, such as compensation, benefits, promotion, discipline, termination, and certain post termination activities
To personalize your Website experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Website, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law)
To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business
For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Website, products, and services
To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and fulfillment of the obligations thereunder
As described to you when collecting your personal information
To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Company's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred

Company will not collect additional personal information or use the personal information we collect for different purposes without providing you notice. Please note that if you specifically consent to additional uses of your personal information, we may use your personal information in a manner consistent with that consent.

Disclosure of Personal Information

As of the effective date of this Policy, we have not disclosed consumers’ personal information to third parties in the preceding twelve (12) months, but we will disclose your personal information to third-party service providers or contractors in both Japan and the USA who help us provide the products and services, such as, payment processing, marketing and advertising, email, text and other communications, applications, business support, and website, software, platform, cloud, data storage and other technical services. When we disclose personal information for a business or commercial purpose to service providers or contractors, we enter into a contract that requires the service providers and contractors to both keep that personal information confidential and to use it only for limited purposes.

We may also disclose your personal information if necessary to: (1) comply with federal, state, or local laws; (2) comply with a civil, criminal, or regulatory inquiry, investigation, subpoena, or summons by federal, state, or local authorities; (3) cooperate with law enforcement agencies concerning conduct or activity that we reasonably and in good faith believe may violate federal, state, or local laws; or (4) exercise or defend legal claims.

Lastly, we may transfer to a third party personal information as part of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other transaction in which the third party assumes control or acquires of all or part of the assets of our business.

Of the categories of personal information noted above, we anticipate that we may disclose the following:

Categories of Personal Information	Categories of Third Parties to Whom Disclosed & Purposes for Disclosure
Address and other identifiers Protected status – such as citizenship, ethnic background, gender, or other similar identifiers Commercial information Financial information – such as bank account details, credit history, income details or other similar identifiers Education or professional information, including veteran status or other similar identifiers Professional or employment-related information Sensitive Personal Information	Third parties as directed by you. We may disclose your personal information to the third parties to whom you direct. Our business partners. For example, we might disclose your personal information to one of our business partners for purposes of collaborating on providing services to you, or to invite you to an event we are organizing. These business partners should also have their own privacy statements that set out the manner in which they will collect, use, and disclose personal information. Where applicable, we encourage you to review each such business partner’s privacy statement before signing on with them. Governmental entities, legal service providers. We may disclose your personal information in order to comply with the law and in the course of providing our products and services. We may also disclose information if a government agency or investigatory body submits a request. Successors to all or portions of our business. If all or part of our business is sold, we may disclose personal information in preparation for or as part of that transaction.
Internet or other electronic network activity – such as browsing history, search history, a consumer’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement Geolocation data	Third parties as directed by you. We may disclose your personal information to third parties to whom you direct. Third parties that perform services on our behalf. For example, we may disclose information to certain service providers, including marketing companies, professional service providers, debt collectors, information technology providers, payroll and benefits managers, and data storage companies. We might also authorize our service providers to collect personal information on our behalf. Governmental entities, legal service providers. We may disclose personal information in order to comply with the law and in the course of providing our products and services. We may also disclose information if a government agency or investigatory body submits a request. Successors to all or portions of our business. If all or part of our business is sold, we may disclose personal information in preparation for or as part of that transaction.
Inferences drawn from personal information – such as individual profiles, preferences, characteristics, behaviors or other similar identifiers	Third parties as directed by you. We may disclose your personal information to those third parties to whom you direct. Third parties that perform services on our behalf. For example, we may disclose information to certain service providers, including marketing companies, professional service providers, debt collectors, information technology providers, payroll and benefits managers, and data storage companies. We might also authorize our service providers to collect personal information on our behalf.

Sale and Sharing of Personal Information

As of the effective date of this Policy, we have not sold or shared consumers’ personal information in the preceding twelve (12) months but we will make personal information available to third parties in exchange for services, such as analytics on the performance of our web advertisement. This exchange of personal information can be considered a "sale" or “sharing” as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act. Please see the section below titled "Right to Opt-out of Sale or Sharing of Person Information" for information on how you may opt-out of such sale or sharing if you are a resident of California. We also do not have actual knowledge that we have sold or shared personal information of minor consumers under age of sixteen (16).

