Policies Regarding Cookies and Similar Technologies

What are cookies and similar technologies?

Cookies are small pieces of data, stored in text files, that are stored on your device (your personal computer or mobile device) to collect your browsing experience. When you visit our website, we may automatically collect information from you through cookies or similar technologies.

First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.

Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.

A local storage file located in the user’s device enables data storage semi-permanently due to the unlimited nature of the storage period.

How we use cookies and similar technologies

When you visit our website, cookies collect data on your visits to our website and other activities, and enable you to move between web pages efficiently. By using cookies, we can provide information that suits our users by measuring the number of impressions of content, the number of impressions of advertisements, and the number of clicks.

There is no direct adverse effect on your device. Even if you use cookies, we cannot identify the information about your name, e-mail address, device, etc. There is no direct adverse effect on your device.

In addition, we may use third-party cookies to understand the access status of each web page. It is also possible for users to refuse the consent of cookies by operating the browser settings themselves. Even in that case, it will not cause a big hindrance to browsing this site.

How we use cookies

We use the following cookies.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Advertising Cookies

Performance Cookies

Functional Cookies

How to enable or disable cookies

The button below can be toggled to enable or disable certain cookies.

Cookies Settings

Third-party cookies and similar technologies

In addition to our own cookies and similar technologies, we also gather information on users’ site usage status and provide them to social media, advertisement distribution and data analysis partners such as Google and Facebook. Each partner may use this information in combination with other information the user provided to each partner or other information gathered when the user used each partner’s service.

For example, we use Google Analytics to help us monitor our website traffic and analyze what our visitors read on our websites. We may also use third party cookies and similar technologies to help us run market research, improve website functionality or contents.

Our partners may include those located outside the European Economic Area, including any destination where the privacy laws of the country concerned may be different and less protective than those of EEA countries. The data protection laws in these countries may differ from those of the country in which you are located (i.e. many of the rights provided in the EEA to the data subjects of the data are not given). We will ensure the adequate measures are taken concerning the protection of your cookies and similar technologies by executing standard contract clauses based on the EU General Data Protection Regulation, etc.

You can learn more about cookies on the following third-party websites.

Google Analytics

Traffic Analysis

(1) Security and privacy in Universal Analytics
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2838718?hl=en

(2) Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Google Ads

Ad Delivery

(1) Privacy Policy
http://www.google.co.jp/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Advertising
http://www.google.co.jp/intl/en/policies/technologies/ads/

*Remarketing
https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2453998

(2) Settings for Google ads
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

*To opt out of DFP(DoubleClick for Publishers) or DFA(DoubleClick for Advertisers)　configure “Opt out of interest-based Google ads across the web”

Facebook

Ad Delivery

(1) Data Policy
https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

(2) About Facebook Ads
https://www.facebook.com/help/769828729705201/

*See “How Ads Work on Facebook” > “How does facebook decide which ads to show me and how can I control which ads I see?”

Information acquired by the analytics tool

Cookies used by analytics tools enable to track the following information about visitors. This information is used to prepare aggregated statistics reports of visitors’ activity, which do not contain any personal data:

• IP address (masked);
• Location: country, region, city, approximate latitude and longitude (Geolocation);
• Date and time of the request (visit to the site);
• Title of the page being viewed (Page Title);
• URL of the page being viewed (Page URL);
• URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page (Referrer URL);
• Screen resolution of the user's device;
• Files that were clicked and downloaded (Download);
• Links to an outside domain that were clicked (Outlink);
• Main language of the browser being used (Accept-Language header);
• Browser version, browser plugins (PDF, Flash, Java, …) operating system version, device identifier (User-Agent header);
• Language of the visited page;
• Campaigns;
• Site Search;
• Events;
• Favorited content;
• Conversion information: actions taken by users after clicking on an ad (e.g., purchases, sign-ups);
• Header information: referrer information, user agent, etc. included in the HTTP request;
• User attributes: estimated user attributes (age group, gender)

How to control and delete cookies

Most web browsers allow you to completely disable the use of cookies. You can also delete cookies created by certain websites. For information on how to do this, refer to the help page of the following browsers.

How to disable cookies and similar technologies via your browser

Chrome:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3Dandroid&hl=en

Microsoft Edge:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy-bb8174ba-9d73-dcf2-9b4a-c582b4e640dd

Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-websites-storing-cookies-site-data-firefox

Safari:
https://support.apple.com/ja-jp/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

For other web browsers, please visit the official web page of the web browser.

Note: Please note that blocking cookies may prevent you from using some or all of the features of this website.

Google Analytics also uses its own cookies (third-party cookies). These cookies do not collect any information that identifies a particular individual. All information collected by these cookies is statistic and does not identify a particular individual. Statistics are used to improve the convenience of our website.

Please see below for details on Google Analytics cookies.
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/11397207?hl=en

Please download "Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on" from the list url, the attribute that rejects notifications, Google Analytics analysis, etc., and install it on your browser.
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

For any other web browser, please visit your web browser's official web pages.

You may lodge a complaint with any data protection authority that has jurisdiction over us and/or is located in your place of residence.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about the cookies used on this website and this cookie policy, please contact us at:

Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau Address: Shinjuku Monolith Building 15F, 2-3-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-0915, Japan Phone: +81-3-5579-2683

Last modified: December 24, 2024