Privacy Policy
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Last updated: 18th August, 2023
Travel Alone Idea, a Japanese video creator and blogger (“we”, “us”, or “our”) operates https://travelaloneidea.com/ (the “Site”).
Your privacy is important to us and we are committed to protecting the personal information of users of the Site (“you” or “your”).
1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, protect and disclose your personal information on the Site. By using the Site, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent, you may not access or use the Site.
2. Personal Information We Collect
While using the Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) may include, but is not limited to your name and email address.
We collect the following types of Personal Information:
(1) Personal information that you provide to us, such as your name and email address, when you submit a comment on the Site or use our Contact Form.
(2) Information that is automatically collected, such as your IP address, browser type, and operating system, when you use the Site.
(3) Log data, Cookies and similar technologies that may collect personal information.
3. How We Use Your Personal Information
We use your personal information collected for the following purposes:
(1) To provide you with the services that you request, such as responding to your comments or inquiries.
(2) To improve the Site and services, such as analyzing how users interact with the Site.
(3) To display targeted advertisements or promotions from our affiliate advertising partners and advertisers.
(4) To comply with our legal obligations.
The lawful basis for processing your personal data will depend on the specific purposes for which we are using your data. Below are some examples of the lawful basis for processing personal data:
(1) Legal obligation: We may need to process your personal data to comply with a legal obligation, such as tax or accounting requirements.
(2) Consent: We may process your personal data if you have given us your consent to do so, for example, to respond to your requests or inquiries.
(3) Legitimate interests: We may process your personal data for our legitimate interests, such as managing our business, improving our services, and communicating with you about our business.
4. Data Security
We take appropriate security measures to ensure the accuracy and safety of your Personal Information. This includes using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to prevent third parties from reading or altering important information. However, we cannot guarantee that the transmission of data over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
5. Log Data
Like many other websites, the Site collects information that your browser sends whenever you visit the Site (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of the Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
6. Cookies
Cookies are files with small amount of data, which stores the user’s website browsing history on the user’s computer. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Like many other websites, the Site uses cookies to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of the Site.
7. Disclosure and Transfer of Information
We do not share, provide or disclose users’ personal information to third parties without their prior consent.
However, this does not apply in the following cases.
(1) When it is based on laws and regulations;
(2) When it is necessary for the protection of the life, body, or property of an individual and where it is difficult to obtain a principal’s consent;
(3) When it is specially necessary for improving public health or promoting the sound growth of children and where it is difficult to obtain a principal’s consent;
(4) When it is necessary for cooperating with a state organ, a local government, or an individual or a business operator entrusted by either of the former two in executing the affairs prescribed by laws and regulations and where obtaining a principal’s consent is likely to impede the execution of the said affairs.
(5) When we investigate, prevent, and take action against illegal or suspected illegal activities.
(6) When we deem it necessary for the protection and defense of the our rights, property, or safety.
(7) When we use third-party service providers specified in this Privacy Policy to facilitate the smooth operation of the Site and to provide services on our behalf.
We provide services of the Site to users located in various countries or jurisdictions. If we transfer your information to another country, we will use and protect that information as described in this Privacy Policy and in accordance with applicable law.
Personal Information may be transferred to and processed in countries outside of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and the UK, where the level of data protection may not be the same as in the EEA and the UK. We will take appropriate measures to ensure that such transfers comply with applicable data protection laws.
8. Google Analytics
The Site uses Google Analytics provided by Google to analyze and improve the Site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit the Site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other websites they used prior to coming to the Site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve the Site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit the Site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit the Site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to the Site by disabling cookies on your browser. For more information on Google Analytics, please see the Google Analytics Terms of Service page and the Google Privacy and Terms page.
Google Analytics Terms of Service:
https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/
Google Privacy and Terms:
https://policies.google.com/
9. Google Adsense
The Site uses Google Adsense, a third-party advertising service, to display advertisements based on users’ interests. Google Adsense uses cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to the Site or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to the Site and/or other websites on the internet. You may opt-out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings in your Google account. For more information on Google Adsense, please refer to the following link.
How Google uses cookies:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en
10. Google Forms
The Site uses Google Forms, a survey administration software provided by Google, as our Contact Form. By using our Contact Form, you acknowledge that the information you provide will be transferred to Google for processing in accordance with their Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review Google’s Privacy Policy referenced above before using our Contact Form.
11. Affiliate Advertising Partners
The Site may display advertisements and promotions through affiliate programs. The affiliate partners of those advertisements may collect data about your browsing behavior and may use cookies or similar technologies in order to personalize the ads that you see and to be able to track the placement of orders by the affiliate. This enables our affiliate partners to recognize that an affiliate link on the Site has been clicked and that a purchase has subsequently been made. If you click on an affiliate link and make a purchase, the Site or we may receive a commission from the sale (at no additional cost to you). As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Please refer to the links below for all the affiliate programs we are currently affiliated with and their privacy policies.
Affiliate Advertising Programs:
https://travelaloneidea.com/affiliates/
12. Embedded Content from Other Websites
The Site may contain embedded content from other third-party websites, such as videos, images, articles, and so on. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content. We have no control over these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy practices or contents. We encourage you to read their privacy policies.
13. Links to External Websites
The Site may contain links to external websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s website. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the safety, the accuracy, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites or services. You shall use any external website entirely at your own risk. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every website you visit.
14. Retention Period
We shall retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the Site collected your Personal Information, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. We shall promptly erase such personal information when it is no longer needed.
15. Your Rights
Under applicable privacy laws, you have the following rights with respect to your Personal Information:
(1) The right to access, correct, or delete your Personal Information
(2) The right to object to Processing of your Personal Information
(3) The right to restrict Processing of your Personal Information
(4) The right to data portability
(5) The right to withdraw your consent to Processing of your Personal Information
(6) The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided in the last section of this Privacy Policy.
You generally do not have to pay a fee to access your Personal Information. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repeatedly submitted, or excessive.
In order to respond to your request, we may contact you and ask you to verify your identity or the content of your request.
These are security measures to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to people who are not entitled to receive it.
You understand and agree that by using our services, your personal information may be transferred to us and to third parties with whom we share information as described in this Privacy Policy.
16. Data Controller
The following individual is the data controller for the personal data we collect from users on our website and we appropriately manages personal information with such individual playing central roles. Users of our website may contact that individual using the contact information provided below.
Manager of the management team of the official website and YouTube channel
Contact Form: https://travelaloneidea.com/contact/
17. Children’s Personal Information
Our website is open to the general public but is not addressed to children. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children. The following individuals are considered children.
(1) Individuals under the age of 18 or under the age of privacy consent in the jurisdiction in which they are located.
(2) Individuals who have not reached the age of legal capacity to enter into a contract when processing data on a contractual basis.
If a user of the Site is any of the above individuals, the user shall obtain the prior consent of your parental authority and use the Site under their supervision in order to ensure that you do not provide us with your Personal Information unnecessarily.
If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your children have provided us with Personal Information and wish to remove it, please contact us using the contact information provided in the last section of this Privacy Policy.
18. Intellectual Property and Copyright
All rights to the contents on the Site are reserved by us or by their respective owners. Users are free to share the link to the Site on other website. However, unless otherwise specified, unauthorized copying or reproduction of any content on the Site by any means other than linking the URL is strictly prohibited.
19. Disclaimer and Notes
For slander, copyright infringement or any leakage of our personal information, we may request for disclosure of identification information of the sender, report to the police and/or take legal action.
We make every effort, but cannot and do not guarantee, and make no warranties as to, the accuracy, reliability, credibility, safety, accessibility, integrity, completeness, usefulness, up-to-dateness, appropriateness, timeliness, certainty, operability, etc. of any information and/or content presented on the Site. You agree to use the information on the Site entirely at your own risk and responsibility. We are not responsible or liable for any damages, losses or expenses, including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive, or any other type of damage, that you may suffer or incur as a result of using the Site or of using the information and/or content on the Site.
The Site is not intended for any copyright infringement, discrimination, hate or illegal activity, but for entertainment, reviews and education. Regarding requests to post or remove content on our site, please contact us through our Contact Form.
Individuals or corporations located in countries, regions, or jurisdictions where the use, operation methods, or content of the Site’s services are illegal or inappropriate shall not access the Site.
We are not responsible or liable for any damages, losses or expenses that you may suffer or incur as a result of any of the following events.
(1) In the event that you disclose your personal information on the service provided by the Site by yourself in a manner that is visible to third parties.
(2) In the event that an individual can be identified by the information disclosed by you on the service provided by the Site.
20. Language and Translation
The original text on the Site, including this Privacy Policy, is in Japanese. The texts in other languages on the Site are automatically translated from the original for reference purposes only, so there may be errors due to the quality of the automatic translation. In the event of any inconsistency or discrepancy between the original Japanese text and any text translated into a language other than Japanese, the content, wording, meaning, expression and context of the Japanese version shall always prevail.
21. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to revise or change this Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Site after we post any changes to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the changes and your consent to abide and be bound by the changed Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any changes to this Privacy Policy, you may not continue to use the Site, and you shall immediately discontinue using the Site.
22. Validity of This Privacy Policy
Even if any part of this Privacy Policy is unlawful or invalid under any law or regulation, the remainder of this Privacy Policy shall remain in full force and valid.
23. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
All the texts on the Site, including this Privacy Policy and other terms and guidelines, etc., are governed by the laws of Japan and shall be construed in accordance with said laws. In the event of a dispute between you and us, the Tokyo District Court or the Tokyo Summary Court shall be the exclusive court of first instance.
24. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through our Contact Form below.
Contact Form: https://travelaloneidea.com/contact/