Privacy policy

This Privacy Policy describes how edition88.com (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, discloses and shares your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site.

SECTION 1 - WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION?

1. Collecting Personal Information

When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.

Device information

Examples of Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.
Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify.

Order information

Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information, date of birth, email address, and phone number.
Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
Source of collection: collected from you.
Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify.

2. Using Personal Information

When you collect and use your personal Information to provide our services to you, which includes:

To offer products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfillment of your order;
To keep you up to date on new products, services, and offers;
To confirm that the transaction was made by you based on the service which we are providing;
To provide you with technical and customer support when requested;
To assist our third-party partners with the provision of their services;
To advertise products and/or services of us or a third party;
To notify you of changes to our Privacy Policy and other terms of services;
To maintain and improve our services or considering new services;
To prevent fraud and other forms of misconduct in relation to our website, including to comply with applicable law; and
To comply with your requests under applicable law.

SECTION 2 - CONSENT

When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.

SECTION 3 - DISCLOSURE

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.

SECTION 4 - SHOPIFY

Our store is hosted on Shopify Inc. They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you.

Your data is stored through Shopify’s data storage, databases and the general Shopify application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.

Payment:

If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, then Shopify stores your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.

All direct payment gateways 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 ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

For more insight, you may also want to read Shopify’s Terms of Service (https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms) or Privacy Statement (https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy).

SECTION 5 - THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.

However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways, other payment transaction processors, transportation and advertisers, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.

For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.

In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act.

Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.

Links

When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

SECTION 6 - YOUR RIGHTS

We are required to seek your consent to use your Personal Information for any purpose inconsistent with the purposes identified herein.

You may withdraw your consent to any of the Personal Information processing purposes identified herein by contacting us at the email address set out below. Note that some processing purposes are required for operation of our website, and without them, your user experience may be affected.

You may opt-out of any communications we send to you by following the instructions to do so in the relevant message.

By changing the privacy settings in your browser, device or third-party service (to the extent you are allowed to under the third-party service privacy policy), you may restrict our collection of data by disabling cookies, geolocation services, tracking and other collection mechanisms. Note that such disabling of mechanisms may affect certain features of your use of this website.

You have the right to request access to, correction of and/or deletion of your Personal Information by contacting us at the email address set out below.

You have the right to request for notify of the purpose of use of Personal Information, or disclosure of Personal Information we retained by contacting us at the email address set out below.

How do I withdraw my consent?

If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at anytime, by contacting us at edition88art@vision8.jp or mailing us at:

Vision8, Inc. 10th Floor, Room 33, TOC Building, 7-22-17 Nishi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0031, Japan

SECTION 7 - SECURITY

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.

SECTION 8 - COOKIES

A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.

We use the following cookies to optimize your experience on our Site and to provide our services.

Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store

_ab Used in connection with access to admin.
_secure_session_id Used in connection with navigation through a storefront.
Cart Used in connection with shopping cart.
cart_sig Used in connection with checkout.
cart_ts Used in connection with checkout.
checkout_token Used in connection with checkout.
Secret Used in connection with checkout.
secure_customer_sig Used in connection with customer login.
storefront_digest Used in connection with customer login.
_shopify_u Used to facilitate updating customer account information.

Reporting and Analytics

Name Function

_tracking_consent Tracking preferences.
_landing_page Track landing pages
_orig_referrer Track landing pages
_s Shopify analytics.
_shopify_s Shopify analytics.
_shopify_sa_p Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.
_shopify_sa_t Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.
_shopify_y Shopify analytics.
_y Shopify analytics.

The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.

You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as www.allaboutcookies.org.

SECTION 9 – INFORMATION-GATHERING TOOL

We may collect Personal Information-gathering tool that enables us to gather and analyze information on the usage and the advertising effect on this site. Accordingly, we may provide Personal Information to the following information-gathering tool provider (including those located in Japan and outside Japan). The provider of the information-gathering tool collects Personal Information but does not collect any information that identifies you. The information collected is managed in accordance with the privacy policies and other terms and conditions established by the provider.

Name of Application: Google Analytics

Provider: Google LCC.

Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

SECTION 10 - AGE OF CONSENT

By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your country, state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your country, state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.

SECTION 11 - CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

If our store is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.

The “last updated” legend at the bottom of this Privacy Policy indicates when this Privacy Policy was last updated.

SECTION 12 -QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information, please contact us at edition88art@vision8.jp. or by mail at

Vision8, Inc. 10th Floor, Room 33, TOC Building, 7-22-17 Nishi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0031, Japan

Last updated on April 28, 2025

Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation Policy

SECTION1 –SCOPE

VISION8, Inc. (the “we”) process personal data of users (“Personal Information”) to whom those regulations apply (“you”) in accordance with the applicable of European Union and European Union Member State’s regulations on data protection, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR”). This privacy policy (“Policy”) explains how we, as the data controller, processes Personal Information.

SECTION 2 -LEGAL BASES FOR PROCESSING / CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION SUBJECT TO PROCESSING

We process Personal Information based on the legal bases provided for in SECTION 6 and 7 of the GDPR. We will obtain and process Personal Information, listed below for the following purposes and bases.

