Privacy Policy

japan-kyushu.com (“Site”) is committed to maintaining robust privacy protections for its users. Our privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is designed to help you understand how we collect, use and safeguard the information you provide to us and to assist you in making decision when using our services.

For purposes of this Agreement, Site can be accessed at japan-kyushu.com.

By accessing the Site, you accept our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, and you consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Non-Personal Information/Personal Information

We collect “Non-Personal Information” and “Personal Information.” Non-Personal Information includes information that cannot be used to personally identify you, such as anonymous usage data, general demographic information we may collect, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, preferences you submit and preferences that are generated based on the data you submit and number of clicks. Personal Information includes your email, name, address, and phone number, which you submit to us through the registration process at the Site or the application pages.

Comment

When a visitor leaves a comment on this site, we collect the data displayed in the comment form, as well as the IP address and browser user agent string to help us detect spam.

Anonymized (also known as “hash”) strings created from email addresses may be provided to the service to verify that you are using the Gravatar service. The service’s privacy policy can be found at https://automattic.com/privacy/. If your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly displayed along with your comment.

Media

When uploading images to the site, you should not upload images that contain location data (EXIF GPS). Site visitors can download images from the site and extract location data.

Cookie

When you leave a comment on the site, you can opt-in to have your name, email address, and site stored in a cookie. This is for your convenience and saves you from having to re-enter your details when leaving other comments. This cookie is retained for one year.

When you visit the login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser can accept cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we also set some cookies to retain your login and display information. The login cookie is retained for two days and the display options cookie is retained for one year. If you select “Keep me logged in,” your login information is retained for two weeks. When you log out, the login cookie is deleted.

If you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data, it simply identifies the modified post and expires in one day.

Embedded content from other sites

Posts on this site may contain embedded content (videos, images, posts, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves exactly the same way as if a visitor came to that site.

These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interactions with embedded content. This includes tracking your interactions with embedded content if you are logged in to that site using your account.

How we use and share information

Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, trade, rent or otherwise share for marketing purposes your Personal Information with third parties without your consent. We do share Personal Information with vendors who are performing services for the Site, such as the servers for our email communications who are provided access to user’s e-mail address for purposes of sending emails from us. Those vendors use your Personal Information only at our direction and in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

In general, the Personal Information you provide to us is used to help us communicate with you. For example, we user Personal Information to contact users in response to questions, provide technical support and inform users about promotional offers.

We may share Personal Information with outside parties if we have a good-faith belief that access, user, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to meet any applicable legal process or enforceable governmental request; to enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations; address fraud, security or technical concerns; or to protect against harm to the rights, property, or safety of our users of the public as required or permitted by law.

In general, we user Non-Personal Information to help us improve the Site and services and customize the user experience. We also aggregate Non-Personal Information in order to track trends and analyze user patterns on the Site. This Privacy Policy does not limit in any way our use or disclosure of Non-Personal Information and we reserve the right to use and disclose such Non-Personal Information to our partners, advertisers and other third parties at our discretion.

In the event we undergo a business transaction such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your Personal Information may be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge and consent that such transfers may occur and are permitted by this Privacy Policy, and that any acquirer of our assets may continue to process your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. If our information practices change at any time in the future, we will post the policy changes to the Site so that you may opt out of the new information practices. We suggest that you check the Site periodically if you are concerned about how your information is used.

Where to share your data

When you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Duration of data storage

When you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so that we can automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments instead of keeping them in the moderation queue.

If you are a registered user of this site, we store the personal information you provide on your user profile page. All users can view, edit, and delete their personal information (but not change their user name). Site administrators can also view and edit that information.

Your rights to your data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments on the site, you may make a request to have your personal data erased. This does not include data that we are obligated to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data will be sent

Comments made by visitors may be checked through an automated spam detection service.