Privacy Policy

Regarding Data Processing by Google Analytics™

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited. If the entity responsible for data processing via this website is based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland, the data processing associated with Google Analytics is carried out by Google LLC. (Both Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC are hereinafter referred to as “Google.”) The data processing involved in linking this website with Google Analytics is conducted by Jimdo. For more information, please refer to [Jimdo’s Privacy Policy] and [KDDI Web Communications’ Privacy Policy], the latter being Jimdo’s provider in Japan.

Google Analytics uses “cookies,” which are text files stored on a visitor’s computer, to help analyze how the website is used. The information generated by the cookie about the use of this website (including truncated IP addresses) is generally transmitted to and stored by Google.

This website uses Google Analytics exclusively with the extension “_anonymizeIp().” This extension ensures the anonymization of IP addresses by truncation, thereby preventing direct personal identification. Through this extension, Google truncates the IP addresses of users within EU Member States or other parties to the EEA Agreement. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to and truncated on a Google server in the USA. The IP address provided by your browser to Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

On behalf of the website operator, Google will use the collected information to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services related to website and internet usage (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). The legitimate interest in data processing lies in optimizing the website, analyzing user behavior, and tailoring content accordingly. Users’ interests are sufficiently safeguarded through pseudonymization of the data.

Google ensures an adequate level of data protection under the European Standard Contractual Clauses. Data associated with cookies and linked to user identifiers (such as user ID or advertising ID) will be automatically deleted after 50 months. Deletion of expired data occurs automatically on a monthly basis.

Visitors may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in their browser. Additionally, visitors can prevent Google from collecting and processing cookie-generated data (including their IP address) by installing the browser plugin available at:
 http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Visitors can also click on the cookie settings on this website to opt out of data collection via Google Analytics. An “opt-out cookie” will then be placed to prevent future data collection on subsequent visits to this website.

For further details on Google’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, please refer to the Google Analytics [Terms of Service] and [Privacy Policy].

Under the GDPR and related laws, visitors have specific rights regarding the data processed by Google Analytics, including the right to access, rectify, transfer, or delete their data. Visitors also have the right to object to certain types of data processing. To exercise these rights in relation to Google Analytics on this website, data subjects may contact Jimdo or the website operator at any time.