(i) List of Personal Information collect by us:

Name, billing address, shipping address, payment information, date of birth, email address, phone number, version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.

(ii) Purposes and bases of use of the User’s personal data

Categories	Purposes of use	Bases
Name, billing address, shipping address, payment information, date of birth, email address, and phone number	•To offer products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfillment of your order •To confirm that the transaction was made by you based on the service which we are providing	To perform our contractual obligation for the services provided to you
Name, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site	•To keep you up to date on new products, services, and offers •To advertise products and/or services of us or a third party	To process Personal Information for legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party
Name, email address	•To provide you with technical and customer support when requested •To notify you of changes to our Privacy Policy and other terms of services	To process Personal Information for legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party
IP address, cookie information, what sites or products you view	•To assit our third-party partners with the provisions of their services;	To process Personal Information for legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party
Name, billing address, shipping address, payment information, date of birth, email address, phone number, version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site	•To maintain and improve our services or considering new services •To prevent fraud and other forms of misconduct in relation to our website, including to comply with applicable law •To comply with your requests under applicable law.	To process Personal Information for legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party

When the Personal Information is processed under your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by notifying us. However, your withdrawal of consent will not affect the legality of processing conducted based on your consent before its withdrawal.

We neither obtain nor process any of Personal Information which is sensitive in nature, including religious beliefs and health status.

We do not conduct any solely data-based, automated decision-making that may produce any legal or similar material effect on you.

We will notify you separately if the provision of Personal Information is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract, as well as the possible consequences of the failure to provide such data.

SECTION 3 -SOURCES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We obtain Personal Information directly from you and obtain it indirectly through third parties such as those prescribed below.

i.Shopify

SECTION 4 -RETENTION PERIOD FOR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will retain Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the aforementioned purposes (prescribed in SECTION 1 of this Policy) for obtaining and processing Personal Information. Specific retention periods are decided based on the following considerations: (i) the purpose for obtaining and processing the Personal Information; (ii) the nature of the Personal Information; and (iii) the necessity of retaining the Personal Information for legal or business reasons.

SECTION 5 -SHARING AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

In accordance with the GDPR and for the purposes prescribed in this Policy, we share and disclose Personal Information to the following third parties:

i.Information-Gathering Tool Provider.

As a result of the aforementioned sharing and disclosure, in some cases, Personal Information will be transferred to Japan, for the avoidance of doubt the European Commission declared that Japan is a country that ensures an adequate level of protection similar to GDPR (Article 45 (1) and (3) of the GDPR).

SECTION 6 -YOUR RIGHT

You have the following rights regarding Personal Information obtained and processed by us.

Obtaining information regarding the processing of Information: You have the right to obtain from us all the requisite information regarding our information processing activities that concern you (Article 13 and Article 14 of the GDPR).
Access to Personal Information: You have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether Personal Information concerning you is being processed, and, if so, then accesses to the Personal Information and certain related Information (Article 15 of the GDPR).
Rectification or erasure of Personal Information: You have the right to have us rectify inaccurate Personal Information concerning you without undue delay and the right to have we complete any incomplete Personal Information (Article 16 of the GDPR). Also, if certain conditions are satisfied, you will have the right to have we delete Personal Information concerning you without undue delay (Article 17 of the GDPR).
Restriction on processing of Personal Information: If certain conditions are satisfied, you will have the right to have we restrict processing of personal data concerning you (Article 18 of the GDPR).
Objection to the processing of Personal Information: If certain conditions are satisfied, you will have the right to object to processing of Personal Information concerning you (Article 21 of the GDPR).
Data portability of Personal Information: If certain conditions are satisfied, you will have the right to receive Personal Information concerning you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and the right to transfer those data to another controller without hindrance from us (Article 20 of the GDPR).
Not to be subject to automated decision-making: If certain conditions are satisfied, you will have the right not to be subject to solely data-based, automated decision-making (including profiling) that may produces any legal or similar material effect on you (Article 22 of the GDPR).

If you intend to exercise any of the aforementioned rights, please inquire using the contact details at the end of the Policy. We will provide information on action taken on an aforementioned request within one month of receipt of the request (which may be extended by two further months where necessary), or inform the reasons for not taking action within one month of receipt of the request.

You can lodge a complaint in relation to our processing of Personal Information with the Data Protection Supervisory Authority of the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement.

SECTION 7 -AMENDMENT OF POLICY

We may amend this Policy from time to time, and will contact you through this website and by e-mail if necessary, when we make any substantive or material amendments.

SECTION 8 -INQUIRY

For any questions, complaints or other inquiries regarding the handling of Personal Information, please contact the data controller below:

Data Controller

Vision8, Inc. 10th Floor, Room 33, TOC Building, 7-22-17 Nishi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0031, Japan

at edition88art@vision8.jp

Last updated on April 28, 2025

California Privacy Policy

SECTION 1 -SCOPE OF DISCLOSURES

This California Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) provides the information required under the California Privacy Act of 2018, as amended (“CCPA”) and other California laws. The Privacy Policy applies solely to residents of the State of California ("you" ). This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process Personal Information of individual residents of the State of California, either online or offline, within the CCPA.

