We are committed to transparency and the protection of your privacy at the Japan National Tourism Organization (“we” “us”). This document tells you about our information gathering and data processing practices at our website; which is operated by us.
If you wish to change your consent settings at any time, please click here.
“Cookies” are small capacity text files that are saved in your browser or onto your device when you visit or use websites, applications, or online media, or see online advertising.
There are a number of different types of cookie. The type of cookie provided by us while you are visiting our website is a “first party cookie”. This is because it is provided by us and we operate the domain you are accessing. A cookie provided by a company that does not operate the domain you are accessing is called a “third party cookie”. While you are visiting our website, we allow third parties to set cookies on your browser (For details, see 2.2 below.).
Each cookie lasts for a different period of time. A “session cookie” will last only while your browser is open. When you close the browser, this cookie will be automatically deleted and your computer will forget you. A “persistent cookie” will survive even after the browser has been closed. As such, this cookie will recognize your device when you browse the internet by opening up the browser again.
While this document is a Cookie Policy, it is also intended to cover the use of other identification technologies that we can use or which we can be allowed to be used when providing our website. When this Cookie Policy mentions cookies, it should be understood to include such similar technologies:
We use following types of cookies:
We use cookies listed in Section 2 except for strictly necessary cookies only if you have given your consent to do so by moving the selector switch to “Active” for each category of cookies in the Privacy Preference Center . As for strictly necessary cookies, we process them because we have legitimate interests to do so.
Please note that if we have collected information via our cookies from your device which may identify you (“personal data”) we will process such information on the basis of your consent.
・Privacy Preference Center
You can withdraw your consent by moving the selector switch to “Active” for each category of cookies in the Privacy Preference Center .
You can at any time delete the cookies that have been set and change your browser settings to block some or all of any other cookies that are set on your device in the future. This can be done through your browser settings. Please see the following links provide instructions for managing cookie settings of commonly used browsers:
In addition, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers.
Moreover, you can use another online service enabling you to manage the advertising cookies set in your devices: http://www.youronlinechoices.com.
However, blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience of our website and the services we are able to offer.
You may have the following rights:
However, please note that the re-identification of you in relation to cookies is not always possible for us. In such case, we will require you to provide additional information to enable your identification in order to fulfil your request in order to enable you to exercise your rights as described above.
For any questions or requests relating to this Cookie Policy, you can contact us by email at webmaster@jnto.go.jp.
Name (Duration) | Purpose |
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Strictly Necessary Cookies | |
OptanonConsent (a year) | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. |
OptanonAlertBoxClosed (a year) | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. |
eupubconsent (7979 years) | This cookie is used by the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework to store the user’s consent to the data collection Purposes. The cookie holds an encrypted consent string that vendors participating in the framework can read and determine the user’s consent. |
AWSELB (30 minutes) | This cookie name is associated with the Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing functionality for routing client request on the server. |
AWSELBCORS (30 minutes) | Registers which server cluster is serving the client, it’s used in the context of load balancing to optimize the user experience. |
django_language (a year) | This hold the language which has been chosen by the user from languages dropdown list. |
sessionid (14 days) | This cookie let you store and retrieve arbitrary data on a per-site-visitor basis, it is also in charge of locales judgment. |
pll_language (a year) | This cookie name is associated with the Polylang plug-in for WordPress powered websites. it stores a language preference for the visitor to support multi-lingual websites. When set as a persistent cookie, or with the default lifespan of 1 year, it has to e considered Functional rather than strictly necessary. |
_SITE_ID (Session) | Used to check which of the servers under the ELB is connected. |
Advertising Cookies | |
_td (2 years) | These advertising cookies record information about your website activity, such as pages you visit, so that we can provide you with targeted advertisement on external websites and analyse the effects of such advertisements. (ex) If you visit the pages regarding hot springs on our website, our advertisements related to hot springs are shown on external websites, and we will receive a report regarding the effect of such advertisements. |
_td_global (2 hours) | These advertising cookies record information about your website activity, such as pages you visit, so that we can provide you with targeted advertisement on external websites and analyse the effects of such advertisements. (ex) If you visit the pages regarding hot springs on our website, our advertisements related to hot springs are shown on external websites, and we will receive a report regarding the effect of such advertisements. |
(2) Third Party Cookies
Name (Duration) | Provider | Purpose | References |
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Strictly Necessary Cookies | |||
__cfduid (a few seconds) | OneTrust | This domain is owned by OneTrust, a privacy management software which helps organizations achieve compliance with global regulations. | https://www.onetrust.com/cookie-policy/ |
Performance Cookies | |||
_ga (2 years) | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. | (1) “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps” https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ (2) Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en (3) For Google Analytics Advertising Features, please refer to the following link. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2700409?hl=en&topic=2611283 | |
_gid (a day) | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. | (1) “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps” https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ (2) Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en (3) For Google Analytics Advertising Features, please refer to the following link. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2700409?hl=en&topic=2611283 | |
