External Transmission of User Information
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This is an English translation of our Japanese page on external transmission of user information, provided for convenience. If there is any inconsistency, the Japanese version prevails. Read the Japanese version
Key points of this page
On motitown.com (including the MotiTan Dictionary), when you open a page or press a button, information may be sent from your device (smartphone or computer) to companies other than us. Pursuant to the law (Article 27-12 of the Telecommunications Business Act of Japan), we inform you of the information sent, where it is sent, how it is used, and how to stop the transmission.
- We use Google Analytics to understand how the site is used. We never send your name or email address.
- Information is sent to Adjust and others, to measure the effectiveness of our promotions, only when you press a button promoting the MotiTan or MotiSpi app.
- In addition, there are communications for displaying fonts, audio and illustrations, for login, and for preventing unauthorized access.
- In desktop browsers, you can stop transmission to Google Analytics.
List of recipients
| Recipient | Purpose | When it is sent |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics Google LLC (United States) | To understand how the site is used | When you open a page or take actions on a page |
| Adjust Adjust GmbH (Germany) | To measure the effectiveness of app promotions | When you press an app promotion button |
| Short.io Short.cm Inc. (United States) | To connect app promotion links to Adjust | When you press an app promotion button on the introduction pages and similar pages |
| Recipients for display, login and security Google LLC, Microsoft, Cloudflare, etc. | Displaying fonts, audio and illustrations, login, and preventing unauthorized access | As shown in the table below |
Google Analytics
| Recipient | Google LLC (United States) |
|---|---|
| Pages where it is used | Almost all pages of motitown.com. It is also used on the login and My Page pages (/account/) to learn at which step of the login process people get stuck (account names, email addresses and IDs are not sent). It is not used on the paid plan application pages (/account/plans/) or the contact and report pages (/contact/). |
| Information sent |
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| Our use | To learn which pages are read often and which parts are hard to use, and improve the site. To learn how often app promotions are seen and pressed. |
| Use by the recipient | For how Google uses the information it receives, please see Google's page “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services”. |
| How to stop the transmission |
In desktop browsers, you can stop the transmission by installing the “Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on” provided by Google. If you delete cookies in your browser settings, the identifier used until then will no longer be used. |
What we send as actions on the page
| Where | What is sent |
|---|---|
| Menu at the top of the dictionary | Opening the menu or search box, the name and destination of the item pressed, and the language of the dictionary currently being viewed |
| Wordbook filter box on the dictionary's top page | The words entered (words partway through being typed are also sent) |
| Search boxes for articles, grammar and guides | The words searched (when a search is run) |
| Articles | Pressing a link within an article (such as “Read next”) and its destination |
| Read-aloud buttons for English sentences in articles | Pressing the button, and the length (number of characters) of the sentence read aloud |
| Quizzes on word pages and wordbook pages | Starting and finishing, the word or wordbook, and the number of correct answers and questions |
| Wordbook pages | Adding or removing a “learned” mark, switching the display, and starting autoplay |
| Vocabulary tests | Checking answers, the wordbook, and the number of correct answers and questions |
| Game (Adventure) | Starting, clearing and quitting partway; clearing an entire wordbook; the language and wordbook (name and number); the quest number and level; the play mode; accuracy rate, seconds taken, number of stars and number cleared; how far you had progressed when you quit; the filter selected; pressing a login button (Google or Apple); and where you pressed an app promotion button |
| Game top page | The language selected |
| Vocabulary diagnosis | Starting; the result (number answered, number correct, accuracy rate and level determined); the language and course selected; where you came from (menu, word page, article, etc.); the share button (where and how you shared); and where you pressed an app promotion button and which app |
| Login and My Page (/account/) | Opening the page; where you came from (the promotion after a video ad, the dictionary, the game, etc.); device type (iPhone/iPad, Android, or computer); pressing a login button (Google or Apple); whether login succeeded or failed and the type of reason (not connected to the app, the login screen was closed, etc.); your answer to “Do you use the app?”; pressing the button to open the app or an app promotion button, and which app; and displaying a QR code. Account names, email addresses and IDs are not sent |
| Video ads (short videos of our own apps and the promotion that follows) | Showing an ad; what triggered it (pressing a link, or the screen being displayed for a while) and the number of pages viewed up to then; which video (video number, app and language); the language of the page being viewed; the time until the video started and whether sound was playing; watching to the end or closing partway; which promotion was shown; pressing a promotion button (install the app / log in); how it was closed; whether the device is a computer; and whether login was completed |
| App promotions (QR codes on computers, and “Speak” for the conversation app MotiSpi) | Showing and closing a QR code and the marker of the button pressed (which part of which page); pressing “Speak”, pressing the MotiSpi button and closing; the language of the example sentence; and the device type (smartphone or computer) |
| Entry points to the vocabulary diagnosis (articles, word pages, tests, etc.) | The entry point being displayed, being pressed, and the type of location where it was placed |
Please do not enter anything that could identify you or others, such as names, email addresses or phone numbers, in search boxes or filter boxes.
