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Privacy Policy

Why am I reading this?

Any Wear, Anywhere is sensitive to privacy issues and we are strongly committed to protecting the privacy of those people whose information we handle.

To demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy, we created this Privacy Policy to tell you what information we hold about you and how we use it and also to explain the rights that you have over your information.

 

What is Any Wear, Anywhere?

Any Wear, Anywhere is a website operated by Sumitomo Corporation. This Privacy Policy covers the use of your information by Sumitomo Corporation, the operator of the Any Wear, Anywhere website and the controller of your information. Any references in this Privacy Policy to “we”, “our”, “us” etc. will be interpreted as a reference to Sumitomo Corporation.

 

What information do you hold about me and how do you use it?

Through using our services

We collect personal information you provide voluntarily by signing up to our services on our website.

We will hold the information you provide to us when signing up, which includes your name, email and contact details. If you further decide to use our service and provide your flight booking details, we will also hold that information as well.

Through Cookies

When you visit our website we will capture information about you via the use of cookies on some of our web pages, provided we have your consent. Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information.

The information our cookies collect will be limited to a session ID Cookie. Personal information and IP address are not collected through our cookies. Cookies are destroyed after the session is over. You can withdraw your consent to our use of cookies at any time by adjusting the settings in your browser.  

On our website, we use the following types of cookies:

  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with Google through the use of Google Analytics.

Access Log

A record of your access to our website will automatically be kept in our access logs. This is done solely for statistically analysing use of this site for the purpose of improving site usability. Your personal information will not be stored in the logs.

Regardless of the way we collect and hold your personal information, we take special care in keeping your personal information accurate and up-to-date, and to prevent illegal access, loss, falsification, destruction or leakage of your personal information.

 

What do you do with my information?

We only use for the purpose of legitimate interests being pursued by us in relation to the services that we provide.  For example, we will use your information:

  • to research, development and provision of products and services about “Any Wear, Anywhere”;
  • to measure the CO2 reductions resulting from the use of Any Wear, Anywhere by customers;
  • to communicate to customers who contacted us;
  • to disseminate information about “Any Wear, Anywhere” and forward a questionnaire to improve the service of “Any Wear, Anywhere“ to customers who have signed up.

We will not use your information for any other purpose unless we are required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.

 

Do you share my information?

We may share your information with our affiliated companies in order to perform the Any Wear Anywhere service, with service providers who act on our behalf, and with advertising partners through the use of third-party cookies and similar tracking technologies to send you advertising and promotional materials, newsletters, surveys, and product announcement. We may also share your information for legal purposes, including to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, legal claims, or government inquiries, or in the event of a substantial corporate transaction, such as sale of assets or a merger.

Your information as indicated in the table below will also be shared with the airline company(ies) that operated your flight(s) to Japan when you used the Any Wear, Anywhere service.  We share this information to help measure the CO2 reductions resulting from the use of Any Wear, Anywhere.

Type of data

Purpose/Activity

Personal name (full name) that you input via “Reservation” in Any Wear, Anywhere website

-       To measure the CO2 reductions from the use of Any Wear, Anywhere.

 

-       It is necessary for our legitimate interests to confirm whether the service will satisfy the Any Wear, Anywhere’s CO2 reduction mission.

Flight information that you input via “Reservation” in Any Wear, Anywhere website

 

Where is my information stored?

Any Wear, Anywhere services and the website are operated in Japan.  Please note, however, that your information will be transferred to, and stored by, third part(ies) inside and outside of Japan for the purpose as described in this Privacy Policy.  For example, we use Shopify to power the Any Wear, Anywhere website – you can read more about how Shopify uses your information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.

 

What rights do I have over my information?

You have the following rights regarding your information:

Rights 

What does this mean? 

 1. The right to be informed

You have the right to be provided with clear, transparent and easily understandable information about how we use your information and your rights. This is why we’re providing you with the information in this Privacy Policy.

 2. The right of access

You have the right to obtain access to your information (if we’re processing it), and other certain other information (similar to that provided in this Privacy Policy).

This is so you’re aware and can check that we’re using your information in accordance with data protection law.

 3. The right to rectification

You’re entitled to have your information corrected if it’s inaccurate or incomplete.

 4. The right to erasure

This is also known as ‘the right to be forgotten’ and, in simple terms, enables you to request the deletion or removal of your information where there’s no compelling reason for us to keep using it. This is not a general right to erasure; there are exceptions.

 5. The right to restrict processing

You have rights to ‘block’ or suppress further use of your information. When processing is restricted, we can still store your information, but may not use it further. We keep lists of people who have asked for further use of their information to be ‘blocked’ to make sure the restriction is respected in future.

 6. The right to data portability

You have rights to obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes across different services.

 7. The right to object

You have the right to object to certain types of processing, including processing for direct marketing.

 

Changes to this Privacy Policy

From time to time we may make changes to this Privacy Policy to ensure that it is accurate and up to date and to reflect any changes in the law. This policy was last updated on 1  June, 2023.

 

Links to other Websites

Our website contains links to other websites. However, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. For more information about how the websites you access through the links on our website handle your personal information, please read the privacy policy of each website you access.

 

Contact us

Please do contact us at anywearanywhere@sumitomocorp.com if you have any questions or complaints about this Privacy Policy or about how we handle your information, or you exercise any of the rights stipulated in this Privacy Policy.

If you are not satisfied with our response or you believe our use of your information does not comply with data protection law, you can make a complaint to a supervisory authority for data protection.  The supervisory authority could be in the place where you live, or where you work, or where a breach of data protection obligations has occurred.