Privacy & Disclosure Policy

Effective and Updated: September 30th, 2024

Privacy Policy

Best Time to Japan (“we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to protecting the privacy of our website visitors. We will only collect personal information with your consent and will not share this information with other third parties. Best Time to Japan complies with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which designed to protect the privacy of Internet users.

Best Time to Japan is a personal travel blog and not a multinational corporation. Most of the data collected on this website is automatic or in the background. The only time we obtain your personal data (such as your name or email address) is when you manually enter it on the site. We are not in the business of collecting information or data from our users. If you’re worried about us using your data incorrectly, or selling it to a third-party have been accused of doing, that’s not the case. We only use the data you give us freely and are not trying to get any information from you that doesn’t help us serve you better. The only reason our website obtains data is to provide you with better service.

What we collect and purpose

We may collect the following information:

  • Name and blog URL
  • Email address (Only with your consent)
  • Internet protocol(IP)
  • Other information relevant to customer surveys or offers when user is prompted
  • Google Analytics tracking data (anonymous data that we use to see how many people visit our site etc.)

We may use the information we collect from you when you post comments, sign up for our newsletter, respond to surveys or marketing communications, browse our website, or use certain other site features. We use this information to improve our website in order to better serve you.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data displayed in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help us detect spam. After approval of your comment, your profile picture will be published in the context of your comment.

Children’s Privacy

Another of our priority is to protect children who use the Internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate and/or monitor and guide their online activities. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.
If you think that your child has provided us with such information on our Web site, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately.

Cookies

We fully understand the bad feeling you get every time a Cookies pop-up appears. But we believe you will understand that it is necessary for us to keep you informed about travel to Japan.

Like other websites, Best Time to Japan uses “cookies”. These cookies are used to store information such as visitor’s preferences and the pages on the website that visitors access or visit. They are used to optimize the user experience by customizing the content of web pages based on the visitor’s browser type and other information. In addition to improving your user experience, these cookies help us earn commissions through our affiliate partners.

We recommend a product and you click on the link and make a purchase, sometimes (not always) we get a commission. Such transactions do not cost you an extra cent, and in many cases you actually receive a discount for using our links. Cookies allow us to do this, so by allowing our website to use cookies, you are actually helping to keep this site going. Without cookies, we would not be able to earn commissions and thus provide you with a lot of content for free.

Third Party Privacy Policies

Best Time to Japan’s privacy policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. We encourage you to consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party advertise servers for more detailed information. Cookies can be disabled in your browser options. For more information on cookie management for a particular web browser, please visit the respective browser’s website.

Contact forms

When you enter your email to contact us, we will automatically give you an email to which you can reply. We will not use that email to send you promotional emails. No further emails will be sent unless an email conversation continues. A plugin is used to embed the contact form.

Disclosure Policy

Best Time to Japan is also willing to accept cash advertising, sponsorships, paid listings, and other rewards if we are lucky enough to receive them. We also gladly accept payment in the form of meals, trips, and experiences.

Google Analytics

Best Time to Japan uses Google Analytics to analyze website usage. The collected website-related information is used to compile reports on website usage.

Advertising

Best Time to Japan is affiliated with Google AdSense for the purpose of advertising on this site.

Affiliate

Best Time to Japan has financial relationships with many of the companies listed on this website and may receive compensation for clicking on links or making reservations on this website.

Disclaimers

All the information on Best Time to Japan is published in good faith and for general information purpose only. However we does not make any warranties about the completeness, reliability and accuracy of this information. Any action you take upon the information you find on this website(Best Time to Japan), is strictly at your own risk. We will not be liable for any losses and/or damages in connection with the use of our website.

You may visit other websites from this website by hyperlinks to external sites. While we strive to provide only quality links to useful and ethical websites, we have no control over the content or nature of these sites. These links to other websites do not imply an endorsement of any content found on these sites. Site ownership and content is subject to change without notice.

In addition, once you leave our website, other sites may have different privacy policies or terms and conditions that are beyond our control. Please be sure to review the privacy policies and terms of use of these sites before conducting business or uploading information.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy, Disclosure Policy and agree to its Terms of Use.

Contact

Email address: contact@besttimetojapan.com