Eastern Light News Agency - Illuminating the World with Truth

Eastern Light News Agency ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our site, use this service, or otherwise interact with us. We are located at 2-1-1 Marunouchi, Suite 1201, Tokyo, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan.

Information We Collect

We collect information in several ways, including:

Information You Provide to Us: This includes information you provide when you contact us, subscribe to newsletters, submit content, or otherwise interact with our online platform. This information may include your name, contact information, professional details (like job title and company), and any other information you choose to share.

Automatically Collected Information: When you visit our site, we automatically collect certain information about your device and browsing activity, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and the dates/times of your visits. We may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect this information.

Information from Third Parties: We may receive information about you from third-party sources, such as social media platforms (when you interact with our content on those platforms), data analytics providers, and other publicly available sources.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

Providing and improving our services: To deliver news updates, investigative reporting, global coverage, multimedia content, and press release distribution services. To personalize your experience on our site and to improve the functionality and content of our online platform.

Communicating with you: To respond to your inquiries, provide customer support, send you newsletters and other updates, and communicate with you about our services.

Marketing and advertising: To send you promotional materials and offers, to display targeted advertising on our site and other platforms, and to analyze the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

Analyzing and understanding our audience: To analyze trends, track usage patterns, and gather demographic information about our audience.

Protecting our rights and interests: To protect the security and integrity of our site and services, to prevent fraud, to enforce our terms of service, and to comply with legal requirements.

Data Sharing and Disclosure

We may share your information with the following categories of recipients:

Service providers: We share information with third-party service providers who help us operate our business, such as web hosting providers, data analytics providers, email marketing providers, and payment processors.

Business partners: We may share information with business partners who offer complementary products or services.

Affiliates: We may share information with our affiliates for business purposes.

Legal authorities: We may disclose information to legal authorities if required to do so by law or legal process.

Other third parties: We may share information with other third parties with your consent or as otherwise permitted by law.

Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. These measures include implementing physical, technical, and administrative safeguards. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure.

International Data Transfers

As Eastern Light News Agency is based in Japan, your information may be transferred to and processed in Japan. Japan may have data protection laws that are different from those of your country. By using our services, you consent to the transfer of your information to Japan. We will take steps to ensure that your information is protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Your Rights

You have certain rights regarding your personal information, including the right to:

Access your information: You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.

Correct your information: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you.

Delete your information: You have the right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.

Object to processing: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Restrict processing: You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Data portability: You have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that data to another controller.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at 2-1-1 Marunouchi, Suite 1201, Tokyo, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan.

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activity on our site. You can control cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling cookies may affect your ability to use certain features of our site.

Third-Party Links

Our site may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes on our site and update the date at the top of this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of our site after any changes to this Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at 2-1-1 Marunouchi, Suite 1201, Tokyo, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan.