Information management method

An information management method in an information management system that collects log information of one or more apparatuses and provides information based on the log information, the information management method comprising:

• collecting the log information of the one or more apparatuses of a user via a network;
• generating display screen data that indicate a provision status of the log information of the one or more apparatuses, the one or more apparatuses corresponding to one or more service providers, the display screen data including information that configures:
• (i) one apparatus that is included in the one or more apparatuses;
• (ii) one service provider that corresponds to the one apparatus;
• and
• (iii) one kind of the log information that is output from the one apparatus as a group and that displays:
• (iii-1) a provision status of the log information with respect to the group as a unit;
• (iii-2) a provision destination;
• and
• (iii-3) a section by which whether or not provision of the log information is permissible is selectable with respect to the group as the unit;
• providing the display screen data to a display terminal that performs access to the information management system via the network in response to the access to the information management system;
• receiving, based on the display screen data from the display terminal via the network, information that indicates that selection of permission, of whether or not provision of the one kind of the log information of the one apparatus that corresponds to the one service provider to the provision destination is permissible, is performed with respect to the group as the unit in a display screen;
• providing, to the display terminal via the network and in a case where:
• (i) a first determination is made that the selection of permission of the provision of the one kind of the log information of the one apparatus that corresponds to the one service provider to the provision destination is performed with respect to the group as the unit;
• and
• (ii) a second determination is made that the provision of the log information is not yet performed with respect to the group in which the selection of permission is performed,
• the display screen data that are regenerated such that display is made in a first display format which indicates that the provision of the log information is not performed until a provision start date when the provision of the log information that is set with respect to the group is started;
• and
• providing, to a computer of the one service provider via the network, the log information generated on and after the provision start date.