Privacy Policy
Last Updated: March 4, 2025
Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to NTT DOCOMO, INC. (“Docomo”, “our”, “we”, or “us”). We provide this privacy policy (“Policy”) to help you understand what information we collect and how it is used when you interact, communicate or engage with us through our MANGA MIRAI website (https://mangamirai.com/) or mobile application (hereafter “platforms”). This Policy explains our information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. The Cookie Policy forms part of this Privacy Policy and is incorporated by reference herein.
“Personal information” is any information that identifies or reasonably could be linked to a particular person or household.
A Note on Links to Third Party Websites:
This Policy does not apply to any third-party links contained on our platforms and/ or in our marketing communications. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third-party websites. You should read the privacy policy for each website that you visit.
- Personal Information We Collect And Use
- How We Share Personal Information
- Legal Categories of Personal Information
- Your Rights and Choices
- Additional Rights for California Residents
- Children's Privacy
- Data Retention
- How We Protect Your Personal Information
- Changes To This Policy
- Contact Us
- Personal Information Chart
- External Transmission Rule
Personal Information We Collect And Use
a. Personal Information You Provide
You may provide us with Personal Information directly through your interactions with us for the following purposes:
- Account Registration and Administration: When you create an account or update your personal information, we collect information such as your name, User ID, email address, date of birth and gender directly from you.
- Communicate with You: To communicate with you about your use of our platforms or updates regarding our services, respond to your inquiries, and provide customer service, we may collect name, User ID, communications preferences, email address and other information you may provide to us directly from you.
- Providing Services: In order to provide our services and operate our platforms, we may collect information such as the content you purchase and/or read, and other content you may submit to the platforms.
- Process Payments: In order to process payments, we may collect transaction information which may include personal information.
- Marketing, Advertising and Promotions: To deliver relevant content and to evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing and communications, to send you newsletters, offers or other information about products and services we offer, to contact you about our services, events or information we think may be relevant to you, and to administer promotions, we may collect your name, email address, and communications preferences directly from you.
- Analyzing and Improving our Products and Services: to better understand how our customers and visitors use our platforms, to improve our platforms, services and business operations, to develop new products and services, to conduct surveys, and for research and analysis purposes, we may collect name, age, email address, location (zip code), opinions and survey responses directly from you.
b. Information Collected From Your Devices
We also collect information about how you use our Services from your device(s) or browser, for the following purposes:
- Account Registration: If you register with us and when you log into our services, we collect personal information, such as IP address, access logs, information about your browser or device (such as operating system or browser type) and information about how you engage with the platforms automatically from your browser or device.
- Providing Services: In order to provide our services and operate our platforms, we may collect IP address, access logs, information about your browser or device (such as operating system or browser type) and information about how you engage with the platforms automatically.
- Security and Fraud Prevention: In order to protect our platforms and prevent fraud, we may collect IP address, access logs, information about your browser or device (such as operating system or browser type) and information about your use of our platforms automatically.
- Marketing, Advertising and Promotions: To deliver relevant content and to evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing and communications, we may collect IP address, access logs, information about your browser or device (such as operating system or browser type), referrer URL, and location information from your browser or device.
- Analyzing and Improving our Products and Services: to better understand how our customers and visitors use our platforms, to improve our platforms, services and business operations, to develop new products and services, we may collect IP address, access logs, information about your browser or device (such as operating system or browser type), referrer URL, and location information from your browser or device.
For more information about our use of cookies and other tracking technologies, please review ourCookie Policy.
c. Personal Information Provided by Third Parties
We may also collect certain personal information about you from third parties for the following business purposes:
- Account Registration: You may choose to use a third-party account, such as your Google or Apple accounts, to register on our platforms through single sign on. When you choose to use a single sign on account to register with us, the third party platform will share certain details about you with us, including your name, email address, location and profile image, so we can register you as a user and administer your account with us.
- Process Payments: In order to process payments, our service provider may share information about your transaction with us to confirm your purchases, including transaction information, such as transaction ID and transaction amount.
- Security and Fraud Prevention: In order to protect our platforms and prevent fraud, we may use third party services, that may share IP address, access logs, information about your browser or device (such as operating system or browser type) and information about your use of our platforms.
