Our company's corporate philosophy is to "Create new value by bringing the people of the world together, and to contribute to the development of a rewarding and harmonious society by meeting the expectations of our customers". Under this philosophy, we respect the privacy of our clients, business partners and our employees, and in order to protect their personal information, together with complying with laws and other standards concerning personal information protection, our executives and all staff are all made aware of the importance of the protection of personal information. In order that our customers can purchase the travel products and services we provide with peace of mind, we shall take the following measures.
Hankyu Travel International Co., Ltd. was certified to use the PrivacyMark by JIPDEC in May 2007.
Enacted: December 1, 2004
Revised: April 1, 2020
Hankyu Travel International Co., Ltd.
President: Atsushi Sakai
We shall handle your personal information in accordance with the "Act on the Protection of Personal Information" and our "Privacy Policy" and we are committed to its protection.
Hankyu Travel International Co., Ltd.
General Manager, CSR Promotion Department, Hankyu Travel International Co., Ltd.
Contact: 06-4795-5709
Purpose of use in the case of obtaining personal information described in documents (including via websites and e-mail, etc. Hereinafter referred to as "documents") directly from you
Purpose of use when obtaining personal information directly from you other than in written form
Purpose of use when personal information is acquired by methods other than (1) and (2) above
Items of personal information that are shared and used
Address, name (including company name, title, department name, etc. for corporate customers), telephone number, gender, age, date of birth, e-mail address, product purchase history, etc.
Scope of users of the shared personal information
Group companies (For more information, click here)
Purposes of using personal information by the users
Same as 3. above.
Name and address of the person responsible for the management of such personal information and the name of its representative
Hankyu Travel International Co., Ltd.
2-5-25 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka
Atsushi Sakai, President!
We will provide your name, gender, age, address, telephone number or email address, passport number, credit card number via electronic means to relevant transportation and accommodation facilities, insurance companies or arrangement agents, within the scope necessary for making arrangements for the tour services for the tour you have applied for, as well as for you to receive such services, or within the scope necessary for fulfilling our responsibilities under the tour contract and for insurance procedures to secure expenses in the event of an accident, etc.
For your convenience when shopping at your travel destination, we will provide personal data pertaining to your name, passport number and flight number, etc., to duty free shops and souvenir shops ahead of time via electronic means.
In addition to the cases listed above, we will not share your personal information with any third party, except in the following cases.
For operational reasons, we outsource certain operations in order to provide our customers with better services. We may share personal information with a contractor. In such cases, we select contractors whose handling of personal information we have deemed appropriate, and we ensure that your personal information will be managed appropriately by stipulating in a contract, etc., conditions of appropriate management and confidentiality to prevent any leakage of your personal information.
Disclosure of retained personal data or records provided to third parties
When we receive from you a request for disclosure of retained personal data or records provided to a third party, we will disclose such retained personal data or records provided to a third party to the individual without delay. In addition, we will notify you when there is no personal information that can identify you. However, we may not be able to disclose it if any of the following a) to c) apply, but we will notify you without delay and explain the reason.
Correction, addition or deletion of retained personal data
When we receive a request for correction, addition, or deletion of retained personal data, we will conduct the necessary investigation without delay, and based on the results, correct, etc., the relevant retained personal data, and after correction, notify the individual to that effect (including the details of the correction, etc.) without delay.
Right to refuse use or provision of retained personal data
We will accommodate requests from you to suspend use of, erase or suspend provision to a third party of the retained personal information. After taking action, we will notify you without delay. However, we cannot accommodate your request if any of the provisos a) to c) in (1) apply, but we will notify you without delay and explain the reason.
(4)Notification of the purpose of use and other explanations
Where to request disclosure of personal information or records provided to third parties, notification of purpose of use, addition, correction, suspension of use, erasure, deletion, and suspension of provision to third parties
To request disclosure, please attach the required documents to prescribed application form and send them by post to the appropriate contact point below.
<Office hours: Weekdays 09:30–17:30; closed weekends, national holidays and the year-end and New Year holidays>
For the procedure to request disclosure, please refer to "Application Form for Personal Information Disclosure (pdf)."
When we contact you using your personal information, we will notify you of the items of information specified in 1 to 6 above and obtain your consent.
However, this will not apply in any of the following cases.
When we share and use personal information with a specific partner, the partner has clearly indicated or notified you of the items of information specified in 1 to 6 above and has obtained your consent and you have been notified of the following items of information in advance or are in a position to recognize them easily:
When any of the following apply
It is up to you whether you provide us with personal information. However, if you choose not to provide us with the required items, we may unable to properly provide our various services to you.
We may obtain, use or provide personal information requiring special consideration in any of the following cases.
When provision or disclosure is required to cooperate with an authority or institution of the national and local government and any other third party entrusted by them in executing the affairs required by laws and regulations, and obtaining your consent may impede the execution of the affairs concerned
Personal information requiring special consideration includes the following:
Cookies are a mechanism that enables you to view our website more conveniently when you revisit it at a later date, and they do not infringe on your privacy or have any adverse effect on your computer. All areas of our website where we have you enter your personal information use an SSL (Secure Socket Layer) data encryption system. In addition, we have also taken measures to protect personal information within the site, such as the installation of a firewall. However, please note that, due to the nature of the Internet, it is not possible to guarantee complete security.
