Established : September 1, 2016
Last updated : September 1, 2026
Yuichiro Shimizu, President and CEO
for Startups,Inc.
In conducting its staffing and other businesses, for Startups, Inc. deeply acknowledges that customers’ personal information is an important element of privacy. We respect customers and will respond to their expectations of and trust in us by handling customers’ personal information in the course of our operations in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations related to personal information and with our internal rules established for the protection of personal information, as well as by striving for the appropriate protection of personal information by developing an appropriate organizational structure.
We will specify the purposes for which personal information will be used within the scope of our business activities, and will acquire, use, and provide personal information in a fair and appropriate manner to the extent necessary to achieve such purposes. We will also take measures to prevent personal information acquired by us from being used for unintended purposes.
We strive for the appropriate protection of personal information by complying with all applicable laws and regulations, all applicable guidelines established by the national government, and other norms and social order related to personal information.
We are fully aware of the risks of unauthorized access to, or tampering with, or loss, destruction, leakage, etc. of, personal information handled by us, and we will implement reasonable safety measures and will take appropriate corrective actions in the event of any problem.
We will appropriately respond to any inquiries about personal information handled by us from persons to whom such personal information relates, such as requests for disclosure, correction, or suspension of use, or filing of complaints.
We have developed management rules and systems for the protection of personal information, which will be thoroughly applied by all our employees and will be regularly revised in an effort to ensure continuous improvement.
<Please address all inquiries about our personal information protection policy to:>
for Startups, Inc., General Manager of the Corporate Division, Personal Information Protection Officer
Email : privacy@forstartups.com
Telephone : 03-6893-0650
for Startups, Inc. (the “Company”) will handle personal information of persons who use the services provided by the Company (collectively, the“Services”), other persons involved, and our employees (collectively,“Customers”), as follows.
The Company will acquire personal information by lawful and appropriate means to the extent necessary for its operations. The information to be acquired by the Company includes the following, among others. Please note that if a Customer does not provide part of his/her personal information to the Company, certain of the Company’s services may not be available to the Customer or the Company may not be able to answer the Customer’s inquiries.
In relation to the provision of its information platform“STARTUP DB” and its career transition service “Talentship,” the Company will use access analysis tools, user trend visualization tools, etc. provided bythird parties, will acquire information on Customers’ website usage collected through the use of these tools, etc., as well as the results of analyzing thisinformation, and will use the analytical results by connecting them to Customers’personal data.
The Company will use personal information within the scope of the following intended uses or the intended uses that are obvious from the situation in which the personal information was acquired, and the Company will not use personal information for any other purpose without the consent of the Customer or unless permitted by law. Based on personal data provided to the Company, the Company may create statistical data which has been processed to make individuals unidentifiable. The Company is entitled to use such statistical data without any restriction.
The Company implements an appropriate and reasonable level of security measures in the handling of personal information of Customers. Specifically, the Company takes the following measures, including establishing internal regulations, developing an appropriate organizational structure, supervising employees, and implementing technical security control measures, among others.
The Company will provide supervision necessary and appropriate for the prevention of leakage or loss of, or damage to, personal data and for other security management of personal data.
The Company will keep personal data accurate and up-to-date to the extent necessary to achieve the intended uses and will strive to delete any personal data that the Company no longer needs to use.
The Company will acquire and retain personal information appropriately in accordance with the provisions of applicable law and the Company’s internal regulations, in order to provide services as requested by Customers and to achieve the intended uses listed under the heading “(3) Intended uses of personal information” above in this Article 2.
When allowing its employees to handle personal data, the Company will provide necessary and appropriate supervision by ensuring that the proper handling of personal information is thoroughly known to all such employees and by providing appropriate training to them.
The Company will not provide personal information of a Customers to third parties unless the Customer’s consent has been obtained or unless permitted by applicable law. The Company may provide personal information of a Customer to third parties in any of the following circumstances.
The Company may provide personal information of a Customer to third parties in any of the following circumstances:
The Company may outsource all or part of the handling of personal data to an outside entity(ies) in order to facilitate the Company’s operations and to provide better services. When outsourcing the handling of personal data, the Company will limit personal data entrusted with the outside entity(ies) to the minimum necessary information to perform the outsourced services, will select as the contractor a partner which has taken appropriate security control measures, and the Company will provide necessary and appropriate supervision to such contractor.
The Company may provide personal information acquired by the Company to third parties located in foreign countries, within the scope of the intended uses listed under “(3)Intended uses of personal information” above.
[Provision of information on the provision of personal data to third parties located abroad]
The country or region where third parties located abroad are located
The United States of America (USA)
The personal information protection system in the foreign country or region
USA (Federal)
USA (Illinois)United States of America (State of Illinois)
USA(California)
USA (New York)
Measures for protecting personal information taken by the third parties located abroad to which personal information is provided by the Company
The Company will check that the third-party businesses located abroad to which personal information is to be provided by the Company have taken measures in line with the 8 principles of the OECD Privacy Guidelines.
The Company will promptly respond to Customers’ requests for disclosure of, or other action involving, the Customers’ own personal data in the possession of the Company (i.e., notification of the data’s intended uses, or disclosure of the data, or making corrections, additions or deletions to the data, or suspension of use of the data, or erasure of the data, or suspension of provision of the data to third parties, or disclosure of records of provision of the data to third parties). Upon receipt of a request, the Company will respond to the request within a reasonable period and to a reasonable extent, after confirming that the request is made by or on behalf of the Customer.
