Privacy Policy

Japanandmore.com Privacy Policy

At Japanandmore.com we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.

We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use Japanandmore.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

Japanandmore.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers’ and online visitors’ privacy on our website.

About Our Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that Japanandmore.com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to Japanandmore.com each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.

Google Analytics Cookies

Japanandmore.com uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Japanandmore.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on…https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

Retargeting Ads and Tracking Pixels

Japanandmore.com uses retargeting ads, which require the setting of cookies in your browser.

Japanandmore.com uses Facebook pixels to determine the effectiveness of some Facebook ad campaigns. You can change your Facebook ad settings at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen.

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse Japanandmore.com’s cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

Personally Identifiable Information

Japanandmore.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

• To run and operate our business/website.
• To display content on the site correctly.
• To improve customer service.
• To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
• To personalize your user experience.
• To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
• To improve our site.
• To improve our products and services.
• To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
• To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
• To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
• To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

Japanandmore.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

Specifically, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your first name and will require your email address.

If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.

If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Details in your submission, may personally identify you.

If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, we will require your first name and your email address.

If you purchase a product or service from us, we will collect your name, email address and billing address. We do not collect your credit card number, it is stored with the payment gateway you choose to use at point of payment, either Stripe or PayPal.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

We use personal information received from you for internal purposes only. We have not, and will not sell or provide any personally identifiable information to third parties.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site.

We also collect each visitor’s IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

Non-personally Identifiable Information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Children’s Privacy Protection

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

If we sell Japanandmore.com, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host’s servers. That host is InMotion Hosting, Inc., located at 6100 Center Drive, Suite 1190 Los Angeles, CA 90045.

Some information is collected by our third-party newsletter service, AWeber.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to update that information or have it deleted from our records, please click on this link and/or use our Contact Us page.

Updates and Effective Date

Japanandmore.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to Japanandmore.com’s privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

Last updated: December 28, 2019