Compliance

Documents on certifications, audit reports, data processing agreements (DPA), and regional compliance.

Baseline approach

Atalie is run by an individual, so the range of certifications and duties required by law is narrower than for a typical company. Under Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI), handling personal data still calls for purposes of use, security measures, and related obligations—but large-scale audit programs or mandatory third-party certification are often not required.

Even so, compliance with every law that applies to the work is non‑negotiable. The main examples today include:

• APPI — Privacy policy, stated purposes of use, and security management when personal information is handled

• Specified Commercial Transaction Act — Display obligations when offering services or goods

• Telecommunications Business Act — External transmission rules (including notice for cookies and similar signals) when communications-related services are in scope

• Copyright Act — Respecting others’ rights and using works appropriately in creative activity

Aiming higher than the floor

The aim is not to stop at “typical” domestic compliance alone, but to use international practice as a reference and set stricter voluntary standards where it makes sense.

Frameworks such as the EU GDPR offer advanced models for protecting individual rights. Atalie adopts that mindset in practice:

• Collect only what is needed

• Communicate with users in a transparent way

• Respond honestly to access, correction, and deletion requests

• Keep security under review and adopt current best practices

Being a solo operation is a reason to hold the bar high, not to lower it.

• certifications — Certifications

• audit-reports — Audit reports

• dpa — Data Processing Agreement

• regional-compliance — Regional compliance