- Marketing, Advertising and Promotions: We may occasionally partner with a business partner or service provider to deliver marketing, to send offers or other information about products and services we offer, and to administer promotions. Where we use third parties to collect this information, it may include your name, email address, information about how you engage with our platforms, events you have attended, or other information relevant to the event or promotion.
- Analyzing and Improving our Products and Services: to better understand how our customers and visitors use our platforms, to improve our platforms, services and business operations, to develop new products and services, to conduct surveys, and for research and analysis purposes, we may use third parties, including third party cookies to collect your name, email address, referral URL, and information relating to your use of our platforms.
For more information about our use of cookies and other tracking technologies, please review our Cookie Policy.
d. Other Ways We Use The Information We Collect
We may use any of the personal information collected above for the following business purposes:
- Protecting our Business: to protect and secure our business, systems, the Services and our platforms, to investigate, prevent, detect and respond to fraud, unauthorized access, or other potential threats to the rights and safety of any individual or third party, or other unauthorized activities or misconduct.
- Defending Legal Rights: to manage and respond to actual and potential legal disputes and claims, and to otherwise establish, defend, or protect rights or interests, including in the context of anticipated or actual litigation.
- Auditing, Reporting, Governance and Internal Operations: to conduct our business, including fulfilling our financial, tax and accounting obligations, such as audits, assessments, privacy, security, and financial controls, accounting, record keeping and legal functions, any actual or contemplated merger, acquisition, asset sale or transfer, financing, bankruptcy, or restructuring of all or part of our business.
- Complying with Legal Obligations: to comply with the law, our legal obligations and legal processes (such as warrants, subpoenas, court orders, and regulatory or law enforcement requests).
How We Share Personal Information
We may share personal information through automated means, such as the use of cookies and other tracking technologies, For more information, please review our Cookie Policy.
We may share information about you to third parties as indicated below:
- Affiliates and Subsidiaries. We may share your personal information with our affiliates, and subsidiaries. If we share your information, we will share only the information that is necessary to achieve the legitimate business purpose.
- Service Providers. Other companies sometimes provide certain services to us or on our behalf (e.g., maintenance, IT support, analysis, development, security). Unless we tell you differently or as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, our service providers are not permitted to use your information except to assist us.
- Advertisers and Marketing Partners. We may use advertisers or marketing partners to help us promote our platform or advertise on other sites. We may share information about your interaction with us with marketing companies to help re-target you or create advertising audiences.
- Social Media. We or our Marketing Partners may share information with Social Media Platforms, including information about your interaction with us or our marketing campaigns to help re-target you or create advertising audiences.
- Your Disclosure or Agreement. Your activities on the platforms may, by their nature, result in the sharing of your personal information based on your device or browser settings, and your choices you select through our cookie banner.
- Compliance with Legal Obligations. We may need to disclose certain information to auditors, government authorities, law enforcement, regulatory agencies, our legal counsel, third-party litigants and their counsel, or other authorized individuals in order to comply with laws that apply to us, or other legal obligations such as contractual requirements.
- Changes in Business Structure/Ownership. We may disclose or transfer your personal information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of DOCOMO’s business, assets, or ownership interest (including any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
We do not sell any individual’s personal information, nor do we share that personal information with third parties for those parties’ commercial use.
Legal Categories of Personal Information
Some laws require that we disclose the Legal Categories of Personal Information we collect in a the last 12 months in a specific way. To make this easier, we have provided a Personal Information Chart at the end of this Policy that explains the information we collect, the business purposes we use the personal information, with whom we share the personal information, and whether we sell that information and to whom. For more information about the legal categories of personal information we collect and process, see the Personal Information Chart.
Your Rights and Choices
For all personal information that we collect about you, you may have the following rights or choices that we will accommodate where your requests meet legal and regulatory requirements:
- Right to access — The right for a consumer to access from a business/data controller the information or categories of information collected about a consumer, the information or categories of information shared with third parties, or the specific third parties or categories of third parties to which the information was shared; or, some combination of similar information.
- Right to correct — The right for a consumer to request that incorrect or outdated personal information be corrected but not deleted.
- Right to delete — The right for a consumer to request deletion of personal information about the consumer under certain conditions.
- Right to portability — The right for a consumer to request personal information about the consumer be disclosed in a common file format.
