Privacy Policy

Last Updated: April 20, 2024

Introduction

Welcome to Zen Touch Japanese Massage ("we," "our," or "us"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Zen Touch Japanese Massage collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up for our newsletter, purchase a service, or contact us.

Data Controller

Zen Touch Japanese Massage is the controller and responsible for your personal data. Our contact details are:

Zen Touch Japanese Massage
1104 Aramaki, Higashiagatsuma, Agatsuma District, Gunma 377-0303, Japan
Email: info@leaveearlyforthenorth.com
Phone: +81 90-4549-0070
Registration Number: 36965729

The Data We Collect About You

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data includes first name, last name, username, or similar identifier.
  • Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
  • Financial Data includes payment card details.
  • Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
  • Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  • Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
  • Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
  • Health Data includes information about your health conditions, medical history, and treatments relevant to our massage services.

We also collect, use, and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.

How We Collect Your Personal Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions

You may give us your Identity, Contact, Financial, Health, and Profile Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by mail, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

  • Book our services
  • Create an account on our website
  • Subscribe to our service or publications
  • Request marketing to be sent to you
  • Enter a competition, promotion, or survey
  • Complete a health assessment form
  • Give us feedback or contact us

Automated technologies or interactions

As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.

Third parties or publicly available sources

We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources, such as:

  • Technical Data from analytics providers like Google
  • Contact, Financial, and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment, and delivery services

How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
  • Where we have your express consent to do so.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

We have set out below a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so:

To register you as a new customer

  • Types of data: Identity, Contact
  • Legal basis: Performance of a contract with you

To process and deliver your service booking

  • Types of data: Identity, Contact, Financial, Transaction, Health
  • Legal basis: Performance of a contract with you, Necessary for our legitimate interests

To manage our relationship with you

  • Types of data: Identity, Contact, Profile, Marketing and Communications
  • Legal basis: Performance of a contract with you, Necessary to comply with a legal obligation, Necessary for our legitimate interests

To administer and protect our business and this website

  • Types of data: Identity, Contact, Technical
  • Legal basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests, Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you

  • Types of data: Identity, Contact, Profile, Usage, Marketing and Communications, Technical
  • Legal basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests, Consent

To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences

  • Types of data: Technical, Usage
  • Legal basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests

To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you

  • Types of data: Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage, Profile
  • Legal basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests, Consent

To provide appropriate massage treatment

  • Types of data: Identity, Contact, Health
  • Legal basis: Performance of a contract with you, Express consent

Special Category Data

Health Data is considered "special category data" under data protection laws. We will only process such data with your explicit consent or where necessary to protect your vital interests or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims. When you book a massage service with us, we will ask for your consent to collect and process health information relevant to the service.

Marketing

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.

Promotional offers from us

We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage, and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services, and offers may be relevant for you.

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased services from us and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

Third-party marketing

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside the Zen Touch Japanese Massage group of companies for marketing purposes.

Opting out

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a service purchase, warranty registration, service experience, or other transactions.

Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

Our website uses the following types of cookies:

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
  • Analytical/Performance Cookies: They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it.
  • Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website.
  • Targeting Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed.

Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes outlined in this privacy policy:

  • Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers.
  • Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.
  • Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

International Transfers

We may share your personal data within our group of companies and with external third parties, which may involve transferring your data outside your country of residence. Whenever we transfer your personal data internationally, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

  • We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data.
  • Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts which give personal data the same protection it has in your country.

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect of our relationship with you.

In some circumstances, you can ask us to delete your data. In some circumstances, we will anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

For massage therapy services, we typically retain health records for 7 years after your last treatment, in accordance with professional guidelines and legal requirements.

Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. You have the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data.
  • Request correction of your personal data.
  • Request erasure of your personal data.
  • Object to processing of your personal data.
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data.
  • Request transfer of your personal data.
  • Right to withdraw consent where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@leaveearlyforthenorth.com.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

We will notify you of significant changes to this privacy policy by email or through a notice on our website homepage.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

Zen Touch Japanese Massage
1104 Aramaki, Higashiagatsuma, Agatsuma District, Gunma 377-0303, Japan
Email: info@leaveearlyforthenorth.com
Phone: +81 90-4549-0070

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to your local data protection authority. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the authority, so please contact us in the first instance.