At girlfromjapan.com, we prioritize transparency about any financial interest associated with an article or post. We are staunch believers in the safeguarding of your personal information. The ensuing privacy policy, cookie policy, and disclosure shed light on the nature of the data we gather and its use and distribution.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://girlfromjapan.com.
Privacy Policy (girlfromjapan.com)
Information We Accumulate and Its Application
- Voluntary Data Submission: Girlfromjapan.com might gather personal details from you, such as your name or email ID. For instance, you could provide data to the site when commenting, enrolling for a newsletter, or completing a contact form.
- Automated Data Collection: As you navigate this website, we automatically register certain user and device data. This includes your IP address, the type of OS and browser you’re using, the referring website, pages you’ve viewed, and the timestamps of your site access. Additionally, user actions, like the links you’ve clicked on our site, may also be logged.
- Cookies: Our site could gather data using cookies, which are tiny data files saved on your browser by the site. We might employ both session cookies, which are erased once you shut your browser, and persistent cookies, which remain on your browser until you delete them. These help in offering a more tailor-made browsing experience on the site.
Potential Uses of the Information
The gathered information could be used for the following:
- Maintaining and operating the Website.
- Establishing your account, identifying you as a website user, and personalizing the Website for your profile.
- Sending you promotional content, such as newsletters. Every promotional email will come with directions on opting out of subsequent communications.
- Dispatching administrative messages, which might include administrative emails, order confirmations, technical notices, updates on policies, or security warnings.
- Addressing your comments or questions.
- Delivering user assistance.
- Monitoring and gauging ads on the Website.
- Safeguarding against, investigating, and preventing any unauthorized or illicit actions.
With Whom Information is Shared
Your information will not be distributed to third parties. Girlfromjapan.com might utilize your email address in upcoming communications concerning the website. However, you will always be given the option to opt out. Should you leave a comment or post a message, your name and website might be visible on the site. Nevertheless, your email address will always remain confidential and secure.
Third Party Use of Personal Information
While we won’t distribute your details without your clear consent, we do utilize third-party service providers for different functionalities of our website. The handling of your personal information by these providers is governed by their individual privacy policies.
Currently, Girlfromjapan.com uses these third-party services:
- Google Analytics – This tool monitors site usage and offers insights like the source of web traffic and user behavior on our site. While Google Analytics may record your IP address, it doesn’t gather any other personal details.
Anonymous Data
Occasionally, Girlfromjapan.com might utilize anonymous data that doesn’t single you out by itself or in conjunction with other details. This kind of non-personal data might be shared with other entities for purposes such as marketing or advertising. Examples of this kind of data can encompass analytics or insights gathered from cookies.
Cookies and IP Address Tracking
Girlfromjapan.com uses cookies to store the preferences of our visitors, note user-specific data regarding which pages are accessed or visited, ensure that users aren’t shown the same advertisements repetitively, and tailor website content according to the visitor’s browser or other information they provide. Cookies might also be employed by third-party entities, like Google Analytics, as previously mentioned.
At any given time, users have the option to refuse the use of cookies by Girlfromjapan.com by adjusting the appropriate settings in their web browser. They can also permanently refuse the setting of cookies. Moreover, cookies that have already been set can be removed anytime through a web browser or other software tools. It’s achievable in all prevalent web browsers. Nevertheless, if users turn off the use of cookies in their browser, they might not be able to fully experience all the features of our website.
Advertising
Display Ads
Girlfromjapan.com might collaborate with third-party ad agencies to display content and ads during your website visit, which could utilize cookies, as elaborated above.
Retargeting Ads
On occasions, Girlfromjapan.com may participate in remarketing activities with third-party entities, like Google, Facebook, or Instagram. The purpose is to advertise Girlfromjapan.com. These companies might use cookies to display ads grounded on an individual’s previous interactions with our website.
Rights Pertaining to Your Personal Data
- Opt-out – Should you wish to discontinue receiving email communications from us, you can follow the unsubscribe links found in our emails. Alternatively, you can contact us at nagisa@girlfromjapan.com to have your email address removed from our mailing list.
- Access – If you’d like to see the personal data we’ve gathered about you, you can send a request to nagisa@girlfromjapan.com.
- Amend – For any corrections or updates to your personal information, please reach out to us at nagisa@girlfromjapan.com.
- Forget – Under specific conditions, you can ask us to delete or forget your personal data. To initiate this, send a request to nagisa@girlfromjapan.com.
Do be aware that for record-keeping reasons, for completing transactions, or due to legal obligations, we may have to hold onto some information.
Sensitive Personal Data
You should refrain from submitting any highly sensitive personal information to the site. This encompasses details such as social security numbers, racial or ethnic origins, political stances, religious or philosophical beliefs, health-related data, criminal records, or trade union membership. If you choose to provide any such sensitive information, it will be governed by this Privacy Policy.
Information of Children
Girlfromjapan.com does not deliberately collect identifiable data from children below the age of 16. Should a parent or guardian be of the belief that our database contains such identifiable information of a child younger than 16, we urge them to contact us straightaway at nagisa@girlfromjapan.com. We pledge to make all necessary efforts to expeditiously delete such information from our records.
Affiliate Marketing
Girlfromjapan.com might partake in affiliate marketing, achieved by incorporating tracking links within the website. When you click on a link associated with an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be set in your browser to monitor potential sales for commission purposes.
General Disclaimer
Girlfromjapan.com has undertaken diligent measures to ensure that all data on the website has been verified for accuracy. Nevertheless, Girlfromjapan.com cannot guarantee the outcomes you’ll obtain from utilizing the information available on the website.
Contact
For additional details or inquiries, kindly get in touch through any of our contact methods:
Our contact form or email: nagisa@girlfromjapan.com, thanks!
This Privacy Policy & Disclosure was last revised on 22/09/2023.
