Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 6/5/2025


Introduction

This Privacy Policy governs all Hoshigata publications, newsletters and subscriptions, websites, mobile and tablet applications, social media pages and other online services and digital offerings, emails, messaging services, events and other products and services that link to this policy and applies also to information collected via other channels in which you may interact with us such as communicating with us through our customer service or any other method of communication (collectively, our “Services”).


Key Information

  1. Through your interaction with our Services, we collect Personal Information about you.
  2. We use your Personal Information for the purposes set out in “How We Use Your Information”.
  3. We may share your Personal Information with third parties such as our service providers and business partners as described in “Sharing Your Information with Other Parties”.
  4. If you reside in certain states, you may have rights relating to our use of your Personal Information as set out in “Your Privacy Rights”. As applicable, you may exercise those rights by clicking “Your Privacy Choices.”
  5. If you are based in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), or the United Kingdom (“UK”), please review our “EEA and UK Privacy Notice” supplement to this Privacy Policy.
  6. “Personal Information” is defined differently by different privacy laws and generally means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, or is reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to an identified or identifiable natural person or in some cases, household.


We may provide additional “just-in-time” disclosures or additional information about our Personal Information collection, use and sharing practices. These notices may serve to supplement this Privacy Policy, clarify our privacy practices in the circumstances described, or provide you with additional choices about how we process your Personal Information in those circumstances.


Notice of Collection: What Information We Collect

We may collect or receive the following information about you that can personally identify you – either on its own or when combined with other information. How we collect or receive this information depends on the context, such as the Services you use, your device or browser settings, or your account settings.


A. List of of Personal Information.

The following is a list of Personal Information which may have been collected from consumers or users of our Services within the last twelve (12) months. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  1. Email address
  2. Usage Data


Important notes about Personal Information we collect:


  1. Any of the above information may be combined with other Personal Information we may have or obtain about you from your use of our Services or from third parties.
  2. Not all categories of information will necessarily be collected or received about every individual.
  3. Not all examples of Personal Information will necessarily be collected or received about every individual.
  4. The list reflects our good faith belief to the best of our knowledge that some of the information listed may have been collected about individuals.


BY USING ANY OF OUR SERVICES AND/OR PROVIDING US WITH PERSONAL INFORMATION, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT (1) YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, (2) WE WILL COLLECT, USE AND SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY, OUR COOKIE POLICY AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR TERMS OF SERVICE, AND (3) WE WILL MAKE UPDATES TO THESE POLICIES THAT WILL BE POSTED FROM TIME TO TIME. To make sure you stay informed of all changes, you should check these policies periodically. Updates will be referenced by the “Last Updated” date.


Children's Privacy:

In general, our Services are not intended for users under the age of 18, and the terms for certain Services may specify further age-related restrictions.


In addition, we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from users under the age of 18 on Hoshigata Manga, although certain third-party sites that we link to may do so. These third-party sites have their own terms of use and privacy policies, and we encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children to never provide information on our Services without their permission.


A parent may review and have deleted their child’s Personal Information and may refuse to permit further collection or use of their child’s information by contacting us as noted at the end of this Privacy Policy. Parents may consent to our collection and use of their child’s Personal Information without consenting to the disclosure of that information to others.


If you have reason to believe that an user under the age of 18 has provided Personal Information without permission, please contact us via our online request form with sufficient detail to enable us to delete that information from our databases.


Third Party Links:

Our Services may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third

party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.


We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.


How We Collect Personal Information

Generally, there are three ways in which we collect information about you:

(A) Information you provide to us,

(B) Information we may automatically collect or create, and

(C) Information we may collect or receive from other sources.


We may collect the following information you directly provide to us when you use our Services.

1. When You Engage with Us. We collect information you directly provide to us when you engage with any of our Services. Examples include: when you register an account with us, subscribe to a newsletter, attend an event, submit photos to us, call customer service, participate in a contest, promotion, or survey, or fill out a webform.


