Privacy Policy

Zen Gaijin operates a blog site at www.zengaijin.com that offers descriptions of places to travel in Japan based.  The blog site does NOT offer any services or products of any kind.  Therefore, it is not possible to obtain services or to make any purchases on the site.  Zen Gaijin is committed to protecting visitors’ privacy and addressing privacy concerns.  The following information has been posted to help visitors to Zen Gaijin understand that Zen Gaijin does NOT collect private information.

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Types of Private Information Collected

NONE

 

Personal Information

Zen Gaijin does NOT collect any personal information from visitors to the site.  If you choose to contact the authors and voluntarily provide your email address, the authors will respond to you.  However, no information will be kept after the response to your voluntary outreach.  

 

Automatically Collected Information

Zen Gaijin does NOT automatically collect any information from visitors to the Zen Gaijin blog site.  Thus, there is NO capture of information such as IP address, location, browser, browser language, operating system, device, or other identifiers.  Zen Gaijin does NOT use cookies to enhance its functionality.

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Policy on Collecting Sensitive Personal Information

Zen Gaijin does NOT gather any information whatsoever; thus, it does NOT collect any sensitive personal information.

 

How the Collected Information is Used and Stored

Zen Gaijin does NOT collect, use or store any personal information.  As stated above, if a visitor voluntarily reaches out via email, the authors will respond and then immediately delete the email correspondence.  Zen Gaijin does NOT maintain or store email addresses, email messages or email responses.

 

Who Information is Shared With

Zen Gaijin does NOT share your information.

 

Information Security

Zen Gaijin does NOT collect your private information so there is no need for information security.  That said, data leaks and malicious attacks do occur.  Please understand that while Zen Gaijin sits on a server with layers of protection, it does its best to protect any voluntary communication from visitors to the blog site by removing any such communication and response.  Provide your personal information at your own risk. 

 

Ability to Decline to Provide Personal Information

Zen Gaijin neither asks for nor collects any information about visitors to the blog site.

 

Additional Questions

If you have questions regarding this privacy policy, feel free to voluntarily contact Zen Gaijin at pwoldow@counsel.global.  A Zen Gaijin representative will respond to your privacy policy questions as soon as practicable.

 

Policy Update

This privacy policy was last updated on June 18, 2024.  If Zen Gaijin adjusts the privacy policy, it will post a Notice of Change at www.zengaijin.com.  Once posted, the new privacy policy will be effective immediately.

 

PHW DBR

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June 18, 2024 June 18, 2024