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Privacy Policy

init Inc. ("we", "us") handles personal information collected through AI BEST SEARCH (the "Service") in accordance with Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information and other applicable laws, as described below.

Effective date: 2026.11.03

1. Who we are

  • Company: init Inc.
  • Representative: Dai Aoki, President & CEO
  • Address: 1-2-4 Shiomidai, Isogo-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 235-0022, Japan

2. Information we collect

To operate the Service, we collect the following personal information.

  • Information you enter in our forms for inquiries, listing requests, document requests, and consultations (name, company, email address, phone number, company size, details of your request, etc.)
  • Information you share with us by email (name, company, department, job title, email address, contact details in your signature, and the content of our correspondence)
  • Contact details that providers of the services we list make public on their official websites (company name, department, contact person, email address, etc.)
  • If you sign in with a Google account, the information we receive from Google (name, email address, profile image) and the services you bookmark

3. How we use it

We use personal information only for the purposes below. If we need to use it for any other purpose, we will ask for your consent first.

  • Responding to your inquiries, requests, and consultations, and contacting you about them
  • Communicating about listings (notifying you of a listing and corresponding about checking, correcting, or removing listing content)
  • Telling providers of listed services about the Service's paid options (top placement in comparison articles, feature articles, etc.) and our media kit
  • Sending documents you requested and telling you about our services related to your consultation
  • Providing sign-in and bookmarks
  • Analyzing and improving how the Service is used

4. Disclosure to third parties

We do not disclose personal information to third parties without your consent, except where permitted under the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, such as when required by law.

5. Service providers

We may entrust the handling of personal information to outside service providers to the extent needed for the purposes above. For the Service, we use cloud services for website delivery and data storage, email, internal communication, analytics, and assistance in handling inquiries (including generative AI), some of which are provided by companies in the United States. We require these providers to handle personal information appropriately and supervise them as necessary.

6. Stopping our messages

If you no longer wish to receive our messages about paid options or our media kit, reply to the email you received saying so, or let us know through the contact form. We will not send you such messages again.

7. Security

To prevent unauthorized access, loss, or leakage of personal information, we take necessary and appropriate security measures, such as limiting who handles it and what they can access, and managing access rights to the services we use.

8. Your requests

If you ask us to notify you of the purpose of use of, disclose, correct, add to, delete, stop using, erase, or stop disclosing to third parties the personal data we hold about you, or to disclose records of third-party disclosure, we will respond without delay in accordance with the law after confirming your identity. Please contact us as described below.

9. Cookies and analytics

The Service uses Google Analytics, provided by Google LLC, to understand how the Service is used. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect access information such as the pages you view and your browsing environment. The data collected is managed under Google's policies.

You can stop this collection by disabling cookies in your browser or by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. We also use cookies to keep you signed in, so sign-in will not work if cookies are disabled.

10. Contact

For questions or requests about how we handle personal information, please use the contact form. You can also reply to any email we have sent you.

Contact: AI BEST SEARCH Editorial Team, init Inc.

11. Changes to this policy

We may revise this policy to reflect changes in law or in how we operate. The revised policy takes effect when it is posted on this page.