Kurume Official Tourism Website Hotomeki no Machi (hereinafter referred to as WEBSITE) strives to provide a secure environment for its users regarding the collection, use, and management of personal information appropriately in the following ways.

1. Basic Policy

The administrator of the Website collects users’ information within the scope that is considered necessary for the smooth operation of the services provided by the WEBSITE (provision of information by the WEBSITE, delivery of new information, receiving various types of opinions, and others). The collected information shall be handled appropriately within the scope of the purposes of use.

2. Scope of collected information

The WEBSITE automatically collects information such as the domain name, IP address, and browsing history of the pages that users browsed on the WEBSITE (hereinafter referred to as BROWSING HISTORY). In addition, cookies (which are stored in users’ browsers and sent to the server from users’ browsers) are used with the exclusive aim to grasp the browsing circumstances of the WEBSITE, such as identifying users from the server and collect the number of accesses, and improve browser display functions and user-friendliness.

3. Purposes of Use

1. 1. Information collected in 2. shall be used as a reference for smoothly operating the services provided by the WEBSITE.
2. 2. Requests and inquiries may be forwarded to other parties, such as business partners, depending on the contents. In addition, the collected information may serve as a reference to the establishment of future policies.

4. Restrictions on usage and provision

The administrator of the WEBSITE shall use the collected information for the purposes specified in 3. purposes of use. Said administrator shall not provide said collected information to any third party unless requests for disclosure are made based on the law and regulations or illegal acts have been deemed, such as illegal access, intimidation, or other particular reasons. However, information such as statistical information that has been processed by the WEBSITE and users’ attributes may be disclosed.

5. Security measures

The administrator of the WEBSITE shall take the necessary measures to prevent leakage, loss or damage of the collected information and manage said collected information appropriately. In addition, although the operation of the WEBSITE may be outsourced, entrusted parties shall also take the necessary measures to manage said collected information appropriately.

6. Disclosure of personal information

If the information collected by request or email falls under the category of Personal Information (which means Personal Information as prescribed in Article 2, Paragraph 1 of the Kurume City Personal Information Protection Ordinance), it can be requested for disclosure as set forth in Article 18 of the same Ordinance.

7. Scope of Application

This policy applies only to this website and does not apply to other websites that are linked from this website. Please confirm the privacy policy of other services used on this website, such as social media and others, with the corresponding companies.

9. Others

This privacy policy is subject to change. In the event of changes to the privacy policy, an announcement will be made on the WEBSITE.