Please address all complaints and consultation requests concerning the handling of personal data in the possession of the Company to the following:
for Startups, Inc.
Azabudai Hills Mori JP Tower 31F, 1-3-1 Azabudai, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Email : privacy@forstartups.com
The Company will review this Privacy Policy from time to time and may change the same where necessary. Any revised Privacy Policy will be promptly posted on the Company’s website or the like and will take effect upon being posted there. Any significant changes will be notified in advance to applicants.
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Name of business operator : for Startups, Inc.
Yuichiro Shimizu, President and CEO
Address : Azabudai Hills Mori JP Tower 31F, 1-3-1 Azabudai, Minato-ku, Tokyo
for Startups, Inc., General Manager of the Corporate Division, Personal Information Protection Officer
Email : privacy@forstartups.com
Telephone : 03-6893-0650
In order to strictly control personal information, the Company has established rules and regulations concerning personal information based on the Personal Information Protection Guidelines, operates a personal information protection management system, and takes security control measures from four perspectives, namely, organizational, personal, physical, and technical perspectives, to ensure the appropriate handling of personal information. Please address any inquiries about the specific security control measures taken by the Company to the contact information provided under the heading “(2) Contact point for inquiries” in Article 3 above.
The Company provides personal information protection training to all employees once a year.
Upon joining and leaving the Company, each employee signs written confidentiality agreements that cover personal information.
Employee access is controlled by card key. When accepting a visitor into the Company’s office, the visitor’s identity and business are verified at the entrance and the date, the visitor’s name and company name, and the time of acceptance are recorded in the Visitor Record.
The Company appropriately manages the issuance, renewal, and disposal of IDs with access rights. The access rights of persons who no longer use information are immediately deleted.
(a) The Company may use cookies and similar technologies when providing the Services. The Company may monitor the usage and other aspects of the Services by acquiring such information as Customers’ cookie information, information on advertisements and web pages viewed by Customers, and information on Customers’ usage environment automatically from Customers’ browser and by recording such information in a server, and may use such information to improve the quality of the Services.
(b) Any Customer who wants to disable cookies may do so by changing the settings of his/her browser. However, disabling cookies may prevent normal use of the Services.
(c) In addition to the activities set forth in paragraph (a) above, the Company may acquire, by using Google Analytics,information on electronic communication terminals used by Customers when using the Services (terminal identifier, IP address, location information, cookies, usage logs, etc.) and may use such information to analyze personal information on Customers, to measure and analyze website usage using the results of such analysis of personal information, and to improve the relevant website. For details of Google Analytics and for opt-out, please visit: Google Analytics Terms of Service and How Google UsesInformation from Sites or Apps That Use Our Services.
(d) In addition to the activities set forth in paragraph (a)above, the Company may, by using Microsoft Clarity, collect and record data(i.e., logs) on visits to the Company’s website and analyze Customers’ activities and characteristics, and may use such information to monitor the usage of the Company’s site and to improve the quality of the site. The above information contains no information that identifies a specific individual and is managed by MicrosoftCorporation in accordance with its Terms of Use and Privacy Statement. For details of Microsoft Clarity, please visit: MICROSOFT CLARITY – TERMS OF USE and Microsoft Privacy Statement.
The Company provides the following supplementary provisions to Articles 1 through 4 above regarding personal information of Customers who use STARTUP DB, which is among the Services, from within the EU.
Of the information items listed under theheading “(1) Acquisition of personal information” in Article 2 above, the Company acquires the following. The Company uses Google Analytics for acquiring the information item listed in (ii) below.
The Company will transmit the information listed in (a)(ii)above to Google LLC in association with the Company’s use of GoogleAnalytics. For details of Google Analytics and for opt-out, please visit: Google Analytics Terms of Service and How Google Uses Information from Sites or Apps That Use Our Services.
In connection with the handling of the information listed in (a)(ii), personal information may be transmitted to sites used by Google LLC(which may include sites in countries not recognized by the European Commission as having an adequate level of protection for personal information) in association with the Company’s use of Google Analytics. All Customers expressly consent to such transmission.
The Company will retain personal information until the Company receives a request for deletion of such information from the relevant member.
Customers may exercise against the Company:(i) the right to access, (ii) the right to correct, (iii) the right to delete,(iv) the right to limit the handling of, (v) the right to raise an object to the handling of, and (iv) the data portability right with respect to, personal information of their own in accordance with Chapter 3 of the GDPR. For conditions and procedures for the exercise of these rights, please contact the contact point.
Customers may raise an objection to the handling listed in (a)(ii) above. For conditions and procedures for the exercise of this right, please contact the contact point.
Customers may withdraw their consent to the handling specified in (2)(iii) and (5) above. For withdrawal procedure, please contact the contact point.
In order for a Customers to complete membership registration and to receive members-only services, information on the name and e-mail address of the Customers must be handled.
Customers have the right to file an objection with supervisory authorities in EU member countries.
The Company may use personal information on Customers in the future for advertising purposes, in addition to the intended uses specifically set forth in this Privacy Policy.
for Startups, Inc.
Yuichiro Shimizu, President and CEO