An authorized personal information protection organization is an organization that has been authorized by the Personal Information Protection Commission in accordance with Article 47 the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, and whose purpose is to ensure the appropriate handling of personal information through the provision of information to target entities and the processing of complaints regarding the handling of the target personal information, etc.
Japan Information Processing and Development Center (JIPDEC) authorized personal information protection organization secretariat
Tel: 03-5860-7565
Toll-free: 0120-700-779
*Only complaints regarding the handling of personal information are accepted.
We will endeavor to keep your personal information accurate and up-to-date at all times, and will take the following security control measures.
Note) You can choose whether to provide us with personal information (voluntary nature of provision of personal information); however, if you do not provide it, you may not be able to receive the measures we take regarding work that we are required to take by law. In addition, in order to carry out the necessary processing, we may outsource the handling of personal information to a contractor that has guaranteed a sufficient level of personal information protection.
We will accommodate requests from you or a proxy for the disclosure, modification or suspension use of your personal information or records provided by a third party that we hold to a reasonable extent.
For operational reasons, we outsource certain operations in order to provide our customers with better services. We may share personal information with a contractor. In such cases, we select contractors whose handling of personal information we have deemed appropriate, and we ensure that your personal information will be managed appropriately by stipulating in a contract, etc., conditions of appropriate management and confidentiality to prevent any leakage of your personal information.
Contact point for complaints regarding the handling of personal information
Please contact us via the address listed in 3-(1) above.
※ If you have a complaint with us with regard to your personal information and the issue cannot be resolved, you can contact the authorized personal information protection organization below to request assistance in resolving the issue. An authorized personal information protection organization is an organization that has been authorized by the Personal Information Protection Commission in accordance with Article 47 the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, and whose purpose is to ensure the appropriate handling of personal information through the provision of information to target entities and the processing of complaints regarding the handling of the target personal information, etc.
Personal Information Protection Manager
General Manager, CSR Promotion Department, Hankyu Travel International Co., Ltd.
Tel: 06-4795-5709
In order to ensure security or to protect our information systems, information assets and other business assets, we may carry out video monitoring or monitoring of computer operation, etc., including the sending and receiving of emails.
Cookies are a mechanism that enables you to view our website more conveniently when you revisit it at a later date, and they do not infringe on your privacy or have any adverse effect on your computer. All areas of our website where we have you enter your personal information use an SSL (Secure Socket Layer) data encryption system. In addition, we have also taken measures to protect personal information within the site, such as the installation of a firewall. However, please note that, due to the nature of the Internet, it is not possible to guarantee complete security.
We will endeavor to keep employees personal information accurate and up-to-date at all times, and will take the following security control measures.
The website uses an anonymous encryption technology known as SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) when sending and receiving personal information, such as member registrations, applications and inquiries, via the Internet or mobile phones, etc., allowing you to shop and register for membership online with peace of mind. The use of SSL does not require any special configuration on your part.
To ensure security when we have you send us your personal information through our website, we use encryption technology such as the SSL (Secure Socket Layer: A global standard security feature which encrypts data before it is sent) protocol to safeguard against the leakage of your personal information. By using an SSL-compatible Internet browser, your personal information will be automatically encrypted.
When using the website reservations or inquiries about our products, when serving ads by third parties such as Yahoo!, such third parties may use cookies to collect information on the browsing history of visitors to our website.
Such third parties use and collect information only for the purposes of serving ads. None of the information collected in such cases is of a personal nature. The cookie information, etc., collected by the third parties is handled in accordance with the third parties' own privacy policies.
Cookies are a mechanism whereby, when you visit our website, your usage history and entered information is stored as a file on your computer, and they do not infringe on your privacy or have any adverse effect on your computer.
We make use of the advertising services of ad-serving companies (remarketing/retargeting functions), and we serve ads for a variety of websites on the Internet to persons who have visited our website in the past. These advertising services use cookies to automatically track your visiting history on our website; however, no information which can be used to identify you is included at all.
If you do not wish for such advertising, you can use the following company websites to disable (opt-out) the feature.
※If you change browsers or delete your cookies, you will need to opt-out or opt-in once again.
We use a technology known as web beacons for web pages, reservations for our services, inquiries, registration for various campaigns and send emails in HTML format (excluding reservation-related emails). Web beacons are a mechanism in which small, invisible image files (1×1 pixel GIF image) and JavaScript are embedded in wed pages and HTML format emails to collect information on whether or not they have been browsed. With them we can accumulate information on your email opening/previewing situation and web page browsing data.
Our website may feature links to the websites of other companies. For details on the handling of personal information on these linked-to websites, please check for yourself on the website in question.
If you voluntarily disclose personal information on the Internet, please note that there is the possibility of the information being used are collected by other users. If publish personal information on the Internet that anyone can access, there is a possibility that you may receive unwanted messages based on the information that has been posted. Users, please send information at your own risk. Furthermore, Hankyu Express International's partners and third-party companies accessible through Hankyu Express International, collect data through their websites, services, or prizes and promotional activities, each has their own independent rules regarding privacy and data-collection regulations or activity policies. Hankyu Travel International will not assume any responsibility or liability for these independent rules or activities.
Furthermore, Hankyu Travel International makes no claims or representations on our website about the suitability of the contents of the website for your computer environment. It is assumed that you access our website of your own free will and that you accept all responsibility for your use of this website.