This Privacy Policy sets out how Talent x Buzz Inc. handles personal information.

About this Policy

Talent x Buzz Inc. (the "Company"), a licensed fee-charging employment placement business in Japan (License No. 13-ユ-313863), handles personal information in compliance with the Act on the Protection of Personal Information of Japan (the "APPI"), the Employment Security Act, and other applicable laws and guidelines, as set out below.

This English version is provided for convenience. In the event of any discrepancy, the Japanese version shall prevail.

1. Personal Information We Collect

We collect the following personal information by lawful and fair means:

• Name, date of birth, gender, address, telephone number, email address
• Education, work history, qualifications, language skills, current and desired salary, desired role, location and timing
• Information contained in your CV, résumé and other documents you submit
• Records of interviews and selection processes, and evaluations and results from hiring companies
• Browsing history on our website, cookies, IP address, device information, and ad view/click information
• Names, affiliations, titles and contact details of client company representatives

We collect this information:

• Directly from you (registration forms, interviews, email, telephone, etc.)
• From job boards, databases, social media and other external services that you have made public or consented to
• From partners or referrers, based on your consent
• Automatically through your use of our website

In accordance with the guidelines under the Employment Security Act, we do not collect information on race, ethnicity, social status, family origin, registered domicile, place of birth or other matters that may cause social discrimination, nor on beliefs, creed or labor union membership, except as permitted by law.

2. Purposes of Use

We use personal information for the following purposes:

1. Providing employment placement services (introducing positions, application procedures, interview scheduling, negotiating terms, and support through onboarding)
2. Providing information to hiring companies for recommendation and application
3. Career consultation and information on the job market, salary levels, etc.
4. Informing you of positions, services, events and seminars offered by the Company and its partners (by email, telephone, SMS, social media, etc.)
5. Providing and informing you of RPO, hiring consulting, overseas talent services and other talent-related services that the Company currently provides or may provide in the future
6. Checking retention after joining and conducting surveys
7. Improving services, planning and developing new services, marketing analysis and creating statistics
8. Delivering and measuring advertising (including through third-party ad providers)
9. Transactions, communications and performance of contracts with client company representatives
10. The Company's own recruitment
11. Preventing misuse, ensuring security and responding to inquiries
12. Complying with laws and exercising rights and fulfilling obligations

If we need to handle personal information beyond the scope necessary to achieve these purposes, we will obtain your consent in advance.

3. Provision to Third Parties

We will not provide personal information to third parties without your consent, except in the following cases.

(1) Provision based on your consent

With your consent, we may provide personal information to the following third parties:

Recipient	Purpose	Main items provided
Hiring companies (where you apply or are recommended)	Consideration for selection and hiring	Name, contact details, education and work history, qualifications, salary, information in application documents
Partner recruitment agencies and job service providers	Introducing positions and services suitable for you	Name, contact details, date of birth, work history, desired conditions
Partner providers of career support, education, training, financial, housing and similar services	Informing you of services related to your career change or employment	Name, contact details, desired conditions

Provision is made by sending documents or electronic data, registering in systems, or similar means, and may include cases where the Company receives consideration from the partner. You may request that we stop such provision at any time (see Section 10).

(2) Cases permitted by law

• When required by law
• When necessary to protect life, body or property and it is difficult to obtain your consent
• When especially necessary to improve public health or promote the healthy development of children and it is difficult to obtain your consent
• When necessary to cooperate with a national or local government body performing duties prescribed by law

(3) Cases not constituting provision to third parties

• Outsourcing: entrusting operations such as system operation, data entry, email delivery or ad delivery within the scope necessary for the purposes of use. We supervise such contractors appropriately.
• Business succession: provision in connection with a merger, company split, business transfer, share transfer or other succession of business. The successor will handle personal information within the original purposes of use.
• Joint use: joint use as set out in Section 4.

4. Joint Use

We jointly use personal information as follows:

Item	Details
Joint users	The Company, TALENT X BUZZ COMPANY LIMITED (Vietnam), and subsidiaries and affiliates that the Company may establish or invest in
Items jointly used	The items listed in Section 1
Purposes	The purposes listed in Section 2
Responsible party	Talent x Buzz Inc. (address and representative as listed in Section 10)

5. Provision to Third Parties in Foreign Countries

We may provide personal information to third parties in foreign countries in connection with joint use with our Vietnam office or recommendations to overseas hiring companies. For provision to Vietnam, we obtain your consent after informing you of the following:

• Country: Socialist Republic of Vietnam
• Personal data protection system: The Law on Personal Data Protection (No. 91/2025/QH15, effective January 1, 2026) and related decrees, which in principle require the data subject's consent for processing, set out data subject rights, and require impact assessments for cross-border transfers.
• Measures taken by the recipient: The recipient is under the Company's control and implements security measures equivalent to those of the Company.

When recommending you to a hiring company in a country other than Vietnam, we will inform you of the country, its personal data protection system and the measures taken by the recipient, and obtain your individual consent before the recommendation.

6. Statistical, Pseudonymized and Anonymized Information

We may create statistical data processed so that individuals cannot be identified, and use, publish or provide it. We may also create and use pseudonymized and anonymized information under the APPI. When we create or provide anonymized information to third parties, we will publish the items and method of provision as required by law.

7. Cookies and External Transmission

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to improve the site and to deliver and measure advertising, and transmits user information to the following providers:

Recipient	Service	Main information sent	Purpose
Google LLC	Google Analytics	Pages viewed, date and time, device and browser information, IP address, cookie ID	Access analysis
Google LLC	Google Ads	Pages viewed, ad click information, cookie ID	Ad delivery and measurement
Google LLC	reCAPTCHA	Device and browser information, interaction data	Preventing spam and fraudulent submissions

You can refuse cookies in your browser settings, although some site features may become unavailable. You can disable personalized advertising by Google on Google's Ad Settings page.

8. Security, Retention and Requests

• Security: We take necessary and appropriate measures to prevent unauthorized access, loss, leakage, etc. of personal information.
• Retention: We retain personal information for as long as necessary to achieve the purposes of use and appropriately delete or dispose of it when no longer needed.
• Requests: You may request disclosure, correction, addition or deletion, suspension of use or erasure, suspension of provision to third parties, and disclosure of records of provision to third parties, in accordance with our procedures. We will respond in accordance with the law after verifying your identity.
• Opt-out of communications: We will stop sending emails and other communications upon your request.

9. Special Care-Required Personal Information

Except as permitted by law, we obtain your consent in advance before acquiring special care-required personal information such as health information. We use such information only to the extent necessary for employment placement and will not provide it to third parties without your consent.

10. Contact

Item	Details
Company	Talent x Buzz Inc.
Representative	Isao Ko, Representative Director & CEO
Address	WTC annex 12F, 2-3-8 Hamamatsucho, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0013, Japan
Personal Information Protection Manager	Isao Ko, Representative Director & CEO
Contact	contact@talentxbuzz.com

11. Amendments

We may amend this Policy in response to changes in laws, changes in our business (including launching new services, adding partners and business succession) or as otherwise necessary. We will announce amendments on our website or by other means. Where the law requires your consent, such as for changes to the purposes of use or expansion of provision to third parties, we will obtain your consent again.

Last revised: October 8, 2026