CScout Japan is committed to providing privacy in our products and services. This policy outlines our personal information handling practices. If you give us personal information, we treat it according to this policy, and we use your personal information only in the ways specified when it was collected. We do not otherwise share it. CScout Japan encourages you to read this privacy policy and those of all Websites you visit.
Types and uses of personal information
In order to post comments and mark favorite posts on our Websites, we may require you to first create an account with a username and password; we use these to provide you with access to your profile and comments. Our registration system may also require that you provide a valid email address; we use that to confirm your account. Accounts in our system are perpetual. If you change the information in your account, our stored data backups may include your original information. Separately, when you email us, we retain your address and correspondence. We use these to raise and respond to issues and inquiries of all types.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information about our reader base with our third-party advertising partner, including browser information and traffic statistics. We do not link this data to individual readers’ accounts or personally identifiable information.
Personally identifiable information
We do not share personally identifiable information with third parties, with one limited exception: we may disclose personally identifiable information about you if we have a good faith belief that doing so is required by law, such as pursuant to a subpoena or other judicial or administrative order.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. The information we store in cookies may, in some cases, be linked to readers’ accounts.
We may use both short-term cookies and persistent cookies. A short-term cookie expires within a limited period of time. We use session cookies so that readers with accounts can navigate and contribute to our site without logging in multiple times over a short period of time. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. We may use persistent cookies to recognize account holders and present the site accordingly. You can remove cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as comments, will require logging in for each action you want to take.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by CScout Japan only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers on their sites.
Links to Other Sites
This Website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by CScout Japan. Please be aware that we, CScout Japan, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Changes in This Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us through our contact form and use the subject line “CScout Japan Policy Question” in the message box.
