Kinoshita Productions Privacy Policy

Kinoshita Productions (hereinafter “we”, “us” or “our”) acknowledges that your privacy is first when using any service. As so, we effort to protect any personal information we may receive during your interaction with Kinoshita Productions website, Booru Nav or any other service we may provide (hereinafter “our services”).

1. Basic account

Not all our services functions require you to use an account. However, some of them do require an account to work or we need you to use one for fair and right use purposes.

By creating an account, we may receive information which will be publicly available, specifically, a user name (e.g. John Doe), and a profile picture.

We will also receive your date of birth and age, which will not be public unless desired.

Finally, we also require your email address and account password which will serve as your personal identification credentials, and will not be public.

Optionally (if you decide to input it), we may receive your country, used platforms account names (user names, email addresses), as well other data which may be specifically requested for a function of our services (such as mood, HP, MP, stamina, etc.).

This information builds your basic user profile to interact with us or to interact with any other user, and it's public.

We may use this information to:

  • Communicate with you if required.
  • Send you notifications (about content tracked, account status, etc.).
  • Identify you if required for troubleshooting or moderation purposes.
  • Enable access to our services (platform-depending or not).
  • Grant you additional/free benefits during your birthday.
  • Provide appropriate content filtering for your age.
  • Grant you a basic profile about “who are you, your mood, etc.” for interaction with other users.
  • Enable parental control (and related functions).
  • Limit usage if we believe you're abusing of the service.
  • Block your access to our services if it is required.
2. Public information

By using your account to interact with other users (through messages, content linking, content sharing, parental control, or any other implicit user interaction means) or to submit feedback (comments, likes, favorites, reviews, or reports), the information published through any of those actions is your own responsibility.

We may use this information to:

  • Enable communication between users.
  • Allow content linking or content sharing between other users.
  • Enable parental control features.
  • Show comments related to a content.
  • Show likes related to a content.
  • Show favorites related to a content.
  • Show reviews related to a content.
  • Handle content and user reports.

This information may be visible to everyone, linked to your account.

Furthermore, we may process this information into anonymous data to:

  • Provide content suggestions.
  • Perform content moderation.
  • Create public/private statistic reports to improve our services/moderation.
  • Detect and handle malicious threats (DDOS attacks, hacking attempts, etc.).

We hold no responsibility on the personal information inputted, submitted or disclosed through our services or any other means.

3. Private information

During the interaction with our services, we do require and receive information such as your IP address, country (through IP address geolocation), device identifier, app version, platform, platform version, platform acount and basic account for our services.

By creating an account, we do receive your email address and account password.

Optionally (if you decide to input it), we may also receive your account names for different platforms where you use our services (account name, email address, identifier, etc.).

We may use this information to:

  • Grant you access to our services.
  • Send the data required by our services (news, server responses, etc.).
  • Enable specific content filtering per country.
  • Provide matching news to our service/platform.
  • Provide matching content filtering for our service/platform.
  • Enable features specific to your country/our service/platform.
  • Keeping your account secure (account usage from an unexpected country/IP).
  • Detect and handle malicious threats (DDOS attacks, hacking attempts, etc.).
  • Moderate the use of our services (ban users, ban content, block users, etc.).

We may also process anonymously/unrelatedly this information to:

  • Create public or private statistical reports about our services usage in different countries.
  • Improve or optimize our services (e.g. connecting to a end-point closer to you).

During the interaction with our services we may also receive directly or indirectly information about the interactions with them (content seen, content liked, content searched, content favorited, content tracked, content blacklisted, content reported, tag suggestions requests, content shared, settings), together the earlier mentioned data (IP address, etc.).

During the interaction with content through our services, we may receive your basic account data, your public information, the data related to the content and the interaction, as well as reasons in the case of reports.

We will link these interactions to your account, in order to reflect the interaction result.

We may use this information to:

  • Detect, flag or skip old/new content.
  • Acquire search results.
  • Keep a search history.
  • Improve content suggestions for other users who like the same content.
  • Identify your interactions with our service (to avoid duplicating likes/favorites, to find your favorites, etc.).
  • Suggest popular content.
  • Suggest content you might like.
  • Suggest content friendly users liked (and they allowed you access to know they liked it).
  • Optimize searches (caching or processing data or most/less browsed content for improving our services)..
  • Detect trendings.
  • Build a library of your likes/favorites.
  • Share your likes/favorites with other users you allow access to.
  • Track and notify about tracked content.
  • Block most disliked/blacklisted content unless explicitly desired to see all.
  • Moderate content (ban reported content, block reported content, or the user if abuse).
  • Suggest tags or content.
  • Prioritize to keep quality of service (if a user spams reports, or causes any kind of trouble, we can block this user or prioritize other users).
  • Process into anonymous data to create reports about our services usage in different categories (trendings per country, blacklists per country, etc.).
  • Create a share link with an improved format (identifying elements from tags, adding the source site using the data stored in your settings, etc.).
  • Allow you to backup and manage your settings in our services so you can restore them in the same or in a different device.
  • Provide a matching behaviour of our services given your settings.

If required implicitly by a feature/function/operation, this information may be visible through our services to:

  • Users you decide to share this information with.
  • Moderators (through a report containing a reference to the relevant interaction data or during threat investigation).
  • Our developers (to troubleshoot, to perform manual operations to provide a service you should receive, etc.).

This information may be processed and displayed anonymously/statistically if required by a feature (e.g. number of favorites for a user, number of favorites by an user, activity timelines per content/user, etc.).

If a functionality we offer does implicitly or explicitly require using this private information to operate, we may use only use the information you own or information you have been granted access to.

4. Information shared to third parties

We will not share any of our users information with any third party user/organization, if it's not implicitly required for one of our services functionalities (such as adding a third party content provider, API Keys, basic auth credentials, tags suggestions/information requests, etc.).

In the aforementioned case, only the information of the user who uses the third party service will be shared (however, only the information required to use the specified service properly will be shared, information related to your basic account unrelated to the third party service will not be shared unless prompted and consented).

If you decide to use a third party service in combination with our services, please read the respective privacy policy of the third party services you combine with our services, as we are not responsible of the data sent to them by using our services.

5. Disclosure of private information

Private information will be not disclosed, unless:

  • Required to comply with a regulation.
  • Required to protect our users life, health or mental health.
  • Required to improve the children education, general populace education or the well-being of the general populace in the present or future.

In any of those cases, private information may be processed to disclose it anonymously, unless it's required to achieve any of the previous goals.

6. Disclaimer

We do not assume responsibility of any of the personal information stored in our services, or published through them, or any other means.

If you desire to delete all the stored information regarding your basic account, you can start this process at the following URL: https://www.kinoshitaproductions.com/user/delete-account.

7. Inquiries

You may submit a request to support@kinoshitaproductions.com to inquire about details regarding this policy.

You may also submit a request of your own data stored in our services (which will be provided in JSON format). We will need your basic account email address to provide this data (else, we will not be able to locate it or ensure it's yours).

However we also may need a inestimable amount of time to process such requests properly. We also may reject a request if we can't ensure the data is really yours, or if we believe it's a malicious request.

If you have any doubt about what, how, when, and for what purposes we may store specific private information, please send an email message to the aforementioned email address.

8. Changes to this privacy policy

We may change a part or all of our privacy policy without notice. We will announce a revision through our services.