Handling of Personal Information
This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information when you visit our website, or communicate with us through our webforms or other medias. We fully recognize that the protection of the personal information of our customers and business partners is our important duty. We hereby declare that we will make continuous efforts to improve our systems to protect any personal information collected through our website, and to comply with the Japanese laws, regulations, national guidelines, and other norms regarding the protection of personal information.
Information Collected and Processed
In Umecome (hereinafter “Site”), we may ask you to provide your personal information, such as your name (or handle name) and email address, when you contact us through our contact form or post comments to our articles.
The collected personal information will only be used to respond to your questions or requests for information, and will not be used for any other purposes.
Cookies and Advertising/Analytics Services
Cookies are small information that will be stored on your computer hard drives when you visit websites. They are used to help users navigate websites efficiently and to provide information to the website owners. The information that will be collected from cookies do not include personally identifiable information, such as your name and email address.
When you visit our Site, we may place a cookie or other online tracking devices, such as web beacons, for the use of the following analyzing and advertisement services. You may choose to accept or decline cookies through your individual browser options. You can also delete cookies that have already been set. However, please note that some of our web pages may require cookies in order to function properly.
- Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to better understand our visitors and our site traffic. Google Analytics uses cookies and other identifiers to collect information, such as how often users visit a website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they visit prior to visiting a particular website. To learn more about how Google Analytics collects personal information, please review Google’s Privacy Policy.
- Google AdSense and A8.net: We use Google AdSense and A8.net to display advertising on our website. These third-party advertisement servers may use cookies and other online tracking devices to display advertisements that may be of interest to you. Please visit Google’s Advertisement Policies to learn more about the advertisement settings.
Information Security
Our Site uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to protect your personal information from malicious third parties. SSL is an encryption-based security protocol that enables users to send their information securely. We use SSL to encrypt our data and protect our Site visitors’ personal information from hackers and crackers.
Information Sharing
We will handle your personal information appropriately, and will not share them with third parties with the exception of the following circumstances:
- When we have your consent
- When required by laws and regulations
If you wish us to disclose, inquire, correct or delete your personal information, we will promptly respond to your request after confirming your identity.
Comments
Our Site collects the IP address of users who comment to our articles. This is a standard feature of websites, and your IP address will not be used for any other purpose besides preventing frauds and spams. Please note that we check all comments before we publish them to prevent frauds and spams.
Updates to Privacy Policy
We will review and update our Private Policy periodically to comply with Japanese laws and regulations regarding the protection of personal information. Our latest Private Policy will always be available on this page with the effective date.
Contact
Please contact us via our contact form or email (umecome@hotmail.com) for any more information or questions about our Privacy Policy.
Last Updated: June 10, 2024