Of the categories of personal information noted in “Information We Collect” section, we anticipate that we may sell or share the following:

Categories of Personal Information	Categories of Third Parties to Whom Sold/Shared & Purposes for Sale/Sharing
Address and other identifiers Protected status – such as name, email address, gender, major status, password, delivery address or other similar identifiers	Third parties that perform analytics on the performance of our web advertisement. For example, we will sell or share your personal information to certain advertising agencies that aggregate and analyze the results of our web advertisement.
Order details – such as the kind and number of purchased products	Third parties that perform analytics on the performance of our web advertisement. For example, we will sell or share your personal information to certain advertising agencies that aggregate and analyze the results of our web advertisement.

Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies

We or our third-party partners may store some information on your device or device hard drive as a "cookie" or similar type of file (such as clear gifs, web beacons, pixels, tags, and similar technologies) to collect data related to usage of the Website and for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing your communication and interaction with the Website.

Such data may include, without limitation, the address of the websites you visited before and after you visited the Website, the type of browser you are using, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, what pages in the Website you visit and what links you clicked on, and geolocation data.

We use this information to help us maintain and enhance the efficiency and usefulness of the Website and may use it and other information about your Internet or other similar network activity for the purposes described in this Policy, such as to serve targeted advertising to you. Some of the information we collect may include data, such as IP address data or the identifiers associated with your device, which are unique to your computer or device (e.g., IDFA for iOS and Android ID for Android).

Cookies and similar items are not used by us to automatically retrieve personal information from your device without your knowledge. Please be advised that certain third parties that are beyond the scope of this Policy, such as advertisers, may collect information in connection with the Website. We are not responsible for the acts or omissions of such third parties.

If you want to stop or restrict the placement of cookies or flush any cookies that may already be on your computer or device, please refer to and adjust your web browser preferences. Additionally, you may control the cookies used by our Website through the cookie banner that displays on our Website. Further information on cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org. By deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our Website or some of its functionality may be affected.

Clickstream Data

As you use the Internet, a trail of electronic information is left at each website you visit. This information, which is sometimes referred to as "clickstream data," can be collected and stored by a website's server. Clickstream data can tell us the type of device and browsing software you use and the address of the website from which you linked to the Website. We may collect and use clickstream data to anonymously determine how much time visitors spend on websites, how visitors navigate throughout websites and how we may tailor our Website to better meet consumer needs. This information will be used to improve our Website.

Interest Based Advertising and Cross Device Matching

We believe that advertising is more effective and relevant when it is targeted to your interests and behaviors. Therefore, we may work with third parties who collect information on our Website and elsewhere through the use of cookies and similar methods in order to provide you with relevant advertisements on other services or to determine that you have seen our advertisements on other services. For example, if you view information on our Website regarding a particular product, we may target advertising to you on other websites and services (such as unaffiliated websites and social media services) about the same or other related products. This method of advertising is sometimes called "interest-based advertising."

The Website contains embedded content (e.g., videos) and Social Media Widgets (e.g., Meta pixels). Embedded content may place third party cookies on your device that track your online activity to enhance your experience or assess the success of their application. Social Media Widgets allow us to integrate social media functions into the Website. These widgets may place third party cookies on your device for tracking and advertising purposes. We have no direct control over the information these cookies collect; please refer to the applicable third party’s website privacy policy for additional information.

Global Privacy Controls (GPCs)

GPCs (also called "Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms") are browser signals that indicate a user's intent to opt-out of some uses of their personal information on websites they visit. If our site recognizes that your browser is expressing a GPC, we will treat it as a request to opt-out of the sale/sharing of your personal information.

In some cases, we may not be able to link the GPC of your browser to other personal information that we have collected from you by other means than this Website. To express your intent to opt-out of our processing of personal information that we may have collected from you outside of our Website, please see the section titled Exercising Your Privacy Rights below.

Do Not Track

Some web browsers may transmit "do-not-track" (DNT) signals to the websites with which the user communicates. Because of differences in how web browsers incorporate and activate this feature, it is not always clear whether users intend for these signals to be transmitted, or whether they even are aware of them.

Privacy Rights for Residents of California

If you are a resident of California, you have certain rights regarding the use of your personal information. This section describes those rights and how you can exercise them.

Right to Access your Personal Information

You have the right to request that Company disclose certain information to you about our collection, selling, sharing, disclosure or use of your personal information. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:

The categories of personal information we collected about you.
The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting, sharing, or selling that personal information.
The categories of third parties with whom we have shared that personal information.
The categories of personal information we sold or disclosed for a business purpose, and for each category, the category of third party to whom same was sold or disclosed.
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.

We have made personal information available to third parties in exchange for services, such as analytics on the usage of our Website or placement of targeted offers and ads, as described above.

By law, in response to a request submitted under the CCPA, we will never disclose an individual consumer's specific Social Security number, driver's license number or other government-issued identification number, financial account number, any health insurance or medical identification number, account password, or any security questions and answers.

Where permitted by law, any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the receipt of your verifiable consumer request. With respect to personal information collected on and after January 1, 2022, and to the extent expressly required by applicable regulation, you may request that such disclosures cover a period beyond the 12 months referenced above, provided doing so would not require a disproportionate effort by us.

Deletion Request Rights

You have the right to request that Company delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers and contractors, as applicable, to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) and contractor(s) to:

Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
Comply with a legal obligation.
Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Eraser Law. If you are a California resident under the age of 18, and a registered user of any Website where this Policy is posted, California law permits you to request and obtain removal of content or information you have publicly posted. You may submit your request using the contact information in this Policy. Please be aware that such a request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information you have posted and that there may be circumstances in which the law does not require or allow removal even if requested.

Right to Correct Personal Information

You have the right to request that we correct inaccuracies in the personal information that we maintain about you. In responding, we may consider the nature of the personal information, the purposes for processing it, and the totality of the circumstances.

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information that we maintain about you in a commonly used, easily readable format.

Right to Non-discrimination for Exercising these Rights

We will not discriminate against anyone for exercising any of their rights under applicable state privacy laws. Unless permitted by applicable laws, we will not:

Deny you goods or services.
Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

The right to nondiscrimination also includes an employee’s, applicant’s, or independent contractor’s right not to be retaliated against for the exercise of their rights under this section.

Right to Opt-out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

You have the right to direct companies not to sell your personal information or to share your personal information for the purpose of cross-context behavioral advertising.

You can submit a request to opt-out of sale/sharing by clicking “Do Not Sell My Personal Information”, which can also be found at the footer of the Website.

Exercising Your Privacy Rights

If you are a resident of California and would like to make a request pursuant to any of the rights described in this section, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by contacting us at: shop@kotobukiya-us.com

Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information related to you. In order to verify the identity of the person making a request, we may ask you to provide the following information: your name; date of birth; and your email address that we have on file.

We will use this information only to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request. If you have an account with us, we may ask you to submit your request through your account. However, no consumer will be required to create an account for the purposes of submitting a request under the consumer rights listed herein.

Exercising Privacy Rights as an Authorized Agent

If you are a consumer and you would like to authorize an agent to submit requests on your behalf, in order to exercise your rights under the privacy rights listed herein, please designate your authorized agent by contacting us at: shop@kotobukiya-us.com

We may require written and signed authorization from you before an agent may act on your behalf.

In order to verify your identity when you are authorizing an agent to act on your behalf, we may ask you to provide the following information: your name; date of birth; and your email address that we have on file. We reserve the right to deny requests from persons or businesses claiming to be authorized agents that do not submit sufficient proof of their authorization.

