Effective Date: January 01, 2020
Updated: April 29, 2022
Notice for California Residents Only
This section of our privacy policy provides additional information for California residents and their rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”).
This CCPA Notice applies to the Personal Information of California residents using our website and Services (“Consumers,” “you,” or “your”). For purposes of the CCPA, Personal Information means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California resident or household.
In the event of a conflict between this CCPA Notice and any of our other privacy policies, this CCPA Notice shall control only with respect to Consumers and their Personal Information.
Information collected and sources
NTA America collects Personal Information from you when you interact with us through in person communications, phone calls, emails and our websites www.ntaamerica.com, www.ja.ntaamerica.com and www.myjrpass.com (“Site”) or offline. This includes information that you provide to us directly, information we collect from you automatically, information that we collect when you interact with us such as through your online postings, and information that we may collect from third parties such as service providers, affiliated companies, marketing or data partners, or other third parties with whom you interact. It also includes information that we collect about employees and business partners and vendors from those individuals directly or from references, referrals or consumer reporting agencies. Not all information is collected from everyone who interacts with us.
During the past 12 months we may have collected the following categories of Personal Information:
- Identifiers such as contact information (your name, address, phone number, email or postal address), Unique Personal Identifiers (that may include but are not limited to your legal name or preferred alias and online identifiers like user account names), an encrypted version of your password, communications, date of birth, and mileage or loyalty program information. We may collect additional information from suppliers, vendors, or employees including business contact information, phone number, email and postal addresses and titles.
- Sensitive information such as financial and payment information like your credit or debit card information, or PayPal account email address.We may also collect your passport, visa, and health information.
- Commercial information such as your transaction histories, billing and shipping information, and product preferences.
- Electronic network activity information such as the internet protocol (IP) address collected from your computers and mobile devices, and information about what you do online, including your interactions with our Site, through the use of cookies and similar technologies, system logs, and analytics monitoring.
- Inferences we make about you or your interests based on analysis of other information we have collected.
- Geolocation information.
- Audio or video information such as call center recordings or monitoring records from our customer support centers and security video recordings at our facilities.
- Other types of personal information that we may disclose to you prior to the point of first collection.
Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Information
NTA America collects Personal Information in order to operate and grow our business, improve our Site, and to offer our or third-party products or services that we think you may find of interest. More specifically, we collect personal information for the following business purposes:
- Provide the Services and information you have requested from us and notices about the Services including providing customer and technical support for the Services and collecting fees or other amounts owed in connection with the Services.
- Verify that you qualify as a registered user of the Services.
- Provide information to you about our products or services and third-party products and services that we think may be of interest to you.
- Provide you with marketing communication and information.
- Analyze, improve, and customize the Services including measuring the effectiveness of advertising and internal research on users’ interests and behaviors to better serve our users.
- Administer the website, web platform and Services and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, security, statistical and survey purposes.
- For legal and compliance reasons, such as the prevention, detection, or investigation of a crime; loss prevention; or fraud.
- Internal and external audit requirements, information-security purposes, and as we otherwise believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, which may include laws outside your country of residence; (b) to respond to requests from courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, and other public and government authorities, which may include such authorities outside your country of residence; (c) to enforce our terms and conditions or other agreements; and (d) to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, or those of other persons.
Information shared for a business purpose
During the past 12 months we have disclosed the following categories of Personal Information to the following types of third parties for a business purpose.
- Our affiliated companies: We may have shared your information such as identifiers, commercial information, and inferences within our company and our affiliated companies for the purposes of decision making, reporting, management, analysis, administering programs, promoting service offerings and other business purposes.
- Service providers: We may have shared your information such as identifiers, commercial information and financial information with our service providers who provide us support services such as hosting our Site, processing payments, legal and accounting professional services, postal delivery and electronic mail, mobile messages, product delivery, conducting analysis to improve our products and Site, fulfilling requests you make, managing payments and answering your questions. Service providers only use the information they receive from us for the purposes we hired them for; we don’t allow them to retain, use or otherwise handle the data for their own purposes.
