Privacy Policy
How we handle data on infomapJAPAN — kept minimal, privacy-friendly, and free of advertising.
infomapJAPAN is a static guide to travelling and living well in Japan. There are no accounts to create, nothing to log in to, no shop, and no comment threads — so there is very little about you for us to handle in the first place. This page explains the small amount of data that does pass through the site, and the principles we hold ourselves to.
Last updated: June 2026.
What we collect
We don’t ask you for personal information, and we don’t build profiles of our readers. We don’t collect names, email addresses, or payment details, because there is no feature on the site that needs them. The only information involved is the anonymous, aggregated traffic data described below and the standard request data that any web host handles in order to deliver a page to your browser.
Analytics
To understand which guides travellers actually find useful, we use Vercel Web Analytics. It is privacy-friendly by design: it is cookieless, does not collect personally identifiable information, and does not track you across other websites. What it records are anonymous, aggregated signals — such as the page viewed, the referring site, broad device or browser type, and an approximate country — with no way to single out an individual visitor.
We look at these figures only in aggregate, to learn where to spend our editing time: which routes, regions, and practical guides are worth expanding, and which need a rewrite. That is the whole purpose.
Hosting & logs
The site is hosted on Vercel. Like any web host, Vercel processes standard request data — for example your IP address — transiently in order to deliver pages and to protect the service against abuse and attacks. This is an ordinary part of how the internet works rather than something we use to identify or follow you, and we don’t combine it with the analytics signals above to build a picture of any individual.
Cookies
We don’t set advertising or tracking cookies, and our analytics is cookieless. If your browser stores anything at all while you read, it is the routine, technical sort a site may use to function — not a marketing tracker. You are always free to clear or block cookies in your browser settings without losing access to our guides.
Advertising & selling of data
We run no advertising on infomapJAPAN, and we do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties for their own marketing. There is no ad network reading your behaviour here.
Third-party links
Our guides link out to other websites — rail operators, booking platforms, museums, restaurants, and official tourism resources — so you can act on what you read. Once you follow a link, you are on a third party’s site, governed by their own privacy practices, which we don’t control. We’d encourage you to glance at the policy of any site where you plan to enter personal or payment details.
Your choices & rights
Depending on where you live, laws such as the EU’s GDPR and California’s CCPA give you rights over your personal data — for instance to access, correct, or delete it, or to object to certain processing. Because we hold no accounts and build no profiles, there is rarely anything for us to retrieve about a specific person. Even so, if you have a request or a concern, you are welcome to get in touch and we’ll do our best to help.
Changes
As the site evolves, we may update this policy — for example if we change how we measure traffic. When we do, we’ll revise the “Last updated” date above. Material changes will be reflected here rather than announced individually, since we have no mailing list to write to.
Contact
Questions about privacy, or about anything else on the site, can be sent through our Contact page. We read every message.
A plain-English note: this policy is a starting point that reflects how the site works today. It is not legal advice, and you should review it against your own specific obligations and jurisdiction before relying on it.