Depending on the context, this information may include:


  1. Account information and log in credentials, including unique identifiers, username and password.
  2. When you register with us, we assign you a unique identifier, which helps us recognize you when you are logged in and allows us to associate your activity on our websites, apps and other Services with your account.


For some Services, you can sign up or log in through your social media or other accounts, such as Google, Facebook or Apple.


How We Use Your Information

We use your information for the following business and commercial purposes:


To customize your content experience. We provide you with a more personalized content experience by tracking and analyzing your viewing interests. In this way we are able to make content recommendations to you and highlight articles we think you will like. We also show you content, products, services and pricing based on a number of factors like your general location as determined by your IP address, zip code or other available location data, your usage information and available demographic information.


Use affiliate links. We may use your information to make product recommendations to you and to provide you with links to other services provided by our business partners or customers that are not operated or controlled by us. If you purchase a product or service from a third party after following an affiliate link, we may earn a commission. The third party’s privacy policy will govern their use of any Personal Information you share with them.


When Required by Law or as Necessary to Protect our Users or Services. We may disclose your information as is necessary or appropriate to protect, enforce or defend the legal rights, privacy, safety, or property of the Services, our employees or agents or users, or to comply with applicable law or legal process, including to respond to requests from public or government authorities.


A note on third parties: Third parties may combine information they gather about you through our Services with information they receive from their other clients or information that they obtain from other sources. This may help them target content, services or advertisements to you on behalf of their other clients. Third parties may also use other services to serve you advertisements. We do not control these third parties, nor their privacy practices and policies, and are not responsible for them.


Your Privacy Rights

If you reside in one of the states listed below, you may have additional privacy rights and ways to manage the Personal Information that we hold about you.


Note: certain information may be exempt from any request to exercise these rights due to different applicable laws or legal obligations such as information we retain for legal compliance, for research purposes, and for fraud detection and security purposes. If we deny your request due to an exemption, we will inform you in our response.


We also may need to retain certain information in order to provide the Services to you that you signed up for (such as if you have a subscription but separately ask us to delete your information through the Your Privacy Choices preference center). If you ask us to delete your information, you may no longer be able to use the Services.


A. State Consumer Privacy Laws

If you are a resident of the following states, you have certain state regulated privacy rights:

  1. California
  2. Colorado
  3. Connecticut
  4. Delaware
  5. Florida
  6. Iowa
  7. Montana
  8. Nebraska
  9. New Hampshire
  10. New Jersey
  11. Nevada
  12. Oregon
  13. Texas
  14. Utah
  15. Virginia


Subject to certain conditions and exclusions as provided under applicable laws, as a resident of one of the above listed states you may have some or all of the following rights with regard to your personal data.


How We Protect Your Information

We use commercially reasonable procedures and various technical, administrative and physical safeguards to help protect the confidentiality of your Personal Information. However, given the nature of the Internet and technology systems in general we cannot guarantee that your information is 100% secure.


We are not responsible for failures in third party telecommunications, hosting, networking or other systems that may create errors or vulnerabilities in our websites or other Services. Therefore, although we believe the measures implemented by us reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved, we do not promise or guarantee, and you should not expect, that your Personal Information or private communications will always remain private or secure. We do not guarantee that your Personal Information will not be misused by third parties, and we are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security features. Do not share your passwords with anyone.


How Long We Retain Your Information

We will keep your Personal Information only for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy based on the context in which you provided it, or for the duration required by law, whichever is the longer.


User Content and Messages

The Site allows you to post User Content, as defined in our Terms of Use. Any User Content you post becomes available to the public. User Content includes, but is not limited to, reviews, comment and any other suck like content. If you remove User Content, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your User Content.



Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The “Last Updated” date at the top of this page indicates when it was last updated. If we make material changes, we will notify you either by email to the most recent email address provided to us, through a pop-up window on our homepages, or through another method as required by law. Any changes will become effective on the “Last Updated” date indicated above.


Where permitted by applicable law, after we post any changes on this page, your continued use of our Services following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.


Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Information described here, your choices and rights regarding such use, or if you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us as provided below.


[email protected]