Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors to our websites.
This Privacy Policy describes how Descente Japan Ltd. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (together, “DESCENTE,“ “us,“ “we,“ “our“) collect, use and share information about you. This policy applies to information we collect when you use descente-international.com (the “Site”) or otherwise interact with us as described below. In collecting this information, we are acting as a data controller and, by law, we are required to provide you with information about us, about why and how we use your data, and about the rights you have over your data. By using the Site, you acknowledge that you have read the terms of this Privacy Policy.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time without prior notice, so we encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you interact with us or each time you give us personal information or use our websites to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. This Privacy Policy was last updated on Sep 1st 2024.

WHO WE ARE

The legal names of our primary operating companies are Descente Japan Ltd.. The registered office of Descente Japan Ltd. is located at 1-4-8 Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8580 JAPAN.

We have subcontracted the operation of certain aspects to Lingble Pte. Ltd. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Lingble”), including hosting and customer care. The registered office of Lingble Pte. Ltd. is 1 Raffles Place, #20-01, One Raffles Place, Singapore 048616.

You can contact us by post at the above addresses, by email at descente-contact@lingble.com.



HOW WE COLLECT AND USE INFORMATION

We limit our collection of personal information to information relevant to the purposes described in the "How We Use Your Information" section below.
Providing your personal information to us is voluntary, however, if you do not provide some or all of the information we request, we may not be able to provide you with certain products, services or information. All the personal information we collect is necessary to fulfill a legitimate interest or otherwise collected with your express consent, which you have the right to withdraw at any time.

When you use the Site

When you use the Site to browse products or services offered, use our services and view the information we make available, a number of cookies are used by us and by third parties to allow the website to function, to collect useful information about visitors and to help to make your user experience better.

For more information about our use of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.

When you submit an enquiry via the Site

When you submit an enquiry via the Site, email, phone or otherwise, we may ask you for information that will allow us to respond to your query, or otherwise resolve the problem you may have. Information we ask for will be solely that which is relevant to your enquiry, and may include, among other things, your name, contact telephone number, sizing information and email address.

We use this information to respond to your query, including providing you with any requested information about the products and services in the Site. We may also ask you for additional information that may be required in order to resolve the matter for which you contacted us, including asking for measurements of clothing in order to advise on sizing. We may email or contact you several times after your enquiry in order to follow up on your interest and ensure that we have resolved any issues to your satisfaction. We will do this based on our legitimate interest in providing accurate information and customer support in relation to our services and products.

Your enquiry is stored and processed through a third-party Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software provider that ensures that we do not miss any messages from you and that we follow through on your enquiries until they are resolved.

We do not use the information you provide in these enquiries to make any automated decisions that might affect you.

We keep enquiry emails for two years, after which they are securely archived and kept for seven years, when we delete them. CRM records are kept for three years after the last contact with you.

When you sign up for our newsletter

When you sign up for our newsletter we collect your email address and receive consent for us to send you direct marketing and information that we think customers and visitors of the Site may be interested in.

Information may include announcements of special promotions and sales, new products, services or brands and new blog posts, among others.

Your email address is necessary in order to deliver these communications to you. Your email address is shared with a third-party email marketing software provider, which allows us to prepare visually appealing communications and email automations depending on your behavior on the site (for example, we may send you a reminder email to visit the Site when you haven’t visited the Site for a certain period of time).

You may withdraw your consent to receive the newsletter or other emails at any time by clicking Unsubscribe at the bottom of any of our emails. Please allow approximately 10 business days for any opt-out requests to be processed.

Please note that even if you opt out of receiving promotional communications, we may continue to send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.

When you consent to receiving marketing materials from us

Depending on the applicable legislation, we may send you information about our products and services that we feel may interest you, (i) if you have indicated your consent to receiving marketing material from us, including but not limited to, newsletters, information on products, services, promotions and invitations to events, or (ii) considering our business legitimate interest to send you offers for products or services similar to the ones you enquired from our website. We may provide the marketing materials via [traditional mail, e-mail, telephone, text, WhatsApp, WeChat, SMS and MMS messaging] (as applicable), including but not limited to, newsletters, information on products, services, promotions and invitations to events. You can, at any time, indicate the preferred method of contact among those listed above and you may withdraw consent or object to receiving promotional communications through all or only some of the methods of contact mentioned above, on the occasion of each communication by clicking “Unsubscribe” at the bottom of any of our communications or by contacting us any time at descente-contact@lingble.com. Your refusal to provide consent to receiving marketing material from us, where needed, will not influence the business relationship between you and us and will not have a negative impact on you.


Information We Collect Automatically

We automatically collect, and use third parties to collect and share with us, certain information about you when you access or use our websites, including:

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  • Log and Clickstream Information: We collect information about your use of our websites, such as the type of browser you use, access times, pages viewed, your IP address (and its country of origin) and the referring link through which you accessed our websites.

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We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you interact with our websites or emails. For more information about our use of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.

We analyze this information to understand how you and others use our websites. This helps us improve the services we offer and better understand our visitors’ needs. We may also give anonymous statistics about visitors to other, reputable organizations, including our partners, but the information we provide will not include details that would allow these organizations to identify you.

Information We Collect and Other Sources

We may also obtain information about you from other sources and combine that with information we collect about you.

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  • Social Media Widgets – The Site includes social media features, such as the Facebook Like button, and widgets, such as the Share This button or interactive mini-programs that run on the Site. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on the Sites, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on the Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy statement of the companies that provide them.

  • Information From Third Party Services – We may also obtain other information, including personal information, from third parties and combine that with information we collect through the Site. For example, we may have access to certain information from a third party social media or authentication service if you log into our Services through such a service or otherwise provide us with access to information from the service. Any access that we may have to such information from a third party social media or authentication service is in accordance with the authorization procedures determined by that service. By authorizing us to connect with a third party service, you authorize us to access and store your name, email address(es), current city, profile picture URL, and other personal information that the third party service makes available to us, and to use and disclose it in accordance with this Policy. You should check your privacy settings on these third party services to understand and change the information sent to us through these services. For example, you can log in to the Services using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect, as further described below.

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HOW WE MAY SHARE INFORMATION

Personal information about our visitors is an important part of our business and it allows us to serve you better, but we are not in the business of selling information or data to others. We share visitor information only as described in this Privacy Policy and with our partners, subsidiaries and affiliates that either are subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Policy.

We may share information about you as follows:

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  • With vendors, agents, consultants, individuals, companies and other service providers that we employ and who need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf, on a strictly as-needed basis to fulfill legitimate business purposes and for internal operations, including identifying visitors to the Site, troubleshooting, and, in our legitimate interests, auditing the downloading of data, data analysis (demographic and sales data), testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;

  • With our contractors, agents and other third parties for purposes of sending direct mail/e-mail, with your consent;

  • If we believe information disclosure is appropriate to comply with any applicable law, regulation or legal process, or as otherwise required by any applicable law, rule or regulation, including to meet public safety, national security or law enforcement requirements;

  • If we believe information disclosure is appropriate or necessary to enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions and other agreements; or protect our rights, property, or safety, or those of our users or others, including to prevent fraud or cybercrime;

  • In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or transfer of all or a portion of our business to another company; and

  • With your consent or at your direction or as part of our contractual rights or obligations to you.

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We may also share aggregated or anonymized information with our agents, contractors, prospective partners, advertisers, sponsors and other reputable third parties or other relevant stakeholders for other lawful purposes, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

In the event that we undergo re-organisation or are sold to a third party, the personal information we hold about you may be transferred to that re-organised entity or third party.

We operate the Site and may share your information with our agents or contractors to, among other things, provide you with information on our products or services on the Site. Our contractors and agents are subject to this Privacy Policy or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Policy.

Our website may include links to other third-party sites. Those websites have their own privacy and cookie policies, and we urge you to read them. They control how your personal information is used when you give it to these other organizations or they collect it with cookies. We do not approve any other websites and we are not responsible for any information, material, products or services that are on or accessible through those websites or for the privacy practices of websites run by other organizations. If you use these other websites you do so at your own risk.

SAFEGUARDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We take reasonable measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.

STORAGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use, process and store personal information as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, or otherwise as needed to comply with applicable law and internal company policies. We use secure methods to destroy personal information when it is no longer needed, including use of reasonable technical and physical security measures to avoid unauthorized access to or use of the personal information after it is disposed of.

CHILDREN

We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13.

YOUR CHOICES AND RIGHT TO ERASURE

We take reasonable steps to ensure that personal data is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete and current. You may contact descente-contact@lingble.com if you wish to update, correct or delete your data.

California Do Not Track Disclosure

Do Not Track is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. When a user turns on the Do Not Track signal, the browser sends a message to websites requesting them not to track the user. At this time, we do not respond to Do Not Track browser settings or signals.

QUESTIONS

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or our collection or use of information and personal data, please don't hesitate to contact at descente-contact@lingble.com.



EFFECTIVE DATE

Sep 1st 2024