Privacy Policy

We process your personal information for specific, legitimate purposes that support our educational mission and improve your experience:

• • Course Administration: To process course registrations, communicate schedules and updates, provide educational materials, and deliver the photography instruction you signed up for.
• • Communication: To respond to your inquiries, send course-related notifications, and provide customer support regarding our landscape photography programs.
• • Website Improvement: To analyze how visitors use our site, identify technical issues, optimize page layouts, and enhance overall user experience based on aggregated usage patterns.
• • Marketing Communications: With your consent, we may send information about new courses, photography workshops, and educational resources that might interest you. You can opt out of marketing communications at any time.
• • Legal Compliance: To fulfill legal obligations, enforce our terms of service, protect against fraudulent or illegal activity, and respond to lawful requests from authorities.

We process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:

• • Contractual Necessity: Processing is required to fulfill our contract with you when you register for courses or request our services.
• • Consent: You have given explicit permission for specific data processing activities, such as marketing communications or optional cookies.
• • Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for our legitimate business interests, such as improving our services, preventing fraud, and ensuring website security, provided these interests don't override your privacy rights.
• • Legal Obligation: Processing is required to comply with applicable laws and regulations.

We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We may share your data only in the following limited circumstances:

• • Service Providers: We work with trusted third-party service providers who help us operate our website, process payments, send emails, and analyze data. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and use it only for specified purposes.
• • Analytics Partners: We use analytics services to understand website usage and improve our services. These partners receive aggregated or anonymized data that cannot identify you personally.
• • Legal Requirements: We may disclose information if required by law, court order, or governmental request, or when necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of our users.
• • Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred to the acquiring entity, subject to the same privacy protections.

We retain your personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this policy or as required by law:

• • Contact Inquiries: Information from contact forms is typically retained for two years to allow us to respond to follow-up questions and maintain service records.
• • Course Records: Student enrollment and course completion data is maintained for five years for educational record-keeping purposes.
• • Marketing Data: If you consent to marketing communications, we retain your contact information until you withdraw consent or the data is no longer current.
• • Technical Logs: Website usage logs and technical data are typically retained for one year for security monitoring and service improvement.

When data is no longer needed, we securely delete or anonymize it. You may request earlier deletion of your data by contacting us, subject to any legal retention requirements.

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction:

• • Encryption: We use SSL/TLS encryption to protect data transmitted between your browser and our servers, ensuring secure communication.
• • Access Controls: Personal data is accessible only to authorized personnel who need it to perform their job functions, and all access is logged and monitored.
• • Secure Storage: Data is stored on secure servers with regular backups, protected by firewalls and intrusion detection systems.
• • Regular Updates: We keep our security systems and software up to date to protect against known vulnerabilities.
• • Incident Response: We have procedures in place to detect, respond to, and notify affected individuals of any data breaches in accordance with applicable law.

While we strive to protect your information, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee absolute security but are committed to maintaining industry-standard protections.

You have important rights regarding your personal information. Depending on your location, these may include:

• • Right to Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you, including information about how it's being processed.
• • Right to Rectification: You can ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information we maintain about you.
• • Right to Erasure: You can request deletion of your personal data when it's no longer necessary for the purposes it was collected, subject to legal retention requirements.
• • Right to Data Portability: You can receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used format and transmit it to another service provider.
• • Right to Object: You can object to processing of your personal data for direct marketing or when processing is based on legitimate interests.
• • Right to Restrict Processing: You can request limitation of how we use your data under certain circumstances.
• • Right to Withdraw Consent: Where processing is based on consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided at the top of this page. We will respond to your request within one month in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Our website may contain links to external websites operated by third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these external sites. When you leave our website, we encourage you to review the privacy policy of any site you visit.

This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by Horizonlens through our official website and services.

Our services are not directed to individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe we have inadvertently collected information from a child, please contact us immediately so we can delete it.

Parents or guardians who wish to enroll minors in our photography courses should contact us directly to discuss appropriate arrangements and consent requirements.

Our primary operations are based in Japan. If you access our services from outside Japan, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in Japan where our servers are located.

When we transfer data internationally, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws.

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. When we make material changes, we will notify you by updating the date below and may provide additional notice through our website or via email.

We encourage you to review this policy regularly to stay informed about how we protect your information. Continued use of our services after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

Last updated: November 28, 2025