- Right to opt-out of sales — The right for a consumer to opt out of the sale of personal information about the consumer to third parties.
- Right against automated decision making — A prohibition against a business making decisions about a consumer based solely on an automated process without human input.
We will not retaliate or discriminate based on your choice to exercise your privacy rights.
You may have the right to appeal a decision we make whether or not to take action on any request to exercise one of your privacy rights.
a. How to make a Request and What to Expect
- How to Make a Request — To help us ensure that your request is reviewed appropriately, we ask that you submit all requests through one of the methods in the Contact Us section below. You will be asked to provide us with your User ID or email address, and MANGA MIRAI user ID (which can be found on your Personal Information page in the settings menu), and type of request that you are making.
- Verification — We may be required by law to verify your identity prior to fulfilling your request. This ensures that your personal information is kept confidential and prevents others from obtaining your personal information from us. If we need to verify your identity, we will contact you. Please note, we may need to ask you to provide additional information to us so we can match it to our system.
- Responding to Requests — Once we receive your request we begin working on it. We strive to fulfill all privacy requests within 30 days, however, if we need more time, we will let you know on or before the 30th day. Once we fulfill your request, we will let you know. In the event that we deny all or any part of your request, we will tell you why we cannot fulfill your request and the legal basis for the denial.
- Right to appeal — If we decline to take action regarding your request to exercise any privacy right, you have the right to appeal the decision. If you disagree with our decision to deny you a privacy right, please submit your request to appeal our decision by responding to the email we send to you informing you of our decision, or by submitting an “Appeal” request by responding to our prior communication indicating our decision, or sending a request through one of the methods in the Contact Us section which references the prior decision. Please provide the reason you disagree with our decision and any relevant information that you think we may have missed in your request.
- Requests Made by Authorized Agents — You have the right to designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. In the event that you designate an authorized agent, we may be required to contact you to verify that they have the authority to make such a request on your behalf and verify your identity. If we need to verify their authority or your identity, we will reach out to you. An authorized agent can submit a privacy request on behalf of a consumer by submitting a request through one of the methods in the Contact Us section. Please include the name of the consumer whom the request is on behalf of, your email address, the consumer’s email address and type of request you are requesting on the consumer’s behalf.
Additional Rights for California Residents
California residents have the following rights regarding disclosure of personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.
We do not share personal information with non-Affiliate third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident, you may request information about our compliance with the Shine the Light law by contacting using the methods in the Contact Us section below. Requests must include “California Marketing Rights Request” in the first line of the description and include your User ID for MANGA MIRAI and email address. Please note that we are only required to respond to one request per customer each year, and we are not required to respond to requests made by means other than through the provided e-mail address or mailing address.
Children's Privacy
Our platforms and the services are not intended for use by anyone under the age of sixteen (16). In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), we do not knowingly request or solicit personal information from children nor will we knowingly allow minors to create an user account. In the event that we receive actual knowledge that we have collected personal information of minors under the age of sixteen, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as is practical. We reserve the right to request proof of age at any stage so that we can verify that minors under the age of sixteen are not using the Services.
Data Retention
DOCOMO retains personal information for as long as the personal information is needed to comply with its legal, accounting, and regulatory obligations and to protect DOCOMO in the event of a legal claim or dispute. If DOCOMO has a valid reason to retain the information (for example, if there is an ongoing legal dispute that precludes DOCOMO from deleting the information), DOCOMO will delete the personal information as soon as practical after the reason for its retention has been resolved. Personal information not retained for compliance with a legal, accounting or regulatory obligation is generally deleted within 30 days of a consumer terminating their service with us.
How We Protect Your Personal Information
DOCOMO has implemented and maintains reasonable physical, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, acquisition, or disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Although we strive to keep your personal information secure, no safeguards can be guaranteed to be completely secure, so you should exercise caution when transferring personal information over the internet. Please advise us immediately of any incident involving any unauthorized access to or disclosure of personal information that is in our custody or control.
Changes To This Policy
We reserve the right to change this Policy prospectively effective upon the posting of the revised Policy and your use of our platforms indicates your acknowledgement of the Policy posted at the time of use. However, should we update this Policy, we will post a new version online, and will notify you if the personal information processed about you will be materially different than that which was represented to you at the time it was collected. To the extent any provision of this Policy is found by a competent tribunal to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be severed to the extent necessary for the remainder to be valid and enforceable.
Contact Us
For questions regarding this Privacy Policy or to make a request pursuant to this Policy related to your personal information, contact us through one of the following methods:
By webform: https://contact.mangamirai.com/form/pub/support/support
By email: support@mangamirai.com
Personal Information Chart
This chart summarizes the information in this Policy. Please note that the information in italics under each category type is a definition containing examples of the types of information that the category may include. In the last 12 months, DOCOMO has processed the following categories of personal information:
| Category | Sources | Purposes for Collection and Use | Categories of Third Parties Personal Information is Disclosed for a Business Purpose | Categories of Third Parties to Whom Personal Information is Sold/Shared |
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| 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. |
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| 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, marital status, 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. |
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| Not Shared or Sold |
| 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). |
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| D. Commercial information.Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. |
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| E. Biometric information.Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, DNA data, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. | Not Collected | |||
| F. Internet or other similar network activity.Browsing history, search history, information on an employee's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. |
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| G. Geolocation data.Data that can identify a consumer's physical location or movements. |
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| H. Sensory data.Audio, electronic, visual, olfactory, or similar information. | Not Collected | |||
| I. Professional or employment-related information.Current or past job history or performance evaluations. | Not Collected | |||
| J. Education information as defined by the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1232g; 34 C.F.R. Part 99).Information that is not publicly available maintained by an education agency or institution related directly to a student. | Not Collected | |||
| K. Inferences drawn from other personal information.Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. | Not Collected | |||
| L. Sensitive personal information.Personal information that reveals a consumer's: Social Security number, driver's license number, state identification card number, or passport number; a consumer's account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; precise geolocation; racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership; the contents of a consumer's mail, email, and text messages (not business related); genetic data; biometric data used to uniquely identify a consumer; health data; or data related to sex life or sexual orientation. | Not Collected | |||
We have not knowingly sold or shared the Personal information of children under the age of sixteen (16).
External Transmission Rule
This website collects customer data, including website browsing information, using external services. As this information is related to your privacy, we have provided the following list of external services, as well as details on the data collected by each service, how the data is used, and how to discontinue the usage of your data.
Web
APP
About the service：BugSnag
Information you are sending：performance data, browser error information, user agent, country information
About the operating company：SmartBear Software Inc.
Our purpose of use：defect management
Purpose of Use by destination：providing a function to defect management
About the service：Mezmo
Information you are sending：access log
About the operating company：LogDNA
Our purpose of use：access log management
Purpose of Use by destination：providing a function to manage access logs
About the service：Google Analytics
Information you are sending：information about systems, devices, networks, and communications used on the Internet, location information, data about activities on websites and apps, data about pages viewed, user identifiers (cookies, device identifiers, etc.)
About the operating company：Google LLC
Our purpose of use：analysis of browsing trends and history
Purpose of Use by destination：providing a function to analyze browsing trends and history
About the service：BigQuery
Information you are sending：information about systems, devices, networks, and communications used on the Internet, location information, data about activities on websites and apps, data about pages viewed, user identifiers (cookies, device identifiers, etc.)
About the operating company：Google LLC
Our purpose of use：analysis of browsing trends and history
Purpose of Use by destination：providing a function to analyze browsing trends and history
About the service：Metabase
Information you are sending：information about systems, devices, networks, and communications used on the Internet, location information, data about activities on websites and apps, data about pages viewed, user identifiers (cookies, device identifiers, etc.)
About the operating company：Metabase
Our purpose of use：analysis of browsing trends and history
Purpose of Use by destination：providing a function to analyze browsing trends and history
About the service：Firebase
Information you are sending：information about systems, devices, networks, and communications used on the Internet, location information, data about activities on websites and apps, data about pages viewed, user identifiers (cookies, device identifiers, etc.)
About the operating company：Google LLC
Our purpose of use：analysis of browsing trends and history
Purpose of Use by destination：providing a function to analyze browsing trends and history
About the service：Datadog
Information you are sending：performance data, error information
About the operating company：Datadog, Inc.
Our purpose of use：defect management
Purpose of Use by destination：providing a function to defect management