Response Timing and Format

Once we receive your request, we will respond within ten (10) business days to confirm receipt of the request and provide information about how we will process the request. We will provide the information you requested within forty-five (45) days of your request. If we require more time (up to ninety (90) days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. For requests from California consumers to opt-out of sale or sharing for the purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising, we will respond within fifteen (15) days.

We will deliver our written response by email.

The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We may charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request if such request is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded.

Third Party Links

As a convenience to you, we may provide links to third party websites, apps or services from within the Website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these third party sites, and by providing a link we are not endorsing or promoting such third party sites. When you link away from our Website, you do so at your own risk.

Social Networking Services

The Website may integrate with social networking services. You understand that we do not control such services and are not liable for the manner in which they operate. While we may provide you with the ability to use such services in connection with our Website, we are doing so merely as an accommodation and, like you, are relying upon those third party services to operate properly and fairly.

You should be aware that personal information which you voluntarily include and transmit online in a publicly accessible blog, social network or otherwise online may be viewed and used by others. We are unable to control such uses of your personal information, and by using such services you assume the risk that the personal information provided by you may be viewed and used by third parties.

Data Security

We maintain reasonable security procedures to help protect against loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of the information you provide to us. Please note that no system for safeguarding personal or other information is 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us or that we collect regardless of format. We cannot be responsible or liable for the unauthorized access or acquisition, theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your information, except for those attributable to our negligence for failure to maintain reasonable safeguards to protect data maintained in our systems.

Data Retention

For all of the personal information described herein, we will retain your information only for as long as we need to, for example, as long as your account or inquiry is active or as needed to provide you with the Website, and for a reasonable time thereafter as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, to enforce our agreements, or administer our business. Even if we delete some or all of your personal information, we may continue to retain and use aggregate or deidentified data previously collected and/or aggregate or deidentify your personal information.

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide you with products and services, process your application for employment, maintain our business relationship, or otherwise achieve the purposes for which personal information was collected or processed, and in accordance with Company’s data retention schedule, unless we have deidentified or deleted your personal information in response to a request to delete. We may retain your personal information for longer if it is necessary to comply with our legal obligations or reporting obligations, including but not limited to, resolving disputes, maintaining an employment relationship, collecting fees. or as permitted or required by applicable law. We may also retain your personal information in a deidentified or aggregated form so that it can no longer be associated with you. To determine the appropriate retention period for your personal information, we consider various factors such as the amount, nature, and sensitivity of your information; the potential risk of unauthorized access, use or disclosure; the purposes for which we process your personal information; applicable legal requirements.

Information Relating to Children

You must be of legal age under applicable laws or older to create an account with us. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of sixteen (16). If you are under sixteen (16), do not use or provide any personal information on this Website. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under sixteen (16) without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any personal information from or about a child under sixteen (16) and you would like us to delete such information, please contact us at: shop@kotobukiya-us.com

California Shine-the-Light

Under California law, California residents have the right to request in writing from businesses with whom they have an established business relationship, (a) a list of the categories of personal information, such as name, email address and mailing address, that a business has disclosed to third parties (including affiliates that are separate legal entities) during the immediately preceding calendar year for the third parties' direct marketing purposes and (b) the names and addresses of all such third parties. To request the above information, or if you do not want your personal information shared with any third party who may use such information for direct marketing purposes, then you may opt out of such disclosures.

Privacy Policy Updates

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Policy at any time. However, if at any time in the future we plan to use personal information in a way that materially differs from this Policy, we will post such changes on the Website and email you, or otherwise notify you in a manner that complies with applicable laws. We encourage you to periodically review the Website for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Location

Our Website is maintained by the Japanese parent company, Kotobukiya Co., Ltd. on behalf of Company. By using the Website, you freely and specifically give us your consent to export your personal information to Japan and to store and use it in Japan and the USA as specified in this Policy.

Contact Us

For questions or concerns relating to this Policy or your information, or to exercise your access, data portability, and deletion rights, you can contact us at: shop@kotobukiya-us.com

Effective as of: March 16, 2025