Adjust (measuring the effectiveness of app promotions)
| Recipient | Adjust GmbH (Germany) |
|---|---|
| When it is sent | Only when you press a button or link promoting the MotiTan or MotiSpi app. When pressed, you are taken to the app store page via Adjust. |
| Information sent |
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| Our use | To measure which pages' promotions led to the app being installed, and to improve the placement and content of promotions. For people who install and start using an app, we aggregate this together with the records within the app (information within the apps is handled as set out in the apps' privacy policies). |
| Use by the recipient | Adjust handles this information for the measurement we have asked it to perform. For details, please see Adjust's privacy policy. |
| How to stop the transmission |
Nothing is sent unless you press an app promotion button. You can also find and install the apps directly in the app store. If you want to stop measurement after installing an app, you can do so from Adjust's “Forget Device” page. Your device's advertising identifier is required. |
Short.io (short links for app promotions)
| Recipient | Short.io, a short link service provided by Short.cm Inc. (United States) |
|---|---|
| When it is sent | When you press an app promotion button on the MotiTan and MotiSpi introduction pages, the news pages, the developer blog and similar pages (links beginning with “motitan.astran.jp”). When pressed, you are taken to the app store page via Short.io and Adjust. |
| Information sent | The link pressed, IP address, device, OS and browser type, date and time, and which site you came from |
| Our use | To connect the short link to Adjust's measurement link. Short.io records the number of times the link was pressed and similar data. |
| Use by the recipient | Please see Short.io's privacy policy. |
| How to stop the transmission | Nothing is sent unless you press an app promotion button. |
Communications for display, login and security
The following communications are necessary to display pages correctly, log in, and prevent unauthorized access. We use these communications only for display, login and security.
Scroll the table sideways to read it.
| Purpose | Recipient (country) | Main information sent | When it is sent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Displaying text (Japanese fonts) | Google Fonts by Google LLC (United States) | IP address, browser type, and the site being displayed (motitown.com) | When you open many pages of the dictionary and MotiTown |
| Loading programs that run the page | Outside program delivery services (code.jquery.com, cdn.jsdelivr.net) | IP address, browser type, and the site being displayed (motitown.com) | When you open some pages, such as the multilingual dictionaries, phrases and example sentence collections |
| Playing audio and displaying word illustrations | Microsoft Azure by Microsoft Corporation (United States) | IP address, browser type, and the file names of the audio and images loaded (which reveal which sentence or word they are for) | When you press an audio button, or open a page with illustrations |
| Logging in | Firebase Authentication by Google LLC (United States); Google (Google LLC) or Apple (Apple Inc., United States), used to log in | IP address and browser type. While logged in, information to check that the login is still active (such as a login identifier). When logging in, the information you enter on Google's or Apple's screen | When you open pages with a login button in the header (the MotiTown top page, the MotiTan and MotiSpi introduction pages, news, careers, contact and reports, etc.) and the game (Adventure) and game top pages. Even if you are not logged in, communication takes place to load the login mechanism |
| Delivering the site and preventing unauthorized access | Cloudflare, Inc. (United States) | IP address, browser type, the URL of the page viewed, and browser information used to tell whether the visitor is a bot (the result may be stored in a cookie) | All pages |
| Delivering the videos and images for video ads | Cloudflare R2 by Cloudflare, Inc. (United States) (media.motitown.com) | IP address, browser type, the file names of the videos and images loaded (which reveal which video it is), and the site being displayed (motitown.com) | When a video ad is shown in the dictionary (not shown to people who are logged in) |
- Sentences without an audio file are read aloud using your device's text-to-speech feature. Depending on the browser, the sentence being read may be sent to the browser's provider.
- When you apply for a paid web plan, you are taken to Stripe's payment screen. Information entered on the payment screen is received directly by Stripe. The conditions of paid plans are shown on the application screen and in the Paid Plan Terms of Use (in Japanese).
- Once you follow a link to an app store, social media or similar service, your information is handled according to that company's rules.
Scope of this page and other documents
- This page covers the motitown.com website (the MotiTan Dictionary, the MotiTan and MotiSpi introduction pages, news, the developer blog, etc.).
- How the information we receive on our server (the content of contacts and reports, account information when you log in, game records, etc.) is handled is described in the Privacy Policy.
- How information is handled inside the MotiTan and MotiSpi apps is described in each app's privacy policy (MotiTan / MotiSpi).
Changes and contact
When we change the recipients or the information sent, we will update this page and its revision date.
- Operator: Astran, Inc. (https://astran.jp/)
- Address: 2-7-4 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Contact: contact form (https://motitown.com/contact/)