- Marketing Partners: We may have shared your information such as electronic network activity, identifiers, commercial information and inferences with marketing partners to display online, mobile or other advertising based on your activity on websites and mobile apps, and preferences you share with us so we can provide you with promotions and special offers that may interest you. We may also share information with marketing partners to help us analyze data, sometimes combined with other sources, so that we can send more relevant communications to you.
- With Third Parties, including governmental authorities and law enforcement, for legal or compliance purposes: We may share any or all categories of your information where we believe the disclosure is required by law or otherwise necessary to comply with the law, regulatory requirements, requests from public authorities, or to enforce our agreements or policies or protect or defend the rights and property of our customers, the company, our partners or the public (including for fraud prevention purposes). Third Party Travel Partners: We may have disclosed any or all categories of your information in order to provide our Services to the following business entities such as: travel partners, such as airlines, rail companies, tour operators, hotel accommodation, restaurants, transportation companies, and payment processors, providers, shipping partners, marketing partners, ecommerce website partners. The purposes of use are: travel, meal arrangements, event arrangements, insurance arrangements and to respond to requirements.
Selling Personal Information
We do not sell your information for monetary or any other valuable consideration.
Your CCPA Rights
Verified California residents have the right to:
- Request and receive disclosure of our personal information collection practices during the prior 12 months, including the categories of personal information we collect, the categories of sources of such information, our business purpose for collecting or sharing such information, and the categories of third parties with whom we share such information.
- Request and receive a copy of the personal information we have collected about them during the prior 12 months.
- Request and receive disclosure of our information sharing practices during the prior 12 months, including a list of the categories of personal information sold with the category of third-party recipients and a list of the categories of personal information that we disclosed for a business purpose.
- Request that we not sell personal information about them and
- Request that we delete (and direct our service providers to delete) their personal information subject to certain exceptions.
In order to make a request for disclosure California residents may contact us either by calling (800) 817-7157 or emailing us at privacy@ntaamerica.com. We will ask you for information that allows us to reasonably verify your identity (that you are the person about whom we collected personal information) and will use that information only for that purpose. We may request that you submit a signed statement under penalty of perjury that you are the individual you claim to be. We will acknowledge receipt of your request within 10 days and will endeavor to respond within forty-five days of receipt of your request, but if we require more time (up to an additional forty-five days) we will notify you of our need for additional time. Please understand that we cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity and confirm that the personal information relates to you.
For requests for a copy of the personal information we have collected during the 12 months prior to your request we will endeavor to provide the information in a format that is readily usable, including by mailing you a paper copy or providing an electronic copy to your registered account, if you have registered an account with us.
For requests for deletion of your information please understand that California law permits us to retain certain information and not to delete it under certain circumstances. By way of example, we are not required to comply with a request to delete information if the information is necessary for us to complete a transaction for you or otherwise perform a contract; to detect, protect against, or prosecute security incidents, fraud or illegal activity; to use the information only internally in ways reasonably aligned with your expectations as our customer (such as maintaining sales records), and to comply with legal obligations. If we receive such a request from you, we will notify any service providers we have engaged to delete your information as well.
We will not discriminate against you as a result of your exercise of any of these rights.
Using an Authorized Agent. You may submit a request through someone holding a formal Power of Attorney. Otherwise, you may submit a request using an authorized agent only if (1) the person is registered with the Secretary of State to do business in California, (2) you provide the authorized agent with signed written permission to make a request, (3) you verify directly with us that you have authorize the person to make the request on your behalf, (4) you verify your own identity directly with us and (5) your agent provides us with proof that they are so authorized. We will require the agent to submit proof to us that they have been authorized to make requests on your behalf.
Contacting Us
If you have questions or concerns about your CCPA rights please contact us by phone at calling (800) 817-7157 or emailing us at privacy@ntaamerica.com or by postal mail at Nippon Travel Agency, Inc., 1411 West 190th Street, Suite 650, Gardena, CA 90248.