PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEB SITE OR ANY SPE FORUM.

This site is owned and operated by Animax Asia, a Sony Pictures Entertainment ("SPE") Company. This Privacy Statement is applicable to all ANIMAX and SPE Web sites and other sites on the Internet and World Wide Web owned and operated by SPE (the "SPE Sites"), and all services provided thereon, including all SPE Forums (collectively, unless noted otherwise, the "Services").

SPE respects the privacy concerns of all users of the Services. SPE also recognizes the valuable potential of technology to help people communicate with the companies whose Web sites they visit, particularly through customer databases. Responsible use of the information you share with SPE is paramount. In order to help you understand how the information you provide SPE will be used, the following guidelines have been created.


Personally Identifiable Information:
In order to use certain portions of the Services (i.e., SPE Forums), you may be required to register and create an account with SPE ("SPE Account"). There is no cost to create a SPE Account but you will be asked to choose a member name (please select a name other than your real name; also, please do not select the name of a real person), password, and provide certain personal information about yourself, such as your real name, age, address, telephone number, occupation and e-mail address. If you do provide SPE with personally identifiable information, we will take all reasonable and appropriate steps to protect this information. SPE will not disclose, share, sell or rent personally identifiable information to any third party without your prior consent.

Please note that your member name will be available to other members of the SPE community while you participate in certain SPE Forums. At your discretion, you may also choose to create a public profile for yourself, which will be available to the public (other members of the SPE community). Public profiles are managed entirely by you and you are solely responsible for the profile's content and its "public" or "private" status on the SPE Sites. You may access, edit or delete your public profile by signing in to your account and clicking on "My Public Info" or otherwise stated.

Other than registration information, you may be asked to provide certain personal information in connection with your use of or participation in certain promotions such as entering sweepstakes, contests, surveys, newsletters, etc, ("Special Promotions"). In these instances, you will be informed of the intended use(s) of the requested information.


Rules for Children (Under Age 21)
If you are under 21, you should ask your parents or a guardian before you:

Non-Personally Identifiable Information:
As part of the registration process to create an SPE Account or to participate in a Special Promotion, you may be asked to provide certain information about yourself, which does not personally identify you. For example, you may be asked to provide information concerning your music or other entertainment preferences, purchasing habits, and the like. SPE requests this information in order to enhance your online experience by understanding you better and to also make you aware of new services, programs or offers in which you may be interested.

In general, you can use the Services (except SPE Forums) while remaining anonymous. However, in some cases, SPE may still be able to collect certain non-personally identifiable information about your use of the Services. For example, SPE might collect information concerning the type of Internet browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using, the domain name of your Internet service provider and/or the Web site or advertisement from which you linked to the SPE site.

When you visit one of the SPE Sites or advertisements appearing thereon, or use one or more of the Services, we may use an industry-wide technology called "cookies" which stores certain information on your computer and which will allow us to customize your experience to better match your interests and preferences or simply facilitate your signing in to use the Services. Most browsers will allow you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block acceptance of cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions. By accessing an SPE Site, you agree to the use and storage of cookies on your computer for subsequent access and use by ANIMAX or SPE.

In general, SPE may use non-personally identifiable information to improve and enhance the Services. However, from time to time, SPE may share this information with other entities in aggregate, non-personal form to show general demographic and preference information among users of the SPE Sites.


Other sensitive information:
Whenever you give SPE sensitive information (e.g., credit card numbers), SPE will take all commercially reasonable steps to protect such information by establishing a secure connection with your Web browser. SPE employs an industry-wide technology known as a secure-socket-layer ("SSL") to protect the transmission of payment information to the Site. Unless otherwise specified herein, credit card numbers are used only for payment processing and are not retained for marketing or any other purposes.


Postings to Forums:
All postings, whether in a chat room, on message boards or other method of communication within the Forums will generally be available to and freely accessible by other users of the SPE Forums. Therefore, users should not expect that any information they post will be kept private or confidential and are encouraged to exercise discretion when using the SPE Forums. Additionally, your member name will always be posted in conjunction with your post in the SPE Forums.


Hyperlinks:
The SPE Sites may contain links to or advertisements concerning other Web sites. Other sites may also reference, advertise, or link to SPE Sites. SPE is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites and expressly disclaims all liability associated with your use of and the content on such other sites.

Consent to Processing:
By providing any personal information to the Sony Pictures Entertainment Sites, all users, including without limitation users in Asia regions, fully understand and unambiguously consent to the collection and processing of such information by Sony Pictures Entertainment group.

How to review, update or delete you or your child's personal account information:
As part of your use of the Services, you are responsible for maintaining and updating, as applicable, your Registration Information with current and complete information. You may edit and delete portions of your SPE Account information or delete the SPE Account entirely. To do this, visit the first page after signing in to your account, known as the lobby, and click on "Account Info" to make such changes or deletions. If you are the parent or guardian of a child under 21 years of age, you need to ask your child for his/her password in order to access his/her account information and edit or delete the account. If you are the parent or guardian of a child under 13 years old, the child must have seek your permission in order to register as an Animax member.

SPE is dedicated to protecting your personal information and welcomes comments and questions on this policy. You may fax your questions or comments to: 65 6781-5839

SPE reserves the right to change this policy at any time by notifying guests of the existence of a new privacy policy.

Effective From: 1 January, 2004