SECTION 2 -PERSONAL INFORMATION DISCLOSURES

As used in this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or household. Personal Information includes, but is not limited to, the categories of Personal Information identified below if such information identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could be reasonably linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or household.

SECTION 3 -COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Below is a list of all the categories of Personal Information that we have collected in the past 12 months.

Personal Information Category	Personal Information Examples	Personal Information Collected	Personal Information Source	Third Party with whom Personal Information was Shared
Identifiers	name, billing address, shipping address, payment information, date of birth, email address, and phone number	Yes [〇]	Your browser or device	Suppliers and service providers where necessary to perform functions on our behalf Our business partners and affiliates
Personal Information Categories from Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)	Includes the identifiers above as well as physical characteristics or description, employment and employment history, medical information, and health insurance information*	Yes [___]	N/A	N/A
Protected Classification Information	Your age, gender, religion and disability information	Yes [〇]	Directly from you	N/A
Commercial Information	Your use of our services and purchases	Yes [〇]	Directly from you	N/A
Internet/Electronic Network Activity	version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site	Yes [〇]	Your browser or device	Suppliers and service providers where necessary to perform functions on our behalf
Geolocation Data	Information about your physical location	Yes [___]	N/A	N/A
Audio/Video Data	Pictures and video of you	Yes [___]	N/A	N/A
Professional or Employment- Related Information	Your job title, business team, employer and duties	Yes [___]	N/A	N/A
Non-Public Education Information	As defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99) such as non-public information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity in relation to an educational institution either directly or indirectly through linkages with other information	Yes [___]	N/A	N/A
Biometric Information	Your fingerprints and face	Yes [___]	N/A	N/A
Inferences from the Above Personal Information	cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site	Yes [〇]	Your browser or device	Suppliers and service providers where necessary to perform functions on our behalf

* To the extent not covered by HIPAA or CMIA or other sector-specific privacy laws

SECTION 4 -PURPOSES FOR COLLECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may collect, use or disclose your Personal Information for the purposes prescribed in “2. Using Personal Information” , SECTION 1 of Privacy Policy.

SECTION 5 -DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

In the previous 12 months, we have disclosed all of the categories of Personal Information we collect, explained in the table above, to third parties listed in the table above, for a business purpose. We do not sell Personal Information to third parties.

SECTION 6 -RECIPIENTS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share Personal Information within the categories of third parties listed in the table above for business purposes.

SECTION 7 -CCPA

As a California resident, you may be able to exercise the following rights in relation to the Personal Information about you that we have collected (subject to certain limitations at law):

A. List of CCPA Rights

Knowledge of Personal Information Collected

You have the right to request the following information regarding your Personal Information we have collected and disclosed in the last 12 months, upon verification of your identity:

The specific pieces of your Personal Information we have collected;
The categories of your Personal Information we have collected;
The categories of sources from which your Personal Information is collected;
The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your Personal Information; and
The categories of third parties with whom we shared or sold your Personal Information.

Access to Personal Information

You have the right to request a copy of the specific Personal Information we have collected in the last 12 months, upon verification of your identity.

Deletion of Personal Information

You have the right to request the deletion of Personal Information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions such as the exercise of free speech, detection of security incidents, completion of a transaction for which your Personal Information was collected, compliance with a legal obligation, or others listed under Section 1798.105(d) of the California Civil Code.

Opt-Out of Personal Information Sales

You have the right to direct us not to sell personal information we have collected about you to third parties now or in the future. If you are under the age of 16, you have the right to opt-in, or to have a parent or guardian opt-in on your behalf, to such sales.

Non-Discrimination

You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment from us for exercising the rights in this section. However, we may charge you a different price or rate, or provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you, if the difference is reasonably related to the value provided to us by your Personal Information.

B. How to Exetcise Your California Consumer Rights

Exercise your Right of Knowledge, Access and/or Deletion

Please submit a request by:

Making all such requests by emailing them to edition88art@vision8.jp with the subject line “California Rights Request,” or

Calling +81-3-6450-2822

We will need to verify your identity before processing your request. In order to verify your identity, we will generally require the matching of sufficient information you provide us to the information we maintain about you in our systems. Although we try to limit the Personal Information collected in connection with a request to exercise the knowledge, access or deletion rights to that Personal Information identified in your request, certain requests may require us to obtain additional Personal Information from you. In certain circumstances, we may decline a request to exercise the knowledge, access and/or deletion rights, particularly where we are unable to verify your identity.

SECTION 8 -CALIFORNIA’S “SHINE THE LIGHT” LAW

California Civil Code Section §1798.83 permits California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of certain types of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year. To make such a request, please send an email to edition88art@vision8.jp This request may be made no more than once per calendar year. We reserve our right not to respond to requests submitted other than to the email address specified in this section.

SECTION 9 -TRACKING

We do not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals.

SECTION 10 -UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may and will update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will change the "Last Updated" date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy. All changes shall be effective from the date of publication unless otherwise provided in the notification.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or requests in connection with this Privacy Policy or other privacy-related matters, please send an email to edition88art@vision8.jp

Last updated on August 1, 2022