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 LiquidNet Ltd., located at 1500 N. University Drive, suite 115, Coral Springs, FL, 33071.

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 that information deleted from our records, please contact us.

Additional Information for European Union Residents (GDPR Compliance)

If you reside within the European Economic Area (EEA), you possess specific data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data

We process your personal data under the following legal frameworks:

• Performance of a Contract: To process, secure, and execute your tour bookings, hotel reservations, and transit arrangements within Japan.
• Consent: When you explicitly opt-in to receive our marketing newsletters or promotional materials.
• Legitimate Interests: To analyze website traffic, improve our travel itineraries, and prevent fraudulent booking activity.

2. Your Data Subject Rights

You have the right to exercise the following protections by contacting us directly:

• The Right of Access & Portability: You may request digital copies of all personal data we hold on you.
• The Right of Rectification: You can demand that we correct inaccurate or incomplete travel or contact data.
• The Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You may request that we delete your personal data, provided it does not conflict with legal financial auditing requirements or active tour operations.
• The Right to Restrict or Object to Processing: You can object to our processing of your data for direct marketing purposes at any time.

3. International Data Transfers

Because our travel operations are executed directly in Japan, the personal data we collect from you will be transferred to, and stored at, destinations outside the EEA. This includes sharing necessary identifiers (such as your name, passport details, or dietary restrictions) with trusted local partners, hotels, and transport providers across Japan to fulfill your itinerary.

Additional Information for California Residents (CCPA/CPRA Compliance)

This section supplements our privacy policy and applies solely to visitors and clients residing in the State of California, in accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).

1. Information We Collect and Disclose

Within the preceding 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information to facilitate travel planning:

• Identifiers: Real name, email address, phone number, billing address, and passport numbers (where required for Japanese rail passes or hotel registrations).
• Commercial Information: Records of travel packages considered, tours booked, and payment histories.
• Internet Activity: Browsing history, search history, and interaction with Japanandmore.com via cookies and analytics tracking.

2. Notice of Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing

We do not sell your personal information to third parties for monetary compensation. Furthermore, we do not “share” your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We only disclose your data to local Japanese hospitality operators and logistics vendors to directly fulfill your purchased travel services.

3. Your California Privacy Rights

California residents maintain the following specific legal rights:

• Right to Know: You may request a disclosure of what specific personal data we have collected, used, and disclosed about you over the past 12 months.
• Right to Delete: You may request the deletion of personal data collected from you, subject to certain exceptions (such as completing an upcoming tour transaction).
• Right to Correct: You may request that we rectify inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.
• Right to Non-Discrimination: We will never deny services, alter tour pricing, or provide a different level of service if you choose to exercise your privacy rights.

How to Contact Us

To exercise any of your rights under GDPR or California law, or if you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us by email or via mail at our official address:

JAPAN and more.
P.O. Box 51653
Summerville, SC 29485

Updates and Effective Date

Japanandmore.com reserves the right to make changes to this policy. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new 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: June 23, 2026