Personal Information Protection Policy

We seek to secure your safe access to the website of Honjo Tourism Association with respecting your privacy.

What is Personal Information?

Personal information refers to the information which can identify a specific individual including his/her address, name, telephone number and e-mail address. Even if it doesn’t identify the name of a specific individual, the information which can identify him/her by referencing to other information is also regarded as “personal information”.

Acquisition of Personal Information

While you are allowed to access a page of the website of Honjo Tourism Association without disclosing your personal information in principle, you may be requested to enter your personal information such as the name, address, etc. in your providing feedbacks and/or making inquiries. Such information will be used only for confirming and/or making a reference to you when our sending back an email and/or confirming the contents of your feedbacks and/or inquiries.

Transmission of Information

Owing to the encryption of communication data entered in reader’s columns with the use of the SSL technology (refer to the comment below), the risk that a third party accesses to any user’s personal information will be avoided.
(Comment:SSL, the abbreviation of “Secure Socket Layer”, is a technology that enables safe data transmissions by encrypting the communication data between browsers and servers.)

Use and Provision of Personal Information

Your personal information obtained through your access to the website of Honjo Tourism Association will be used within the scope necessary for your authentication and identification when our sending back messages and/or confirming your messages. We will never use or provide any personal information beyond the purposes for obtaining it unless we gain an approval from yourself or the laws and/or regulations of local governments have a stipulation to that effect.

Control of Personal Information

Our respective departments concerned will strictly control collected information and take appropriate measures including against its divulgation, unauthorized outflows and falsifications.

Exemption Clauses

  • Please understand in advance that the information posted on the website of Honjo Tourism Association may be subject to change or deletion without a prior notice.
  • Honjo Tourism Association will never be responsible for any act that a user has committed according to the information on the website of Honjo Tourism Association, although all possible measures have been taken for the accuracy of the information posted on the website of Honjo Tourism Association.
  • Honjo Tourism Association will never be responsible for any damages caused to a user nor a third party due to the user’s act committed according to the information on the website of Honjo Tourism Association.
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