Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 13, 2026

1. Introduction

JapanUp! Magazine (“we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (https://japanupmagazine.com) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. This policy is designed to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).

2. Information We Collect

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“personal information”). We have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

  • Identifiers: Name, email address, and Internet Protocol (IP) address.
  • Internet or other similar network activity: Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement (via cookies and browser user agent strings).
  • Visual information: Images you upload to the website.

Sensitive Personal Information: We do not knowingly collect “Sensitive Personal Information” (such as social security numbers, racial or ethnic origin, precise geolocation, etc.) as defined by the CPRA.

3. How We Collect Information

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following sources:

  • Directly from you: For example, when you leave a comment, upload media, or fill out a form.
  • Automatically from your device: For example, through cookies and browser user agent strings to help spam detection and improve user experience.
  • Third Parties: Embedded content from other websites (e.g., videos, images, articles) 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.

4. Use of Personal Information

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
  • To improve our website and present its contents to you.
  • To detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity (e.g., spam detection).
  • To manage comments.

5. Sharing and Selling of Personal Information

  • Sharing for Business Purposes: We may share your IP address with an automated spam detection service.
  • Sharing for Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising: We may allow third-party advertising partners to collect data from our visitors for the purpose of serving interest-based advertisements or analytics (e.g., Google Analytics). Under California law, this may be considered “sharing” of personal information. You have the right to opt-out of this sharing (see “Your Rights Under the CPRA” below). We do not sell your personal information for monetary value. for Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising:
    • Option A (If you do NOT show personalized ads): We do not sell your personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.
    • Option B (If you USE Google AdSense or similar ad networks): We may allow third-party advertising partners to collect data from our visitors for the purpose of serving interest-based advertisements. Under California law, this may be considered “sharing” of personal information. You have the right to opt-out of this sharing (see “Your Rights” below).

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

  • Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically.

7. Your Rights Under the CPRA

If you are a California resident, you have specific rights regarding your personal information:

  • Right to Know/Access: You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months.
  • Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions (e.g., legal obligations, security).
  • Right to Correct: You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.
  • Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing: You have the right to direct us to not sell or share your personal information at any time.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CPRA rights.

8. How to Exercise Your Rights

TTo exercise your rights to know, access, delete, or correct, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by:

Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information.

9. Media and Cookies

  • Media: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
  • Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

10. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will post the updated notice on the website and update the notice’s effective date. Your continued use of our website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which we collect and use your personal information, or your choices and rights regarding such use, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

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