About This Site

Operation

Japanese Government Public Relations Online (hereafter, this "Site") is operated jointly by the Public Relations Office for Cabinet Office, Government of Japan (hereafter, "Office")

Copyright

The copyright of this Site belongs to the Office. Reproductions, and duplications are prohibited as the copyright of the contents belong to each creator.

Privacy Policy

1.Basic concept

The Office shall collect information on users of this Site within the necessary scope in order to smoothly operate the services (providing information on this Site, comments on government public relations) provided with this Site. The Office shall properly handle the information collected within the limitation of the purpose of use.

2.Scope of information to be collected

This Site shall automatically collect information on Internet domain names, IP addresses, and viewing record of this Site. This Site shall use "cookies" (a function sent from the server to the user's browser to identify the user on the server side, and the information is accumulated on the user's computer.)

3.Purposes of use

The information collected for item 2. shall be used as reference to smoothly operate the services provided with this Site.

4.Restriction on use and disclosure

The Office shall not use or disclose collected information for the purposes other than those described in "3. Purposes of use" except when information disclosure is requested by law, illegal activities such as illegal accesses and blackmailing are committed, and other specific reasons are determined. Note that statistically processed access information and user attribute information of this Site may be disclosed.

5.Security measures

The Office shall take necessary action for the proper management of collected information to prevent information leakage, loss, and damage.

6.Applicable scope

This Privacy Policy shall apply only to this Site. Each related government agency shall be responsible for its prescribed information handling.

7.Notice

Please note that when visiting websites with "Like" buttons and other features operated by certain social networking services, certain information, such as the identification code that the service provider has attributed to you or the URL of the page you are viewing, may be automatically sent from the website to the service provider in question, regardless of whether you click the "Like" button or interact with any other features on the site.
For third-party services, including social media, used by this website, please review the privacy policies on the websites of these third-party providers.

Disclaimer

Although the Office shall take all possible measures to ensure that the information posted on this Site is accurate, the Office shall not be responsible for actions taken by a user using information on this Site. In addition, the Office shall not be liable for any damage incurred by the user due to Site service discontinuance caused by maintenance, electrical outage, earthquake, other natural disasters, viruses, improper third-party activities, etc.

Linking

This Site is a free link site. Please state clearly that to the link is for "Japanese Government Public Relations Online" when setting said link.
Also, please refrain from creating links from sites that:

(1) Violate law;
(2) Are offensive to the public order and morals;
(3) Sites encouraging criminal activities;
(4) Cause damage or injury to third-parties;
(5) Libel to third-parties;
(6) Sites that are for political, religious, or commercial activities;
(7) Posted contents are false, or significantly differ from the facts;
(8) Other sites deemed by the Office judges to be inappropriate for information network operations.

Miscellaneous

The posted information on this Site is current as of the date posted, and is subject to change or removal without prior notice.