_gat_UA-115785022-10 (a few seconds) | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | (1) “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps” https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ (2) Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en (3) For Google Analytics Advertising Features, please refer to the following link. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2700409?hl=en&topic=2611283 | |
Advertising Cookies | |||
_td_global (2 years) | Treasure Data | These advertising cookies record information about your website activity, such as pages you visit, so that we can provide you with targeted advertisement on external websites and analyse the effects of such advertisements. (ex) If you visit the pages regarding hot springs on our website, our advertisements related to hot springs are shown on external websites, and we will receive a report regarding the effect of such advertisements. | https://www.treasuredata.com/privacy/ |
fr (3 months) | This domain is owned by Facebook, which is the world’s largest social networking service. As a third party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the ‘Like’ button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. In 2014 it also started serving up behaviourally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies. Contains browser and user unique ID combinaton, used for targeted advertising. | https://www.facebook.com/ | |
_fbp (3 months) | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy | |
ckid (a year) | ADARA | These cookies are also advertising cookies. These advertising cookies record information about your website activity such as pages you visit so that we can provide you with targeted advertisement on external websites and analyse the effects of such advertisements. (ex) If you visit the pages regarding hot springs on our website, our advertisements related to hot springs are shown on our website and external websites. We will receive a report in relation to the effect of such advertisement (e.g. how many users made hotel reservations or booked air travel after clicking on our advertisement). | https://adara.com/privacy-promise/ |
cktst (a year) | ADARA | These cookies are also advertising cookies. These advertising cookies record information about your website activity such as pages you visit so that we can provide you with targeted advertisement on external websites and analyse the effects of such advertisements. (ex) If you visit the pages regarding hot springs on our website, our advertisements related to hot springs are shown on our website and external websites. We will receive a report in relation to the effect of such advertisement (e.g. how many users made hotel reservations or booked air travel after clicking on our advertisement). | https://adara.com/privacy-promise/ |
dph (a year) | ADARA | These cookies are also advertising cookies. These advertising cookies record information about your website activity such as pages you visit so that we can provide you with targeted advertisement on external websites and analyse the effects of such advertisements. (ex) If you visit the pages regarding hot springs on our website, our advertisements related to hot springs are shown on our website and external websites. We will receive a report in relation to the effect of such advertisement (e.g. how many users made hotel reservations or booked air travel after clicking on our advertisement). | https://adara.com/privacy-promise/ |
fbh0 (a year) | ADARA | These cookies are also advertising cookies. These advertising cookies record information about your website activity such as pages you visit so that we can provide you with targeted advertisement on external websites and analyse the effects of such advertisements. (ex) If you visit the pages regarding hot springs on our website, our advertisements related to hot springs are shown on our website and external websites. We will receive a report in relation to the effect of such advertisement (e.g. how many users made hotel reservations or booked air travel after clicking on our advertisement). | https://adara.com/privacy-promise/ |
gcma (a year) | ADARA | These cookies are also advertising cookies. These advertising cookies record information about your website activity such as pages you visit so that we can provide you with targeted advertisement on external websites and analyse the effects of such advertisements. (ex) If you visit the pages regarding hot springs on our website, our advertisements related to hot springs are shown on our website and external websites. We will receive a report in relation to the effect of such advertisement (e.g. how many users made hotel reservations or booked air travel after clicking on our advertisement). | https://adara.com/privacy-promise/ |
ph (a year) | ADARA | These cookies are also advertising cookies. These advertising cookies record information about your website activity such as pages you visit so that we can provide you with targeted advertisement on external websites and analyse the effects of such advertisements. (ex) If you visit the pages regarding hot springs on our website, our advertisements related to hot springs are shown on our website and external websites. We will receive a report in relation to the effect of such advertisement (e.g. how many users made hotel reservations or booked air travel after clicking on our advertisement). | https://adara.com/privacy-promise/ |
rmxc (a year) | ADARA | These cookies are also advertising cookies. These advertising cookies record information about your website activity such as pages you visit so that we can provide you with targeted advertisement on external websites and analyse the effects of such advertisements. (ex) If you visit the pages regarding hot springs on our website, our advertisements related to hot springs are shown on our website and external websites. We will receive a report in relation to the effect of such advertisement (e.g. how many users made hotel reservations or booked air travel after clicking on our advertisement). | https://adara.com/privacy-promise/ |
C (a month) | Adform | This domain is owned by Adform. The main business activity is: Real time bidding for display advertising to targeted audiences. | https://site.adform.com/privacy-center/adform-cookies/ |
uid (2 months) | Adform | This domain is owned by Adform. The main business activity is: Real time bidding for display advertising to targeted audiences. | https://site.adform.com/privacy-center/adform-cookies/ privacy/product-and-services-privacy-policy/ |
IDE (2 years) | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange | https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ | |
test_cookie (15 minutes) | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange test_cookie | https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ | |
GPS (30 minutes) | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ | |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE (6 months) | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos | https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ | |
YSC (Session) | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ |