Website Analysis and Distribution of Advertising

1. Website analysis

Sony Bank's website gathers comprehensive website analytics using web beacons and cookies provided by marketing companies to measure the effectiveness of advertising on this website and how customers use this website. By doing so, Sony Bank is able to gain insights into the products our customers are interested in as well as the content they viewed, and use that information to improve this website and the products/services we offer.

The analysis we conduct mainly uses the following tools, but tool providers themselves also receive the information listed below which they may use for the purpose of distributing advertising to customers.

Adobe Analytics

Tool provider: Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe Privacy Policy (links to Adobe Systems Incorporated's website)

Information collected: Customer's website usage (access, traffic, routing, etc.)

Google Analytics

Tool provider: Google LLC

Google Analytics Terms of Service (links to Google LLC's website)

Google Privacy Policy (links to Google LLC's website)

Information collected: Customer's website usage (access, traffic, routing, etc.)

User Insight

Tool provider: User Local, Inc.

User Local Privacy Policy (links to User Local, Inc. 's website)

Information collected: Customer's website usage (access, traffic, routing, etc.)

KARTE

Tool provider: PLAID, Inc.

PLAID Privacy Policy (links to PLAID, Inc. 's website)

Information collected: Customer's website usage (access, traffic, routing, etc.)

Firebase

Tool provider: Google LLC

Firebase Terms of Service (links to Google LLC's website)

Firebase Privacy Policy (links to Google LLC's website)

Information collected: Customer's website usage (access, traffic, routing, etc.)

Adjust

Tool provider: Adjust Inc.

General Terms and Conditions for Adjust (links to Adjust GmbH's website)

Adjust Privacy Policy (links to Adjust GmbH's website)

Information collected: Customer's website usage (access, traffic, routing, etc.)

For details on how to stop the provision of information to related tools, please refer to section 3, "How to disable cookies and related technology."

2. Distribution of advertising

When customers use Sony Bank's service, advertising technology service providers send out third-party cookies. First-party cookies sent by Sony Bank are stored with third-party cookies sent out by advertising technology service providers on the server of each respective advertising technology service provider. The cookies are handled according to the Privacy Policy of each company. The stored data is used to deliver advertisements for our services that suit customers' preferences. For details on how to stop receiving behavior-based targeted advertising, please refer to 3. How to disable cookies and related technology.

3. How to disable cookies and related technology

(1) How to disable all cookies

Cookies remain on a customer's device until the customer deletes them or until they expire. Most browsers are set to automatically accept cookies by default, but customers can change their browser settings to disable cookies. However, by disabling cookies, you may not be able to use some website features, and some sections of the website may not be displayed correctly. For example, you may have trouble such as not being to sign in or access the website.

For information on commonly used browsers and how to change cookie settings, please refer to the URLs below.

(2) How to disable specific cookies

Details on how to stop providing information to the respective tools are outlined in the URLs listed below. However, please bear in mind that deleting all cookies may result in the use of products and services being restricted by companies.

Adobe Systems Incorporated

The above URL links to Adobe Systems Incorporated's website.

Google LLC

The above URL links to Google LLC's website.

User Local, Inc.

The above URL links to User Local, Inc.'s website.

PLAID, Inc.

The above URL links to PLAID, Inc. 's website.

Adjust Inc

The above URL links to Adjust GmbH's website.

With regards to behavior-based targeted advertising, the below advertising technology service provider URLs outline how to stop such advertising. However, please bear in mind that deleting all cookies may result in the use of products and services being restricted by companies. Further, of the advertising technology service providers below, if a customer is also a registered user of Facebook Japan, website browsing history will be managed in accordance with their registered information.

Google LLC, Google Network and Google Marketing Platform

The above URL links to Google LLC's website.

LY Corporation

The above URL links to LY Corporation's website.

Facebook Japan

The above URL links to Facebook Japan's website.

X

The above URL links to X's website.

The Trade Desk

The above URL links to The Trade Desk's website.

Supership Inc.

The above URL links to Supership Inc.'s website.

LinkedIn

The above URL links to LinkedIn's website.

GumGum

The above URL links to GumGum, INC's website.

ByteDance Ltd.

The above URL links to ByteDance Ltd.'s website.

Microsoft

The above URL links to Microsoft Corporation's website.

docomo Ad Network

The above URL links to D2C Inc.'s website.

FreakOut

FreakOut Privacy Policy and Opt-out

The above URL links to FreakOut, inc.'s website.

(3) How to disable beacons

If JavaScript tags are included, you cannot opt-out or disable web beacons as you can do with other content requests on websites. However, beacons in emails can generally be disabled by not downloading images contained in received emails, but this method is dependent on the email software functions and does not mean beacons can be disabled permanently. If you wish to block beacons, please unsubscribe from the given e-magazine itself.

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