Privacy Policy

Article 1. Personal Information

For the purposes of this Policy, “Personal Information” means information relating to a living individual that identifies, or may readily be used in combination with other information to identify, a specific individual, as well as any individual identification code, as defined under applicable law.

Article 2. Information Collected by the Company

The Company may collect the following information through inquiries, tryout applications, event registrations, communications, and use of the Website:

1. Name, date of birth, age, gender, nationality, country or region of residence, address, telephone number, email address, and other contact information;
2. Baseball experience, playing position, team history, athletic history, physical information, eligibility information, and other information necessary to review or administer an application;
3. Information contained in inquiries, applications, documents, photographs, videos, and other materials submitted to the Company;
4. IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, referring URL, pages viewed, date and time of access, cookie identifiers, and other access-log information; and
5. Any other information provided by an individual to the Company.

Article 3. Purposes of Use

The Company shall use Personal Information to the extent necessary to achieve the following purposes:

1. To receive, review, and administer tryout applications, event registrations, and other applications;
2. To verify identity, eligibility, qualifications, experience, and other information submitted by an applicant;
3. To contact applicants and other individuals and to provide information concerning schedules, venues, selection procedures, results, services, events, and other relevant matters;
4. To respond to inquiries, requests, consultations, and complaints;
5. To operate, maintain, protect, improve, and analyze the Website and the Company’s services;
6. To prevent and respond to unauthorized access, fraud, misuse, security incidents, and violations of applicable terms or rules;
7. To prepare statistical or analytical information in a form that does not identify any individual;
8. To comply with applicable laws and regulations and to respond to lawful requests from courts, administrative agencies, and other public authorities; and
9. To perform any purpose incidental or reasonably related to the foregoing purposes.

Article 4. Management and Security of Personal Information

The Company shall endeavor to maintain Personal Information in an accurate and current form within the scope necessary to achieve the purposes of use. The Company shall implement necessary and appropriate organizational, personnel, physical, and technical security-control measures to prevent unauthorized access to, or the loss, destruction, alteration, leakage, or other improper handling of, Personal Information.

The Company shall exercise necessary and appropriate supervision over its officers, employees, and contractors that handle Personal Information.

Article 5. Provision to Third Parties

The Company shall not provide Personal Information to any third party without the prior consent of the individual concerned, except in any of the following circumstances:

1. Where such provision is required or permitted by law;
2. Where such provision is necessary for the protection of a person’s life, body, or property and it is difficult to obtain the individual’s consent;
3. Where such provision is particularly necessary for improving public health or promoting the sound development of children and it is difficult to obtain the individual’s consent;
4. Where cooperation with a national or local government authority, or a person entrusted thereby, is necessary for the performance of duties prescribed by law, and obtaining the individual’s consent may impede the performance of such duties; or
5. Where otherwise permitted under applicable laws and regulations.

Where information is shared with a contractor solely for the performance of services on behalf of the Company, such sharing shall not constitute provision to a third party to the extent provided by applicable law. The Company shall select contractors appropriately and exercise necessary and appropriate supervision over their handling of Personal Information.

Article 6. Sharing within the League

To the extent necessary to review or administer a tryout application, event registration, or other request, the Company may share relevant Personal Information with the member teams of Shikoku Island League Plus, authorized selection personnel, event organizers, medical or athletic personnel where appropriate, and other persons directly involved in the applicable process. The Company shall limit such sharing to the information and recipients reasonably necessary for the applicable purpose.

Article 7. Cross-Border Handling of Information

The Website is intended for users and applicants both within and outside Japan. Personal Information may therefore be transferred to, accessed from, processed in, or stored in Japan or another country or region in which the Company’s contractors or service providers operate. Where required by applicable law, the Company shall provide necessary information, obtain consent, or implement other appropriate safeguards in connection with such cross-border handling.

Article 8. Cookies and Access Analysis

The Website may use cookies and similar technologies to provide essential functions, retain user preferences, analyze access to the Website, improve content and performance, and maintain security. A user may restrict or disable cookies through the settings of the user’s browser; however, certain functions of the Website may become unavailable or may not operate properly as a result.

The Website may use access-analysis services, including Google Analytics. Information collected through such services is handled in accordance with the terms and privacy policies of the relevant service providers. Information regarding Google’s handling of data is available in the Google Privacy Policy.

Article 9. External Services and Links

The Website may contain embedded Google Maps, links to YouTube, links to member-team websites, and links to other external services. When a user views embedded content or accesses an external service, the provider of that service may collect and process information concerning the user. Such processing is governed by the terms and privacy policy of the relevant provider, and the Company shall not be responsible for the handling of information by any third-party website or service.

Article 10. Retention of Personal Information

The Company shall retain Personal Information only for the period reasonably necessary to achieve the purposes of use, administer applications and events, respond to inquiries, resolve disputes, maintain appropriate business records, and comply with legal obligations. When retention is no longer necessary, the Company shall delete, destroy, or anonymize the relevant information by an appropriate method, except where continued retention is required or permitted by law.

Article 11. Requests for Disclosure and Other Procedures

Where an individual or the individual’s duly authorized representative requests notification of the purposes of use, disclosure, correction, addition, deletion, suspension of use, erasure, suspension of provision to third parties, or disclosure of records concerning provision to third parties with respect to retained Personal Information, the Company shall respond in accordance with applicable law after verifying the identity and authority of the requesting party.

The Company may decline all or part of a request where permitted by applicable law. The Company may also request payment of a reasonable fee for a disclosure request where permitted by law.

Article 12. Personal Information of Minors

Where an applicant or user is a minor under applicable law, the Company may require the consent or authorization of a parent, legal guardian, or other lawful representative before accepting an application or processing Personal Information. A minor must not submit Personal Information without obtaining any consent or authorization required under applicable law.

Article 13. Compliance and Review

The Company shall comply with the laws, regulations, and other applicable standards governing Personal Information and shall periodically review and improve its personal-information management practices. The Company may amend this Policy where necessary due to changes in laws, services, technologies, or data-handling practices. Any amended Policy shall become effective when posted on the Website, unless otherwise specified by the Company.

Article 14. Contact for Inquiries

Requests, inquiries, consultations, and complaints concerning the handling of Personal Information shall be directed to: