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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 small text file that a website stores in your browser. Some cookies are needed for our site to work. Others help us understand how visitors use our site and measure our advertising. We only use the second kind if you agree.

Your Choices

When you first visit Japanandmore.com, a message lets you Accept All cookies, Decline them, or open Settings to choose which kinds you allow. Nothing beyond essential cookies is used until you make a choice.

You can change your mind at any time by clicking the small lock icon in the bottom-left corner of any page. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings, though some parts of our site may not work as expected if you do.

Essential Cookies

These cookies are needed for the site to work and cannot be switched off. They remember your cookie choices, keep forms secure, and protect payments when you book with us. Our payment providers, Stripe and PayPal, may use their own cookies on booking pages to prevent fraud.

Analytics and Marketing Cookies (only with your consent)

If you switch these on, we use:

These services may collect information such as your IP address, browser type, and the pages you visit. If you decline or switch them off, they do not run on our site.

Other Services

Some features use outside providers that may collect your IP address: Google Fonts, Google Maps, Google reCAPTCHA (spam protection on forms), and YouTube or Vimeo videos. You can switch each of these on or off in Settings, though turning them off may change how parts of the site look or work.

Affiliate Referrals

If you arrive at our site through a link from one of our affiliate partners, a cookie records the referral for up to 90 days so the partner can receive credit if you book with us.

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 to run our business and provide our services. We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with the service providers described in this policy, such as the hotels, restaurants, and transportation providers in Japan that we book for your tour, our payment processors, and our newsletter provider, and with analytics and advertising partners only if you consent to those cookies.

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.

Data Retention

We keep booking and payment records for as long as required for tax and accounting purposes. We keep other personal data, such as inquiries and newsletter subscriptions, until you ask us to delete it or unsubscribe.

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: To send you our newsletter and promotional emails if you sign up, and to use analytics and advertising cookies if you agree. You can withdraw consent at any time by unsubscribing from our emails or by using the lock icon at the bottom-left of any page.
  • Legitimate Interests: To 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.
  • The Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time. This does not affect anything we did before you withdrew it.
  • The Right to Complain: You may lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your country if you believe we have mishandled your personal data.

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. Your data is also stored and processed in the United States, where our business, website host, and service providers are located.

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 for money. If you allow marketing cookies, the Meta Pixel shares information about your visit with Meta so we can show you our ads, which California law may consider “sharing.” You can opt out at any time by choosing Decline or switching off Analytics and Marketing in our cookie settings. We otherwise disclose your data only to the service providers described in this policy, such as the hotels, restaurants, and transportation providers in Japan that we book for your tour, our payment processors, and our newsletter provider.

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

By using this website, you acknowledge that you have read this privacy policy. You can choose which cookies you allow at any time using the cookie settings, available from the lock icon at the bottom-left of any page.

Last updated: September 27, 2026