Privacy Policy
Japan Travel Dobbo (“this site”) is published by Japan Travel Dobbo editorial team (“we”). We handle personal data under Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information and other applicable law. This page explains what we collect, why, where it goes and how to exercise your rights.
1. What we collect and why
You can read this site without giving us your name or contact details. The table shows what we collect when you use a particular feature, and the only purposes we use it for. If we ever need it for something else, we will tell you first and ask.
| Contact form | Name, email address, subject and message. To block spam we also record the IP address, browser type and time of sending. Purpose: replying to you, correcting articles, and recording and preventing abusive submissions. Kept for up to one year after the matter is closed. |
|---|---|
| Email list | Your email address. Purpose: sending only what the sign-up form promised (new articles and updates). Unsubscribe with the link in every email; we delete the address when you do. |
| Analytics | Pages viewed, device and browser type, approximate location and a cookie identifier (Google Analytics 4). Purpose: understanding how the site is used. It does not collect your name, address or phone number. |
2. Cookies and data sent to third parties
When you open this site, your browser may send information to the following companies. Japan’s Telecommunications Business Act requires us to list them (recipient / what is sent / purpose / how to stop it).
| Google Analytics (Google LLC, USA) | Pages viewed, device and browser type, approximate location, cookie identifier / analytics / block cookies in your browser or use Google’s opt-out add-on |
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| Embedded social media posts (Instagram, X and others) | IP address, browser type and that platform’s own cookies / displaying the embedded post / nothing is sent on pages without embeds |
| Affiliate networks and advertisers | When you click an affiliate link, a referral identifier and a cookie set by the network (for example Rakuten Affiliate, Amazon Associates, A8.net, ValueCommerce or the provider’s own programme) / attributing the referral and paying our commission / nothing is sent unless you click. Each network’s own privacy policy applies |
Google LLC is in the United States. Google’s privacy policy describes the safeguards it applies and the US legal framework.
3. Sharing and processors
We do not share your data with third parties except: with your consent; where the law requires; where necessary to protect someone’s life, body or property and consent cannot reasonably be obtained; or as described in the table above. Where we use service providers (hosting, email delivery, AI responses) they receive only what is needed for the task and must protect it.
4. Affiliate tracking
Some links are affiliate links. The network or provider you land on may set cookies to attribute the referral; that is governed by their privacy policies and is outside our control. On our side we record only which link on which page was clicked, without identifying you.
5. Security and retention
Data is sent over HTTPS, access is limited to those who need it, and abusive submissions are blocked. We delete data when the retention period in the table has passed.
6. Your rights
You can ask us to disclose, correct, complete, delete or stop using your personal data, or to stop sharing it. Use the contact form with the subject “Personal data request” and tell us which data you mean. After confirming your identity we normally respond within two weeks, free of charge. If the law allows us to refuse, we will say why. The same channel gives you the publisher’s legal name, address and representative. If you are in the EU, UK or another jurisdiction that grants additional rights, you keep those rights.
7. Children
If you are under 18, please use the contact form, AI tools and email sign-up only with a parent’s or guardian’s consent. If we learn that we hold a child’s data without such consent, we delete it on request.
8. Changes
We may update this policy as the law or our features change. Material changes are announced on the site. The version on this page is the one in force.
9. Contact
Questions about this policy or your data: contact form.
Established: 10 September 2026 / Last updated: 10 November 2026